Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-08-04

we defy any one-unless guilty OF all
charged--to find cause for complaint
In them.
Goodwin will be sustained In bis
course against drunkenness and dsbsuch-
cry OF all kinds, by the order. loving and
sensible portion Of community - Con-
nersviLs Telegraph.
or We learn that the editor OF the
American got pounding last week At
the hands Of Mr.. Robson. County
Treasurerof Franklin ounty, knight Of
the whisky platform and Roman Cafho-
licism. Well, brother Goodwin, that
il just what you might have expected.
Whisky and Romanism constitute an
inquisition as black aud intolerable as
the bedstone Of eternal damnation, and
the hsart-strings Of those who advocate
it are not fit to make foot rug for the
Devils kitchen! n the editor OF the
American expects TO ride the indepeDd-
ent track of free and untrammeled de-
cision during the campaign upon which
we are Just now enter ed, we suggest the
propriety of providing himself with
some salutary prophylactics, such as
powder and lead. carefully put up in a
five or six barrel revolver. When COM
pounded in that way and kept in your
Office or carried about your person, as
occasion may require, never fails to re-
move those miasmatic, pestifer'ous and
annoying insects and reptiles that breed
on an about those decomposing and put
Grid carcasses Of old parties and organ
izations, whose innate corruption and
meanness naturally tend co gsngreen
qualification and stencil. Powder, you
know. contains sulphur, Mite and car
bon, and when accomplishing emits Pc
culiar odor that is very terrifying to
those petted functionaries Of party-dril-
led eeotistical tyrants, and shisky-be-
gotten, insolent menials, who hang
around public Offices and doggeries OF
whisky-biggots. and black-leg intoler-
erance and scsbby-eyed vagabondism
A2ain lead possesses several sanatiye
properties. Ii Is stringent tonic, and
under some circumstances decidedly
sedstive. Ii Is cold, heavy maleable,
and yet when run ia peculiar mould
looks rather suspicious. and when taken
in certain way and manner, begets a
feeling peculiarly frightful and agoniz.
ing, especially on all guilty, cowa 'dly
scamps that take something like the by
drophobia under the laws OF free discus.
sion. Under all the circumstances. we
think powder and lead put up as suQ.
pested, has tendency TO purely the Of.
mosphers of the editorial department
aud make free discussion more agreea,
bic and profitable to all
Steel is metal, which. when whe'
up to sharp point, and highly polished
that possesses some power in subduinl
morbed epidemic excitement ani unres
trained malignant passion, especially
when brought on by those dolts ant
hair-brains of office-seeking aud Office
holding Of parly-bound, ill-begotten
self.sty led spoils.led, overwhelming, die
tatorial. foreign-pandering, slave-hunt
ing, fillibustering. raw-mouthed, rum
guzzling, country-plundering, slavery
extending dupes, whose own inheren
concious-meanness, will produce
spasm Of the right arm and cause il q
contract in yengsncc, when their guilt,
imaginings suspect some editor may tel
/ the truth about them. We would rec
ommend those potent remedies onl
when milder ones fail; but il might b
well to have them at nd.-Libert
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