The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-03-11
The Peoples Press, la47-s.

From kind stranger of Rochester,
N. Y, we have just received by mail
several ancient copies of the Peo-
pies Press, published by Messrs
Smith & Bronaugh, in this city, du
ring the years lS4T-S. From a copy
of July 18th, 1913, we learn that DIR.
Samuel y. Peyton and II. l.. Waddill
were respectively the Wing and
Democratic candidate for Congress
from this district that year.
Todd and Christian were linked to-
gether in the Senatorial race.
The editorial columns of this issue
are live with a leader called THE
LOUISVILLE JOURNALS LIBEL, upon
the Senior editor of this paper. Des-
picable Outrage" The Journal
makss several severe charges against
Mr.. Smith among others:
1--WE learn that Mr.. L. Barbour
Smith was, IN his youth, a strolling
peddler OF stee! pens, wooden clocks,
and various othe, kinds Ofhaberdash-
cry" ...s. ., -.
''Mr. L. Barbour Smith, the editor
of the Hopkinsville Press, often com
plains of the disposition Oh The wing
paper to assail his personal character,
and has much to say about his own
determination to eschcw personal
warfare. His quotation from the
Boston Post and the remark added to
it by himself show what amount of
trust is 10 be reposed in the rascaPs
professions"
"While thus employed, he and a
man named Camplin or Champlin, in
N. York, or one OF the eastern States,
agreen upon scheme of fraud upon
a grand scale. They procured alaa'ge
amount Of bank notes to be engraved
and filling up number of kegs and
boxes with stones and old iron OIL
other metal, shipped them around Ia
Wetumpka, Alabama, where they
opened bank and commenced spec
ulating and buying up cotton ana ne
groes extensively with their ennis
siOns. They had their kegs and boxe'
arranged to exhibit few dollars o
7 silver at the top as specie on hand, al
below being filed up with the stones
and the old metal.' s.Uf.
I "They went on smimihingly f0rI
, while, buying up negroes and Il larg
quantity OrrSstspn with their spuriou
notes-about $4,000 worth, accordin,
s 10 report, before they were detecte'
: in their yillainy."
e at is said large reward was sui
: sequently offered for him in Alabami
/. and ifhe could even now be caugi
. there, he would either be sent TO tn
penitentiary blythe laws of the Stat,
i or what is more probable, tarred an
i feathered or hung like Il dog to
d limb of the first tree.
n "Smith, having in his flight frol
>, Alabama saved nothing but his hid
> went to llopkinsville niserab
= loafer but with all the brazen effyon
II cry of an escaped felon."
=, ave know not what became
III Camplin or Champlain, but Smit
~ we are informed, was pursued in h
Y, haste to New Orleans, where he su
~ ceeded in eluding the officers of ju
= tice and escaped TO Kentucky"
;" HE took the benefit of the ban
DO rupt law for the tremendous amou
nc of upwards of 100000, ana afte
,n wards, whenever the locofoco orato
- denounced Mr. Clay as the author
y the law, which, as they charged, W
10 passed for the benefit of rogu
nv swindlers, and scoundrels, he was
~ ways among the most voeiferous
oy shout applause"
- "The sketch we have given of HI
OF we can prove to be true in every pt
Is ticular, and, if the Locofocos in a
m around Hopkinsville, now that
* character and history are revealed
It. tlisym. think proper to tolerate him
m their editorwe can only say that til
,lf are Just Il, TO have such an organ"
ot Mr.. Smith replied 10 each of The
h. charges separately and vindicat
in himself vehemenily and satisfacto
e. ".