Marshall County Republican

Plymouth, Ind.
Thursday, February 18, 1864.

Denies the Charge.

Our neighbor has at last "puckered up courage" to deny outright, unequivocally, that he voted for John P. Hale, for President, that he preached an abolition sermon, that he got five dollars from Grove Pomeroy for doing it, or that he wrote a letter to Colfax to ascertain whether or not he was as rabid an abolitionist as himself. He says, "We have heretofore said that these charges were false," which is untrue. It is the first time he has even ventured to mention or refer to the charge that Mr. Pomeroy handed him $5 as a slight appreciation of his approbation of the abolition sermon he preached; and although he noticed the charge of writing an abolition letter to Colfax did not pretend to deny it, but rather admitted it. He thought, doubtless, that we had the letter in our possession and would publish it if he denied writing one. Neither did he deny positively the charge of voting for Hale, but equivocated, saying if he did he must have been crazy as he had forgotten all about it. Now, what reliance can be placed in a man's word who evinces so much disregard of truth as this amounts to? It reminds us of the man who had such a veneration for truth as to always keep him at an awful distance from it.

We shall not reply to the fish-market slang of our neighbor in regard to ourself and paper, but had we room would copy what he says for the amusement of our readers. He is evidently losing his temper, so we must quit boring him about his abolitionism lest he injure himself.

He insists that we did want to be Postmaster, but did not derive his information from Col. Bailey that we quarreled with Mr. Colfax about it, but from altogether a different source. It matters not to us from whom, if any one, he derived his information, it is altogether false. We never passed a word, we believe, with Mr. Colfax about the Postmastership at this place; certainly we never applied to him to obtain the position for ourself, or intimated to any one else in this place, since the appointment of the present incumbent that we desired it. When our neighbor says that nine-tenths of this community are well satisfied that we did seek the position, he states what he knows himself is false. Equally mendacious is his statement in regard to the dissatisfaction of Republicans toward us as editor. We have the best of reasons for believing that we enjoy the confidence and respect of every Republican in the county whose good will and esteem is worth having. As to our begging our friends not to depose us and promising to do better if they would not, all we have to say is that no man who had any reputation for veracity to lose would have made the assertion. Every Union man in town and country knows it to be false. We can starve, but beg-never. But it does not look much like starving, or that even now many of the best men of his (our) party are looking around for a better man to assume the control of their party paper, and that unless we give better satisfaction will be compelled to vacate, as our veracious neighbor asserts, when our subscription list is larger than ever before, except just before the last Presidential election, and at least 100 larger than the Democrat's list. So much for that falsehood. Try your hand again, neighbor.