American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-05-17

one hundred and forty dollars be bad PEE
ViOusly prOnouced JraSdHlsnR The petit
lion reads as fOllows:--
To the Commissioner OF Fairfield Co. o.
Understanding that your Honorable body
will be applied to for additional pay on
contract for printing Assessors blanks for
the year 1859, and believing that the la
borer is worthy Of bis hire and knowing
that the contract price Of one cent per
qnire was no compensation for the labor
performed, we believe il would be Just and
right to pay an additional amount sufficient
to make il egual to tie usual price had for
such work, and that in so doing you would
be sustained by an honest and liberal pub
lie. TUTHILL. ScHLEIcH & GRUDER.
When Mr.. Tuthill first came to us, and
in his first communication in reference to
this matter, he stated that it was with
feelings Of regret" that he was "under the
necessity ofexposing the corruption snd
dishonesty of man in whom the people
had reposed confidence" But change
has come over the spirit of his dream, and
the man he once denounced as scoundrel
he now takes to his bosom and places his
name on his "pet" of Sag Nicht ticket,
and to make his friendship doubly mani
fest he petitions the Commissioners to en-
dorse a transaction he had but short
time before felt it his painful duty TO er-
pose." and in making his exposition two
of these same Commissioners came in for a
very large share of his denunciation. He
! first denounced the Commissioners as in
competent and dishonest, and declared that
this outrageous swindle of one hundred
and forty dollars emust be carried to a
higher and more just tribanal-the still
small voice Of the peoplew After which
he not only endorses thisswindle but actu,
ally petitions the Commissioners to endorse
and pay it, and intimates that the "stil
small voice of the people" will sanction it.
While Tuthill and Schleich were making
loud professions Of friendship for Messrs
Collins, Tschup. Reese, Jeffries and Ellis
they were busily and secretly employed il
furnishing the editor of this paper with
material calculated to brand them all as tht
vilest imaginable scoanarels, who should
give back into the hands Of the people th'
offices they disgraced They secretly hurleC
their poisoned arrows Of malice and re
venge and pierced these men with many
wounds in order TO get possession OF th'
Ohio Eagle; but now that their treachery
and hypocrisy is being exposed they ar
again mixing their worm-wood and gaul t
pour on the head OF the editor of this pa
perrin order to avert an outburst Of popula
indignation at their barefaced hypocris.
and base ingratitude, as wellas the assas
sin-like manner in which they disposed q
men for whom they professed great friend
ship. OF all the dark spots of human ma
ture, we know of none better calculated +
throw freezing chill over the whole body
and drive back the purple current on tn
aching heart, than just such mean AM
damning hypocrisy and base ingratitude
Such hypocrisy towards these mer
: Iby Tuthill and Schleich, who were at tn
same time the willing recipients Of the
; esteem and bounty,is is enough to bring
palsying horror over the soul and make Il
f human heart sicken at the contemplation
such baseness.