Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-12-28
Cowardly.

We did not know precisely how this was
o be done, but presumed, of course, their
zen was then nibbed ito write" down our
history with vengeance. They did not,
however, call US all the bad names within
heir vocabulary, no! no! All this we
could have endured for then knowing the
point of attack, and from whence the at |
tack came, we could have put ourselves
on the defensive; but imagine our sur
prise when the following alone appeared
RAFTING We are highly gratified
to be afforded an opportunity OF repro
ducing in our columns so excellent an ar
ticle as the one below, copied from last
weeks issue of the Stark county Ledger.
1t expresses our sentiments exactly:
We notice that the senior editor of the
Plymouth REPUBLICAN is very much dis
satisfied with the sheriff of that county,
in regard to the publication of sheriff
sales Whether the sheriff has done right
or wrong, we are unable to say; but We
would like to know how many sheriff
sales a democratic paper would get to
publish in case the republican party was in
the ascendancy in that county. 1t might
get a portion by proposing to cut on
prices, but that would be contemplate
and dishonorable to the profession and
business of printing which ought to be as
literally compensated as any other bust
ness. But as the matter referred to is eX-
clusively Plymouth one, ali we have to
say is that we are opposed to any editor,
let him be Democrat or Republican, who
will rat" it to get a iob-he ought to
cease business. Whenever we are Obliged
to reduce prices to secure a job, then we
shall consider the dignity of the profess
ion too low to be followed, and some one
who loves the almighty dollar more
than we, may take our place. We enter
tain the same views in regard to legal
practice The lawyer who is so anxious
to get case that he must cut on the
fees, and will take a divorce case and agree
to put it through court for five dollars,
ought to be expelled, and would be treated
by every good lawyer as a nincompoop,
unworthy ofrecognition. Principle should
always be above seltishness in every pro
! fession.-Knor Ledger.
| The above article which was copied in
the Argus and reproduced by our neigh
Dor was, it is true, written by the editor OF
the Stark county Ledger, in his blind par
tiZan zeal in the absence of intelligence
discretion, wisdom, or even a knowledge
of the facts to induce his autocratic mas
tiers, to believe he was laboring for his
party, and we overlook the production OF
his extreme frailty, and want ofmanliness
as we'll as the ignorance of the Argus
but as to our neighbor who has kncwl
edge of the facts, who will reproduce al
article to iniure private character, know
ing it to be false, is as wholly responsible
as he had written it.
If our neighbor means to convey the
impression that weare undertaking then
to get the sheriff sale notices for publica
ton, they state known fllsehood. Th
point we made on the publication o
sheriff sale notices some time ago was
that we being an attorney and at the sam
time proprietor of newspaper in tn
town of Plymouth, we had legal an
moral right to publish our own client
sheriff sale notices, especially when W
could do the work for three dollars les
{ than the proprietors of the DemOcrd
And when we told our readers that W
+ could publish the sale notice for our ow
client for SIS less, we meant that our regu
lar rates were So less than our neighbor
on that notice, and they know it. Gu
+ regular rates for legal and local advertl>
f,1r l,a soi
ton, and cts per line for each addition
al insertion, or 81 per square for the frs
3 and 80 cts. for each subsequent insertion
r If our neighbors mean to say we al
r doing some mean thing to get job, the
9 do it to cover their own guilt as they al
V the first to make the threat in this dire
! ton, and that threat was made to silen'
: our pen on the subject of their ring into
n erance. This they can never do. III
: ring may hold all that an Unsuitable pa
e tizan zeal may covet, and we will new
V beg; but when our rights are infringed
IL sought to be taken from us, if the occ
o sion requires we shall speak of it, and
l. possible call down thunderbolts again
g it. though we are left without the nect
ot sarv means of subsistence. If they me-
c, to say we accepted fee of s. to get
Ii vorce, then they fib again. But
of they do not mean to adopt as their oN
k the language quoted; but seek shell
Or behind the falsehoods of others to init
n. -, +l,o, +bo;r ooUardice is only eoual
nd by him who seeks an opportunity in
its dark to knock another down.
lis Meet us if you please with argum'
t? on the point at issue, and we give you
he privilege of abusing us just as much
he you please, reserving the right to retail
ID if we choose, and do not SANDER us
We publishing the statement of another W h
an YOU know to be false.