The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-21

r. ESs JaCODS-An 1fONOcaDac WAN.
The gentlemanwhose name head this ar
ticle has taken occasion to assail US 10 an
insulting and disgraceful communication
through the columns of our deadly enemy
the Enterprise. Nor is this all, he reports
upon the streets ofthis place that if We op-
pose him for County Clerk of Marshall
county that he will tell more dishonora-
BILE tricks about US and threatens, il posi-.
bic, to copsign our names to infamy. He
assumes the power to say what he pleas.
es about US and if We dare deny it, he will
say more. Now, we do not like to be COM
PEELED to make this paper an organ to pub
lish private quarrels, but when ones char
acter is treacherously assailed by one who
was bed-feliow while in the service, and
whom we in a measure helped from the po-
sition of private to that of captain,
and who maintained such intimate rela-
tious with US as to know our every secret
thought, and who when he makes such
dastardly assault threatens 10 erposs still
more uuless we quietly submit, then, un-
der such circumstances we must break over
rules and yield some room to vindica,ion
Of character. Whatever may have been
our crimes, if any, while in the service,
we have come home now and settled down
to the peaceful pursuits of civil life. We
have chosen for our occupation the busi-
ness Of publishing a country journal, and
that journal shalt be free, fearless and un-
trammelled, watching with argus eye the
interests of the people and the welfare IF
Northwestern Kansas.
No creature shall stand with drawn club
over our head threatening us with destruc-
tion unless We do their bidding. Since
We have owned this paper it never has sup.
ported bad man for any Office in Mar
shall county, and while we own it, it ncuer
shall. We have had drunkards enough
in office, and while there are honorable
and upright men enough to fill all the pla-
ces that free people have to confer, we
shall oppose dishonorable and unworthy
men.
Mr.. Jacobs wanted to be county clerk
of Marshall county and because we could
not consclentiously support him-since
his habits were such that we believed if
be had the Office he would not always be
in condition to attend to his duties,-he at
tempts mortal stab at our character by
makiog insinuations that are base and de-
grading and in the most part false as the
betrayiug heart that gives them utterance.
We do not claim that our conduct while
in the army was as pure and upright as
would become good christian, but that it
will pass muster with that of ordinary men
of respectable morals we do believe.
We will not compare ourselves with any
oae else, for we do not expect to build our
selves up by pulling others down, for all
this however we have conscience void
of offence towards man. Whatever we
know of the private affairs of others we
shall keep to ourselves, for we consider it
no part Of an honorable man to gain anoth-
ers confidence, learn his secrets and then
expose them to jealous world. We are
leld that Mr.. Jacobs can swear that we
stole horses aud wagon while in the ser
vice. Now we demand of Mr.. Jocobs to
make his af1idavits and We will publish
them.
'Come one come al this rock shall fly
From its firm base Is soon az L"