Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-04-21
BOURBON CORRESPONDENCE.
BOURBON, April Is, Is

EdttOf9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tnat |
you have allowed the free use Of your |
columns for the last few weeks 10 certain |
correspondents from this place, who have |
taken advantage of the privilege you thus |
granted them, to vent their malice anu |
circulate their spleen against very large |
proportion of our citizens; and, especially |
against the Magistrates of Bourbon towns
ship. have long been a patron of the
Republican, and perhaps, as zealous a
worker for ,ne principles it endcavors to
promulgate as is more talented contribu-
tors from this place; and upon these pre-
misses ask small space in your column.
Which space, if you should grant it, j
promise not TO use for the purpose of
publishing to the world my neighbors phi
vate habits; or, 10 SOW the seed OF discord,
contention and strife in the Republican
ranks. Especially at this time, when We
so much need unity. We are upon the
eve of most important campaign and
need to work In harmony.
will begin by asking the citizens Of
Bourbon and Bourbon township TO take
a cool candid view Of, and 10 place pro-
per estimate upon, the local questions
now agitating our community. To think
for moment who ii is that is causing this
excitement; aud what berefit--lf any
will be the result of this sectional strife
| What right have these correspondents who
| sign fictitious names to screen :hemsel-
YES from the consequence of their state
ments, to publish to the world that Es-
auires WiDdbigler and Cless arc in the
habit of taking their drinks at the saloon?
is it any of their business? Have they
right to dictate to any man what his
private habits shall be? They say the ia
king Of drink units them TO administer
Justice. If such is the fact, why do they
not specify some particular case where
drinking was the cause Of either of them
rendering decision contrary to the law
and evidence. But they do nothing ofthe
Kind. Nor does the immaculate fifteen
. which they endeavor to defend; and OF
whom they were part and parcel. But
they seem TO think That some divine pow
er has decended upon them. Giving them
the right to dictate TO others how they. shall
act. When they shall cat, drink and
sleep. And have arrogated 10 themselves
the task of administering the advice
gratis we presume-to whomsoever they
= NAV think, in their own ADVISE magma
tons, may need it.
Would it not been better if the immor
! tai fifteen had held private meeting frs
: for the purpose of canvassing their owl
. respective charact ers TO see fiat presen
2 or at any previous time in their eventfu
. llves-there was any stain upon the fai
= escutcheon OF their bright flames, befor
y going TO dictate course of action tC
10 much older and worthier men than them
q selves. If they had done so and acted ur
@ on such course, how many of that sin
mortal fifteen would have approache
those worthy magistrates with their di'
81 tum.
Is But let us ask who are these magistr,
43 ties? They are old men, who have raise
~ their families by honest toll. And who:
in characteristic the best of our knowled:
ur -are irreproachable. Clear ofall crim'
%, and misdetneanorss Their names unfair
ed ished, even by any such charges. Al
lid we presume, by their own conscience
to stand acquitted before their Creator.
ng OF whom are the Immortal" fifte'
VS., composed? What are their antecedent
Ia What their present standing In the CO
munity in which they reside. Some
81" - them arc but mere snots of boys. Wi
on. out experience in life; but led by the q
; &c terry of others, c. their own concsit, to
) IS leye that they are of the "annoinied.
ara While others of The immaculate wi .:
rds ages and experience in life had ous II
ne. have taught them better sense. OF
the first mentioned is one of your corresp
tae dents, for whom we have profound p
Feeling that il he had been thrown am
81 different society, his impudence VIC
have been much less, and his mann
49,. much better. OF the latter class is ant
e er Of the correspondents Of whom l b
ooo spoken, is man who was formerly p
ecuted in his Matte county for desc
tbe ting the holy Sabbath Day and viola
M the laws Of both God and man. III
, or his own estimation, IS the GREAT /
,ent and the main axle upon which the
ST. verse should revolve'
IS in So far as their Efforts are Tor The G.
of temperance; we say 10 them 8