Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-07-11
The Dispatch, Cincinnati En-.
auirer, and our News Depot.

Depot in this city, and expresses
qualification that the day has arrived
when person can purchase copy
of the Enquirer without being subject
to insult, by being informed, "we
don't keep rebel papers here!'
Our object in noticing this is to
correct The baneful influence which
the article in the Dispatch is likely to
produce on the business prospects Of
the present proprietor of the News
Depot. A person reading the article
in the Dispatch would at once arrive
at the conclusion that no paper but
the Enquirer was kept for sale at the
News Depot, for no other is men
toned, and doubtless the editors
wish is father to the thought, when
in reality all the Cincinnati morning
papers are kept constantly on hand,
besides the eastern weeklies, choicest
monthlies published in the country.
and a general assortment of miscel-
laneous works. The Enquirer has
been sold ever since the establish
ment of the News Depot in this city,
but unfortunate for the publishers of
that sheet and to the credit of our
citizens, the demand has been very
limited, about in the ratio of halt a
dozen copies to thousands Of the Ga
zette and Commercial. This speaks
well for the intelligence and loyalty
of our people, but bad for the En-
guirer. And to those who felt
grieved at the prominence given in
the Dispatch to that infamous sheet
over its more deserving cotempora-
ries, and threatened to discontinue
their papers at the News Depot and
order by mail, we would say the
compliment paid his establishment was
entirely gratuitous, unsolicited, and
without the knowledge or consent OF
the Agent.
A News Depot is an institution we
need, and we find Mr.. HOUSE gentle
manly and courteous, and ever ready
to accommodate his customers with
just such papers as they may call for,
whether the Gazette, Commercial, or
Enquirer, and no questions asked or
insults given. The same line of con-
duct has characterized those who
preceded him in the business, ever
since the establishment of a News
Depot in this place, the word of tine
editor of the Dispatch to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
We give these facts not to vitiate
or disparage the sale of the Enquirer.
for that spotted sheet is very good
in its way, and does power of good
to its half dozen devoted admirers,
whom it makes feel good clean down
into their striped bellies, and some
Of them to their toe nails, which
grow inward, warped like their i'm
agination, but more painful. No
this blessed gospel of pizen Democ
racy should remain free and untram
eled, permitted to shine like an iron
ring in a pigs nose, and continue to
comfort the faithful, who will moi
otherwise be contradiction VIII en-
they wish huge lie, there it is re-
corded, clean to hand, ready for cur.
rent exchange.
However, like most of our citizens
we never possessed a very exalted
opinion of the loyal, literary or truth.
full character of the Enquirer, and we
naturally entertain feelings of com.
miseration for the individual so mar.
row-minded as to make it, or any
other copperhead sheet, his political
text book, yet, if the half dozen his
sing reptiles in our community wish
the vile thing, why let them have it
for i'll the future as in the past, it will
be found perfectly harmless where
SO much intelligence abeunds. While
we have such institutions of learning
as the Gallia Academy and Union
School, we can see no impropriety in
dispensing among our citizens a few
copies of the Enquirer, merely as
specimen bricks" of disloyalty, OF
"scare crows to frighten the rising
juvinility, although some of our citi-
zens may very justly regard it an in.
suit to enlightenment and an outrage
upon public decency.-
We fork with the Dispatch in the
assertion, that the Enquirer was ever
regarded here as a "rebel sheet
That sounds little too heroic for a
skulklng coward, and as the rebels
smelt gunpowder and the Enquirer
didn't, we wish our neighbor to doh
that lion skin and place sheep skin
upon the donkey, and call 1t by its
proper name or title, that most befit-
ting its pusillanimity-eopperhead. 8
Shiny, poisonous serpent-but don't
disgrace the Democratically and cop
peratically misguided brave men
who fought in bad cause, by dig.
nifying it as ssrebel sheet
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