Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-10-28

Der thoscof the Democrat, we viii agree,
if he is not averss to continuance of the
paper war, to publish all his articles. pro-
vided he will publish our replies in the
Democrat His refusal to accept this fair
proposition will prove to all men that he
knows how vulnerable he is and dare not
submit his public and lsivatc acts to the
scrutiny of a public investigation. We
give him full libersy to tell all he knows
or can learn about us, aud we shall take
the same in his case. The plea of hcing a
private citizen will not avail him. He has
wantonly assailed others, Parks, Barnard.
Fuller, and others.-in their private rela-
tions. and cannot in justice claim immuni
ty from a similar infliction.
He writhes, under our blows, like cul-
Iprit undergoing hagellation at a whip
ping-post with cato -ninc-tail, while his
cnvcnomed darts fall harmless at our feet,
without disturbing our equanimity or ruff
ling our temper in the least, causing us
only to smile in derision at his impo-
tent rage. The reason of this is apparent
to all. We deal only in facts, and every
blow we infict opens the hide and flesh to
the bone. causing blood to flow freely,
while he deals simply in vile SANDER and
low blackguardism, which rebounds upon
himself with tenfold force. No man cares
for falsehood, provided be has lived suf
fcient length ef time in community to es-
tabliSh character for honor and integrity,
except for the effect it may have upon those
who arc not intimately acquainted with
him. and when he reflects how easy it is to
live down lie, he disregards it totally,
feeling assured that the public will soon
place the brand of ".SLANDEREE" up
on the forehead of his defamer. So we
feel in regard to Reeves SANDERS We
could inhict corporal punishment upon the
bastard but that would afford us little salts
faction compared with what we shall feel
to see the sentence Of public condemna-
ton cngraven upon his brow, which it will
soon pronounce.
lie attributes his disgraceful defeat to
what he terms our ISLANDERS" and the
'vile reaegades mho AIDED US. We have
lived here only about two years. while he
he has resided in the place ten or fifteen,
and had his department been that of
u hi2h-minded, honorable man, it would
have been out Of our power, had we at
tempted any thing of the kind, to have in
jured him by such course. On the con-
trary it would have benefited him. The
fact that our statements had no such effect
in his case is primo facia evidence, at least,
that we uttered no ISLANDERS against him.
Why did we not attack Gibson Cleave-
land, Esq? Because he had no vulnerable
points, save his political principles. Had
we assailed him with falsehood 1t would
have driven hundreds of Republicans to
his suppost- Why. if our statements
were false, did they not benefit him? We
are not such gudgcon as not to know
when and Where to strike; but he showed
his utter want of political judgment in
attacking Barnard in the malicious man.
ner he did, thereby defeating his friend
Van Valkenburg, who we suppose, feels
under great obligations. to bin for his
kind services. Why should man who
hurls his anathemas at others so freely and
indiscriminately become so sensitive when
his chickens come home to roost?" He
drinks the poisoned chalice he has so of
ten commended with such exquisite delight
to the lips of others with exceeding bad
grace. Like all other monsters of oppres-
sion and cruelty, he is both moral and
physical coward, and it is source of M
small satisfaction to us to have the oppor.
tunity to hold him up to public gaze in all
his hideous and naked deformity, tina,
his true character may be read and known
of all men.
He says we know nothing, of our owl
knowledge. about him, never having ex.
changed hundred words with him in oul
life. That is true. Yet he says we knew
he would electioneer no man for himself
that he would not even step across tn,
street to urge a vote in his favor. How
could we know these things without learn
ing others? He has talked as much to n,
as we ever did to him. and yet he pretend,
to know great deal about us. Have W,
not had as good an opportunity to learr
his character as he has ours? He stultif;e
himself in this argument, and proves tina
the ''only first class lawyer in Plymouth,
: is, at any rate, poor logician. In anoth.
err part of his delicious dish, composed o
such food as buzzards only delight to fee,
: upon, he says the rule never failed that
man who is always thinking of nothin,