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Tl»« GacrrlKu liuitt 021 Paris.We Ret in the Illinoisan of the 12«‘h inst.#!n, that the editor justifies the Tories in their 1 Aten- r.ud on Paris. In his article touching the d»s-p- arming of Union’citizens, he saya: ‘Pneortwt ,o inexcusable arts were committed by |erso:.s prufesMng to be, ai d we mi] |»oee really were, on the side of the right. But a just cause will j not excuse bad acts on the pan of its adher- j cuts99 * INow what we-e the designs of those robbers • uh*»m Mr Whitehead endorses as being “on I !he s’dt* of right/* and engaged iti * a just |cause,u They openly av wed not only ton- xh »se, they fore Mv r. bowLJiut toothers, “that 3* their design was to bnrftrans, and dn\e the rs roldiers and aholitionicts from Kili -r count v Mrhu is what the editor of the Jeff Organ of Clark county i as *0 freely endorsed as “right,M* « n 1‘•just,” dc. lie cann t pfeed ign» ranee 111 the matter frr, he is the rerx.gtuztd betd and leader of the wli«*k» band in this county, 1 u d e* 1* not stop at endorsing the hn gns of tho^e vil-c- lain**, but in *he same article gives an implied °f justification of the rubbery itself, hut says: *‘•The g avity of the occasion, and the circumstances which would justify it, had not nrnved when those arras were tiken ls.-t week.”11 once we see that it was not the act that he^ condemns, but the time when it was done wasnot propitious. Verrly, the Illinoisau has bo*come the Tuieves Organ,
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Marshall Flag Of Our Union
Marshall, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 04, 1864
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