The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-08-08
"Saye me from my friends"

IL the editors the Democrat and Republican of
this place. feel satisfied with their covert attack.
upon my course relative to the present distracted
cOadtion--ef our country Of frendsI I will re-
gard il as evidence of sstlcr friendly ofection--f
they viii cease their ldbou-S OF love Inv behalf.
The criticism of my open political adversary upon
my political course expect. bit whether open or
covert | don't want it done under the quize of
friendship and to be made the subject of nsinua-
ton. or covert praise and used the fountain
from which the above editors are to draw the bit
ter waters to feed the beligerent elements of
their natures with which they seem abundanty
blessed) is asking to much of n friend. and indu-
ces me to xclan. ''Save me from nv friends
Natingly and Mcdonald. If the patriotic
Speach" which am charged with making-dd
not call forth ..InroLunfay bursts of APPLAUSE
from those around, feel ASST red, it was not be-
cause of the sentiment. but the awkward manner
in which it expressed-I always failed in i'm
parting the spirit of the Speaker to the audience
others (and among them my friend Reeve) were
fortunate-IhiS perhaps will explain what
appeared strange 20 the Editor of the VI. c. R.
But after all. have this consoIl,ion-that what
ever Patriotism may have expressed that
occasion WAS fully sanctioned bv the Resolutions
which the Conrentioa Endorsed Unanimously.
As 10 my voting-I claim to be citizen corr
petet 10 exercise the elective fre nchise-unbiased
by the weak praise of the one-the concealed at.
tack sneaking iIuendces of the other. and
when need the sage COUNSEL of those gentlemen
in deciding upon the merits of candidates calling
for the suffrage of the people, | will give them
thirty DAYS Notice.
August 9Th 1861 Horace Corbin
1t would seem from the above "kerd," which
was han ed us with request to publish, that
Horace has had the nightmare and seen "coy-
ert " That nobody may be "dqceived in
regard of it, we reproduce so much of our art-
Gle, which has so aroused the sarcastic elements
of H0race's nature. az refers TO him. Here's the
offending paragraph
Mattingly Is trying to soft soap Corbin for the
purpose Of getting him to vote for his brother-in-
law. Houghton. for Recorder. He Processes great
admiration for Corbin'S speech at the Democratic
convention, and thinks the Democrats didn't cheer
him as much as they should. Mattingly has got
spite ut COrbin, and has, in this instance @, varied
his method of attack, from abuse to praise
II the utmost stretch of the most prolific i'm
asiratiOn could possibly detect any expression of
friendship in the above paragraph, we unhesita
t;ngly take it back. as nothing was further from
"ur intentions. To be Il friend of his ia an honor
10 which do not aspire unless he calls all .ctti-
zens' friends. We made no covert attack or
sHeaking inuendoS," and his insinuaton that we
DID, will have no further affect than to prove him
very dull Of comprehension, exceedingly stingy
OF the truth. We merely stated what every read
OF of Mat,ingly's articles knew to be true. IF we
had desired 10 make covert attack - upon him
we might have stated, with TRUTH that Mattingly's
i.bor OF love ' as entirely unnecessary. We
spoke OF him gentleman he finds fault with (
us for so doing, and considers it an attack upon
HIM Possibly knowledge Of the mistake we
made in speaking of him gentleman, caused
him 10 see Is eaking ioucndoes' where none
existed. only in his Imagination. We shall be
more careful IN future, and not repeat the offensc
" did not hear his "speach, ''haye no. offered our
g. cOuIse,' and DO not desire that he or any other
competent - citizen y shall extend his " suffer.
age" to any but his favoritc candidate There
Is no 'quize = about this. The only favor we ask
oi Horace now, is. that may have the privilege
of publishing his "kerd - occasionally, as the
public demand for something funny, may require