Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-10-21

Tired to manufacture and publish, and such
as the Depa himself would kick out ofhis
donainions his most corrupt servant for be-
ing employed or concerned in. ~
Every word that he has published
concerning me since my nomination, was
a lie-a bitter and willful lie-a knowing
and malicious lie, and manufactured who'll
ly by him.. He was aided and abetted in
the effect OF those lies by a few lick-spit-
calling themselves Democrats, but who
have been an ulcer in the party since they
have been here, aud who have sworn ven-
geance against the party because it would
not bow to their dictation. They are fit
associates of such as Mattingly, and viii,
like hun, sleep with the balance of the ir-
rational creation--a special resurrection,
even, can never reach them. He says l
am spy for Eastern houses, and as soon
as man is embarrassed, SO report him
as to get him wound up and get his bus
mess into my hands. Now, could lie be
more malicious? II l was spy, he could
not find it out, and if was one, any man
knows that if made false report, it
would kill ne quicker than the persons so
reported. But the charge is manufacs
tured lie of his own, and he knew it was
such vixen he printed it, and there is proof
of it to the whole country.
Every one knows, that Palmer, Brown
lee, Pershing, Vinnedge, Dickson, Lemon,
and almost every business man in Plym-
outh, las well as every other place., have
been embarrassed, and could not meet
their paper or promises when matured; and
there has been times when an unkind
word would have made some of them
bankrupt, during the crises we have pass
ed through. Who has informed on them,
or tried to misrepresent their affairs? No
one. If Mattingly's charge was true, then
| had reported them falsely. But they
know and he knew that the charge was a
base falsehood, and told by him as such,
and that the business men of Plymouth
have been left by Eastern houses and
Western, too. TO pursue their own course,
unmolested by any one. He shall have a
chance to make that charge good. l am
not, and never was. a spy for any house,
or man. or set of men, and he knew and
now knows it well. i~T
He said that was in favor of 'disfran-
chising poor men, that said "a poor man
ought not 10 vote or hold Office that my
hired man or woman was my slave that'no
man should vote who did not pay his tax
es;' that a man who did not pay his taxes
promptly was bad citizen that | would
vote for laws to disfranchise poor men,;
that "a man who worked for a living WAS
unfit to hold Office and many other things
made up himself. and knew TO be uicioas,
malicious, and acholly false at the time.
| never resorted even to word cfreply 10
Mattingly, until lie commenced making the
most viliainous statements about me, my
speeches, and my private business, and
what he knew 10 be false when he made
them. can prove by five men outtof ev-
cry six who heard my speeches, that | ask
ed no votes for myself; that | spoke kindly
of every man except Oglesbee, and said
nothing derogatory, unless IN comparison
was my right and my duty. He knows
that 1 electioneered no man for myself;
that asked no mans vote; that / would
not even step across the street to urge a
vote in my favor, for thought, and still
think, the people ought to be left free from
importantly, and that with fair dealing on
both sides they would then get the best
men. He knew that by lying and SIAN
dering, and the vilest of corruption, he
could influence votes, and that / would
not attempt TO counteract it by individual
exertions with men, and that | would
leave Time to meet out to him his deserts.
He knew that without official patronage
he could not live, even with friends to fur
nish him with paper, and his family to do
the work, without one cent of expense for
hired ,cbor: and that bread for a short time
wovld be th. result of his dirty work, and
he did it we'll Ii. knew that in less than
two years the polluted cSrreat he was send
ing forth, would return and ctrsngle even
him with lis filth, (the sight O., "aich
would kill other men) and that | wour.
stand acquitted of the vile charges he has
made against me: and that the only way
to save himself and crush me will be to
heap crime upon his already vicious and
disgraceful conduct. and by perjury, forge
ry or uurue!, lrlFe me from TUG community
l have lived here too long to be suddenly
crushed by such influences AS he makes
use OF. and he knows we'll that more than
three hundred men who voted for their
Representative elect, are to-day ashamed
of their man, and know that he Was elect
ed. not for his competency, but simply be-
cause strangers, Who knew nothing to the
contrary, believ sd the vile ISLANDERS heap
ed on me by Maltingly and the vile rene
gades who aided him. An honest man
ought not to shake such things as Mating
ly by the hand. even with a pair of tongs
He is welcome to repeat the silly and oft
repeated lie. Ito him well known as SUCH
that edit and control your paper, and ev-
cry other one be has uttered and repeated.
In as much as only the sober and reflect
ing (as he says. were Disguised with the
. manner in which received the report of
my defeat, of course he was not of tie
number, and therefore was not Disguised.
There is nothing that disgusts him bat
honesty and fairness. aad such things as
p1aaa md anuSa otharS He cannot an