The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-29


signed .One Who Knows" and accompanied BY certlfl-
cate OF Oliver j. Taylor, his assistant editor Of the
Wheeling Gazette. The documents puport 70 Dc ~ re-
and principal object OF both 10 be 10 deny thai
the postmaster has acted editor, exercised any
control OF the Gazette since passed into the hands OF
himself and partner in September last, and TO SET up
reason for his connection with the paper half prope-
tor In respect to these matters, the comm unicanon,
signed " One Who Knows" has the following: )
Y 1u' no. sd as.r o. S Ss
owing % the total failure Of the person who purchased o.
as
The writer OF this is the person who, in the above ex-
tract alluded TO the person who purchased 1.-THE
Gazettel Of him 1.-THE posmaster] IN December ls4s'
and who Is sought be made responsible for the post
masters present connexon with that paper BY the pre-
lence that BY "total failure TO fulfil his [myl oblga
tiens the postmaster was compelled in September last
This with other pretences injurious TO myself has been
heretofore published at Wheeling by or on behalf Of the
postmaster. Preenng another mode Of reiutaon there
and considering the subject matter OF the preences UNI
suitable for newspaper dispositions, have hitherto
wholly refraned from noticing them through the press
AS, however the postmaster, or some one aching as his
advocate has fit to follow to this city with this
particular preence OF otal failure, on my part, TO
fulfil my obligations, growing out OF my contract with
him for the purchase Of his printing establishment and
that he was thereby compelled to take the Gazette
back" think due 10 myself to refuie It through the
channel of its PRONUNCIATION here. As, gentlemen you
have allowed your paper to be made that channel, you
them that the pretence in question Is wholly I'M
quaedy untrue; that the above extract from the CON-
muncaiion, signed "One Who Knows" is wholly. un-
qualedlN untrue in everything which i uttes, express.
by implication, except IN the mere fact that the post
master is part proprietor OF the Gazette.
The preiencs OF failure on my part TO fuIhl the "oblga
tons" referred TO, sheerest calumny From each and
every OF what Uouid have been my obligations under
the contract by which purchased his newspaper estab-
shmen had that contract been fair on his part was
eectualy and altogether exonerated BY that
provision of law which acquts discharges protects the
defrauded party from all the obligations OF the contract
in the making Of which be has been defrauded IA,
l. nevertheless, settled with him fairly-seted with
him on the terms which he himself proposed the best
he had the power makeon terms which equity gave
him no claim to ask me TO accept
half dozen facts connected with this settlement and
the subsequent purchase Of the Gazette estabismen from
by him and his present partner will sufficiently demon
was compelled 70 take the Gazette back" either BY my
s.faure to fulfil obligations" or by any other cause
whatever This settlement was on the fifteenth Of Sep
TENDER last @ perfect ana %
equitable, substantial or merely nominal which ne had
professed to have, or could have against me; and Il
left the sole and absolute otoner and publisher ne
Gazette daily and weeky, and still engaged in publish
ing it, and carrying on the other business OF the es-
Enlistment with every right which publisher and pro-
prietor could possess
that he would ever again become proprietor OF the
paper To protect myself however, from any imputaton
suspicion of having taken even under such circum-
the law and the facts OF the had given me- renewed
to him, Immediately after the settlement, proposition
which he and his present partner had previously had for
weeks under consideration, to sell to him or them
the newspaper and my entire property and interest in the
establishment and business. including investments OF
several thousand dollars in amount made by me in new
materials and in carrying the business on.
MY terms required portion Of the price demanded TO
be paid hand and the payment OF the balance at early
periods, to be secured by satisfactorily endorsed notes
By representations similar in their moral and legal char
acer to those by which he had induced make the
purchase Of him in December, 1s4s, he induced to
waive the requsion for the endorsed notes. and to agree
to take instead securities which have hitherto proved,
and are likely to prove, far less available.
The matter remained open until the osntyfh OF Sep
TENDER, up TO which day continued to publish the Ga.
slc III sOe ana an
interest embraced in the proposition above stated to him
and his present partner thus sold to them BY crg
nal and a. ,, nSsng no se.n. . s any
for price Amounting 10 betresn four and five thousand
dollars. query orhing Of ue ioas paid and to be paid
10 mseyey farhng Of which, beyond the cash payment
in hand, embraced in promissory notes made by the
postmaster and his partner the payment OF which was
secured by what induced at the time to believe,
securities which would prove sufficient to secure the
One OF them is isf-deed, lin nature OF mortgage) ex
ecued by the postmaster and his partner, upon this
printing establishment, including the Uery Gazette
This trust deed is now, for non-payment OF the notes
secured by it, in OF foreclosure by advertisement
in the Wheeling Argus Instead therefore, OF its being
true that the postmaster "was compelled TO take the Ga
zette back" BY my total failure to fulfil my obligations,
there is much more chance than wish there that
shall be compelled" by just such failure the part of
himself and his partner to stake back" his half al least
So much for the pretence that the postmaster com
peed," by defaioatioD my part 10 become connected
with the Wheeling Gazette.
II is not even that purchased the Gazette OF him
The daily paper which he sold me was the Times and
Advertiser the weekly, the Western Virginia Times and
Gazette. After publishing these for while, discovered
that they had been TO very great II not 10 runous,
tent clogged with contracts and customs having in the
apprehension OF many, the force of contracts for sub
scnptons and advertising rates far below the nominal
and fair prices, and charged with pepayments far be-
yond what had been apprized OF.
found, also, that to be inually, for nde6
mite period OF time, and to indefinite amount subject
ed TO clams that should become a party 10 execute
these contracts be bound by these customs and respon
sble for ali these prepaymens For these and concur.
present postmaster, sem-monthly advertising sheet.
discontinued the weekly, and with materials and
~ stem Of prices established daily aud week
y paper, under the names OF the DAILY Wheeling Gazette
and the Weekly Wheeling Gazette. Each sheet differed
materially IN form, size and general characteristics from
the which II superseded; the first edition Of each
issued as number one, volume one" and this new
numbering has ever since been carried the editions
respectively.
Under all these circumstances is not the preence that
the postmaster" took back the Gazette from me- and that
he was compelled" 10 do by my failure 10 fulfil my
obligations, rather cool than otherwisel
have, Me-srs. Editors, written what have herein
written, with peect personal knowledge, and full IN.
dersanding OF what have been writing; OF the facts
which have set forth and alluded to OF the evidences
OF those facts in my possession and within my reach in
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