Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-10-28

ny IN court of justice, nor has any repu-
table citizen ever sworn that he would not
believe us under oath. Can he say as
muchf He need have no fears Of our MUIR
dering or molesting him in any manner,
unless he should think proper to attack us,
AMI may, therefore, save himself the trou-
bic of barring his doors and putting new
fastenings upon his windows. AS to COM
hitting perjury and forgery. if he had a
particle of shame in his composition his
cheeks would Jingle at the bare remem-
brance of the terms.
Messrs Brownlee. Pershing, Vinnedge,
Dickson and Lemon, we suppose, must
feel under peculiar obligations to their
friend for the freedom he takes in giving so
much notoricty to their private business af-
fairs. No man of any sense or prudence
would have taken such an unwarrantable
liberty. Pershing, at least, denies. SO
far as he is concerned, being under obliga-
tons to him in withholding the "unkind
word" We do not think he ever had the
opportunity to injurc any one, whether
friend or foe, when he thought he could
profit by his ruin. tina; he did not improve
it. 1t is upon the ruin of other peoples
fortunes that he has built up his own, a
bout which he boosted so much, and
advanced it as an argument to prove his
ability to manage public affairs. But
the people repudiatel him and gave him
Just and we'll merited rebuke, for which
he snarls at us and tells us we did il. We
did all we could, it is true, and think we
shall ever feel proud of the performance
He acknowledges we performed our part
WELL but tries to console himself with the
hope that the stream in which he drowned
will become so polluted that it will stran-
gle US with its filth when it returns We
have no doubt that it would, should it ever
return. but we have no fear of that
The doughty hero warns us to make no
more illusions to his personal appearance.
We believe we called him a Monkey once,
which we chcerfuly take back, and beg par
don of the whole long, short and no tail
tribe, monkeys, balloons and apes. for the
unusti6able insult to them. We will not
again he guilty of such an odious compar-
ison. 1t would be fragrant wrong to
any animal, brute. reptile or worm, that
walks or crawls upon the earth. to compare
him to any of them He is simply a pu-
crescent mass of degraded and fallen hu-
mainly, totally inscriptions, without hon
or or courage nuisance and pest to the
community in which he lives, and whose
removal to some other place would be hail
ell with delight by almost every man, wo-
man and child in the county.
This man threatens to sue us for DANA
ges. If he thinks he can make his salt in
the operation he ought to do it. We defy
him. He dare not put his character in is
sue before twelve honest men of Marshall
county We are assured by prominent
Democrat of this town that it is not worth
"chaw" Of tobacco.
He denies being spy. but we are able
to prove that he acknowledged he was re-
porter, which, in mercantile parlance
means the same thing. He denied, also,
taking fees on both sides of case.
We are now done with the empty brag-
CART, until he again crosses our path
Should we ever again have occasion to no.
ticc him we will give full and complete
history of his private and domestic affairs
and thus demonstrate whether we are in re-
atty "tampering with material of which
we "are wholly ignorant" as he tells us in
note.
We have not initiated him in the use OF
low. billingsgate slang and vituperation
We could not without lowering oursclf ii
the estimation of all decent and respecta
bic men. We now leave him to wallow il
his own filthy and disgusting excresccnce.
re- r. ConBALEY. Esq, presented US
with quart of Sorghum Molasscs, oil
Monday last. 1t was thick and as plea
ant to onr faSto aS tho host Nav Orlean,