The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-04-12
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PERRYsBURG, April 10, 1856

ApTll lUs loOI'
Mr. EDIToR In your issue Of the 29th ult
scurrilous communication appeared over fict
tiuus signature, the author of which was :. b.
Price, cur present County Auditor. The thrust
was evidently at myself, was entirely gratuitous,
and feel authorized to treat it in any manner my
judgment or inclination may dictate.
There are few persons in almost every COM
munity, who, like the writer of that article, have
low, groveling thoughts, and who delight in low
slang because it is just to their taste but it is not
so with the better portions ot society. These can
have little interest and no pleasure in the personal
alterations of Mr.. Price and myself, and were not
this one, in long series of persistent and wanon
attacks upon myself, should treat it as have its
predecessors, with entire disregard. F0rbearance,
however, when exercised too long, may entail upon
its author unfortunate consequences. There are
conditions when it is better to give blow for
blow, than to turn the other cheek Also"
If have but little to do in my profession, that
is my misfortune and which expect tn bear alone,
as do not expect Mr.. Price t. divide his IMMENSE
law practice with me. The good taste, however,
of his comments upon the extent of my private
business may be difficult to appreciate, when
the fact is realized that his legal practice is less
than mine. Meagre as my business may be, its
proceeds, with proper economy, serve to support
my family and relieve me from the necessity of
being upon all occasions, like my villiier, beg
gar for office.
He has thrust himself Extensively forward for
almost every Office in the gift of the people of Wood
County, or which might be obtained by appoint
ment. 1t is indeed within the memory of living
+ men, that he has been willing to sacrifice his i'm
mense legal practice, for the office'of Clerk, Pros
| ecuting Attorney, Auditor, Clerk OF Internal Rev
enue, Assessor, or ANYTHING else by which the ne
cessary bread and butter might be secured He
| has by accident succeeded in obtaining a hold
I upon the public teat, but should his fitness for
I the office and his own moral status, become as
| we'll known to the people generally as they are
known to a few, he will be forced to relinquish h
| his hold. He may be required to explain. by
what system of honest computation he was able
| to make 10, days services, at 81 per day, while
| acting clerk in the county-seat contest case
1 amount to the sum of SIT 10. 1t will not do fol
| him to say that Mr.. Waters certified for him
4 and he therefore took the money. The report
which gives him the $7770 is in Mr.. Prices
own hand writing lie knew he was not entitled tc
that sum- aud not only connyed at, but as appears
above, aided actively in drawing money illegally
| from the treasury. Will he return to the treasury
the $50 70 thus Illegally drawn therefrjm We
| shall see. The large legal business he W ud have
the public believe he was doing ought to have OBJ
waited the necessity of his obtaining money in this
manner. Ii he is such a skilliul financier rs tt
| realize bonus of $50 70 upon a valid claim o
only $3S how much bonus would he secure upor
the full and lawful income of the AuditOr's office
An extra tax would have to be levied, to NEE
| his extra demands upon the current expense fund
IT'S true, Mr.. Editor, have entertained senti
ments upon both the County seat and lnlirmhrl
/ questions, not in harmony with the sentiments o
a majority of the citizens of PerIysburg anC
claiming and exercising the rights of freeman
have given ntterauce to those sentiments upol
proper occasions and in proper manner. lie
who would debar me from so dong, is an ignoran
and petty tyrant and totally incapable of appre
ciating or even understanding the principles upo
which our political institutions are based. If m
views were erroneous, they were open and subiec
to legitimate animadverSion, and no would hav
rejOiced more than myself at exposition Of thei
unsoundness, If such had been possible. But in
} stead of that l was attacked personally b
mongrel whelp and puppy" of every degre
which confirmed me in the correctness of my sen
timents. 1t is characteristic of small minds, lik
that of present Auditor, to indulge in low per
sonal abuse, not having brains sufficient to orig
nate argument.
Respectfully, J. H. REID.