Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-06-13
THE TRIO STIRRED Up.

sue. They fora tipe ground their teeth
in impotent rage, then rushed forth to
their friends. and searched long and anx-
iously, and begged and entreated most
piteously, for some one to protect them
now and hereafter. But, finding their
prayers availed them nought, they seem
to have been taken with one of those
" fits" which they had fondly hoped to
give us some time since, and while in it
spluttered out at us the inherent filth of
their nature in one of the most incohe-
rent, nonsensical and scurrilous TRADES
that ever disgraced the columns of a
public journal. Their spasms have evil
IDENTIFY been of clonic character, which
is provedby the confused and conglomer-
ate expressions used, violating all known
rules of punctuation, and numbering
Lindley Murray most horribly.
In the first place." say the assinine
trio, eve pronounce the whole fabrication
a MOST UNMITIGATED FALsEHoop" Oh
you do, do you? Well, we suppose il
anything was fabricated it was undoubt-
eddy false. Well admit that, Messrs. A,
B. d c., and you might have saved all
that grand splurge which Immediately
follows, about proving it to the salts
faction of all men who are not too blind
or bigoted by party feeling to see and
admit the truth Well, aee cheerfully
admit that a fabrication Is falsehood,
therefore ue cannot be classed with the
blind and bigoted. What then
Why, when we say that they (the trio
are I" in favor of BANKS and NEGRO
AMALGAMATIoN," we utter that which we
know to be grossly untrue. Now this
pery sapiem trio must have been seized
with an astonishingly hard spasm when
their Imagination could conjure up so
brilliant an idea. We certainly never
mentioned +" Banks" or ''Negro Anal
gamation" in connection with them
We said that Messrs. B. & C. were known
to have been Republicans up to the time
of this change, having openly expressed
themselves such time and again. This
we can prove by the most undoubted au-
thority, if it were necessary. But the
fact is so well known in independence,
at least, that a denial would cause every
honest man there to brand them as liars,
if they have not done SO already. We
therefore said, that if, as they now allege,
they desired, at the time they became
connected with that establishment, TO
make the Ciaaion political paper, they
must also have desired to make it Re-
publican paper. And we pertinently
asked then, and we likewise ask now,
how is it that they are now found on the
side of the Democracy?
The trio next splutters forth upon us
harmless mass of ulgar abuse, which
has in it not even a semblance of truth,
justice or decency, and which even a
blind man can see is brought forth in a
spirit solely of recrimination, and to take
the place of reason or fact-that we dare
not say our soul is our own, that we are
allowed to publish only what is given us,
and lot of other balderdash too scurrilous
for repetition-assertion which he would
not dare to make in this community, SO
utterly devoid of truth are they known to
be. Certainly no person connected with
a public press has ever had less reason to
complain of attempts at dictation than
we. Not a demand-not an intimation-
has ever been made to us, as to what we
should or should not publish. That the
trio cannot truthfully say the same we as
sert and can prove. Every arrangement
that exists between us and others are of
our own making-our own proposals.
And as to our staying here either one or
two years, it is both our pride and our
pleasure to stay we hope not merely for
that time, but for many years. We do
not say this in answer to the charges of
A. B. d. c., for they too far beneath our
contempt, but simply to express our sat
isfaetion at the relations subssting be-
tween ourselves and our friends in Blu
chanan county. is
The trio have, as matter of course,
taken up the cudgels for, and are ready
and willing to actthe part of lickspittal TO,
our county judge. They assert that we
charge the county judge with corruption
simply because he would not give us the
tax list. although we went down on our
knees to him for it, Probably if they
will ask the Judge about it, he may yet
have honor enough about him to tell them
that .heV have tald an r-MMrTJcATrn I'VE