Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-10-22
.sOmcious OmciaIs.',

htda, under the ABOVE caption, from lne
pen Of It's editor, T. II. Robertson. The
object of those articles was TO defame,
malign and blacken the character Of Coils
Parker and Gilmore, Register and Re-
ceivcr Of the Land Office ut Omaha.
These articles have been ungentlemanly
and slanderous in the extreme. Such
scurrility, and low, vulgar epithets, towards
those in whom the public have imposed
the. utmost confidence and trust, cannot be
justified ON any ground, not ever by the
most provoked attacks Of a public or pri.
yate enemy.
To say nothing about the use and ap-
plicntion of such language, to particular
individuals, no editor who prelends to
class himself among gentlemen, would al.
low such language in the columns of his
paper much less, glory in being the au.
thor of such language himself. Such
conduct, ought TO place any member of
the editorial fraternity, beyond the fellow.
ship of such fraternity, A man who will
use the columns of u news paper, to make
such attacks upon personal character, must
be lost to all sense of shame-very low
in the depths of moral pollution and infa.
my. Face To face business, is the most
honest way of settling disputes; and We
doubt not, if Mr.. Robertson had gone to
the Land Office, he would have had oil
his jealous apprehensions, of fraud, dissi-
pated at once. AT any rate, if he
kheW that these officers were guilty of
such gross and fraudulent transactions, us
he charged upon them, he ought to have
taken steps to have brought them to justice.
Twas his duty as a good citizen, for the
public welfare, TO have done so. IL he
did otkn0W it, he had no right to have
birdened his paper, with such SANDER and
base inuendoes, couched in such uncouth
aud unfriendly terms. In either case, he
is justly reprehensible.
Besides, what have these government
officers done, TO call down such maledic-
tons upon them2 They simply voted for
Judge Ferguson, as Delegate to Congress.
This is the extent of their crime-the
cause of so many defamatory articles, in
that sheet against them. They took no
active part in the election, as did other
government officials, for Mr.. Chapman;
hut as all good and peuceable citizens
should do, went to the polls and deposited
u vote for the man they thought best quail
flied for the office. This is the Alpha and
Omega of the crime, for which they have
been held up between the heavens and
the earth, as guilty of the basest r~ascali,y
and fraud, that could be heaped upon hu.
manity. For this simple reason, memory
has been sounded 10 its utmost depths, ant
imagination goaded on to its utmost ac,iv'
ily, to find something to say against them
truthless hearsay, extor,ed and magnifed
has been paraded forth as facts, ant
charged upon these men, with all the i'm
portance that could be commanded by q
T. III. Robertson. Such raking AM
scrapinS of the past, as has been exhibit
ed in this case, in order to find somethin,
to say against them, shows on its own face
such evidence of intention, that no bod,
believes it, The thing itself, carries wit
it, its own refu,a,ion. Even Mr.. r.
own friends, think less of him for such
course, no matter how much they ma
sheer approyingly, in his face. Even hi
thinks less of himself, than before. TIL
is evident, from the fact, that he dare
not look these men in the face, nor shak
their hand, as cordially as he once coulc
He is evidently conscious, that he has er
deavored to do them an injury. Rattle
than iniure them, however, such a cours
will only tend, Sampson like, to pull dow
ruin upon himself. The blow, strucI
will only rebound against his own pat
The hole, dug for them, will constilu
the grave of his own infamy and disgrac,
We make these remarks, with no fee
ings of partiality towards the gentlemeI
inquestion, and with nothing but the be
feelings toward the editor of The .Nsbrd
kidn. With n of he former, we al
personally unacquainted ; with the othe
we have only a slight acquaintance. W
nn,er Iransacieh any h%n,inass with iher