Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-01
Fremont and isa Pauaru.

Fremont and iss Papers.
Under this title the Messengers last
makes aridiculous splurge at the affections
and purses of the business men Of our VII
lage. For some weeks previous, that mod
est sheet seemed determined to drive every
thing before it buster, brag, falsehood and
positive assumption. Discovering BY the
last two or three numbers of the JOURNAL
that our bayonets were too thick for its COM
fort, he halts in his furious charge, files of.
and makes pitiful begging appeal to the
business interests Of our village, and would
fain hide from us behind our patrons and
thus evade the retribution he fears.
This is coming down sooner than we ex-
pected. We only let the @Sauce Box have
a few tufts of grass" and so long as he will
let us alone and tell no lies about Us and
our party, orits principles, and discuss things
with candor and decency we viii hold on to
the rocks We had prepared to throw. But
we don't wish the Messenger to believe for
a moment that our good nature, will pre-
vent US from doing justice to him and the
political insects, who make that paper their
lorgan.
We viii go hand in hand with the Ness
engeT in advocating the interest Of our VII
lage and its business and business men.
And permit US to counsel and contrive to-
gether how best these things can be done.
How shall we best advance the interest Of
this town of Fremont, we both love so weHF
Let US suppose a ease or two and see if We
agree as to the mOdus operandi.
Suppose forinstance that there should be
found that notwithstanding al our anxiety
about the good name of our place, there
were in it half dozen men, who out Of
pure spite and cussedness, did actually mako
false afidavits agains. good citizen and
ueighbOr, to rob him Of his good name and
take away by that means an Office worth
$500 year and give it to one of the gang.
Again suppose that it shOuId turn out
that our town contained two viElainous law
yers, whose fraudulent acts towards clients
con6ding business to them, and by positive
lying repeatedly, cheat their own employ
ers and prove to the world that they were
not fit to be trusted. What would you do
with such menl Would you keep still
about these things for fear of injuring the
towni Well that course might do, keep
silent and let each stranger find who are to
be trusted by dear bought experience, butit
is farther than we like to go in putting good
and bad men on a level; town pride might
prevent Us from publishing such transac-
tions in newspaper. But to think of max
ing a newspaper the special organ and ad-
vocate Of such gang IS further than We
can go, and permit US to say further still,
that to put such men forward to official
stations which ought to be honorable, to
give them superior position as political lead
ers, and ask honest men 70 respect and fol-
low them, thus widning the sphere Of theiF
corruption, and strengthening them in ini-
guilty, is base prostitution Of the press, and
the most direct and speedy method Of ru-
lining our town and al its interests. We
hope that the Messenger will abandon any
such course it may inadvertently have been
lied into. And we exhort it to look to its
surroundings, in this respect and see where
it is.
The first step towards the prosperity Of
any town is to obtain for its citizens a rep
utation for intelligence and morality, and
business integrity. And how viii strangers
Judge US, when by short residence they
find rufians and raseals above par. Every
body knows that town Of five or six thous-
and inhabitants has few bad men, and ev-
Ierybody knows too that of late years in an
unprecedented proportion they have risen
high in political affairs, and We don't
think it will hurt our village half as much
to say so, and hustle such men from among
Ius, as it will to sustain and keep them
We may be told it is none of our business,
but we will say in all sincerity, that if We
can obtain no other reform, we will feel ex-
tremely thankful to seepeaceable, sober and
honest Democrats, once more take the lead,
and discharge the various official duties
among US.
AS to our village, it is doing well, and
we hope the Messenger is not so shallow as
to suppose that four or five stanzas Of dog
gerel poetry about mans failure in the PIG
business, is going to stop its onward pros
) perity moment. Our merchants, mechan-
les, working men, and the farmers around
US, are of the right stamp to put forward
and sustain the interests Of Fremont botf
5 the town of Fremont and Fremont the mex
President.