The Shasta courier., 1858-08-07
A Summing mp OF our Dispute with Z
Coward and Calumnfatorx

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certain intimations of the editor of the Repu5h-
can As " calumnious, dastardly and meanly men,
dacious." webster says mendaeious means
tying.l The coward wreathed like q mean
puppy, but had not spirit enough to say a word
We then let him rest until July 10th, when his
lying propensities again offending US, we de-
nounced his statement as deliberate false
hood" and bade him stand forth, rith the brand
Of 'mendacity' upon his forehead" Webster
says I" falsehood" and mendacity" mean lying I
In his paper of the week following, he declared
that our remarks were mean" ungentlemanly,"
&C., &c. The week subsequent we intimated
that he would next make bet that he wasn't a
liar. Instead Of doing this, however, he enters
into an ingenious and elaborate argument to
prove that we had not called him one, Poor
dastard--unhappy white-livered craven--is there
no blood in your heart? Is there not one single
drop to steal its lonely way along your veins and
blush upon your cheek? We are aware of the
fact that once, when in Mexico and when you
denly taken so deathly sick with the sfomach-aeh,
as to require that you should occupy recum-
bent position in the of one of the baggage
wagons. Nevertheless, that may have been the
result of sudden panic, and you may not be the
coward that the act indicated. If not, for the
sake of the honor of those who have claims upon
your manhood, let it appear. Can you not
comprehend that, if in impeaching your honor
and veracity, we do you wrong, it is your
place to demand redress? Can you not COM
prehend how despicable you appear in the eyes
of all honorable men, in thus arguing that we
have not called you calumaistor 4. {. liar p
Are you so utterly lost to all sense of shame
that you cannot feel the deep and ineffable ig-
nomny of seeking redress by declaring, in effect,
"youre another7" If impeaching your vera-
sufficient to force you into the exhibition of n
little bravery, pray what is? Will splitting in
your face " arouse the sleeping lion ?"
The public is aware that the question at is
sue between ourselves and Jacob Carr Hnckley.
is whether he is liar or motor if he chooses,
whether we applied that epithet to him or not
This is the matter Of dispute. The fellow seems
to feel it, and in his last article he attempts to
draw Us aWay from that issue, by charging us
with an act of swindling- lie made this charge
more than three years ago, when drunk, and
took it back when sober. Repeating it here is
= very ingenious trick to withdraw attention
from the fact that we have made him swallow
the lie. Now we do not feel it incumbent upon
US to notice charge coming from fellow who
will thus act the bastard, and meet a charge i'm
pugning his honor with counter charge-who
will suffer a man to knock him dorm without re-
senting it-who will permit man to pronounce
him scoundrel and slap his face without strik-
ing back-who will, in short, calmly argue the
negative of the proposition that he is a delibe-
rate asserter of falsehood Nevertheless, we
viii prove him guilty of deliberate mendacity in
shs side issue, as we have pronounced him in
-the .n,ain issus, and then let him slide in his
glory. We quote from his article:
." If the present editor of the Courier had a
contract for printing, worth ever two thousand
dollars in his pocket, which ntract con-
'oeHled from Us when our interest in the Courier
establishment was purchased by himself and
partner then he is swindler"
Now, in the first place, never had I" con-
tract in our pocket for printing, worth two
thousand doIlars-never
In 1852, after our Office had been burned, the
senior editor of this paper went 10 San Fran
cisco, and from there wrote to his present part
ner that he would not return TO Shasta to do bu-
finess in company with the present edi.or of the
Republican, giving as a reason that he did not
deem him an honorable man, and proposed CO.
ing into another business with his present part
nc1. To this, the latter would not agree but
proposed purchasing the interest Of the Reps5-
fican editor. To this we assented His interest
was accordingly purchased after being valued
BY our present partner and Mr.. james L. Hart,
en- the part of said edtor-at S225, there was
only one font of type and quantity of rules, &c
left of the Office When this purchase was
made we were in San Francisco-we remained
in San Francisco more than month afterwards
before we purchased press, cases, etc. with
which to re-commence the Courier. Then we
started for Shasta with our printing material.
Recollect this was more than n month after
Einchley's interest was purchased. On our way
up (nore than a month after we had purchased
HI intercst,) we saw Gen. Denver, then Secre-
tary of State, at Sacramento, and requested him
to procure for us the printing of an Abstract of
tire Census ef 1852. This was the first time that
we ever mentioned the matter to any one. Gen.
d. told us that as be returned TO Benc-
cia, then the seat of Government, he would urge
It upon Gov. Biger. We also got Senator
Sprague to mention the matter for US to Gov.
Bigler.
After this we came to Shasta and printed four
OF hve numbers of the Courier before we knew
Sheiher we would get the advertisement or not,
and before Gov Bgler ordered it published in
our paper. Our first number appeared on the
18th March, 1885, and the advertisement ap-
Peared on the 10th of April-just SIX weeks
after the commencement of the Courier.
We have in our Office bound files of the paper
containing the advertisement. Mr. H., or any of
his friends can have the opportunity CT examin-
ing them, and thus seeing for themselves that
what we state is true. and that be has malicious
iy and deliberately falsifed in this matter.
Thus it will be seen that HIS interest was