Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-22
DR.. GEO. q. AMBROSE.

himself because he bore upon his brow
the indelible stamp of dishonesty ,dissim-
u%lation. fraud and general %rascalitY. de
could not stand the pressure OF popular
indignation against him. and hence ban
ished himself to adistant state and an OBJ
scure locality, in the hope that he might
hide himself from the consequences
OF his crime against his neighbors.
Had he been content to endeavor to
build up his f~ortune-even though upon
the basis of i'll gotten gains wrenched
from the taxpayers OF Lafayette county
in a private way, this paper would have
been the last to mention his iormer ca
reer. OF to lay a staw in the way of an
endeavor 10 earn an honest livelihood.
But when we hear OF bis filling . SINH
lar Office in Florida to the one which he
filed here at such cest to our people
when we remember his promises to re-
sign his position here at the request Of
the best citizens OF the county, only to
be repeatedly broken; when we remem-
Der the constant dread of the people
while he was on the bench lest addition
al burdens should be fraudulsntly plac-
ed upon them, and then when we see
this man attempting to ioist himself up
on a southern community as honest, and
a southern sy%mpathizer, it becomes our
flnfu IN onAoR Thn irnpppdonco nj
the man is colossal; his subtilty i'm
measurable. He writes a letter to the
republican paper in this city. not for
any effect here, because his character is
irreparably destroyed in this community,
but to be reprinted in Florida, for its
influence there. The Intelligencer has
but n editor, who has. always been q
democrat, but the doctor is mistaken If
be thinks that it is q crime. even IN Flor
ida. to have been a whig. Nor, indeed.
is it a crime to have been a republican
But TO have been q republican in Mis-
souri, when Doctor Ambrose was a re-
publican. meant the Acknowledgement Of
the be>t element of its people-its tax
paying. intelligent element. Lafayette
county is nc northern community, as is
intimated. 1t 10 as strongly southern in
Its sentiments as any county in Florida,
and SEN more men to the confederate
army, in all likelihood, than there are
male adults in Levy county. 1t was
not to be with the intelligence and
wealth Of Lafayette that the doctor was
a republican while here. No respecta-
BILE man will, owe his ewn signature,
deny a single allegation of the article
printed In the In%telligencer some weeks
age concerning him. They are all mat
tiers of record. We have Dever said
that republicans alone we're responsible
Tor fastening the bonded debt upon La
iayette county. On the contrary-in
the article alluded to we gave Judge
Chinn. a republican. credit fer honesty
in the matter. But WE have said, and
r~eiterate, that DIR. George H. Ambrose
as presiding Justice Of the county court
issued to George H. Ambrose, who a
at the same time, and for an evident
purpose, president Of a railroad corpor-
alton seeking aid at the hands OF the
county, $240,000 in bonds, in a fraudu-
lent 1t will net benefit the
doctor to put part Of the blame upon
others. They are not now on trial.
Their guilt. il proven, will not make
his any the less. We might as we'll
try to make him responsible for the bad
character Of his brothers-in- law. whe
were during and after the war his asso-
ciates in business transactions. One OF
them has but recently been released
from the ~penitentiary for stealing a
mule; another is a fugitive from the
county to escape an indictment for per-
jury and still another is now in the PEN
itentiary for grand larceny. with ever
al indictments waiting to be served up
On him when the warden unlecks his
doors for him. We have mere sor-
row than anger for these men, and we
verify believe that if their early man
hood had not been passed under the
cynical smile of their swarthy brother
in law, who knew better than they did
how TO evade the meshes of the law,
though he respects it as little, that their
career might have been a different one.
Still we did not mention all this to his
detriment, as we did not think it rele-
want. As he thinks otherwise We give
it tor what it is worth. So great
was the Indignation OF the pso-
pie Of Lafa yette county against
Ambrose that they had deter.
mined. at n time, to hang him. Had
it not been for the writer, Judge VIM.
Young aud A. j. Hall, Esq, who went
to the country. n Sunday, and inpor-
tuned the leaders of the movement to
have patience, to wait awhile for a
bloodless solution Of eur difficulties,
two hundred OF the most resslute men.
among the best names in the county,
would have marched into town that
night and hanged him. This is history.
We do not wish him ill. as we did not
when We made that trip; but there is a
Nemesis born of his villainous acts.
which will follow him wherever he
puts himself forward fer public trusts.
Ii the people OF Florida doubt the truth
OF what was said in our article concern
ing him, let them send some one of their
prominent citizens to this and adjoining
counties. to the capital Of the state, and
to the United States district court al
jefferson City to examine the deposi.
tions and other evidences 81 his corrup'
ton which may be found there. If they
are Indifferent, well and good; SO are
we we have done eur duty in sounding
the alarm 10 our southern brethren, and
if they do not heed our advice to spex
him out as an unclsan thing, they have
but themselves to blame. As fer him
we have this to say: We have takel
but very little interest in his case, S,
far, but if he troubles US in the least
we shall take pleasure in furnish
ing him a certificate OF character whicl
will follow him. not only to Levy coun
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