Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-01

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Gazette. LEX.
Yes, dear Gazette, you take pleas
ure in publishing the above. You
take pleasure in publishing the APP
pended article by Lex. You take
pleasure in publishing n THIxG that
will tickle the fancy of the mob. You
take pleasure in forsaking honor and
duty to gain q new subscriber. You
take pleasure in building up your
reputation on crime, you would take
pleasure in trucking to the Devil if
you thought he was the ruling power
and would smile on you.
We think that he is smiling on you
now; you must bear in mind that this
is the nineteenth century, and that
the day for mob law and banditti is
a thing of the past and to which We
refer with feelings, of horror and dis
grace. You must not forget that this
is the home of the free and brave and
not an Asylum for thieves and rob-
bers. Don't, for q moment, dear
Gazette, think you are in Italy be-
cause you happen to hear a few
out laws around you, crying down
4 Justice. Have some mind Of youi
own. Don't imagine for q moment
that a few lot heads in Galloway coun'
~, or any other county, although
they may have under their c%ontrole
such mammoth tow line rs the Ga
zette, can for a moment gain sympa
thy from men who profess to have
honor and respect justice. You say
we try to vilify Galloway county
now we don't like to answer thi'
fpoint, because, we know we will hur
the feelings of some of the people 0
Galloway county, for all are not re
sponsible for the acts of the mob, bu
as the Gazette is the mob organ, W,
|, speak to the Gazette and its hackers
s~.yilifying Galloway c%ounty." w.
unless we should refer to the tim
when Galloway murdered its owl
sheriff in cold blood, right on tn
streets of Fulton, your one arm
sheriff was shot down trying to de
fend his prisoner. Shot down wit
out q show for his life shot down b,
a mob of his own fellow citizens ant
f If the Gazette had been in existanc,
then, without doubt, it would hav
t come out in a double loaded article
, "hurrah for the mob"
/ That was not all, you then tax
your dead sheriff's prisoner out c
the hands of the law. He was nc
@ train robber. He had not stole
$4,000 dollars, perhaps he had tax
en- property to the amount of tire
or four hundred dollars, but that mat
2 ters not, you took him out ofthe hand
of the law and hang him; yes han
him murder your sheriff and mul
der his prisoner, all in the same da
and we would ask if q single man ha
been convicted for these two crimes
No! 1t was done in day light, an,
yet not a single N of the william
could be convicted. No, you woul
not convict anybody. Then tai
about ''v-i-l-i-fy-i-n-g Galloway coun
) ty." Why, last week a mufdere
t escaped from your Jail and you ofre
? % dollars for his arrest. He ha,
murdered one man and tried to nun
der his jailor. If we could spar
you our sheriff you could get hin
maybe. ''Yilify Galloway county.
Why don't you pay your homes
debts? Why do you murder you
sheriff and mob your prisoners? VIII,
do You try to protect fugitives from
justice? Why do you have such al
exponent o fyour honesty and ~justic,
as the Gazette, If you don't want t,
be ''v-i-l-i-fi-e-df"
Last week we did not say anythin.
on this subject, for we thought il
would be a sore point with Galloway
county, but here you come and tr,
to lie about Bob White, and cal. hin
a base slanderer, simply because he
has told the truth and proposes to.
Why, the press from New York CITY
to. Mexico have discussed this sub.
ject and the mob organ Of Galloway
county, is the only paper but what
says Harrison Glascock did his duty
and that the editor of the Gazette is
making an ass of himself, in trying to
make any other impression on the
minds of the people. Why do you
call me pet names, why don't you
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