The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-07-26

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Even the few who are attached 70 you
by "the cohesive power Of public
plunder," and are sufficiently base to
avail themselves Of your treason 10 OBJ
tain it, canno, suppress their contempt
of the traitor. In this contempt be as
sured Eaton county participates in It's
fullest extent. Inasmuch as you have
offered her nothing in .defense Of your
treachery and desertioh but an iteration
of the sterotyped slang of the Demo
cratic press, stuff with which no one but
driveling demagogue would venture
to insult the understanding of men with
appeals TO their prejudice, their zeal.
ousies and suspicious only, in order to
impose upon their weakness or want of
information, or what is 10 better, by
bold assertions supported neither by ev-
idence or reason-to gain them She
does so because your political obliQuity
reflects upon her honor and your base
ingratitude stings her to the heart. She
therefore, looks upon you as kind pa
rent looks upon favored but sinful
child, for whose education and advance.
ment he has severely taxed himself, in
the fond expectation that in his man
hood that child would reward his par.
tiality and indulgence-that is, with
grief and modification. For 10 this
child, petted like yourself, like you, too,
shamefully Indifferent % the respecta.
bility, and utterly stolid to the kind
ness of him who protected lis infancy,
turns out at last as you DO, disgrace
TO the family, and base recreant to
every principle, or sentiment, or emo
ton, which gives worth % character
and dignity to men.
Every person acquainted with Jour
history will recognize the justness of
these remarks. When you we're strug
Cling with poverty, and la1dibly exert,
ing yourself to support your family and
gain an admittance to the honorable
profession of the law, Eaton county
stretched out TO you her helping hand,
and kindly seconed your exertions by
giving You the Office Of County Clerk.
When you were admitted 20 the bar
her commencing influence was used TO
secure you practice and professional
standing. Ia coming years she was the
first to put forward your name for the
Office Of Governor and labored for your
election. When you hungered for an
election to Congress she shut her eyes
upon the ungenerous and rapacious IN
trigues you employed to force Mr.. Long
year to decline nomination to that po-
sition, which he had filed with so much
honor to himself and the State.
Again, would that your record as
war Governor would bear the scrutiny
Of a close inspection, and that it would
not show many instances of base prosti-
tuition Of Official power and duty to pur-
chase an election to the Senate of the
United States. Would not that record
tell Of many brave men anxious to haz.
ard their lives for the Union and the
Constitution in that hour of our great
est peril refused commissions by you
simply because they were Democrats, or
Republicans who would not submit TO
be the tools and panders of your selfish
and inordinate ambition TO be elected 70
the Senate, TO the seclusion of a man
lnfnitel ly superior to yourself, Jacob NJ.
Howard.
Afterward, did not Michigan, with
shame and modification, see her Gov.
ernor in prosecution Of this same design,
descend from his high estate to concoct
and secretly circulate among his bribed
pimps letters by which he aimed the as
sassns dagger, poisoned with the virus
of false and malicious SANDERS, at Sena.
tor Howard, than whom no honester or
abler man ever stood up in the great
council chamber of the nation? And,
how, having immersed yoursalf in such
damning infamy, how could the Legis.
lature Of 1870 but revolt with loathing
and execration at the idea of giving you
seat in the Unit cd States Senate p
This, to its great honor, it did not and
would not do; and all Michigan, even
your most ardent friends, are this mo.
ment singing loud hosannahs to high
Heaven for that escape from tle bottom.
less pit Of disgrace Yes, sir, the Leg.
islature rejected you as a political nuis-
ance. Hence your anger; hence your
grief, and hence the alacrity with which
you have allied yourself to the supposi.
tious Democracy, which, by tricl, of
legerdemain, has iuggled the real party
out Of its name aud existence; and, in
that malicious alliance you fatter your.
self now to begin again the race for
Office and t) achieve the same success
as a sham Democratic jockey which you
have realized as a Republican one. But,
instead Of further insulting and outra.
giug your former friends, why can you
not manifest as much moral sense as
your illustrous prototype, Judas, ald
go and do likewise!" Such relief at
your hands Eaton county would much
prefer TO your nsolent solicitations that
she, like yourself, should abandon prin.
ciple and character and self respect, and