Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-11-05
The Commercial Defends the Post
ofTICo Robbers.

The Gd-efteS motto: Never kick man when
he is down, unless hc Is political opponent OF
you are he can't get up Commercial, Nor 4.
That appears to be the best defence which tie
Commercial has now to make for the common
thieves thai have nestled in our postofGce for the
last year or two.
Iu all our journalistic experience we have never
witnessed such brazsn effrontery. Certainly no
journal that holds its character above reproach
would attempt to defend such nest for peculators
after they had been exposed and prosecuted 10
such an extent as to show that the proof was
ready, and all that necessary conviction was
the forms of a court and jury and these prose
cutions instigated and pushed, too, by members
of the same Radical lhleving party.
After having defended these rascally proceed
iugs until there could be no further concealment,
the Commercial turns on the GAZETTE to abuse
us, simply for stating the truth-making publicity
to the fact that the people were being robbed
daily by nest of scamps. If that journal had had
its bands in the dirty pickel it could not have
SHOWN a more determined disposition to defend
and uphold the wrong dOers. It certainly cannot
be possible that the men who claim to be respec
table in the Republican party can longer endure
thus course in q paper claiming to be their organ
1t is one OF the great duties of the press to ex-
pose vlllalny and bring TO punishment those who
embezzel the means extorted from the tax payers.
And the duty devolvcs more heavily upon the
GAZETTE inssmuch all the other papers in the
city, except the Pioneer, have shown a disposition
to cover it up in the early stages of its exposure
some By attempting to make il appear as a resig
nation when in fact the knowledge of the robbery
had been in their possession sometime
Because We have exposed this robbery and those
engaged in it go far we could gather the facts,
and demanded that new head be placed in our
post-office, We are charged with such silly abuse
as heads this article, cut from the rogue's organ
Even the counsel for the defence, and the de
tendant himself, must feel a deep sense of scoEn
tor a newspaper that will go far demean itself as
to undertake to. defend such glaring rascality.
Look at the facts. The counsel Of the accused
openly asserting before the Z. S. Commissioner
that their client did not take the money and that
if the facts were known ths guilt in a supen.
or; while The T. S. District Attorney asserts
equally as confidently that the proofs IA the pos
session Of the authorities were pr,ma tacie evil
denee Of guilt, and demanding that the prisoner
b, held. That all these men Republicans i
no fault Of the GAZETTE. just now all defaulteri
and rogues are Republicans. or nearly So Tho
Law must be sustained, and it falls to our lot tc
assist TO do II, VIC should not be abused for doing
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Our position is peculiar. Certainly the GAZETTE
has endeaVored 10 sustain the counsel on botE
sides, although both are Republicans, while IL,
Commercial is sgainst both, and seeks only thu
attitude of She thei's protector whosoever he ma,
prove TO be.
And this is the organ that seeks to have the ne
groes rule this Stale, and vainly hopes to crowi
its conductor with senatorial honors through tn
votes Of these ignorant people and the white mi
nority, who are ready for the sake of Office AM
the emoluments to be got out of the issue OF Stat
bonds, TO educate and feed lazy negroes, to Tui
the State financially as all other States have bee
ruined where this party and the carpet-baggeI
and seallaWags have succeeded to power.