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Show CARRY IT OCT. For years the grossest and luuil unfounded charges have been made against leading men in this community by newspapers here, but we have not heard of any steps being be-ing taken to bring parties thus slandering slander-ing individuals and the community to account. Even now, week after week, the grossest flanders are publised in this city and in another place north of here. As it is possible that Chief Justice McKean has. not read these papers, probably scarcely knows of their existence, we beg to direct his attention at-tention to their files for the past few weeks, and for a still longer period; and we ask him then to instruct the Grand Jury concerning them, a.s his Honor may deem best, to have the character of citizens preserved from the attacks of slanderers, who do not merely ask questioas fpr information, but charge with the grossest crimes men against whom no charge has ever been proved. , We claim , this ua a simple act of justice; we claim it at the b&nds of Judge McKean who has instructed the Grand Jury concerning this paper, for asking whether certain reports were true. The Herald holds itself responsible for what it publishes; but it asks for even-handed and impartial im-partial justice though the heavens fall. |