The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-10-20
9ER REPRESENTATIVE Ia cos
GEsEsS.

for Office, envy and malice will invent lies
against them never before thought OF
This seems to be the case now, especially
against our worthy candidate, MI Saw
yer. After his most faithful services fol
six years in Washington, after publicly
declining reelection, and after being al
most compelled by a unanimous renomi.
nation, to consent to accept the same
again, even that man has to submit to
the lowest SANDERS and most contempti-
bic insinuations. Beelzebub himself
could not exceedin inyenting.
We quote the following from the State
Gazette
THE MENoMTNEE PINE LANDs-These
lands embrace ten townships-two of the
ten not subdivided. About two months
since, the Secretary OF the Interior select.
ed T. W. Ferry, a Michigan Congress
man, to nominate three men to estimate
and appraiSe the pine on the eight town
ships, in 160 acre lots, the timber on the
other two-being the best on the Rcser
vation-to be appraised in whole, as town
ships. They are now on the land. as we
understand and are to report at Wash
ington, before the Goth of November.
These proceedings have all been quiet
and in the interest of few men, There
is to beno publication of eStimates-evrey
thing IN the keeping OF men at Wash
ineton, no doubt parties to the swndlc,
and outsiders stand no show of getting
any of the most valuable Of these lands.
Under the advertisement, no one can
make an ineligible bid and all bids will
be at the mercy Of the ring. without tear
of exposure. or hope of redress. +. Saw
yer is the principal fugleman of this ring.
-O5hA;osh Times.
The above is the most moderate Of the
fifteen separate and distinct articles IN
the last Times arraigning Mr.. Sawyer for
completely in fraudulent attempt at
.'gohbling up the NIenoninee pine. :
Nov we have little testimony in the
case. We saw and converSed with Mr..
Sawyer at the Northern Fair, last Friday
week, and he showed US the advertise
ment he had received in that morning :
mail which some one had cut out from
the Post and forwarded him. This was
the first he knew of the matter. We
had the same advertisement m our paper
the day following. the cory" of which
we had received from the Department of
Interior There had been no excitement
about the matter at that time and we
heard nothing in regard to it from outside
parties while in Oshkosh. Politically
speaking. Oshkosh was as quiet as duck
pond Mr.. Sawyer. however, stated to
hak 1o 70 n n
vertisement and that it was without au-
thority on the part of the Department
and also added that he would use his ut
most exertion to prevent the sale as ad
vertised, even if he had to get out an in
junction in the e. S. Court. He used
the warmest language In characterzlng
the POSSIBILITY Of fraud in the scheme, and
in referring to the irresponslbllty of the
parties making the proposal who were to
be entrusted with 10 per cent of the bids
and denounced the whole project in the
broadest terms. We may state. in con-
clusion, that we received, last Wednes-
dag, a telegram from the Department OF
the Interior directing the discontlnuance
of the advertisements.
We leave it to any candid mind to
Judge for himself, how degraded in prin-
ciple, how dead to every feeling Of gen
crosby or even humanity itself, such a
being must have sunken, before he could
pollute his sheet with such contemplate
seribling as IS contained in that article III
the Oshkosh Times, paper issued in
the very city where our ever honored
Representative has lived for years, where
every inhabitant from the aged sire to
the children knows him only to love and
revere him, the very city which is now
enjoying the incalculable benefits which
he, through his position and indomnita-
bic energy and perseverance was enabled
to obtain for it. Truly men may become
almost angels, but some mil become
worse than any devil can ever be mag
ined.