The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-05-28

testimony OF UttHcSS under oath mucl
less the lcdger.
MIR. Clapp does not make the attemp
10 sustain the statement which he mad,
in the Free Press Of the amounts allowed
the sheriff and Tailor for 1856 and 1857
or to show that there was single dollal
more allowed to them than the items whicl
we gave last week. lie ought to produce
the items to make up the balance accord
ing to his statement, if he can otherwise
ho stands convicted Of sheer falSchood -
lie cannot do IL, however, without .torgins
his items.
But there is another charge which We
make against sheriff Clapp, which he has
not attempted to explain or deny.
We make our charges dcfaite; and
we say that on the 10th Septcm-
Der, 1858, sheriff Clapp drew from the
treasurer, out Of the contingent fund $50, 90
for expenses in taking two prisoners,
Reynolds and Dodge, 10 Jackson. And
that at the session of the Board of Super
yisors, in October following he presented
claim of $4,000, and got it allowed for
taking those same two prisoner to Jack
son. Thus he obtained ninety dollars for
taking two prisoners to Jackson and ex-
penscs. And it is evident that when he
presented the claim Of sixty dollars, the
Board were not aware that he had already
drawn thirty dollars for the same thing,
from tho fact that he did not report the
amounts drawn from the contingent fund
until the January session in 1881.
And yet this is the man that talks about
the nefariouS swindlings OF TIC county
officials" when no cannot, and does not
attempt, to point ont where single dollar
has been unjustly or improperly obtained
by those whom he accuses.
Verify, if the democracy arc 80 90 hard
up as to be obliged to sustain their par
ty by resorting to such unfounded charges
against others, they ought to get some one
with cleaner hands than the Doctor, to
bring the accusations.
Mr. Clapp makes great ado'about the
escape of prisoner during his examina-
ton as if such thing as the escape of a
prisoner was thing almost Hnhcard of !;
when every one knows that such things
frequently happen in all places and under
all administrations. Only a few weeks
ago we heard Of similar escape Of pris
oner from one of the best detective po-
licemen of Chicago. But we should like
to enquire which is the worst, an escape
of that kind, or for an officer to get on a
drunk, and lose his warrant, so that when
he gets his prisoners before the court he
can show no authority to dctain them and
is obliged to let them go? Or to get SO
1" sick, ," (?) with 4 prisoner on the cars, that
the prisoner is obliged to take charge of
him and conduct him home 1t has been
suggested that the Doctor might call to
mind "reminiscences of this kind if he
should try but we don't undertake to say
how that is. We rather think that if any
such things occurred, they were only the
effects of a slight degree of stupidity"
There is another assertion Of the Doc
tor which shows how little he knows or
cares what he af1irms. He says that the
amount paid to the sheriff and his dcpu-
ties for 1888, does not begin to come up
to the amount paid the sheriff for 1856.
Whereas the Records show that the
amount paid the sheriff and his deputies
for 1888, not inclu'jHg the amounts for
wood, was orcr SIR hundred dollorS; and
that tho amount paid to the sheriff and
his deputies for 1856, was less Mon fire
huRdrcd dolors ibclul,pg Sis for
wood----S20,00 for building privy and
$1,000 for building gate. And dcducting
these items, the whole amount paid sheriff
and deputies for other services for 1856
was less Than three hundred and .ftiy dol
lars; against over 5000 for 1858.
ANOTHER VIEW OF lT.--Thc cringing
set of Northern anti-Lccompton were so
kicked and cuffed by The Administration
until they were glad to crawl back into
favor through the ENGLISH swindlc are
now trying to bcfog the people concerning
it. The Richmond South describes it as
it really is:
at achieves Congressional recognition
of the Lecompton constitution. 1t ailirms
the principles for which the South has
throughout the struggle. 1t
admits Kansas into the Union as a slave
stoto and fins conSolidaios Tho viriorv of