The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-06-16

We should be sorry to believe that the ed
itcr of the Keithsburg Obsrrer was at home
when the dirty piece ofblackguardsmi in rcIa
ton to Mr.. Peasants appeared in his paper Of
10Th, or that he approved so foul thing
The Observer complains that Mr. Peasants
has not properly distributed copies of the new
constitution, and says :" Mr.. A. =. Taylor
wrote to him Mr. Peasants and received in
return one copy. Subsequently, Mr. ]. sent
a man to buy q few copies if they could not
be 60, in any other way; and succeeded in
procuring twenty copies. Aud these are all
that have been furnished to our county, as far
as we know"
We have asked Of Mr., Peasants the loan
Of the letter from Mr. Taylor, and it is in the
exact words following, viz:
MuLERsHuRG re, MERCER Co. Ill,
May %, 1852
Hon. G. ". PLEASANTS:
Dear Sir. The time fixed by the constitu.
tional convention for the people Of Illinois to
accept or reject the New Constitution, is
near at hand. am not aware whose duty
it is to give notice Of said election. ! called
at the County Clerks )iiicc to get the nece-,
sary information The clerk could not give
me any--hence | apply to you, you having
represented this district in the Convention,
Hoping that by return mail you wall gave me
the necessary information, and also send me
pamphlet copy 0: said constitution.
Respectfully yours,
\. =. Taylor,
p.S. ! seek the information as Supervisor
of Millersbmg Township 1t Is about time
! the notice Of election was up
That is the whole tcttor, word for word
and it reads pamphlet copy" not pamphlet
| cop,cS.
Mr. Peasants answered the letter i'm.
mcdiately, giving the desired information.
And he also left his Office and hunted up Mr..
Kimball, our supervisor, in order to get n
blank call for the election, to send to Mr..
! Taylor.
The gentleman who afterwards procured
the twenty copies was Mr.. Daniel EdgIngton
and he was man Of too good breeding to in
suit Mr.. ?. by an offer Of payment In fact
we do not believe Mr.. Taylor ever sent any
such message certainly Mr., Edgington uoy
or carried 1t, if he did,--ani we rather thnl
it would not be safe for any one to insult Mr.
+. with such an offer Yet the OJseir1
leaves it to be inferred that Mr. Pleasants &c
tuaIly took pay for the twenty copies. \
fOucr or more mGudaClOu9 nSnuutDn was
never uttered.
Mr.. Pleasant has done all he could to sup
ply the people Of his whole district with cop
les Of the new constitution, and has ever
caused some complaint among the people 0
our county because he was furnishing sD
many copies to Henry and Mercer and there
by limiting our own people to a less humble
than they desired. He has given motto
through our columns land the eiitor of til,
OJscyrcr must have seen it, asking all to cal
or send for copies Of the new constitution
Tht OjSprcr ought to have copied the notice
He has also taken especial pains to find peo
pie from Henry and Mercer counties, ana ha,
by such means sent Il very largo proportion
of all the copies he received from Springfield
into these counties, for distribution among the
people. If the editor Of the Ojsuccr hadn
heard of it, we don't know as Mr.. p. is a
fault
II the editor Of the Observer was SO very
anxious that the people should see the new
constitution, why has he not published it il
his columns, or the address of the convention
explaining il or at least given Il fair syn,r
gis of the document? lie has done neither, 90.
aud he even refuses to publish Mr. Peasants
letter to his constituents He must be yer,
anxious to have his readers posted in regarG
10 the matter, when he rcltiscs to give then
the document itsclfora synopsis oft or Of TIN
address, or of Mr.. Peasants letter, but in
stead thereof resorts to the most mcudaciou
insinuatiOns that Mr.. p has not done his duty
Let his dirty blackguardism 60 for what it i
worth.