American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-04-19

anxious to print tho Assessors blanks, HE
rELLsA wnFuL FAI.sEHooDl We NEVER
ASKED Nh. TowsoS TO Owe Us TnE PRIsr-
ING or THESE BLANKS. We did, however.
tell him that we could do the printing at
LESS THAN OH nALP The price formerly paid
the Eagle and iIsp oUR OWN PAPER. And
we now,,assert that we would haze VIOLIN
rARItY executed the Assessors' blanks at
a price as low as that paid the Eagle.
We want It. however. distinctly under
stood, that this whole matter Of public
printing has been brought into tile contro-
versy by Mr.. Towson aud the editors of
the Eagle. In our denunciation Of Mr..
Towson we said nothing about printing
land we now say, most emphatically,
that it had nothing to do in prompting US
to speak Of Mr.. Towson as we did Mr.
Towson aud the editors ofthe Eagle have
seen proper TO impugn our motives and
measure the causes of our action by their
own standard Of principle. They charge
us with being prompted by feelings of vim
dictiveness against the former because he
gave the printing to the latter. If love of
spoils could have any thing to do in
prompting US to wage war against public
officers, how comes itthat we allowed Mr..
Kagay. on the eve of his retiring from Of,
fee, to secure a sufficient amount of blanks
to lastthe American Clerk elect through
his official term, WITHOUT ONE WORD OF
COMMENT? Think you, sif we were gov
erned by selfshness, we would not have
denounced in unmeasnrod terms this ac-
knowledged intention on the part Of Mr.
Kagay to take the printing from the Ga
zette office. Mr.. Towson KNOWS he has
placed wrong construction on our mo-
tives-he FEELS that our denunciatiop OF
his conduct was just and true, and the
whole community knows it to be just nd
true, and we defy him to recover frcm the
effects of ito rub out, to wash out, to cut
out or to burn out the mark it setupor him,
But as the subject Of printing has been
dragged into the controversy, therefore,
let the printingbe our theme. These gen
tlemen have unitedly bestowed on US their
anathemas for the sentiments we have a
vowed and grossly misreprcsented our mo-
lives. They are welcome to theirvocation
of denunciation and abuse. We ask moth
ling but abuse from the priesthood whose
feted inscense rises weekly to partisan
blackguardism & Popish idols Butwhile
wear thus quite willing tobe abused we dc
not intend to coUNTENAYCE IMPOSITION. -
The editors ofthe Pope's organ might by
the unreaecting be supposed TO utter a
least their own opinions, however absurd
and untounded. For such has heretofore
been at least the profession and to some
extent the practice of even bigoted parti
san papers. Not so ofthe Pope organs
They are the creatures, the instruments
perhaps we might better say the imple
nents Of a new system from which HOMES
TT and FAIR DEALING are EXCLUDED tn,
editor ola Pope's paper, the politician 0
the Pope party, renounces his right 10 Q
pinions and ceases to be a responsible NOR
al agent. 1t is the practice of these mel
to AporT and DEFEND without deliberalioI
and debate, and when some very importan
question arises, TO resort to some extraor
dinary trick TO escape examination or dis
cusSion. We are determined however
to foil them in their cunning. Their trick
cry, rascality and perfdy must be exam
: ined in broad day light. let the conse
quence be what il may
JAMES w. TowsoN has made great ad
about Letting the printing" TO TIE LOVES
BIDDER, AND CLAIMS GREAT HONOR AN
GREAT CREDIT AT THE HANDS OF THE TAX
PAYERS FOR THIS ACT. OF EcoYoMY. Thi
is all right, economy in the financial affair
Of our county should at all times receiv
public praise; but why is it that Mr.. Tow
son was not governed by this same prin
{ ciple Of economy in purchasing the pape
and books necessary for his office? Blu
t perhaps this can be explained "by an
by"
The editors of the Eagle fay they ha
AN OBJECT IN VIEW when they put in thei
I bid of fifteen cents per quire. Perhap
this will assist us in explaining Mr.. Tow
sons sudden and singular freak Of econc
perhaps we may yet be able to fin
dad under the hay" Now there are tw
items we wish the reader to keep sight o.
viz: That Towson claims great homo
for letting the printing to the lowest bidde
{ and that the Eagle says it had AN oBJEo
, IN VIEW in putting in bid"
Ifthe reader will keep these two item
before him for few moments we will er
, deavor toinitiate him into the manner
which this whole matter of letting til
, printing to the lowest bidderwas manage
and carried through.
We received short time since lette