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columns Of the She pherdSioWH Register is on
~ less crelitable to that journal than injurious
to ourselves. The personalities INDUCED in
them would be beneath our notice were it not
from the single circumstance that they are all
vile ISLANDERS as they are-siguifcd as intend
ed for the Senior editor, who, being still entire
ly lame and unable to attend to any duties in
this Office on account Of his late accident has
been away from home for the past month, and,
therefore, of course has taken no part, what
ever, in the late controversy. We therefore
have the pleasure of assuring Mr.-nOJOdy,-
he either has no name to give, or is ashamed
or afraid to add it to his false and scurrilous
article-that Cesar, either drunk or sober, has
had no part in penning the paragraphs which
so stirred up his righteous indignation, and
which, "unbroken tissue of Indecent language,
&c, though they be, he yet deigns to notice"
and reply to in words and expressions the ut
ter, bsre-laced falsity of which we wolld not,
If we could, and could not without violating
conscience, dignity and every trait that consti
tutes man possessing particle OF self-respect
or respect from his fellows, if we would, emu
late
No man in his sober senses will credit for an
instant the fabrication concerning the object of
the sudden call for an extra meeting of the
Board Of Supervisors. The regular meeting
was for Tuesday last, and surely the officers
whose salaries are get to be fixed were not in
such suspense that they could not wa,t-unless
they feared that the new Board would estimate
their services at theirreal ralUe, and commence
to retrcuch aud relieve the ovcr-taxcd citi-
zensAt their expense. That this particular
object was scarcely touched upon-no action
in that direction taken at all-is conclusive
evidence that some other more urgent matter
caused the sudden call of part of the Board
The assertion that "Stubbs pommeled
Green Stubs, who had just returned
Frustrated by his labors at the permanent
seat, -" not because Of pending sickness in his
f1mily-is laughable in the extreme.
We are charged with hypocrisy, Among
other absurd things he says:
The next on the list is the hypocritical
tribute Co Judge Hal, aud UUmrs &C this crisis
with a bad grace, and so, no doubt Judge Hall
will understand, as the Free Press at other
times has tcemed with abuse and denunciation
Of lis Judicial character"
Even ilthis were true, it is at best putting
poor estimate upon Judge Hall to suppose that
he would be influenced in the consideration of
a grave legal question by anything that might
emanate from partizan press or people during
the excitement Of a political campaign or I'M
der other circumstances, or by individual syco-
phancy; and Judge Hall can put his own es-
innate upon the faith in his judicial integrity
reposed by the Shepherdstown party, when he
learns the fact that they have been running
over the couutry-eyen out of the State-in
search Of some pliable Judge 10 do their bid
ding, rather than await the appointed day for
the discussion Of the subject and decision ac-
coriing to the law and the facts.
We assert that not paragraph can be found
in the columns Of our paper rejecting upon or
jenurciatory of the character, personal or Off
cjal, Of Judge Hall; and to facilitate an inves-
tigatj5n on this point our files will be open to
the inspection of the nameless scribbler Of the
Register, with our promise that, if he can dis
cover a single line to warrant his charge, we
viii let his indecent carcass exit from our sane
tum without the customary kick due to intru-
ding ours.
Hypocrisy. What can equal that of the
Shcphcrds.own clique 1--WE do not charge all
the citizens Of Shepherdstown as parties to the
mean things done there Of lato, rather having
the question Of the total depravity of particu-
lar individuals under discussion) who, whilst
praying Judge Hall to grant an injunction,
and nominally accepting the appointment of
the day for his hearing of the cause, hastily
send messengers hitler and thither in search
Of some one wearing the crmine sufficiently re-
CARELESS of bis Judicial obligations and charac-
ter as to become one Of them by granting their
p-ayer-not for the sake Of the taxpayer"
in whom they profess to take such deep and
abiding interest, but to keep feathered the
nests ola few uncleau birds, Of whom the cor
respondent Of the Register, fer augLt we know,
may be one. Hypocrisy!
Il were \ waste Of tilrc and snoce n dwell