Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-03
Broom tho Riehlnond Enduirer.
Another Hnmbng Exploded.

From the Richmond Enquirer.
Another Humbug Exploded.
The Wing press, and the Petersburg
Intelligencer in particular, will see from
the following, that they have in vain load
ed their columns with extracts from the
Adams Convention in 1895, with the view
of holding Col. johnson responsible.-
" Anxious" utterly refutes the absurd and
false story. His communication, and that
of Traveller" shows the happy po-
sition of our worthy candidate in the
West. The East will nobly respond, and
will cover the slanderers of Col. j. with
the dust and ashes of a signal and we'll
merited overthrow.
To THE EDGToRs OF THE ENQUIRER.
Gentlemen: An article copied from the
Staunton Spectator, is at present going
the rounds of the Wing Press of Virginia,
charging Col. Johnson with having sup.
ported the administration of John Q. Ad-
ANS" and with having attended an anti
Jackson meeting in Clarksburg in 1927
&C., &c.
To support these charges the article
referred to pretends to give an extract
! from the Clarksburg Enquirer of NOvem-
Der 22, 1897, which however, are so
garbled that Col. johnson is entirely mis-
represented. 1t is true, Col. j. waspresent
at that meeting, and was appointed by
| the chairman one of the committe of FIVE,
but the following brief statement of the
facts of the case, will satisfactorily ac
count for both his presence and his APP
pointment.
Col. johnson, being in town upon that
day "a court day. as did many other
Democrats, attended the meeting as
spectator lie took no part in Il, anh0teper
came in after it was organized; and as
the chairman (Mr. Webster,) appointed
the committee silently, Col. j. knew moth
ing of his appointment until the proceed
Iings appeared in the " CIarksburg En-
quirer.' When it came to his knowledge,
Col. j. Immediately called upon. the chair
he (Col. j.. had been appointed one OF
the committee Mr.. Webster replied that
he had no authority for SO doing that at
the time of appointing the committee, he
happened to see him (Col. j. and 'Cith-
ont thinking Of his politics appointed him !;
that he remembered Col. j. said nothing,
nor took any actire part IN tile meeting 'ch0t-
cper. Mr.. Webster gave Col. johnson a
written statement of the above facts-a
little more in detail, but substantially
the same as here given.
&, Major John Licpcr, now a justice of
the Peace in Taylor county, who has al
ways been a Democrat, and who was
likewise a spectator in the meeting refer
red to; gave certificate also at the foot
of Mr.. Wcbster's statement, verifying it,
so far as ho saw, heard and believed.
Tim. Rivcs, Esq, prominent member
of the late State Convention, has seen
the above certificates, and is respectfully
referred to, to vouch for the correctness
of the statements contained i'll this COM
munication relative thereto,
These charges were brought against
Col. j. during the contest between him
and Judge Allen, in 1885, but the state
mcnts of Messrs. Webster and Lcipcr
1.-THE former of whom was Whig) ctfcc-
tually put them at rest. The facts are
well understood in the North West. But
indeed these charges have not even the
show of plausibility. 1t is not probable
that Col. johnson, who, in 1925, pOted
atone Of Tie Virginia Delegation, for Gen.
jackson, in preference to both Crawford
and Adams, would, in 1897, favor Ad-
ans who had become very unpopular, and
oppose jackson, whose popularity was
then irresistible.
II Col. johnson were at home, 1 would
cndcavor to obtain the statements of Web
stcr and Leipcr for publication. He is
now in the South West counties. Should
he deem it of sufficient Importance, howcv-
or, he will have it done.
The charge raised and circulated in the
East, to wit ; that " Colonel Johnson,
took the benefit of the Bankrupt Law" is
Il bare faced falschoOd, wUhom the slightest
shacSOw Of. Foundation. Col. johnson has
not, perhaps so large fortune, as was
left Mr.. Summers by his brother, but he
has been in Independent circumstances
ever since long before the passage of the
Bankrupt law. NEMTAs.
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