The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-10-25
LET THE PEOPLE JUDGE.

In our issue of the 18th it was
| stated that the SedShOre Gazette of
flee was removed from Handsboro
on account of the yellow fever pre-
v~ailing in the town, and in order to
substantiate the assertion we
quoted rather literally from the
columns of Il neighbor to bear us
out in the statement. 1t seems
from last weeks issue of the Ga
zette that the editors of that good
paper have become somewhat Of
Tended, and in an article of almost
a columns length tries to prove
that our motives we're malignant
and the assertion false. Now we
seldom jump at conclusions with
out first considering facts, and are
not in the habit of making false
statements in reference to any
matter, and what we said in regard
to the moving of that Office WIS
based upon information derived
from the columns OF our contem-
porary. This is not all. We did
not publish everything relating to
the motives that prompted the re-
moval of the Gazette from Hands
bolo found in its columns, but in
order to further Substantiate what
we said, make the following extract
found in that paper of October
18th, in answer to SOM thing we
had previously said, which is as
follows:
Last Monday the Sedshore Gazette office
was moved from Haudsboro to Bcauyoir.
The OBJECT of the move is not known to us,
and why the proprietors should remove
from the thriving village of Handsboro to
Beauvoir we cannOt understand.-Domo-
crdt-Stdr.
The Gazette was moved to the Beach
on account of the fever at Handsboro, and
will return to that thriving village as soon
as the frosts comc.-SeaShore gazette.
Then again such paragraphs as
this we find in the Gazette:
Davis & Dahlgren, attorneys and conn
sellers at law, and commissioner of deeds
for Alabama, can be seen any day at Beau
roir, Harrison county, Miss, until further
notice.
If the above is not conclusive
evidence that the Gazette moved
away on account of the prevailing
disease in Handsboro, then we ,
must confess we do not understand ;
plain English. The concluding
paragraph of the article in last .
weeks Gazette reads thus: '
The accusations, direct or by i%nsinua-
ion, that the editors of the SeashOre Gazette, r
in any manner evaded or Shrunk
rom the performance of duty, to the com I
nunity in which it was published, is an
Inmitigated talsehOOd. and thus we dis ;
Mss the subject and leave our readers to
Judge of the motives which prompted this E
ction on the part of the DEMoCRAT-STAR. :
We made no accusation that the "
ditors of the gazette had evaded i
shrunk from the performance of C
uty to the community III which it
as published, but have been re /
ably informed since our last issue =
nat the editor had done nothing $
II the sick of Handsboro until af- a
II the article appeared in the T.
'EMOCRAT.STAR of the 11th. We !
ire nothing about this matter, and i
ould never have mentioned the
had not the Gazette thrown .
1t a fling which we thought was Il
med at us, as follows: -
rural Journal speaking of the sickly n
and the danger thereunto belonging :.
Us "Our flag is nailed to the mast and "
: intend to keep it flying" Is it a yell
fagl la
But as we have been the means y
stirring the editor up to action, h
I'd now that he has gone to work
I'd is doing good among the sick I
2 are perfectly willing to drop the ii
bject and extend the hand of fel- :,
These are no times to Al
therefore let us have peace. is
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