Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-08
A ReORBACK NAILED.

We understand that h rumor is in circulation
In many parts of the country, and that IT was re-
peated particularly and very frequently as the
camp meeting in Perry township to The effect Wat
Mr.. Barr, our candidate for sherll, was no schof
ar, and that he could not write his name. This
Il b base and malicious falsehood, and in order to
cBhtradict il fatty, we have taken the pains to en-
quire particularly Of Col. Ayres, Mr.. Bars nigh.
est neighbor, concerning this, and he assures us
that Mr.. B.. could not only write, but that he
writes a good dad a Gerry readable hand. The DEM
oSrats who stoop to fasricate, and circulate such
wanton and btro-f aced talsehoods. must 10 hard
run, and driven almost to desperation to find
sosnething to say against q political opponent.
They must break out in some new place"
Believing, as we do, in the advantage resulting
from the dissemination Of truth, we are ready to
do what lies in oar power to publish it broadcast
through the land, and therefore copy the above
editorial from the Carroll County Free Press, ital
les and all.
We think the Republicans Of that place have
put up q barr that the Democrats cannot easily get
over. The editor Of the Free Press, without stop
ping to argue tho question whether reading and
writing comes by nature, as one Of Shnkspeare's
heroes asserted, ~grapples at once with the terri
bic Roor5ack which the Democrats had sent out to
defeat tho Republican candidate, and bring ruin
uron the State, and nails it, like a base coin, to
the counter.
The Democrats, who are always housing about
to hunt up some odious charge against their polit-
ical opponents, could find nothing against Mr..
Barr, save that be VS. no scholar--that ho could
not write bis name. This, if true, was certainly
nothing against the mans moral character, and
from the absence of all charges that icere we pre-
aufne that Mr.. Barr, even inDemocratic stimation,
presented O fair record. Had he ever given ut
te.ance to antislavery sentiments, had he ever ex-
pressed himself in opposition to the Fugitive Slave
Law, had he ever said aught which, by forced
construction, could be ade seemingly to favor
negro equality, who, so soon as the Democrats
would have discovered it? Mr.. Barr appears to
have been unexceptionable except in scholarship,
and if it be true that "a fellow feeling makes us
wonderous kind" it is a marvel to US how the
Democrats ever got up any feeling against him on
the ground Of his deficiency in scholastic lore.
The editor Of the Press it seems disbelieved the
Injurious report the Democracy had circulated
and in order to be able to ~disprove it, he enquired
particularly of Colonel Ayres, Mr.. Bars nigh
est ~neighbor, concerning this" Although The ed.
itor did not believe the report, yet aa it might
possibly be true, we can well imagine the anxious
doubts tina; agitated his bosom between the inter
val of putting the question to Colonel Ayers, and
the moment of the Colonel's reply. And when
the reply did come, what indispensable joy wat
waited upon its wings, what blessed assurances
did it bear of the perfection of the Carroll County
Republican ticket! And the reply was not only
satisfactory, but much fuller than was anticipated
for the editor is assured that Mr.. Barr is not onl,
able to write, but thatBssrhe writes a good ana
bery readable hand"~G5s which is more than car
DO truthfully affirmed Of some Of the most distin
guished lawyers in the Union.
1t would seem as If such testimony, and com
ing from a Colonel too, should be all sufficient II
establish Mr.. Barr's scholarship, at least so fa
rs reading and writing are concerned pity tn,
testimony didn't cover the three R's-reading, ri
ting. and rithmatic." We were saying it ought I,
be satisfactory. but the editor of the Tress knows
es well as any one that there are cavilers amonl
the Democrats who will not be willing to take th'
mere heresay testimony purporiing to come from
Colonel Ayers at secondhand, as the editor give
it. They may even deny that the editor ever ask
ed the question of tho Colonel, or admitting tha
he did, deny that the Colonel gave so fa
vorable q reply. Would it not therefor
be we'll, even at this late day, to getthe Col
onel's affidavit concerning this" and hav
the same duly certified by a Justice of the Peace
Then, no one could question tina. a Rookbacl
had been nailed, and most effectually nailed.