The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-04-04
HAS SHOWED HIMSELF

" ia.,, sitter almost fye years Of continued
Efforts, the british editor Of the " c. Republican
las, by his seurrous article of last week CONCERN
ing Mr.. Plckard, succeeded in showing himself in
lis proper person lie has laid aside every parti-
Gle oil decency and moiesty with which civilized
are accstuemsd to clothe their thoughts, and
hs now stands forth, proud OF his OWN moral de-
fornli; Y, in unbIusing nake,lness a monument Of
the Omnipo;ence ofthe Almighty who certainly
made him for no other purpose, whatever. OK
cept &c show how mean thing could be fashioned
in The '.hunau forn, divine"
Read The Article gentleman. i. il worth your
while: Tor the author Of it is living, breathing
iainq-Ignatius Mattingly itself " ouId any man
after reading that contemplate article, suppose
for moment that the editor and publisher Of
'sat paper is husband and father that he has
sons who are looking to him for examples OF
moral rcetitude and love of truth and daughe rs
Who trust in him to guard them from the touch of
ell, and to keep from their kr owledee even
nameless vices Msnstrous rs it NAV appear, It
S the truth. iie is the head OF family, respect
ed in a! things, only the disgrace he brings upon it
iy his vl!any and ckguardism.
Ga. What family paper. what pare and Gle
cant specimens OF literature, are its editorials
How elevated ii th9ught-how chaste the ction
md above ALL how remarkably sharp in discover
ins, as lie prctends 10, the motives of the recip-
TENT OF his 1rAutious notices Doubtless his party is
proud o. hn-doubtless his family are also proud
% him and his illusions Doubtless his grown up
soes and daughters would delight { , in reading
Tor the ediication ola company at IN evening par
~ The s!arr ana ch,ste things thslr father G. cd
the mark, published about Mr.. Packard
And there car b. 40 dC ub, but what Ign thus
thinks lie has ivel 50 long in his own filth
that, that vileness has become more than a second
nature; AMI when anything good, noble or decent
is broush: unto him, he cannot contemplate OF
,cEh it anti nc has be daubled and bcdrasgied
i; in the flth and slime of which he i, made Then
he can hold it up to view and realize that there is
!. something about it "like unto HIMSELF
T'he al dc,e referred to is simply cowardly TN
slushilg lie, manufac. red from whole CLOTH in
that cess-poo Of obscen;ty-old Mattinglys brain.
No friend at his elbow made the suggestion he
speaks OF. which on accent of its indeace ncy and
blaekaardism caanot even copy This we kno,o
ss there i. rota man in Marshall county mean
enough TO make the suggestion. and his attemp
TO find father for the brat conceived in his owl
vulgar, debased and depraved mind, is only Of 2
peace With his character thing that is NEAR
enough to manufacture and publish the charge
there made against man OF acknowledged moral
ity, is just no man at all lie is simply an acci
dent and neither God nor humanity is responsible
for his being, f,r, there is II Dthng noble human
asount bin. lie IS an excrcscence of everything
that Is dcpravcd and loathsomc. Such is the
character of that moral putrihction known a igna
titus mattingly.