The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-05-07

YEARS PROCEEDING THE LAS
SESSION OF THE BOARD OF ST
"PEVISORS, THAN FOR ANY TW
"YEARS SINCE TIE COUNTY WA
"ORGANIZEDp
"WIIY Is IT THAT FOR ALL TIL
"VAST AMOUNT OF MONEY PAL
"lN ALLEGED CRIMINAL BUS]
NESS FOR THE TWO YEAR,
MENTIONED, THERE HAS NO,
"BEEN A SINGLE CONVICTION p
Pam Par Free Press.
The foregoing capitals have constituted
the principal stock in the editorials of the
Far Paw Free Press, for several week.
past. We have heretofore driven the
editor from all the other charges that he
has made in connection with the above
against the Republican county officers,
and made them recoil upon his own head
we have not, however, for several rea-
sons, cared to be in any hurry to demol-
ish the above We knew from expert
encc that the reputation of that paper for
truth and fairness was such, that any
charge of that kind coming from that
source could not injurc the Republican
party or officers; and inasmuch as some
thing Of that kind is about the only politi-
cal stock in trade that the Sham Democ-
racy now possess, We thought it pity to
deprive them 100 hastily, of the exulta-
ton which the Editor seemed to eniov
over tins morsel Of supposed capital. We
have therefore preferred to let the Editor
exult, and spread aud elevate himself, on
this topic, knowing that the higher he
scared tho greater would be his fall when
forced to come down.
And right well has the Editor improy-
ed the respite which we have given him.
He triumphantly demands in behalf of
the dear people, whose cause he has so
magnanimously and disintcrestcdly (?) es-
poused, that we should explain this mat
ter, and that restitution should be made ,
to the injured people. And he ominous- :
y tells us that uhcn these explanations ,
are PROPERLY made, ,re Chez shall pro- n
pose Others Of equal significance and i'm .
portdncc."
We are glad that he has told us this;
although we expected that, of course, he :,
Toald pursue his usual course, that is. :.
when driven from one false charge by ex .
plantations "prQpcrH made" he would. ;
instead Of attempting to prove his asscr-
ION, or acknowledging his error, resort to :,
ther charges "equoly significant" 8
The Free Press charges the county Of 6,
GERS with sq'm"dering the people mon .,
y. He does not deign to tell us what 6,
articular officers are responsible for tie 90
laundering, nor in what particular man
er' or in what particular instances, the ~;
honey has been squandcred, or mis-appli-
d. 1t is an acknowledged axiom among -;
re<'%e@ people, that when persons are %
'lled upon TO answer to criminal charge. g.,
lie charge should be distinctly made, with nj,
istlnct specifications of the particular vi
It's constituting the offence charged, and be
ould then be supported by something de-
the nature of proof before the accused
all be required to answer, and that mu
cry one shall be presumed innocent I'm. the
his guilt is made manifest by the err. co,
nee. 90.
But the Free Press has a more ,umma- for
and improved method of dsposinc Of tho
IN things. He prefers charges to suit Ka
own arbitrary notion, and then calls wit
the accused to prove himself innocent, thr
it the persons thus arraigncd do not NJ .
tit to notice that kind of inquistion. will
then fourishes his trumpets aud struts On,
nsclf forthwith all the parapharnalia of .Jud
ictor, and proclaims, that off doubts An,
g existed in the minds of any" of the fees
1t of the accused, they are being rap tb,r
: dispelled by tho silence which reirns :
he camp of the accused =" onl
WITH all due reference to the profound , NJ.
'city of the Free Press, we must be 80.
we'd to entertain the opinion that the -.
ims Of the common law, and of the a..
mon scnsc of the civilized world on ;a,.,.
subject arc entitled to some little re. H.,
Notwithstanding the superior LIGHT Of tb,r
great luminary Of the Fr,e Press.-- ,.,,.
!cst W SHOULD BE- mistaken in thi. u j