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

to prevent it, always intending to pay Mr.
Brott, the owner, on his return. H.
IA Ifeel I am justifable in my course, but
if there is any blame, it should fall solely
on iiie.
Please publish this and oblige, yours tru-
ly. III. jjafaF 1sstl.9J JAMES G. SHEPLEY.s
St. Cloud, March 20, 1858. z.rz: ~
from the aboye,,,it will be seen that
l. Mr.. Shepley began the war Of words.
2. Mrs. .Swisshelm jawed back. .4.' "
3. Whereupon Mr.. shepley stopped
jawing and smashed the printing-ofhce o;
the journal whereof Mrs S. was the hired
Editor c
Mr.. Shepley here stands condemned on
his own showing. Having begun the
wordy fray, he had no shadow 'of rty1't t.
be first in rushing from words to blows.
and, having thus changed the nature ci
the ARGUMENT, i'll returning again to word
he clearly admits. that. his resort to blows
was needless therefore inexcusable.a
Now let us hear Mrs. Swisshelm
The Tsiter has labored, from the first
with great pecuniary difficulty. There were
plenty of pledges for its support, but these
could not always be converted into paper
and -four for the printers family. The
proprietor, Mr. Brott, although possessed OF
about as much enterprise and liberality a.
he has room for in his six feet, is large
land speculator, and has had both hands
and all his pockets full Of business: and
what with the grasshoppers and the crash,
Stearns County has had close Winter. -
The Nsiter was supported as a local organ.
a medium for advertising the advantages
Of the country by men of all parties, espec
tally the proprietors Of real estate. The
largest proprietor here is a Southern ger
tleman, a General, the first settler, and /:
man whose influence has been almost thai.
Of dictator He concluded that he cot1lii
not conscientiously support The Tsiter j
it opposed Mr.. Buchanan's Administration.
It could not be published without conferr-
ing more benefit upon him than upon any
one of its supporters, as all the influence
it exerted to bring immigration and capital
here must proportionably enhance the value
of his property. Mr.. Brott. had given
me unlimited powers Of discretion, on the
ground that lady's politics were of no ac-
count and here was dilemma
I proposed that the General should en-
ploy some one or more Of his many retainer*
ers, to defend Mr. Buchanan from my at
tacks, and that 1 give him Or them as mucI,
space in The 1fsttcr as l should occupy Oh
that question. This would not answer
Town lots we're on the side of my support
ing Mr.. Buchanan. I have great respect
for town lots, and became open to convic-
tion. Town lots is q most eloquent sup
porter of Mr.. Buchanan's Administration.
and in Minnesota his influence is immense.
Very soon I was hopefully converted, and,
in writing, signifed my consent to support
Mr.: Buchanan but I thought it would be
but right, before executing deeds, to give q
specimen Of my prowess in my new field ci:
labor. So, I announced in The Ksite..
that should support Mr.. Buchanan, and,
with all the fiery zeal Of a new convert,
urged the propriety of relieving the people
of State from the trouble of electing their
Legislature, or making their Constitution
I announced and upheld the purpose Of the
Administration to supply all the poor white
folks with kind masters: suggested that
the Supreme Court should make adecision
affirming the right Of Southern gentlemen
to whip women IN any part Of the Norther;s
States. ] insisted that, such decree coult
easily be procured, and that the time had
come when it should be demanded, mas
much as it is due our Southern brethren
that not only their rights Of property, but
their social habits should be respected all
/ over the Union, insisted upon the pro-
priety of placing the brand Of chattledon,
fon "slnall-fsted farmers and greasy me-
Echanics," to prevent the impertinence oi
their wanting to associate with gentlemen $
body servants, urged the workingmen ci
Minnesota to come to the. polls and
vote themselves a pair Of handouts
and threatened that, if all these require
ments were not promptly complied with,
Mr. Buchanan and would tsdissolre the
Union" and spoke of the lamentable cor-
dition of workingmen in that event, when
they would have no masters, and no hope
i of getting any. s..ss 81 IS s,..sS .g4<ss.ss
! Well, confidently expected two blocks,
at least, for these my distinguished serv;-
Ices, but, shades Of ingratitude! never lot
got L On the contrary, my new "Mars'
concluded that I had earned fogging.
and his boy "Jeemes" was appointed to ad-
minister it. Jeemes is the note Of inter
rogation who asks the cross questions wheE
! the General has lawsuit This fogging
was expected to- make, an end Of me I'M
mediately, OF to lead shortly and surely to
my total and irrecoverable defeat, if not my
physical death. One Of the conspirators,
who had known me ten years intimately,
and was drawn into the plot from pure lack
of moral courage, had some faint idea OF
what, they were undertaking and protested.
He told them that / would die at my post.
that conquering me was an impossibility.
He knew the attack they were about 70.
make was like charging into the den Of 4
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