Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-13
A GARD.


The Sentinel Company, OF this place.
that runs the Rochester Sentinel,
pitched into us again last week. We had
hoped that they would have displayed
/, more sense than to have done such .
thing. 1t Is useless for Messrs. VanValk-
enburgh and Mcdonald to try to hide
their dirty work behind the dirty charac-
ter and filthy carcass of that putrid pup,
Metcalf They own the Office and con-
troll the paper, and alone are responsible
for what appears In its columns.
1t must be fattering to the intelligence
and enterprise of the Democracy of Full
ton county, that they have to come TO
Marshall county for brains and means to
run their organ aud Oh such brains
- one half Of their paper published In
Chicago, and another fourth taken from
the type that is first set for the Plyna>
outh Democrat, published here on
Thursday and then shipped to the Senti-
mel, at Rochester to be used on Saturday.
They still howl about drinking and
drunkenness. Why did they not accept
our last weeks proposition? We make
them the same again this week. And
more than that, our father never raised,
fed. clothed and educated us off of-the
profits of whiskey which he sold. Does
that sinking curr. Metcalf, recollect that
q little over one year ago, when box CT
gin came to this Office and q bottle was
opened, that he came almost nightly to
guzzle his craw full Of it because II cost
him nothing? And yet he talks about
drunkenness He says we walked the
streets with him. We do not believe it;
If we did we certainly must have been
drunk, for we would never done such a
thing when we were sober. He says we
attacked a LADY. He knows that Is fslse.
VS. stated what he said3 about.sonc that
should be nearer and dearer 10 him than
hfe itself, and we did so TO show what
little reason any one hei disliked might
hope to escape the venom Of his Shiny,
forked tongue. We could say great
deal more--and prove It too--on the
same subject. but we are really ashamed
Of what we have said but We ask in all
reason, how could we answer their dirty
slang in any other language.
In the same number of their paper that
they attacked us is an equally dirty and
filthy attack upon the character OF the
Rev. VA. LUsK, who preached in Roch-
ester the previous Sabbath. and who is
as far above the Sentinel Co. in point of
moral character as the heavens are high
above the earth. No one is safe from
their slang and slanjerous abuse who
happens.to fall under the ban of their
dislike.
We deal with the Sentinel Company
because, though making no pretentions
ourseif, We cannot s.oep to personal
controversy with creature like Metcalf
aud also because they are the ones re-
sponsible for what appears in its columns.
Metcalf has always been rsbid Re
publican until he so ught the favor of the
Sentinel Company, alias proprietors of
the Plymouth Demo crdt; then as we
said last week, he politically perjured
Himself.
He talks of profanity. Let US look at
his record He was strict Presbyterian
"a leader in their sabbath school--only
some two or three years since. What is
he now2 as profane wretch as you can
find on top OF ground. He is The thing
the Sentinel Printing Company has sent
to Rochester to teach Fulton county De-
mocrats their duty to their God and their
country. Mr.. VanValkenburgh in speak
ing to us of the attack made upon us by
the Sentinel. depressed desire that we
should give Metcalf q good raking; but
he said he had rot read his notice Of Us,
but he heard Plat. speak OF il. lie said
the ID fool, 1--WE weuld rather be
considered an habitual drunkard than
natuldl uu ioOi,J CotnHchScu Sh
NJ Musselman, of the Stark Co. Ledger
and had got the worst of il, and he want
ed him to learn some sense. But that
" ould be impossible. A creature with
Out brains cannot be taught sense.
We will conclude our article by neti-
cling their effort to intimidate Us by threat
ening to black our eyes. That lie in keep
ing with their general character; but we
tell them plainly though we are ne. fight
ing man, and will not willingly engage in
the british practice bui as thai seems TO
be their forte In an argument. their last
resort when morally convicted Of dirt. we
simply say to them that we will bet our
last skirt that we viii whale the first one
of them that attacks US. They have not
the sand in their craw.
III. l.. PHILLIPS.