Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-02-16
Virtuous indignation

The Gazette Of yesterday discharges
about half column Of bile upon our
devoted heads, because we have given
it, first article upon the currency, sew
eral insertions, free Of charge. 1t gets
very much out Of temper, and allows
itself to call US great many very
naughty names. It's antics make us
think Of bareiooted boy, who, having
stubbled his toe against stone, turns
around and kicks it, to get revenge.
Keep cool, gentlemen; we publish
ed the substance Of your article-the
prominent features OF it, without tho
superauity. If you don't like it, please
to publish the whole, and show wherein
the extracts we give, do not convey the
same meaning, when published as a
whole, that they do as we have them.
Garbliny is making extracts that when
made, convey different meaning from
that which they do when taken in
connection with other matter; nothing
else Is garbling. This we are not
guilty of.-No! no! The bad blood Of
the editors of the Gazette is Occasioncd
not because we published what they
did not say, but what they did.
But what:pleases us most is the
whining allegation, that we are outrag
ing dscency by publishing matter
which We know neither Of the editors
of the Gazette wrote.
Now is'nt that little rich? For
months-in fact, ever since we have
published the Uemocrat-the Gaxette
has been charging, in nearly every is
sue, that we did not edit our paper !;
that it was controlled by outsiders !;
that our articles were furnished by a
few interested parties-cven in yestcr-
days paper, it spoke Of the "supes"
Of the Democrat. This systematic
course Of lying has become SO much of
. second nature with the editors of
that paper, that we have not thought
proper to notice it at all. We lay
claim to no specific amount of ability
a. editors {; but for what the Demo
crat says or does, its editors are entl-
tied to the credit or blame and when
tho editors of the Gazette, or any other
person, says that our paper as or can
be controlled by any other parties than
ourselves, they lie.
At the same time 1T endeavors to
detract from our influence by such
base charges - we have alluded to, it
deliberately and distinctly avows that
is editorials are written by outsiders,
oyer which they do not even exercise
. supervising control. 1t says that
We "knos0 that neither Of the editors
s0rose" the article from which these ex.
tracts were taken. Now we do not
know any such thing, unless we take
the editors soord for ia very doubt.
full authority, just at the present time.
That article appeared in the editori-
ii columns ofthe Gazette. and nothing
else; and it was not until Cook Il Sar-
gents wild cats commenced scratching
about that Office, that its paternity was
repudiated. 1t was then repudiated-
not because the doctrine it contained
Vas erroneous but for the reason that
the proprietors Of the Gazette thought
they could make more by taking the
other course. We do not dispute the
right Of the Gazette to sell itself to wild
cat operators; or to be controlled bv
outsiderA but while admitting and in
sisting upon their own depravity, we
think it would look quite as we'll for
them to say less about the "supes" of
tho Democrat.