St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-03-05

abandon the quill, the legitimate weap-
on of warfare in his profession, and
take up the cudgels of the law, to
finish campaign fight, and redress
editorial grievances, is also "amaz-
ing" That he should pass over all
the other Democratic papers in the
Union, which have teemed with SINH
lar libelous charges, to pounce upon
the editor of this paper, the most lamb
like of them all, and whose sweetness
of temper and amiabillty Of dispo-
sition, never have been questioned, is
quite amazing" That he should aban-
don bleeding Kansas" and take to
bleeding us-that he should think of
having ten thousand dollars out of a
pauper printer, who inhabits a land
where democrats 60 to their graves
without mourners, because there are
not enough in any one locality to get
up respectable funeral, is still Gerry
much more amazing get!
But, all joking aside, the case here
made in court is not the case in fact.
Our offences are political, not personal
as charged in the above petition.
About one year ago we took occa sion
in the Plaindealer to call the attention
of the Press throughout the West to
he fact, that by the "no party" plea
of the n. Y. Tribune. and its multi
plicity of guises as reierm paper, il
had induced the active agency of post
masters throughout the country in it
behalf, not only in procuring subscri
bers, but actually writing their name
upon said papers, thereby saving tn
Tribune publishers some thirty Mousam
dollars per gear in the single item 9
clerk hire. This enabled the publish
ers to put their terms at one dollar TO
the Weekly; price with which tn
Western publishers could not compete
and consequently could not live.
We labored to impress the fact tina
upon the destruction of our loca
Western press, these huge Easter
monopolies would have the field entire
ly to themselves and like the Londol
press to England, dictate laws an
opinions to this whole Western realm
We made our appeal to the Democrat
ic postmasters especially, to do n
such exclusive and gratuitous servic
for a man who had deliberately coun
ed the cost of the Union and had favo
ably reported on it's dissolution VIII
had abused their confidence, and VIII
was doing all in his power again.
them and the Democratic party
treat him just as they would curse
or any other publisher, "send bac
all such papers as came to their office
without the names for the proper d
rection" according to the laws an
regulation of the Department in sue
case made and provided.
| 1t is for offences like these that W
are arraigned to respond to damage
before court Of justice. No damag
to his reputation or to his person, bu
damage to his purse, growing out {
a legitimate defence Of Western int
ests, our rights as publisher, and tn
cause Of Democracy and the Union.
The result of a change of policy il
Democratic Post Masters towards tn
N. Y. Tribune begins to be scnsitivcl,
if not sensibly felt by its publishers
hence this suit. We are ready for tn
fight. Although in a country wher
nought but fusion Judges, fusio
Juries, fusion Clerks and Sheriff
: abound, we shall stand our trial an
plead the truth for Our defence. Wit
} such advantages ir court, q circul
|, ton of 24O, 900 and purse that boas
, it's 5000, 900 annual rcplenisllment v
r of course have got to war some {
! David did with his Phillistine opp
nent, but we are bound not to be i
Inundated nor have our press muzzle
) so long as we can WELD sling (
, write a paragraph.
We are not alone on trial in TIL
case. Although the only perso
named in the writ, the prosecution
aimed at the whole Western Pres
If successful against us, the dominic
; of the Tribune and other Eastern Nj
nopoly Papers over Western publish
a ers, and Western opinions, is complete
, 1t is not enough to employ Priests an
: Post Masters in gratuitous servic
, against us, cutting down our circul
ton to starvation point, but like otht
mammoth monopolies, assumes to 6
lence our complaints by resorting
the iron rigors of the law. We wi
/ try the question, and see how f;
: courts and juries, fusion though the
9 be, are going to interfere in newspap
: rivalries and editorial confabs.
More anon.
Tho Enr1;Sh -HPunch oiync II