Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-09-19

full-sufed saddle bags, instead Of pair of empty
ones, the only remaining supposition is whether
it was put into his saddle-bags by "nistake." This
assumption is even more pitifu and ridiculous than
the other. / have now before me the original bum
die of letters which received from the 18th TO the
18th of July, and which, (after that period, of
course) | took from my hat where they had accu-
muated, and enveloped or wrapped up in one OF
Col. Coopers circulars copies of which carried
with rne) Having done this merely to relieve
my head, they went into my saddle bags Tin bundle)
for no other purpose, and were never unpncked
until since the appearance of the communication
in the Democrat Of the 9th inst. l charge, there
fore, with the most conscientious certainty, that
this letter WIS taken FROM MY HAT, during my
public addresses, between the 10th and Goth of July
last. BY whom it was done, and how it found its
way into Judge Rawlins' "house,' two weeks af-
ter or two weeks before the clection-I leave such
portion of the public as have not passed upon.it
already to Imagine and decide.
IT, US Senator from another District, wo uld
hesitate to sit with Owen Rawlns until he had
better explained the manner by which he became
possessed Of private letter, written in confidence
by one of his neighborS to another, the use he has
made of it subsequent to his election would impel
me to move hisinstnnt expulsion. know not how
far in the estimation of men tito sit there, the laws
which govern the intercourse Of gentlemen, and
distinguish refinement and civilization from bar
barsm and piracy, may be held to have been merged
in the gradual uprooting of all moral and social
Obligation as incucated and practsed by the high
priests from whom the Judge has taken his political
complexion; but do hno,o that, up to this period
have not met MAN, of any party, in Howard
County, who has not spoken of his neglect tore
store the letter. unopened and unexamncd (even
apart from the base to which he allowed 1t to
he pervertcd) as stamping his name with irradica-
Die dishonor.
My duty to General Clark requires me to add,
that the probability Of his out-running the ques-
ton in Macon and several other Western counties
had been the subject of conversation and cores
pondencc before he addressed me this letter. So
far therefore, from regarding his suggestion, in
relation to the framing of printed ticket in such
manner as to meet the popular feeling in those
countless as being dishouorabe, or intended to
cheat or dofraud any elector in his choice, would
have most readily and checrfully complied with his
suggestion but for the conviction that the party
violence which the contest had been made to as
sumo since he had been amongst them, had proba-
bly, wrought change in their purposes and that
there were but few who would vote for him who
were not Wings. The result proved that | was
wronp-ond doubt not had I conformed to the re-
quest of my friend his aggregate average vote
over the other Wing candidates would have been
considerably greater than it was. l ask permits
sion to share whatever of dishonor he may have
incurred by so natural suggestion.
i JAMES II. BIRCH.
Fayette, Sept 10Th, 1910.