The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-16

/ John Mitchell, whose sufferings for the
cause OF liberty in Europe made his name IA
nous in this country, and secured him
hearty welcome on his arrival, will never be
done making fool OF himself. He first
ouarrelled with the church, and then repu-
/ dated the principles Of liberty and proclaim
/ ed his anxiety to obtain q plantation vel
stocked with negroes. Having .fatfed out II
his effort to publish a paper in the North, ht
went South to start n paper there. lie soor
got into difficulty with brother editor and
/ made an attack on him in the street and wa:
saved from drubbing by the interference
! of the police.
I The rest OF the story we publish in the
words OF the editor Of the Knoxville Regis
/ ter whom he assaiicd:
/ .After we had been separated by the po-
+. lice officers, proceeded at once to arm my
self, md again made my appearance on Gay
standing few steps down Cumberland ST.,
Mitchell walked down Gay street, in compa-
nv with friend. At Kings corner, just in
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advanced to within about six or eight PAGES
Of him. and then and there, in the presence
and within the hearing Of hundred or more
citizens and strangers, addressed and de-
nounced him, substantially, rs follows:
"'.John Mitchell, you made a most cow
ardly, though impotent, assault on me this
morning. You approached me with the smile
of friendship upon your lips, but with the
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approached me armed, presuming correctly
upon my being unarmed. Your purposes
failed you, and have stopped you to inform
on an equal footing, and TO denouDce you as
as a rufhan, sconndrel, a highway assassin
and a murderer at heart, and an Infamous
coward if you do not resent this denuncia-
ton, like mar, in an equal and honorable
encounter
s.snch, and much more, were the denunci
atoms pronounced, while he stood at the
distance OF six or eight PAGES, with bis hand
upon the cock Of partially revealed pistol.
Yet he ingloriously withdrew from my pres
cnce, while shouts of 'coward nssnenkr 'das-
lard y scowardp broke forth spontaneously
from the crow. upon his ltnstart.iy exit.
"And now, John Mitchell having assaulted
ue III tue Hp1sR ot"NN"
having narrowly escaped street druhbing
by the Intervention of municipal officers
having been nftersard confronted BY me, and
notified that was armed-haying been de-
nounced By me in the presence and within
/ the hearing of hundred or more persons, in
all the terms of denunci .tion | could devise
having basely subnitted to all, and skulked
away amid the lrers, and Kisses and shouts
OF the bystandersl hesitate not to repeat
my denunciation, and brand him rs a wiser
able scoundfsi and uhife-huered oorard
aud, in doing so, fear only that be may
shoot me through window at night, or stab
me, covertiy, in the DARK
sin shaping ny course, have been gui-
ded by nv own sense oil honor and the coun-
sci of friends, and have but to regret, first,
/ that was unarmed at the outset, and, sec
! ondly, that was not permitted to conclude
the first engagement. which should most
certainly have done 10 INV entire satisfaction.
| can but be gra,i6ed at the general approval
which NV position and course have received
IN this community, aud at the equally general
feeling Of mingled Indignation aud contempt
which the conduct Of the Irish bastard has
excited. To the judgment of an unpreiu-
diced public choerfaiiy submit the case"
However anxious Mitchell may be to OBJ
tain plantation Of slaves, we rather suspect
that be has no special fancy for the manners
Of the chivairy "a illustrated in this instance