Marshall County Republican

The LaPorte Democrat Office Mobbed by Soldiers.

We regret extremely to learn that the type, and many of the fixtures used in the publication of the LaPorte Democrat, were destroyed, or rendered useless, on Monday night last, by a party of soldiers. The editor, Mr. P. McDonald says in a printed slip over his signature:

"They entered the office at about 7 o'clock P. M., while the employees were absent, by breaking through the door, and threw the type and fixtures in a confused mass upon the floor, rendering them wholly unserviceable for any purpose whatever, except as old metal.

This will eventually do Mr. McDonald much more good than harm in a pecuniary way, and if it does not greatly benefit the infamous cause he advocates it will be a less matter. It should not, however, have any influence in that direction, as so-called Democrats have not only counseled resistance to the laws, but have committed twice as many outrages of this kind since the war commenced, not to go back to 1856-'57, when they mobbed and hung every abolitionist they could find in Kansas and the Slave States. Had we no more regard for truth than our neighbor we would say the mob at LaPorte was composed entirely of copperheads, and that they destroyed the office for the sake of making political capital, and it would be quite as true as what he said about the Union men destroying the guns at Bourbon a few weeks since.