Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-11-17

sell cut his best friend to secure the Influence of the
other; if he would cheat and defraud laborers who
depend upon their daily labor, for their subsistence
and steal the hard earnings of two years of ncessant
toll, from poor printer, and refuee to pay female
help, what he solemnly agreed to pay because they
were helpless; then il is longer question what he
VIII not do, that he may satisfy his morbid propensity
to paliry pelf. The blush of shame would mantle
me cheek of the veriest migrate earh at the sim.
pie rehearsal of the catalogue of this mans personal
ana political treachery deceit and knavery. Ian.
guage ID inadequate to conyery proper sense of the
utter contempt and loathiug, in which he has been
and ID still held by those who have known him long
est and most intimately. If God should ever forgive
Us the vote we gave for this wretch, TO occupy
an honorable position among men, we pray that be.
lore We should guilty OF another improperly. of 30
nigh magnitude, that the blighting curse OF Egyp
tall pestilentlal plaques may sweep over this fair
and beautiful land In his filth and corruption, we
AVE him. The people of this territory have given
him his just reward and sooner later, public jus.
tice, will have tbs satisfaction Of proper revenge,
in such subject as he is.
We do not know what msligni and bitter animosi-
tlea, working in hearts backened with the darkest of
midnight crimes, led on by q demon like Chapman,
would do but We shall be Glow to believe that there
lives one man in Sarpy county, who would say, much
less swear with the knowledge of the facts before
him. that Judge Ferguson had not occupied and cul-
HVatea Inc iarm he pre.emptad. From personal
knowledge, we know and have heard at least thirty
men say, that they are willing to make an affidavit
mat they had seen, on many different occasions, the
judge IN the interim of his court terms personally
employed on his land in question: cultivating and i'm
proving, 10 say nothing of two hired men, one Of
whom worried exclusively the quarter section that
he pre'empted crop of corn, potatoes, &c, is not
yet gathered, raised blythe Judge The fencing is not
OF TURF thrown up two feet high, but of rails all to
be seen. His house is much better one than many
now live ill., All these improvements, which amount to
fifteen or twenty acres Of actual cultivation, for the
fret sII months, on new farm, are more than many
of our best farmers in Nebraska made the first two
years. Facts are stubborn things, and no man, no
matter how black his heart may be with malice, or
how devIlish his purposes could be, however much
he might desire il, swear away Judge Fergusous
improvements. FACTS can be misrepresented and
talsehoods can be told, but the truth s still the
ssrne and should an army of one thousand mhlgn.
ers OF human character make oath that the improve
mens are not there, and were not made by Judge
Ferguson, 1t would not convince one man, whose op.
tcal sense Is his own. Should there be any truth in
the statement, that any man set of men, have
sworn as stated above there W i'll hs some more swear
ing that the truth may be told, but We say in all can
dor, We do not believe one man can be- found in this
county, so utterly lost to all of proprety and
self.respec or 80 blind and maddeued by feeling OF
bitter hatred TO make such charges and that too
under oath, and all for political Effect Beepme tN.
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