American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-11-11


! tics. charged lis dsfeatto the treaChery Of
ttSe Old Whgs and AMsrieans. and said
that IN future they (the Wings and Amer
sicRns9 would fud That tie .sdemoeratir
portion ol tie Republieao party wsrlld
Hded out retribulionthai would sipk the
parry into the hot place above lnlenl0ReH
Aud since the election he has been kuoyn
20 declare chat hnlssslhe party gave him
81 The patronage Il had 70 Jestow, he would
rally .hIs Democratic force around him and
fsqre tf And /, is this man, whose selfish
nsssis uabounded.and whose politically de-
hrasiiy is without parallel Attempts 10
ldeDounce men as traitors. NJ, n
Finding he could not esiaslishbiscbaree
Of my being traitor totbe Republican
party he attempts TO justify hiTsef BY
attaeks % my private oharaQter, and Char
ges me withhaying been indieied FOR gam
tliHg When seventeen or eighteen years
ofags on Femfhing home from school, to
spenda vacation during the holidays. l
happened, ,-on Christmas. evening to- drop
into aplRce where a number Of young
men were engaged in Trailing fora rAta.keg,a
and being invited to take "chance, - did
so, and had The good fortune Of winning.
Ehiall osnpotbe said OF Bgaty's gambling
operations. While engaged in this fifth
sport, there came into the room one Of
these mealy mOuthed. precise hypocrites,
a character simlsr to B-aty, though more.
geptlemanlg msnnered who Ieokad smiling
/ ~ al our sports fora while and retired, with
lJhel lsuiilel purpose Of returning us to the
Grand Jurylf6t gamhiGgg Rhich1 he did.
| L haVeathus briefly stated the facts in re-
gard M this gambling ehargs. dqshall
add mo comments, further than remark,
tibatsuch Is Btaly's reputation FOR veraciiy,
that not one 10 hundred lof his resds rs
la y the least con6denct inthetruthfulness
iofr hisstatemeht that Ihad been guilty. of
suoh q violation of b,hsalaws and that he
may have ihA credit Of telling the truth
Ioncs iDl hislmhole'lile, Itahe great pleasure
lin, giving the above substantTsting facts. -
The great Wonderiisl,hat the man did n L
fellow out his,nstrirsl instincts and, change
the word giant lihGD 10 ,istealiug. :" II
would then have brenin mofestrict con-
formiiy with hig generalbephtatiom sY
lsll As this biography alrehdy exceeds the
space 4 intenIedit should occ1py,e /
think it hest not to go into any detail- d ad
count Of my subjects private character,
Notwithstanding many wArpings to young
men might he derived from such history;
but they are generally Of a character as to
preclude them from appearing 10 sny re
spectacle pu' lic journal One erratumin q
his chatsoter. .,howeyermight he mentioned
with strict propriety, as probably giving
some clue 10 the cause OF his erratc political
character. allude to his uncomfortable
dasire TO ienerate withya certain won1dn's s.
rights lecture and the uhhounded Byfonic
affection he had for the said lecturer which
proved the Unfortunate cause OF much
trouble to him and no doubt rendered
greatly .underminethe mans Intellectual
and moral character. might, too, men
tion citrums an ces in q nBec,ior with his
literary lators that may explain his silly
disposition to charge others with literary
! pIagerism. Beatty once had d disposition
to brcorse an Onthcr; but NOT having suf,
Geient mental o FIBRE 10 place in print an
idea Of his own with reading, the thought
struck him that lie might alta literary
celebrity BY purlongiQg The productions Of
others. So he concluded he would
write book on agri ulture-win immortal
literary honors fill his pockets, and allow
all ingf atiate himself with the farming com.
munity. Considering his qualifications
Tor the task. never having hem raised an
Iagri"ultura list the facility with which lie
"wfote his book" surpassed any thing
known in the annals of literature.--
III took Blhcroft some fifteen years to
bring his history Of the United States
down to the period cf the Rtvt ution
Hupe spent stue forty years on his His
TORY Of England, and Benton was ten years
writinl History OF orly thirty years work
1ipgs of che Federal Government. Bu
Beatty wrote a hist ry on agriculture,
from. The days Of Adam down to about the
! year 1859. in about sixteen days. But
viii, hi', book, as with every other enter
prise Of lis life, sorrow aud disappoiat-
mpnlbee him. After having gone to the
expense OF having It's work, that was to
n, AXE him famous, stereolSned, and . few
Thousand copies beautifully illustrated
with liIe-like pictures Of sheep. bulls
swine and asses, printed and hound witS
NV. s. Beatty in large black letters, on the
title PAGE and w. s.. Bealy in large gifted
letters on the back. he was politely inorm
led by gentlemen who had token The
deepest interest in the progress of slole)
typirg and printing the said work. that i
any copies Of the said books were Offered
I,r sale, the man whose name was printed
in the tide page in "big black" lalterl
and OF the back in big gilt letter,
woull be prosecuted for plagsrjSm; anC
with this gentle hint Beatty abandoned
g, the idea Of bpcoming an anth,r OF Books,
and raising his literary ambition,
grade higher, he resolved upon starting
thai noted literary Joarpai kn, We as tn
J. American Democrat. which he has eve
since edited with his usual marked abilit,
for plaagerisn',
/ stated in my former article that Beat
E had become to me q subject Of speoplaliv
, ouvio ity. The reader who carefully pc
|, ruses the biographical sketch / have give
) above willnoi fail TO appreciate the peril
q nancy and truth of the paragraph wit
A which |; concluded, that article. He
now becoming enigmaleally interes'ing-
. so much so that / am alta loss 10 aceopu
e for the mans deprayed meanness, son, I'm
I rational ground Of reasoning, can Sc