The daily gazette., 1880-12-03
WILMINGTON. DEL. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1880

u NJ. l. Co., which started at Della
ware City and removed to this city,
We have nothing to do with it outside
of the city of Wilmington we leave
that with Money. Henry and all their
crew we take it as it has come to us,
and we meet it as we believe we may
do, honest and fair between God and
man. "* which started at
Delaware City and removed to this
city, is nop"--there is where we pin
them-'ts n0w and always was fraud
without the shadow of right to ex-
ist." Well, the Legislature said il had
a right. John r. McF the man APP
pointed by the State to examine it
carefully said it had right, and lie
censed it. Croasdale says it has no
right, none at all. He is wise knows
more than the Legislature Of Della
ware, more than McFee, more than all
the rest put together. 1t is the pro-
phet, gentlemen,--knows all about it,.
"We SO declared in Every Egtning and
added the information that Myers, the
man who still runs the concern, was a
professional organizer of fraudulent in
surance companies. The Insurance
Company sued Every Evening for Ii.
bel :" and with that we have nothing
to do; it was long before we came
here 1t was while it was in the hands
of their friends Money or Henry, or
others of them "and we made reply
that our statements were true and ne
cessary for public information and the
Insurance. Company Joined issue with
US ON that declaration, but asked for a
postponement of six months 10 enable
1T to gather evidence of its own solven-
cy and the character of It's officers.
When the six months had elapsed it
began proposing conditions to Every
Evening on which it would withdraw
She suit. All conditions were per-
emptorily rejected by this paper, and
then her than face the evidence
which Myers knew we must have in
our possession the Insurance Company
withdrew its own suit and paid the
costs and thus confessed itself the
fraud we had declared it to be-"
''Of course, any company which can
not pass muster under the easily ad-
ministered and not over strict insur-
ance laws of Maryland ought not to be
allowed to do business in Delaware
but there appears to be no way of pre-
serving our own citizens. He drops the
character of prophet and becomes the
pieserver, the Saviour. "There appears
to be no way of preserving our own
citizens" No; the people lived ii
Wilmington and they knew to some
extent who this man was. FThere
appears to be no way of preserving
our own citizens from the depredations
of such an organization after it has
once been chartered to prey upor
them by the State. But has public
opinion nothing to do with this mat
ter? How can responsible men anC
church members allow thfhr, names tt
be used to bolster up such a con
cern?"
These are the libellous articles; -
not in lots, but my learned friends il
they want to can read them all. They
are the pith of them so far as relates
to this company and makes charge
against this company. These libellous
articles were published in that paper
That it is libel infused with poison
will not say now where it came from
but infused with malice, which
submit to you is apparent upon its
face, because he rests not with attack.
ing the company which he alleges is
"a fraud" but he throws his vile and
filthy SANDER over every man who has
any connection with H.; if it be Mr.
Bright, if it be DR.. Tantum who have
risked their money, their means and
reputation-ah it stops not there, but
if Mr.. Bright enters into a church, il
throws editorial mud over the pastor
of the church with which he is con-
nected. If gentlemen of respectable
ty and decency from among the mer
OF Wilmington were asked to come in
and investigate and after investigation
published their reports, published tba
it was not fraud, Immediately they
are attacked and the mud machine i,
set in operation again and abuse il
heaped upon these men.
If he meant merely.to protect the pull
lie he could have done it by simply ex
posing the fraud and the character o
the frauds in temperate AMI reasona
Bile language. But he does it using th,
yilest words that he can pick out il
the English language. He might hav,
said it was fraud and given us VIII,
il was a fraud. But he does not stol
there. "Rotten" is the word tina
comes out of the delicate stomach o
this Isaiah who stands upon the noun
tain top. 1t is ''rotten fraud"-del
icate, sensitive words for man of jus
imagination and pure thoughts, ant
then there is no harsh word in the vo-
cabulary of the English language tina
could be applied, scarcely, to that in
stitution, that this man has not uset
TO affect AMI break it down.
Now, gentlemen, again, these paper
were published in that Every Evening
-tbare is no doubt about that. ID,
YOU remember the little by-play w
had here when this trial commenced
| This Savior, who comes to save tn
people, and protect them by every pos
sible means-we asked him to brini
his files here. | summoned him witt
a duces tecum to bring these files here
He brought them as far as Clerl
| Cochran's office and then he got upol
that stand, and shielded himself-re
fused to bring. 1t was a grand meri
/ torlous act but he did not like tn
public to know he had been the autho
of it. The duces lecum had no effect
We served notice upon counsel, an
counsel objected because it might sub
iect their client, Croasdale, to the Grim
inal laws of the State of Delaware 70
publishing libel, and he hid himsel
| i thnu Fn,,.,l