Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-16

BOURBON. April Is. IS6

BOURBON, April Is, 1865.
EpIroR REPUBLICAN: The Bourbon cor
respondent of the plymouth Weekly
Democrat is determined, 1t seems, TO
maintain his reputation as a falsiiier, but
lacks the courage TO own his bantlings
when Intercepted personally as TO their
paternity. In his account last week of The
proceedings upon the warrant issued for
the arrest of Mat Erwin, ESQ.,, upon the
affidavit OF one +. s. Fish, charging Mr..
4. with having offered TO bribe him for his
vote. there is scarcely a single truthful
statement-not one where il was the inter
est of the Coppcrfead party to distort the
fic;s,-we ought to say lie, perhaps, for
that would only be the plain Saxon style
of stating the fact. Some allowance ought,
however, perhaps, TO be made for tho gen.
tlcman. He was smarting under his de-
feat for Trustee when he pcnned his COM
munication. and gave loose rein to his in
stiEcts, hoping his falsehoods, even If con-
tradicted and exposed, would deceive
those who never read but one side, and,
any how, would benefit him in the csiima-
ton of the Copperhesd leaders, who, am
almost persuaded, regard Icing as virtue.
as il certainly constitutes nearly the entire
stock in trade Of that party. But TO return
To The communication. The writer SAYS:
"a Jury trial decided upon and the n rl' con-
stable was ordered to impnnnei jury. Before do
zen names selected IL became evident that the
high constable was doing the bidding If the party
managers and that democrat would bc allowed 10
cit on the jury. That the rce might lie carried
determined by the DEFENDANTS coun sell the inry
was allowed to be inpanneled before the dis
missed Out Of thirty six but three democrats
appeared on the high eonsahles list, aud they Of
course were rejected nj once. number Of men
lected NJ jury men wore known 10 Lave expressed
themselves TO the guilt Of the accused but they
h"d no hesitancy In stating that they fce from
having expressed an opinion. and consequently were
allowed To take their seats 10 try tho The pro-
ceedings In this respect NO barrfaced and dis
gushing that even Of those who had taken part
ashamed "a themselves. IL il useless To say under
these circumstances that the prosecution dismissed
the case at once
The tall" correspondent is not a nov
ice in Icing; nevertheless, he makes state
ments which every one conversant with
the history of the case knows To he false.
and which even a novice. not rendered
reckless by an unexpected rout. with any
reputation to lose, would have hesiiaied 10
utter. The fact is the first dozen Jurors
summoned consisted of eight Republicans
and four Democrats; the counsel for the
Democrats rejected three out OF the four
Democrats themselves. yet the tall" GER
respondent states the fact in such q way
as To make the inference irresistible, if be-
lieved. that il was the counsel for the de-
fence that rejected the Democrats. This
is lie No. l. The "tall" correspondent
next ayers tina. ii "bccame evident that the
high constable was doing the bidding Of
the party managers and that no democrat
would I've allowed to sit upon the jury
This is lie No ., ms we have already shown
there were four Democrats in the first
twelve summoned, not one of whom was
objec'ed to by the defendant or his coun
sci. Again, the ''tall" correspondent saws:
"Out of thirtysix names but three demo
Gratis appeared on the high consiable's
list and they OF course were rejected at
once" There are three lies couchcd in
this single sentence, one or which we have
already pointed out, and numbered lie No.
]. The other two lies consist in The total
number which he says were summoned and
the number of Democrats among them
After the counsel for the Copperheads had
pcremptorily challenged three of the Dem
ocrats in the first vcnire, twelve others
were picked out of The assembly in the
room, three of whom were Democrats, and
they were, the Democrats we mean, reject
ed by the Copperhead counsel. There
were only 24 instead of &c summoned and
4 instead of 3 were Democrats. These
then, are lies Nos. 3 and IA doublet, but
that's nothing for ''tall'' correspondent; he
can do better than that any day and not
half try. Again. says the tall" corresp0n-
dent: "A number of men selected as jury
men were known to have expressed them
selves rs 10 the guilt Of the accused, but |
they had no hesitancy in stating that they !
were free from having expressed an opn-
ion. and consequently were allowed To
take their seats TO try the case" This, in
addition 10 being lie No. 5, is libel, and |
may subject tall correspondent to a suit |
for SANDER, ON the part of every accepted !
jurymaD. VIII he have The manliness and |
courage 10 designate those who "we G
known to have expressed themselves as 10
the guilt Of the accused? and assume the
responsibility, or viii he remain silent ard
allow all 10 remain under his libelnus as.
persion: We dare him 10 designate tie
persons he accuses of perjury. II they did
express themselves as charged il will not
be difficult 10 prove the allegation. and te-
sides such men ought To be prosecuted and
punished; they are unfit members of soci-
ETY.. DO yeur duty tall" one. Pcrhans
the tall correspondent will condesccrd
10 tell ms who they were whe became dis
gusted and ashamed of themselves? We're
they Republicans or Democratic From
the result of the election, Erwin leading his
ticket, il is inferred that they were Demo
Gratis, il any; but the statement Is discrcd-
tied and may safely be put down for lie
No G.
But. the suit was dismissed. Why was
it dismissed before the evidence was heards
The Cops knew it was a trumped M
charge. made for political effect, upon the
eve OF the election, unsupported by a sin
gle circumstance, undressing entirely upon
the testimony of single witness. who
had not been sufficiently drilled to prevent
him from getting entan.lcd In cross ex-
animation, aid probably exposing a little
scheme intended to blast Mr.. Erwin's po-
liiical prospects. IL net this, then it must
have been that Mr.. Capren, after cxamin-
ing the witness privately became convin-
ced that the charge could not he sustained.
and accordingly advised q dismissal.
which was done.
Messrs. Houghton & Cendrick are hav-
ing building put up on Main street fer
their Grocery Store and the Post Office.
1t will be good stand.
James McCrum and Bro. are putting MP
a new Wagon shop south Of the rail road
on Main street.
Baxter & Minor, Blacksmiths. have sold
ont, and Minor has moved to Mexico. on
the Huntington and Wabash road. Bax-
ter is going to try farming for livelihood,
south of Tippecanoetown.
The North Indiana Conference of the
VI. +. Church, meets at Warsaw to-day.
The Church at this place is expecting the
return Of Rev. G.. w. Timmons Y.
New Musfc.
Root G iy. 67 Washing ton street. Chicago has
sent the following pieces Of sheet music which