Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-08-03
"Atroelous 0uaages .

"Atroelous 0usrages
r. the poorly balanced mtnd OF Charles
Lowell, everything differing from his
Judgments ali outrage and this IDEA he
cannot express without qualifying it by
the use oil the stronges. adjeciNes III the
language. iierce tue term Atrocious
ourrages,' as applied 10 the decision Of
magistrate, who, from the n4ture Of the
testimony, as we published It last week
could not make any other decision.
Take fer momen, the circular put
forth by l.oWel!-let a stranger read 1t
and he must conclude that WIN. Somer-
by, Esq. is oniy another name for every
thing rotten and corrupt. Weknow this
to be the case from the enquiries which
have been made # Us BY persons living
al 4 distaace, Aud how stands the case
upon statement Of facts Why the
wors, enemy lie ever had never thought
Of accusing him Of beng actuated by
base motives, although there was time
once, ~hen some complained of his de-.
ci,ions as magistrate. Yet then the
/ charge OF corruption was not dreamed of,
nor was it even whispered that he was
aciuated by other than good motives
4 r, -, l.,
+ he placed too much confidence in what
T Charles Lowell SAID was law. Here was
! ms error, bu, /, was OF such nature that
time and experience soon corrected
Then he received with a good degree Of
allowance the prating Of Lowell. which
seems to have So enransd the latter that
| he talks and writes abou, his nasty cases
! like a man denen,ed.
| We are no adrnrtr, either Of Mr..
Lowell or Mr.. Somerby therefore we
view this controversy calmly and dis
passioaately. We have said we did not
consider the latter corrupt, and can in
truth say the same oil the former The
greatest fault we could ever discover in
Lowell. was the blindness with which he
81 easily yields 10 the most vicious re-
vensefll passion ever planted in the hui
man breast. This is the master key 10
I hi Character y character once strange
and inconsistent. Naturally very impul.
siye. he jumps at his conclusions, and
I then casts about him for reasons to sustain
them, instead OF seeking for the rea sons
+ first.
With large Grmness and se)festeem
+ lacking the rehnetnents Of education,
having once taken position, he never
4bandans it. As we'll waste argument
upou block of wood as upon Charles
Lowell after he has once expressed his
opinion. Follow close upon in his po.
sition. no matter how untenable, and
when you have driven him fairly to the
corner, instead of showing any DISPOSE
ton to capi,uate, or even 10 compromise,
he viii turn upon YOU like a tigress robbed
Of her whelps. The most violent oath
and chilling blaspheInes will then pour
in torrents from MS lips as naturally
as slime from a snail she'll. But when
the storm Of passion has passed, he will
show symtoms OF beng as tender and
sensitive as Woman--wiil even weep
over the folIles aud insralltudc OF HI,
race
Such is hasty glance at his character,
which we deem but an act OF justice to
himself, by way OF explaining how he
can be led TO make such gross charges
against man so well known in this
community, and yet be a person of inleg-
rlty- man who Mans 10 do right, for
such a character we nsis, he is entitled
to, although the world will not give him
so much credit as We do.
As an evidence how far his passions
will lead him, we will cite an instance
ahich came under our own knowledge.
lie had a trial before a inagis,rate--no,
Mr. Somerby and from the evidence IN
the case, the decision could not be Other
than against hun. As soon as il was an
nounced, Lowell worked himself into a
most violent rage, and among many
other hard things ne sand, we remember
the following III couldn't gain case
IN this town now il had God Almigh ty
Tor Judge and Jesus Christ for witness !"
A man who can employ such strong lam
guage for so trfiing cause, would be very
likely to publish r,ss such circular
after losing case wherein n woman was
his client.