The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-05-15

On reading the article in the .Broadaxe,' OF
May 2, headed PERSONAL SANDER Refused''
we were forcibly reminded of two old incidents
which we thought specially applicable to the
editor Of the Axe and his tool, Pecs-in paugh;
: Once upon . time. . THE: walked into shoe
makers shop, picked up pair OF boots and
left at double-quick pace but he was over
taken by ! policeman after . chase of some three
or four squares. On being arraigned before
magistrate. the thief put in the plea that he did
not Intend il IS anything serious, but simply As
joke The magistrate. however. deemed the
plea inadmissible, for the reason that the scamp
had CARRIED rHs JoKs TOO FAR. The other. is
the historical "reminiscences related OF the mon
kew who roasted . Peek ofchesnuts and instead
Of using its own paw to draw them from the
fire, it caught = cat and used its pasgh'
i This Joke now under consideration. was
carried nearly as far as the thief did the boots.
Over a thousand circulars were printed. about
$50 of them were placed in envelopes, directed
to different Photographic operators throughout
the country by Mr.. Hammond, $3.50 postage
paid on them by him. when he deposited them
in the pos,office and was compelled to take them
out again. Troublesome and costly 'joke," is
it not? As for the convenient pangh used by
this distinguished operator. it is sufficiently
blistered to teach the thing lesson hereafter. if
it shall only consult its instincts for "a burnt
child breads the fire.
Mr.. Hammond attributes tie opposition be
has met with. in his aspirations for provost mar
shall, to the fact that he such devoted
friend to Mr.. Julian-that Julian's enemies
were down on him for that reason. and had
exposed his circular operation thro' that motive.
Nothing could be further from the Truth. An
other applicant for the same position, who was
q friend of Mr.. Us at the time that Hammond
voted at the last Presidential election for Breck-
and supporter, was active in his endeavors to
Ike ep this district from being disgraced, as it
would have been, by HIS appointment. Not
only the circular swindle, but q damnng record
Of his past life and rascally operations, were pro-
cured and sent to Mr.. Julian by this friend and
applicant. So it was NOT for the reason assigned
by Mr.. H., and his effort at raising a squeal of
persecution for Julians sake, proves an abortion.
For the purpose of calling attention from him
SELF Hammond, in his last paper. charges Mr..
Banks with being disloyal, and introduces two
certificates that he (Barks) had expressed dis
loyal sentiments falling however. to point out
any of Mr.. BIS utterances to support their al
legation. Mr.. B. voted for Lincoln--voted the
Unconditional Union State Ticket last fall
and has always been identified with the Repub-
lican party. This is more than be said OF
Hammond, who previous to, the last presiden,
tial election, published . democratic paper in
Iowa--fnding paper Of that stripe didn't pay,
turned its politics to Republican. and then sold
it out-went to Lebanon, Ohio and, at the pres
idential election he voted for the traitor BrecK
inridge against the patriot Lincoln, and then he
emigrated to this city--got hold Of the Broad
axe-the tJe f1ersonian being suspended, he tri-
ed to ingra1iate himself with the democrats by
/ abusing the Administration, but after a loss Of
withdrawal Of more, he found that didn't pay
and then he was bought up by G. w Julian, 70,
two hundred dollars" (this We think was too
much, when thirty pieces of silver" would
have secured his 'services,) with the promise
of giving him an Office for advocating his claims
to a seat in Congress. Mr.. Julian, attempted
to carry out the latter pledge in good faith, by
placing his chattel in the Office Of Provost Mar
shall but his intentions were thwarted by the
glaring rascality OF the circular Joke" and the
foul record OF his organ grinder in this city,
furnished by personal friend and supporter.
Mr. Julian, declined placing his two hundred
dollar purchase in SO conspicuous position,
and appointed an honest and true man as Pro-
vost Marshall. But we were talking of Mr.
BarKss loyalty, when We were led off with
drawing this contrast; suppose him guilty of dis
loyalty, (of which no proof has yet been furn-
ished, what has that got 10 do with Hammond
|circular swindle? Admit that Mr.. BIS circular
was fraud, and it places Hammond as his
acknowledged partner, equally as guilty Of per-
petrating it, because he was as conversant with
the facts then as now, and shared the profits,
knowing them to be derived from q swindIe.--
LOOK at the transaction in every possible way
take this last attempt Of HIS to beg the ques-
ton. by the effort to damn his so recent friend
and partner as . disloyai man. in order that he
might, in these exciting times, withdraw atten
ton from his own vile acts, and it stamps him
as villain whose prototype can only be found
in the scamp who stole the boots crying as he
ran. Stop theft
/ We have published the card of Mr. Banks on
fourth page, it being partly in type last week.
! GA short time since We called the At.
tention Of our readers to the fact that Mr..
Geo. w. Julian, the repre- Sc NATIVE in Con.
gress, from this Congressional District, who
is always talking about the honesty of those