Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — A LIAR AND SLANDERER. [ARTICLE]

A LIAR AND SLANDERER.

[For the Rensselaer Gazette.

Air. Editor'. The Democratic Expositor of : the 7th inst. has a communication from Ja-, i cob Markle, relative to myself, in which that man, without -any cause or provocation, gives publicity to a batch of lying slanders' about me. He pretended, as a reason for so i doing, td believe that I had written an edi-i torial in the Gazette of the 6th inst., relative to his defalcations; but, upon seeing him J soon after the appearance of his lying com- ! munication, and upon his being assured by both myself and the editor of the Gazette, \ that I had not written a word of the article j he complained of, he promised me faithfully to retract* in the tthen) next issue of thej ! Expositor his slanderous imputations against ■ me, but in this, too, he has lied. This man, Jacob Markle,- is. too well known in this community as a defaulter and peculator of county and State revenues, to get credit for truth and honesty in any assertion he may make touching the character of another; but, lest some might construe my silence under his lying slanders as ac- : quiescence in their truth, I here deny and pronounce his imputations against me false i and without foundation, and pronounce him i a liar and a scoundrel, unworthy of further 'notice that which is sometimes bestowed

upon a

mean, troublesome dog.

R. H. MILROY.