The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-07-11


nothing else. None but blusterers
would use such language. If any
attempt should be made to burn or
injure the "Press" Office, it will be
met by the Democrats of Prcble
County IN a resolute and proper
spirit. Such threats are a double
edged sword, which might cut
through something moro than the
democratic Press"
We are not goingto be dragoon-
ed by bluster. If it cost us our
all, and even life itself, we will, God
being our helper, preach regardless
of threats, and advocate, in a legal
and constitutional manner, the po.
litical truths we profess to believe.
We have not spoken unkindly, or
unexpectedly, in our paper, Of any
other paper, or Of any person in
this town-never. Here we defy
contradiction. To denounce wrong,
whoever may be the wrong doer,
and to defend the right, in all cir
cumstances, is our duty - our
privilege-and we will do these
things, come what may.
To say that we are only a tool
in the hands of another party in
this town, is simply to disgust anG
insult us. We have never received
one hint, wOrd, or line, from any
man in Eaton, or Preble County,
bearing on what our leaders should,
or should not be. We are cain
enough to believe most fully and
firmly, that there are no parties in
Eaton, who can teach us more than
we know. We came to the town
and took to tEe1'paper, unshackleu;
we r free indeed.
The worthy writer who Comments
upon our leader, in the Eaton
RegISter of last week, speaks as il
he would have mercy upon US,
because of our gray hairs. We
thank our friend, but beg to in.
form him that our brain is SO active
that we never need any Macas sar
oil on our hair. We never use he
oil of Aattery.
The uncalled-for remarks made
in the Eaton Register of last week,
on the state ofthe Democratic Pr eS8,
are the most uneditorial and un-
manly bit Of vituperation we have
ever read. We quote his exa ct
words, and let the Democrats Of
Eaton, and of Preble county, pocB;-
ct the insult if they can.
In~stigatOrs of the Mob,
"There is no doubt, that some of
those men who so industriously
circulated the fiction that a mob was
ito reign in our quiet streets on
Thursday night last, desired what
they predicted, and exercised all
their low skill to bring it about.
They aroused the country as far as
they could, and it is said that one
Of them insulted the quiet and peace
Of our town by exhibiting a pistol
in our streets, and threateningwhat
he would do with it. A mob was
desired in the first place, that they
might get the County to pay we'll
for a press that will not pay
through the legitimate channel.
In the second place, the very few
who planned this mob felt that
their party had left them, and that
hereafter they must stand alone and
despised, if some desperate effort
did not conspire to place them once
more in favor. That effort took
shape in a mob, which they were
to provoke, and then crush, as the
apparent indicators of law and
order, and as the acknowledged
leaders of that party.-But they
reckoned without their host
Their mob was a total failure. No
body was killed, nobody hurt, and
those heartless intriguers must look
to some other and less apparent
schemes for self-preservation."
Thus you see, gentlemen of the
Democratic school, that the scribe
Of the Register has weighed you in
his own peculiar scales, and has
found you a broken up party, of
short weight and as for your
organ, the Press, he says it has
hum out a flag Of distress, and at
tempted to create a mob to raise
the wind. We leave the Register
and it's scribe at present, to be dealt
with hereafter as occasion may
require.
A few words relative to the dis
ingenious conduct of the Republi-