Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-04-23
Scandalum MagnatUm.


without any cessation until dark, which
NAV be the reason of so small majority.
Had the weather been pleasant, there is no
telling how much our majority would have
beeni-INarshaU Co. Democrat.
Yes Sir-And we know of a certain
Town that has large majority, that is ov
er-run with doggeries and rum-holes-
Where the LEGAL leader of the weekly
paper is out against card playing by the
boys of the place. Where the County
Clerk peddles Naturalization papers along
the railroad line, where the Records of the
County are altered to suit the convenience
of the parties; where they attempt to rob
the county Treasury. and the Post Office
is robbed and part of the mail destroyed;
where unnaturalized foreigners, and drunk
en- DULLES vote en- maSse, and the whole
business part of town is laid in ashes by
the torch of the incendiary.''
The above scurrilous, libelous, black
guard, and uncalled for article is taken
from the Northern Hadionian, paper pub
lished at Warsaw. The name Of George
R. Thralls appears in the paper as the ed
itor, but we are 10th to believe that he wrote
it.
He is a man of some means, and keeps a
drug store in Warsaw, and dirty back
shop. where he peddles out liquor by the
drink; therefore he would not be likely to
say anything about "rum- holes He
lives in town SO internal poor that thieves
could find nothing to steal but rats if they
should set 1t on fire; and lie knowing it.
would say nothing about ''incendiaries -
As he never seen our county Clerk, (and is
too stingy to dress decert) we suppose he
would have too much sense to charge him
with crime in oischarging the duties of
his office; for he loves money too well to
run the risk of prosecution for libel. AS
the board Of election here has been Re
psJlican, we take it for granted that he
does not intend to charge that they per-
mitted ''unnaturalized foreigners and drum
ken DULLES to vote en- mdSse." So we have
charity to think that Mr.. Thralls did not
write the article quoted.
If the writor-whosoever he is-mcans
this place by ga certain town which he
knows" all that we have TO say is, that he
is no gentleman, is unworthy the name of
an editor, disgraces his position, has pub
llshed scandalous malicious HJel, given
utterance to oul-mouthed, wholesale, I'm
qualified lie, and knew Il ,rhen he wrote and
published IT, and we are sorry that such
Ainys-yclept "men'-will be tolerated
even in such a place as Uiarsaw New
the town is all well enough, but such news
papers as she has had published and such
language as has filled them would disgrace
the veriest broth,l blackguard living; and in
the verF pare SO belaboring a certain town
i. an editorial charging some 'citizen and
father" resident there with an act worse
than ''incendiarism. Shame on YOU We
hypocrites! You that suffer your polite
al prejudices to urge yon TO utter wholesale
SANDERS and publish wholesale ibels about
your neighbors. You whose citizens are
deserving your town and locating them
selves amongst those neighbors! You who
would dictate to your neighbor his every
act, and crush him for disobedience if YOU
had the power For shame on you,
The rum holes and doggeres" here
are scarce compared with Warsaw. No
County clerk peddles naturalization pa
pers" on the Railroad line or elsewhere
No "records Of the county are altered to
suit the convenience of parties;'' and il
the cowardly liar who writes such a charge
will openly make Il, and name tie parties,
If it Is true they shall be punished; and il
false. he can have the privilege of footing
a Judgement in libel suit.
No one but co,cord and liar will charge
CRIME unless he knows 1t is so and he
can prove it; and then he charges it home
where it belongs--on tho guilty parties.--
No honest decent man filings such charge
at a whole town.
The robbery of the county Treasury,
Post Office are no reproach to the town.
Every town in the world has thieves in il
and such a charge on this place alone
is only in keeping with SO foul Islander
as the balance of the article we have quo
ted
Look at the county Records at Warsaw,
and sec the actions of cr,m con. and
the Judgments of from $4,000 to $4,000
against some of her most resp ectaJle (?)
citizens-Republicans followed by the
usual degradation on the one side, and
desolation On the other, with the morals of
the whole community contaminated by its
discussion or influence Lock ut herr pol
luted ballot boxes, closed to legal voters
and open to illegal ones, that were Repub-