St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-13

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meeting which was attended only by Gen
eral Lowry, Mr.: shepley and himself, and
continued in session until after midnight,
when it adjourned to the Visitcr Office,
the General stood with his gloves on, while
the Doctor and the Lawyer distributed the
type, which they looked upon as our only
means of defence. The event reminds us
of the old Psalm, learned in infancy, when
speaking of the wicked man, it says,
His mischief
Shall be returned home, -
....4 His violent dealing also down,
On his own pate shall come"
+. Next day, they all played ignorant
Mr.: Shepley distinctly denied all knowl-
edge Of the matter. In the evening Gen.
Lowry came down to hear the lecture pre-
pared at so much cost, and give the lectur-
er the support of his countenance. Or.
Palmer's brother-in-law brought two
horse wagon-load, of men from Lowry
town, to do the applauding, but the.people
were all pouring to the Stearns' house, and
he who was to have been the orator of the
evening, was impelled to go with the peo-
pie, where the hopeful trio found them
selves publicly confronted with their mid
night crime. It was generally supposed
they came with such force as they could
command to overawe any who might at
tempt to appear as our friend; but they had
assailed the peace Of the community and
suddenly found themselves in an irressista-
BILE tide of public scorn. They called out,
when the meeting was nearly closed, for the
people to go to the School House, and hear
Mr.. Shepley's defence, took off their own
picked forces, and were followed by many of
our best friends, who wished to hear what
was to be said. From them we learned the
character Of, the lecture, which all pro-
nounce too obscene to be repeated. / Mr..
Shepley acknowledged the destruction of
the Office. The obscene abuse of ourself and
this acknowledgment, were received with
applause by the twenty, or more, picked
men brought there for the purpose, DR..
Palmer always giving the signal. While
from the decent portion of the audience
came cries Of "liar!" and the performance
was wound up with three gaoans for Shop
ley, which those present say were like an
earthquake. =. : ~ -".'>.*.s' s
Mr.. shepley's responsibility for the pro.
perty, is adding insult to injury; for
he can scarce command the means of liv-
ing and was already deeply in debt. If
the property is ever paid for, it must be by
General Lowry, for the other two have less
than the law allows them. Mr. Shepley
ran all over town before he could borrow
the means to carry him of, and is gone to
New York. -. .... ..,...... ~. .
Now, if all this was done to prevent our
making an attack upon "my wife" she
must be very vulnerable subject, and we
would like to know, from General Lowry
and DR.. Palmer, what they were afraid Of
in the prospect Of our saying something
about "my wife 2" Was there any guilty
secret gentlemen, whose suppression would
warrant all this risk and trouble? Did
you think we knew something particular?
Eli! ...~g,... ~ <.,..s..-
/ It is scarcely possible General Lowry
could have been influenced by such mo-
tive, for we never heard of his being more
than once in Mr.. Shepley's house, never
heard his name connected with that Of "my
wife" either one way or another; and we
do think that he had better come out from
his presentinteresting ambuscade and ..face
the music" You see, General, you and
your chum "Captain Rice" have to stand
as the representatives Of Lecompton: No
help for it; and it is no use for you to bore
your knuckles into your eyes and begin to
blubber4 about our attacking you in your
sick chamber !saz You forget, man. that
youwere married three weeks before we
IIwrote ''Stearns County Politics, thearticle
Eyou refer to, in which we exposed your
Hnol;t;ca1 tact;cs that von had heen I'm NJ