St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-08-05
For the St. Cloud Democrat.
THE SHEpLEY SUIT,
sirs. Swisshelm.

Mrs. Svisshelm. -
Please allow "a
SAY, that IS one of 'the proprietors G
ne st. Cloud pisiter'' l entirely repudiat
he card published in the last. number o
I'd paper. by norton of the stock-ho!
ders- / attended the meeting at whic,
ne card was presented, and moved and in
sisted upon several amendments, all @!
which were rejected, upon the ground tina
"a, paper as it stood was MIR. Shepleys' n.
t.matum, snd that Justice could not be ex-
pected at law, as it was- alleged, hecasse
;,,|e district Judge was under the co,..,~
2fth0 plaintiff and his attorney, and a
|sea9os County Jury would be packed to
inf1ict Che penalty upon the a*teniants.-
also contested the adoption of the card
protested against It's passage. and have
therefore a right to be heard. The nect.
$ nnanlmo'ss'y directed my protest to b,
uollshed with the proceedings and card
ut tor reasons entirely satisfactory to tn.
'icers, and with which have 10 fault :,
ind it did not appear
The following were the reasons that gov.
@Fhea my action upon that occasion:
f'rst:-"l did not believe thatin this distric;
o any other, the'.e could be found eithe q
Judge OF Jury, 80 ignorant or corrupt, as
70 be Influenced to award the Plaintiffs ont
emf OF damage 8; and W as anxious to civ.
*aela the best opportunity to undecciv<
IS fellow me mbers.
oeeond:- -- K did rot believe that the ar
'cie compi' .ined o,f, was in any genera
- sASs eoos' 'rued 10 be an attack upon Mr.
''p'ey; out Il lat it was descriptive of
a ia *sao vas SO generally understood; VI
4 'af' ;hep' ey by his indiscretion, and
:ps'l" lyby his nnmanly legal complaint.
) SEW ed 'Ipon the defendants, violentl
ia nv: nrantably appropriated it.
- ARD j did not believe THAT all tn.
~ seq aences arising from the FIRST publ
d ton Of said article, were not the resul;
p,litica! motives Or feeling" lbelieves
Isl the reverse Of this. and 50 did many
OF the stockholders, otherwise they would
not have pointed to the political predilic
ions Of the Judge and Jury. as an .rgu
ment for settling the case. upon almost
any terms.
Fourth Had I.-so believed, I should
nave been driven to the conclusion, that
ar. shepley commenced the s:ssssa,ult upon
lrs: Swlsshelm b lis lecture, was beaten
t his own game BY her criticism, and
hen by way ofrevenge, violated his neigh
'ors building at the midnight hour, and
arried away the type, part Of the press, &C.
which he knew to be private property.
Fifth In that event he would hav,
'een ninny in MANHOOD. coward IL
:ontroversey, and burglar in law -
and instead Of Cancellation, concession o,
compromise, she company OF any good cit
zen should have indicted him accordingly
Viewed therefore in any aspect, I an:
Hearty Of opinion that the company vi. !!
lot bound legally or morally ;iiy to hu,niIiat.
tself to Mr., shepley; and that under a!
ne circumstances he ought to have bee,
arteited with the law to which he 30 Dre
;ipitately appealed, |
STEPHEN MILLER.
We beg our readers to remember in this I
connection, that Stephen Miller is Penn |
.ylvania dutchman, that We have it on the
lest authority that Gen, Lowry "managet
The DUTCH in this county; and that it is ev |
dent, from this, they are very badly man !
aged. We call the Generals attention, ca |
peoially, to Stephen Miller, Harry Mitchell |
and our worthy postmaster, familiarl,
known $40 Edlebrcck. They are all thre.
dutch; aud none Of them obey orders. b
Brother Stephen Is an old editor. Fl !
edited the Harrisburg Pa. Telegraph, tn.
official s.ate organ, during Gov. Pollock
administration; an] all through the cam
paign which elected him. He has therer
1tAtaen, editorially of whipping his weigh
in ~ilacssa';;5 land is . little jealous that we
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