The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-30

/" Messrs. Fitch and Colfax spoke
here to-day, the Dr.. opening and Civ
ing full and fair account of his steward
chip which, we believe, was satisfactory
to all. refuting every charge of inconsist-
ency that Colfax could bring against him.
Colfax answered evidently much excited
from the effect of the Dr's. opening
speech. Colfax's whole argument or
speech consisted in explaining his oppo-
siiion to the Mexican War. to prove that
he was the friend Of Common Schools,
and charges of inconsistency in Dr.. Fitch.
From the putting of the whig papers of
Mr.. C's oratory and ability as a stumper,
we must say his effort here fell far short
Of our expectations.
CO Last week we had occasion to
speak at some length upon the subject
Of disorganizers, &c. Some of our good
citizens did us the honor TO say it was
written by sundry persons about town.
We are much obliged to them, but we
would like to have them follow the prin.
ter's rule and give US credit" If it
pleased anybody, we are glad-ifit made
any one angry. we can't help tive said
what We said-we meant it, and we wish
to Ieiterate that all we said or shall saw
we mean to stand up to. 1t seems that
one of our candidates before the conven-
ton for nomination. is very angry at US.
He has peremptorily ordered us to take
it back, OF leave the town. Ha, ha, ha;
land if we don't," he says-''if we don't
he'll make u.s." Lord how we are scared!
We almost drap-and our tripod has
"done gone from u.s." We were a little
surprised at those we had supposed to
be gentlemen--talking so large. 1t seer
that the first two letters of the candi.
dates name was Doctor Sherman. Some
how he identified himself with the char
acter OF "biggs" in our article of last
week. We don't say why he did so un-
less it described him. If it did, he'd
better tread back, and act like sensible
man and be what he pretends only to be.
democrat. II it does not describe him
we can't see why he abuses us. Now he
says he has large petition circulating,
which is to be presented. asking us to
"leave town." Why Lord love your lib.
eral generous heart, roctor, if you had
only brought your petition down, we
would have published it, and saved you
the trouble of carrying your saddle bags
on SO long ride as you'll have to circu-
late it. We expected you would. Let's
see. We suppose his petition reads
about this way:--"Whereas the people
didn't nominate me after came out SUBJ
ject to conver tion--and whereas l got
mad-kicked out of the tracss--opposed
the nominee of the convention, and
showed myself an enemy to democracy
after pretending to be democrat-and in
consequence of all this, the editor of the
democratic paper, Characterised my course
In the description of one Digs" which
fits "me whether meant or not-there-
fore we the undersigned solicit the said
editor to cease the publication of said pa
per. and leave the town."
Now that's reasonable. People will
look at that--and no doubt, in the least,
out of respect for the Doctors offended
dignity--every body will sign il.
But seriously, we hope the Doctor
won't act silly any longer. He can't
stop our paper, nor drive us out of town,
and we suggest to him that he can secure
the respect of the community, by coming
to the polls as democrat, and not as a
"bolter." who only pretends to be what
he is not.
CO We received the following from
friend, relating to the triumphant
course of DR.. Fitch:
VALPARAISO, July %, 1851.
Dear SIR
Fitch and Colfax were with US yester-
day. Colfax undertook his usual course
of abuse, but got badly used up--his
friends are disappointed and ehagrined.
Fitch will carry Porter by an increased
majority above the vote of AZ. He is
L: :: C..If.x l.