M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-08-28
q" Facts for the People"

Under this caption the Mineral Region
Herald attempts to defend Mr.. Bundy from
hurried review Of bis speech delivered at
the Court House, which appeared in the
Democrat a short time since. The Herald
says our article, summed up, amounts to
little over a column of "slang, scurrlity,
weak attempts at smart sayings, and so far
as wit, sense and argument are concerned,
turns out complete abortion" 1t is lit.
tie singular that the Herald should employ
over a column to answer such an article
BY our neighbours own confession he either
did not believe what he stated or else made an
ass Of himself by replying at oil to an arti-
Gle which contained neither wit, sense nor
argument"
The Herald proceeds to say that we mis-
represented Mr.. Dundy. We certainly had
no intention nor desire to do so In private
life 1--WE accord to Mr.. Bundy all the charac-
teristics of a gentleman and have no wis h
to detract from his reputation ia public ca
pacity but when he made the statements
with which we charged him, which we made
note of at the time, and the correctness of
which we are able to prove by persons oc-
cupying as high a position for honesty as
Mr.. Bundy, it was not expected, we presume,
that everybody would acquiesce in them and
that nobody would dare to question their
correctness. Even the Herald, although it
adds to some of the statements of Mr.. B.
and qualities others, is unable to reconcile
them with truth, To set Mr. D. right on
the subject Of the amount of slave territory
In the United States, it excludes California
from the list Of Free States and adds nearly
hundred thousand square miles to Texas
To use the language of the Herald, " prob
ably its all honest !" In the footing of the
aggregate of slave territory it also adds ten
thousand square miles Probably that's
"all honest " In adding up the No. of
square miles in the Slave States we over
looked Missouri and did not discover the er-
rOr until we compared our list, COPIED from
Mitchell's Atlas,) with the table published
in the Herald. The charge, therefore, that
we used different authorities in making our
calculation Of the amount Of territory in the
Free and Slave States, is without the least
foundation in truth. One would scarcely
expect, that the Herald would b. guilty of
two authorities to sustain Mr.. B. after
accusing us of dishonesty because it supposed
we did the same thing but such is actually
the case. So desperate was the fix of our
neighbor that he did not scruple to use an
estimate of Teras territory long since ou:
of date, and more recent and reliable es-
innate for the balance of the Union He
says Texas has " altcayS" heen estimated,
until very recently, at $4,000 square miles.
We have referred to MitchelPs Atlas for
l849, and find the area of Texas set down
at precisely 100000 So. miles, Probably
this is "all honest" but it requires expla-
nation.
The question is asimple one, and we will
state it briefly. Dir. Bun dy stated that the
territory in the Slave States amounted to
double that in the Free States. We said
Mr.. B. was not correct. The facts are, ac-
cording to the Hsrald's own table, that the
area of he.Slave States amounts to S63,5s4
50. miles=-that of the Free States to 646,-
6S6 50. miles. This shows that Mr. B. was
not correct and settles the question. But
the Herald says DIR. B. excluded California
and added nearly one hundred thousand
square miles to Texas, making difference
Of about 100000 square miles. This is de-
cidedly good specimen of Black Republic
can fairness, and we commend it 10 those
who wish to practice the art of lodging as
. frst.rate example. The Herald first as
sumes that Brother Bundy said SO and So
then il auunges the ftcts just to suit then
it declares Brother Bundy was correct
What nice calculation!