The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-06-25


Mr.. C. p SWIFT is authorized to re-
ceiye subscriptions, and contract for ad-
vertising, for this paper.
When Dr. Clapp assumed the position
Of champion of the Democracy Of this
county to back up the attacks made upon
the Republican county officers, we tho't
that party must be hard up, to be obliged
to rel y upon man 10 prosecute accuse
tons against Others for swindling the
county who was himself palpably guilty
Of tie very crimes which he has 80 sig
nally failed to sustain against others
3ut desperate cause requires desperate
means and desperate men and we begin
10 think that the selection Ct the doctor
for their mouthpiece was about as Judi
cious selection, Ander the circumstances,
as could have been made, considering the
nature Of the business required Of him !;
iUr we doubt whcsher another could be
found who could 50 coolly rciterate char
ges which lie hnors TO be gloundless and
while have been repeatedly refutcd. -
And we are sure that 10 one eau show q
greater facility IN jumping at conclusions
than be displays.
lie does not seem to know, or else is
unwilling to recognize any distinction be-
tween amounts raised for county purposes,
and amounts raised for the support of the
county poor; and hence he seeks to con-
vert biunder of the type-setter, into a
fraud of the Clerk He says that the
published report shows only $500 !;
which, he asserts, the Record shows that
there was $500 raised for county purpos-
IS; which latter statement he must know
50 be false, unless he is ignoront of the
we!l-known fact that the amount raised
for the support Of the poor is just as dis
tiuct and separate fund from what is
raised for county purposes, so-called, as
Is the road fund or the school fund. And
not only that but that it is under the con-
troll Of an entirely different board of Off.
GERS. And his persistent attempt to con.
foundthe two together shows that he is
aware that lie cannot sustain his positions
unless he can deceive and mislead the peo-
PIE.
Ii the published report shoes, as be
says il does, that the sum ordered 10 be
raised for county Purposes was $500, il
would, so fax show correctly. But i,
shows no such thing. Az printed, il
shows that $500 was to be raised for thu
support of the county poor and to pay il
part, the Indebtedness Of the poor fund
and says nothing about county purposes
We will give the resolution as it stand
III the Records, in luding in brackets tina
portion which is omitted in the printe,
report; and by reading both ways, frs
'acluding the words in brackets and ther
excluding them, it will be seen at once
by the sense, that it was a mistake, snt
could rot have been designed 1t is a
follows;
Your committee on finance beg leay
to report that a sum Of thirty-6ve hun
dred dollars, (be raised) for the Tconting
cnt expenses Of the county, the ensuiu
year; also twelve hundred dollars for the
support of the county poor and 10 lou
date part of the present Indebtedness c
che poor fund "
It will be observed that the lsst tw
words Of the portion omitted are the sam
IS the last two words next proceeding ths
portion, hence, every person acquainte
with copying, or typo-set,ing, viii at ono
see how easily such a istako might OF
cur. The composition after having set tn
last two words previous to the omission
looks again at his copy and his eye fall
on the same two words at the omission,
line or two below, and he naturally SUI
poses them to be the same that he hG
Just set, and commences t'6ye and zoe
on There can be no doubt in any re.
sonable mind but what this was precisel
the way in which the error occurred; fC
had it been designed it would have bee
made to read very differently.
Ia a former article the doctor state
that the amount expended in the thre
years, 1855, SO aud 81, is s4l25 MOI
than for the proceeding three years. Bv
he has now discovered that instead {
that SUM, it is 1925. His figures az
very pr ale.
But the doctor has very pecu,ia
method a way Of his own, for arriving 3
TIE amounts expended in each year
may be = very ooa' ea'ent method FOR Il