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

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said, that he spoksof its approaching deli
very to Doctor Palmer in that light, and
expressed his fears of the success of that
combination. when the Dr. assured him
that they would find us more than equal
to. all tho force that could be mustered
against us, that we never had been, never
could be, worsted in battle, or words to
this amount s47za-as ae.as
After the destruction of the press, and
when it was found that the people had ia
ken the battle off our hands, the Doctor
said to Mr.. sMowatt, 81 warned Shepley of
this, before he delivered that lecture! I
told him she would ruin him!" - E...s'
f. Still, with this feeling gained from an
intimate acquaintance with our whole edi-
torial course, the Doctor brought the
whole weight of his efforts and influence
to aid and countenance our assailants Mr.
Shepley has nor yet explained the reasons
which induced that attack, or sent him
whining to General Lowry, when he felt
himself worsted at his own weapons: but,
according to his Pioneer letter, all that he
did afterwards, was done to prevent
"another ibelous attack worse than the
first" u:... .,. .fes
So, so, and the whole story was not yet
told. Wasn't it? Was there something
still worse which might have been said p
The Proprietor in Washington:and nobody
to control us! Hon. G. T .Stearns is father
in-law to Mr.. Brott, the proprietor, and
has charge Of his business when Mr.. B. is
absent. Mr. stearns' character, for high
sense Of honor and strict probity, stands
unquestioned. Mr.. Shepley's wife was the
music teacher of his daughters, visited his
house frequently, and was in the habit of
receiving evidences of motherly kindness
from Mrs. Stearns. Why did not Mr..
Shepley ask Mr.. Stearns to interfere and
prevent this dreaded libel which would
have made Mr. Brott responsible for dam
ages? Judge Smith is Mr.. Brott's bro
ther-in-law and business partner. He
owns the house in which the V;isitcr was
published. He and Mr.. Shepley came
here with Mr.. Brott, when he made the
claim, and have lived neighbors ever since.
Judge Smith stands second to no man in
this community in point Of moral worth
Why did not Mr.. Shepley ask him to
prevent a gross wrong and save his own
property and that of his brother?
Are We to infer that because they were
Republicans, neither of these gentlemen
could have been made to see the danger,
as sufficient to call for word, while Gene
raj Lowry and Doctor Palmer we're SO con-
scious, that they were ready to resort to
any violence, to prevent some dreaded reye-
lation, and the Doctor was so alarmed that
he got up petition and shambled all
around town, asking the people to ask MIR.
Shepley to read his lecture again.. As a
majority of our citizens had not heard it,
and wished to judge intelligently Of the
fairness of our review, about forty people
signed the paper, when the Doctor wrote
and put up posters, that Mr.. shepley's lee
ture on Woman, would be delivered, by
request of the citizens Of St. Cloud, at, tho
Everett School House, on Thursday even
ing, March 25th. Then he sat down and
helped Mr. Shepley to remodel that lee
ture SO as to make it embrace the grossest
possible ibels, the most vulgar and indie
cent, personal abuse, Of one to whom he
came, four years ago, to return formal
thanks for what he was pleased to think
important patronage in his profession, to
one who had been the most intimate friend
of his wife up to the hour Of her death, and to
whom her mourning parents entrusted the
task of publicly recording the memory Of
her rare loveliness of character. In his
insane dread of something he feared we
might say Of "my wife" he appeared to
forget that our old relations in Pennsylva,
MIA, were perfectly well known to dozen
or more persons here, who knew that to the
hour Of our leaving Pittsburg, his wife's
mother and his own sisters. were amongst
our most intimate friends, and that here
he had ever spoken Of us, to his lady
friends, as kind Of model old aunty, and
embodiment of homely, domestic virtues
Forgetting all this, and the hour when h
stood sobbing beside that beautiful temple
from which the spirit which had 50 loveo
and trusted him, had just fed, leaving it.
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