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


playing innocent in Pittsburgh sent the
following letter to the Post. -"
sza.tE sl& ST. CLouD, M. IT., March 3Oth, '58.
| sEDIToR OF THE PITTsBURGH PosT
! You will have seen, by this time, an account
Of the destruction Of the type and the dis
abhng of the press of the st. Cloud Nsiter,
edited by Mrs. Swisshlem formerly Of
your city. As the Republicans are en-
deavoring to- make political capital out Of
this affair, purely personal with Mr. Shep-
ley, [ herewith send you copy of letter,
written by him to the st. Paul Pioneer d
Democrat, which speaks for itself. " o.
q. .o:1~ss.x =, Yours truly s.s] P,
Mr.. Shepley's Pioneer letter accompa-
MES this, but fails to draw out any pallia-
ton from The POST STA a,.s - - s,ss.
The Pittsburg Gazette, edited by a
school-mate of the Doctors, an excellent
man, by the way, who finds himselfi,n a
bad strait, between boyhood friendship
and his honest, hearty, contempt for all
manner Of meanness says; tn s-s.os.& b.
owe regret to see that ourlate co-labor-
er, Mrs. Swisshelm, has been suffering at
the hands of the enemies to free speech.
In the night time the Office of her paper,
the St. Cloud Visiter, was entered and
everything demolished, She declared in
speech before large body Of the citi-
zens who assembled to denounce this high
handed outrage, that it was perpetrated
because she had denounced "slavery and
women-whippers, theiraiders and abettors,'
not forgetting the men who have swindled
themselves into the State Offices of Min
nesota in the teeth of a majority Of the
people. ..
A man named shepley, who has taken
some of Mrs Swisshelm's sharp attacks to
himself, admitted in speech that he
made in defence of his action, that he de-
stroyed the Office, and was ready to suffer
the consequences of the act-1that before
he had done so, he had taken care to Sc
cure the owner Of the property, who is now
absent, against loss, and had consulted
with his friends. T." u.
;. The press belonged to Mr. Brott and
the Office, we think, to DR.. Palmer, former
ly of this city, and Gen. Lowry, formerly
of X entucky. Both these gentlemen are
now and have been for the last year travel
ing in Europe, and therefore any attempt
to connect their names with this outrage
are most unjust. Yet we see their names
mentioned in such connection in the Free
Democrat, of Milwaukee.
1t wont do Mr.. Eaton, It wont do; you
can be no more anxious than we have been
for the sake of both the living and the
dead to shield the Doctor, but it is impos-
sible. He has publicly and persistently
identified himself with the whole transac-
ton in every stage Of it. The late attempt
Of himself and the other member Of the
trio to throw all the responsibility upon a
fellow who is totally irresponsible both as
to pecuniary means and moral character,
only adds to the agggravation Of their Of
fence. We are now doubly bound by a
sense Of justice to the community that has
been outraged in its dearest rights and the
gentleman who has been robbed of his
property to fix the crime rnon the real
criminals; and NJ memories of former
friendship or present respect for near re-
latives, shall deter us from performing, to
the best Of our abilities. this imperative
public duty. 4z d, r.~v.
r The Red Wing Republican, occupies
nearly two columns with the report Of the
meeting, giving the resolutions in full, and
says 1 w. '>''7:.5- ~. - -. -. ...' i
We receive from the St Paul Times of
the Both inst, the following information
concerning one of the most villainous
transactions that ever disgraced a civilized
people. The perpetrators Of the deed,
though occupying position in community, ).
are possessed Of dispositions and propensi-
ties blacker than those of common cut
throat p. .s4 - E&...3 ~: fSi@ 3ss..s' :
The Pittsburgh Despatch is an indepen-
dent penny newspaper with the largest
daily circulation in the city. One Of its
editors published the first article ever pub
lished with our signature in the The Spirit
Of Libertyiof which he, Mr.. Neeson, was
then editor and proprietor, we have quar-
relied a number of times since that;l once
It was generally allowed that we defeated
the senior editor, Col. Foster, when he was
candidate i for mayor; we certainly have
said more hard things to the Colonel than
ever we did to our Minnesota General, and
his paper now says: ii E.;;T.rs.-r ,...sf - :.
PRINTING OFFICE DEsrRoYED.--Mrs
Jane G. Swisshelm, formerly of this city,
purchased the printing establishment Of the
/ Nsiter at St Cloud, Minnesota, sometime
last fall It seems that on the night of the
24th ut, ma: man named Shepley, in re-
yenge for some structures upon a public