Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-10-05
Know NOthIngs.

Hear What the Companion says it knows
about them in CarrOllton
They peet here As everywhere else; at The
hour Of midnight. in cellars and garreIs. n pFi-
vate rooms or old deserted buildings, in the en-
gine houses ''among hooks & ladders" ropes
and old buckets, in lanes and alleys, on the
commons or in the woods as they do out at Au-
gasta-any place where, envsloped BY mid
night darkness. they can arrange sheir plans
and lag their plots in secret"
II would indeed seem from the above state.
msnt, tbaIthere is such a set offellows amongst
Us and the editors Of the Companion seem to
know shsrs they meet and hold their "mighty
revels" in old buildings. engine houses among
hooks d ladders We are most willing to con.
fess that we are members ofths Hook and Lad.
der Company. Of our town, ystwe have not
been aware that We we're thereby, plotting the
ruin of our country but simply to save our
town property. And further say. that we have
not been in our Engine House since the last
alarm Of fire, which has been some months
since. We can say, however, Il these fellows
of which the Companion Editors speak, have
been meeting in our Engine House amongst
hooks d ladders ropes aud old buckets -
and the Editors Of that delectable little truth
telling sheet, were there, them other fellers'
did not only meet amongst hooks d ladders
ropes and buckets, but canes and cIutches and
'soft heads or these self same gentlemen wo'd
not 60 about the streets blabbing, and through
their sheet divulging, where they hold thesecret
'cOnclave.' We are compelled to come to the
above conclusion, because these gentlemen
have been formerly called upon to give the
authority by which they charge others with
being members of that secret party, and have
either been unwilling to divulge orhave stated
a falsehoOd, and cannot therefore give the au-
thOrity. Or else, are themselves members of
that party and are bound by the Oaths that they
have published not to give their authority pub.
licly.
Let them take either horn of the dilema, and
they show themselves dirty, dastardly truth.
twisting toadies. All this shallow device is
evidently. for the purpose ofdrawing down the
opposition Of .::,:. .::,:."HIi1Nd citizens upon us, and
the Anti Nebraska ticket general, so that, per-
adventure, their North wing Of the South Car
olina Slavery Army, can crush out that anti.
Slavery extension, sentiment, that has seized
upon the hearts of the people, from Maine to
Missouri. MIR. Companion, you cant succeed
with such bait in drawing of from the friends
of that sentiment, the real friends of freedom,
but they will unitedly stand to arms. and in
solid column march to the ballot box, victory
and glory.
You, Mr. Companion, have taken your cue,
this time as usual, from your slave breeding
Administration at Washington. through your
tall young friend the third Auditor, to make
the general charge all along the Slavery line,
to canse our good Anti-Nebraska NArURALrzED
citizens to desert the army of freedom and cor
rect principles, and CHECK, defeat, and perehance.
6ually route them, by the HIRED cohorts of the
North. The South has made the issue--hired
you 10 preach their doctrine--the people meet
lt-and will turn you out of the sanctum you
have so shamefnllv dis-0rocsd