Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-28

was possible. Then why fling out these insults
aud threats US if the officers were dogs 10 be
harred into PhoulderinR the petty grievances
OF the Journal man. Such n course is only
driving away The few friends the Journal has
The above rebuke Of oursel written by
some one other than EvERs, may not be
altogethes andesorved. We take pleasure
in stating that our county officials, with
a single exception, have uniformly treated
us courteously and gentlemnnly, and we
believe have not been unmindful Of the
interests Of the JOURNAL. We fully mp
preciate these manifestations of kindness
and have not a word OF complaint to utter
in regard to their treatment of ourseG
We were, possibly, under some little ex-
citement when we wrote the article refereed
to, While rejecting upon matters pertain
ing to the cannty il occurred to us that
EvgRs, uulettered, void of principle, AFRO.
CANT, malignant, but endowed wiah how
cunning, bad obtained control Of the Senti-
mel, which, by virtGe Of its central location
has become, to a great extent, the means
of communication between our county Of
ieers and the public. Instead OF conduct
ing himself prudently, considerably, being
careful 10 do no injustice 10, Any one, as
every honorable and right thinking man
IN that position should have done, success
made him insolcnt abusive and diaboica
and when he called in two executors to
assist him in his nefurious work, ii was
more than we could patiently endure. His
little soul became Inflated with the thought
that he was a great power in the land, and
in his broken English, his utterances were
as prophetic and positive as the oracles OF
Dclphos. His egregious vanity, born OF
ignorance, not only led him to presume
that he could direct the Republican party
in the county, but upon frequent occasions
he has assumed to personate the party.
The principal means by which he sought
to accomplish his ends, were by a prosti-
tuted use Of his paper, in the abuse, def.
amation, and, il possible, the destruction
of those whom he could not control and
who despised him on account Of innate
meanncss and malignancy. lie garnercd
in the dark and fetid chambers of his mar
row mind the incidents IN every mans life
with which he became acquainted and
which he thought might, upon occasion,
be tortured to their injury. Nor did he
conGne himself to facts, but presented to
his readers the foul imaginings of his
heart as truth, hoping thereby to secure
more surely the ends and aims OF his mis-
cradle ambition. And whenever an occa-
sion Prescated itself, he would gloat over
it like the hycna over the dead kid.
His insolence and abuse Of individuals
flowed from his success in business, and
that success was founded upon the public
printing. Our citizens have been forced
to enrich him, whose greatest delight it
has been and is to villify, defame and in
jure them. This was and is adding insult
to injury. and, "An injury sharpcned
by an insult, be it to whom it will, makes
every man of sentiment a party" We
called attention to and protested against
this outrage, and we think we had right
to assume that "every man of sentiment, :, /,
in private or public life, would become "a
party" to an effort to correct this great
wrong. We know it was done few years
since, under similar circumstances, when
only one man felt sorely aggreyed, and it
can be done again.
We hare reason 70 believe that mast Of
our county officials utterly disapprove of
the course of Mr.. EvERs, and if they do
not squelch him, why not2 Their notions
of public duty, in the premises, might be
quite different from ours - probably are !;
but in view of what was done, the reason
we gave for its not being repeated, occurred
to our mind 1t was nntUrai, The fear
of the press annoys Office holders and Office
seekers generally, and our mistake was in
limiting its application TO our county
when it should have been stated MS a gen.
eral proposition.
We have had one notable instance of an
independent ofiice-holde in our county,
and il all office holders and oflice-seekers
should assume the same elevated standard
of manhood and independence, county-seat
papers would cease to crack their whips as
they now do.