The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-10-20
The Row at the Herald Office.

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The Herald gives an account of the row
at that Office, which we think is calculated
to give very wrong impression of it.
The history of the difficulty is about this:
The little yankee editor of that paper made
some charges which were wholly untrue
against a young man named JED. II. WIER,
a printer, who worked while in the Her.
att Office and who is now working in ours
WIER met him on the street and asked
him to take them back. The yankee re-
piled Il will see you in - frst."-
Whereupon WIER struck him with q little
switch, which the Herald calls "cane."
WIER then caught him and choked him;
the yankee in the mean time striking al
him with knife They were separated,
and it was supposed the difficulty was
ended
A few evenings after, however, as WIER
was passing the Herald Office the yankee
challenged him to fight. WIER pulled off
his coat and struck him a severe blow
The yankee drew pistol, and cooking it,
attempted to shoot, but WIER caught it
and kept it from firing until it was wrested
from them and they were separated. The
yankee then drew knife and was in the
act of opening it when it was wrested from
him. He then ran into the Office and
locked the door. WIER, frantic with rage
kicked the door open and struck the yam
kee two or three times before he could be
prevented. He was taken out of the office
but in little time kicked the door open
again. The yankee, however, had gone.
The Herald says: "the doors and win
dows of our office were broken in, and a
number Of persons rushed in, our friends
prevented much damage being done to
the Office with the exception of breaking
of chairs and the pieing of types" The
plain truth of this is, that WIER in kick
ing one door open split a little piece of a
wooden hasp, by which it was fastened;
the other was broken by gentleman in try
ing to separate the combatants. The "num-
Der of persons who rushed in" had no in
tention Of injuring the Office, nor did they
show any disposition 80 do So The
"breaking Of chairs" was three-legged
stool. The windows broken were three
panes of glass broken by WIER in attempt
ing to get. in at back window The
most damage done was the pieing of three
cases of type, which was done in the
fight, -.. -s
One would suppose from reading the
Heralds account that an organized mob
had attempted to demolish that Office,
and that the "clique" had instigated it.
In the first place there is no "clique" here
as the Herald writer we'll knows, and fur
thermore, no man unless he learned from
some one at the Herald Office had the re-
motest idea that any difficulty would oc-
cur until the yankee had challenged Wier
and the fight had commenced. There
was not the slightest disposition mani
tested to injure the Office. All who did
anything, excepting the two combatants
tried to prevent further dfficulty-and
in this the Democrats were just as ac-
tive as the Republicans. ar .a.--
AS to the yankee being driven off, he
left, probably, for fear of being tried for
an assault with intent to kill--for arming
himself with q pistol and knife and chal-
longing man to fight, with the intention
of killing him. j.. ~ -
We should not have said word about
this matter if the Herald had not tried
to make the impression that the Demo
Gratis had tried to demolish that Office, and
were ''prevented'' by the Heralds
"friends." ..
Fifty men who saw most of the affair
will say that the above history is in every
particular correct. ..a