The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-07-09

directly under this hole, and no doubt the
prisoners had "boosted" each other up
through it and escaped from the chamber
window ~ -
That the Repsblicsn party is response
BILE for this escape, as the pitiable writer
in the Free Press endeavors to show, we
deny an toto. First, the jail instead of
being "fusion Continuance, as he alleges,
Is one of the many old Locofoco institu-
tions which have been entailed upon the
Republican party, and not even fit to hold
runaway niggers, and probably never was
designed to hold anybody 1t never was
their policy to bring to justice any of
their numerous gangs of counterfeiters,
which have infested the county since its
organization, for by doing so, their party
ioaS losing ootcS. 1t is well known that
counterfeiters, bogus makers, horse-thieves
and whisky vendors, vote their ticket to
man-and this jail, as the evidence is de-
vcloped every day, shows that it was con-
structed expressly to become thorough
fare " for their own voters. Built by a
Locotoco, under Locofoco supervision, how
could it be otherwise than a Locofoeo con-
cern-a standing monument of another of
their Shams. They have slammed their
principles, slammed their honored name,
and we find their Jail another sham.-
And, instead of being Zone of the best
jails in the country" any boy ten years
old, with a gimblet, could get out of it un-
less he was fettered, hand-cuffed and
watched
Well, the Free Press first slurs it 'fu-
SION cont't0ance' to suit the first part Of
his rigmarole, and before he gets through,
as if he had forgotten what he himself had
written, or supposed that his readers could
not remember one Of his articles long
enough to read it through, says ii "is one
of the best ja'ls in the State" This bril-
liant specimen of HARLEQUIN tumbling evil
IDENTIFY came from one of those regions of
reimbursement cranii in which the writer
abounds; and We recommend him to apply
to the "Doctor" for strengthening plas-
ter for his intellect, Immediately.
But one other item to notice, and we
are done. lie accuses the Republican Of.
helals Of Offering large reward for the
apprehension of the prisoners, with the
hope of securing it for themselves We
find that upon this point the simpleton is
as verdant as he is about jails. We sup
posed erery one knew, and more particu-
larly every one who offers himself as a
public luminary, that neither the sheriff,
-.-.a.--s'---;. Y.;~-.-,,-----rSs.s - ,'sr
employ, can claim or get one single dolla
of the reward, even should they be SO fol
tunate as to retake one or all of the pris
oners. And we are sure that no Ropubli
can be made to swallow any such jargon
and we pity even the intelligence of
democrat, il there are any, who can be dc
ccivod thereby. In conclusion, W
say, if the Jail had been what it houh
have been, and what it ,could have been
had it been built by Republicans, tn
. prisoners could not have escaped in tn
manner they did, and every man of com
I mon sense knows it, The miserable abol
: ton of the Free Press, in endeavoring t
put in special plea for his own party
g before we had accused it of any crime
5 only shows how the guilty criminal ca
D writhe under the remorse of his own con
4 science, and at the same time seek {
e cover his turpitude, by throwing tn
C blame upon the innocent With regar
to the amount of vigilance necessary
s use in guarding and watching the prison
j ers, the "Press" man can get up no issu
with US. If the Jail had been substar
tally and carefully constructed, no prison
3 er would have escaped but with one &,
h up on modern shan, democratic principle
G we think strong guard necessary day an
n night and would recommend some of I'll
+ doughty champions Of the slayocracy f
s that station, for they were known to |
c remarkable men, when they had charl
d OF the public treasury, in looking aft
Q the public money.
c-. "Whore IRE Theyr'