M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-12-05
ABAsE SCOUNDREL EXPOSED!
LIES or A DRUNKEN BLACK
GUARD REFUTED!

III last week JOurnal, McDeln, no
doubt under the influence OF more bad
whisky, makes base, lying, slanderous
and libelous charges against us, and
whi:h should consigu the author and
his co-werkers to the lowest depths ol
infamy, for such malignant, base
hearted and unwarranted attacks upon
any citizen, knowing-as all concern
ed must know-;hat they are base
falSehOods, in every attack made on
our character.
In the first place, McBeth acknowl.
edges the "drunk," and says we ap,
ologised. Our apology, if it was one,
consisted OF telling him, when we
met him ut Chillcothe, that "the boys
in our Office had thrown the squib out
about Spirits having control of the
half sheet, and that We were not at
home, being at Waverly. This Nc
Beth knew--but he evidently wanted
an excuse to get into his only sphere,
intellectually, to wit: personal abuse !;
for he has never yet been charged by
his friends of being capable Of pre-
senting any subject to his readers in
an argumentative manner.
The public will mark his charge,
come two weeks ago, was that we
had swindled a number of laboring
men in and about McArthur.' We
called on him TO name them, snd he
has done it. Hear him:
First-we, when in the Drug Store,
"gave whisky to others to drag them
down." and this malicious devil, as
his Satanic master of old, quotes
Scripture for his purpose. Now, a
reiutatiUn of this to our town citizens,
would be useless, but as others out of
Macarthur might believe it, we say
that we never, when iu the Drug.
Store, sold any liquor, as Mr.. Leahey
was always there, and attended 10 the
business Of ourself, as well as DR..
Condee. We recollect very we'll one
Sabbath morning of McBeth coming
into the Drug Store and getting some
liquor, representing tnat his wife was
sick, and that her physician, DR.. Wolf,
we believe, had prescribed it." We
supposed him sober, and he gOt the
liquor. When McBeth first came to
our town, Mr.. Leahy let him have
liquor, not knowing at that time that
he was in the habit Of getting drunk,
and when he. found out that fact, he
refused it; whereupon McBeth abused
Leahy in uumeasured terms.
Second-The next awful swiudling
OF laboring men, is in our reply to the
committee Of ladies of citizens of
Macarthur, whom McBeth, we sup.
posed, Informed and misled into the
belief that We were selling liquor as a
beverage. This bloated carcas says,
when the ladies requested rs to desist
from our infamous traffic, we did
not treat them in a gentlemanly man.
ner.' The ladies were Mrs. David
Jones, Mrs. Chester French, Mrs. ].
K. Will, Mrs. James Malone, Mrs.
McBeth, and others, to whom we
confidently refer, believing that they
will all say that we treated them in
courteous and gentlemanly manner.
We have no doubt the ladies called
under the false impression that DR..
Condee and ourself, had been selling
liquors as beverage; because it has
ever been tue course oil McBeth end
his co-laborers in scandal, to first pre-.
pare the public mind of Macarthur to
believe certain things, before they acted
on the damnable consummation OF
their designs. 1t will be borne in
mind, that at this particular time,
McBeth, David Jones, DR.. Fell, and
q few other wortbies, wena engaged
in great Temperance reformation,
all members, and attempting to co.
cree every man, woman and child in.
to their dogmas; and to carry out
their designs, come Of the same crew