The daily gazette., 1880-12-03

o,"'o, N"'h eApreSSlOn OF JD6 man who
sits down to think and to write; and
you will find it through the authori-
ties, and you will find it as a matter
OF lawthat the words fraud and fraud
ulent" and utterly rotten and corrupt
are In themselves actionable, and show
upon their face malice. Now this is
slandsr and this is libel. This cor
poration comes here then, charging IL
bel. Upon what do we charge libelP
What has this defendant set out? The
reading of these papers will probably
take an hour and as the plth of the
matter is comprised in comparatively
few words will read you the pith Of
them.
In the issue of October 9Th, 1877, is
this language-referring to the Della
ware State F. & M. Ins. Co., this
plaintiff, "It is rotten and worthless
fraud and we warn the people of Della
ware that any money they are foolish
enough to pay will go into the pockets
of pair Of rascals who ought to be in
jail" Now bear in mind that my DO
sition before you now is that the arti-
cles in themselves, the libel which we
are reading to you is one in itself full
Of malice and venom; and listen TO the
language | read to you: at is rotten
and worthless fraud and we warn the
people of Delaware that any money
they are foolish enough to pay will go
into the pockets OF pair of rascals
who ought to be in Jail"
tNIhn alo oh
make the study of the character and
condition Of companies their speciality
did not need to be informed of the
rottenness OF the ID. s. +. & NJ. [. Co.
by a daily paper. They know wild
cat company when they see it and de-
nouncsd this affair of Myers without
waiting for special investigation.-
They are thoroughly delighted, of
course, with the EOery Boening's ex-
posure of the rascally affair, however
and appear to think that it will be suf-
ficient to Immediately kill the con-
cern" @ and ID would il the ven-
ON had not overshot it's mark; sit will
be sufficient to Immediately kill the
concern and prevent any more deluded
people from doing business with it,
We suppose this is in a large degree
true but we fear that some foolish peo-
pie will still be gulled into wasting
their money by insuring in concern
which itself needs insuring worse than
the most finder box building in the
whole city.-Every E0ening, Dec. II,
1878.
"They the Committee''-Now they
attack Joseph l.. Carpenter, Gregg
Chandler, Thomas Darlington and
Samuel Murphy, who went there and
examined, as you have it in evidence,
the affairs of that concern now he at
tacks them, as you will see, not salts
fed with attacking the company.
Listen to what he says "They (the
commi tee selected to examine into
the condition of the company have
done neither but have allowed them
selves to be mere whitewashers who
spread the thin coat of their own credu-
lity over q rotten fraud )" they are
bound to prove this-"a rotten fraud, "
while in the hands of William
Bright, DR.. Tantum, Daniel L.
Hawkins, John Wood, Caleb p.
johnson, Henry Evans, and other
men-I need not name them, in the
city of Wilmington whom you know,
whose names and whose regulations
and whose private character for lnte-
gritty is co-extensive with the State
Hrhey the committee (selected to ex-
anime into the condition of the COM
pany) have done neither but have all
lowed themselves to be mere white
washers, who spread the thin coat OF
their own credulity over rotten
fraud They will, in the eyes of
thoughtful people be morally respon-
sible for any loss into which the re-
spect for their names may lead any
ignorant and inexperienced person. !"
What wisdom There are plenty of
men in Wilmington who saw through
1T and still continued to insure.
"We do not know that it is worth
while to take any trouble for the bene-
fit of honest people so utterly foolish
as to have anything to do with such a
concern as the ID. s. F. d M, but II
any such people have any friends we
advise them to look into the provisions
of the rascally bill which has now
stuck in the Senate for a time and
which Bright, after getting Myers to
coach him, is now lobbying for. How
much longer is it going to take to
make the people of this State compre-
hend lust what sort of a man this
Bright is How much longer does
this Rev. DIR. Caldwell-"why, this
pure man steps into the sacred pre-
cincts of the church, and would drag
the minister from off his pulpit who
would let a man like VIM. Bright sit
in his church. Oh, such purity Oh,
such purityl How fearfully the fraud
must have stunk in his nostrils J "How
much longer does Rev. DR.. Caldwell
propose to stand up before this COM
munity as preacher of righteousness
with such a man a member in good
standing in his church - Yes, he was
member in good standing in his
church, and in the sight of God and
man to-day his character don't need
white washing if somebody's else char
acter does.
And again "How long"-Yo You
would think it vas the Prophet Isaiah
standing upon the top of the mountain
looking out upon the land of Israel,
and ali the people of Israel wrapt VI
in their sins, and the Son of God com
| ing in his wrath, and the prophet stand
ing upon the mountain speaks "HoN
long can an open fraud be practised il
this State without the interference ol
ANYBODY whatever to prevent it r'-
They could not prevent it, after all
He battled, and be fought and spreat