The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-10-21

tue iaegersoa ana the RspeoAG pronounce hio dmoui
circular 10 be :" gross and scandaloas forgery" The
InteAgsneu charably presumes that " the fraud has
been practised upon the Union by possessing
zeal than honesty" while the Republic. with char
actersiic and malgnly. attributes the
guilt OF originating the gross and scandaous forgery
We can very readily this manifestation OF ntem.
perae feeling the part OF the wing journals. since the
revelation of SCOTS opinions made by his friend. the
Hon Lewis D. Campbell has crushed the last lingering
hope OF his election.
The it stands now. presents two points First.
Is the circular iorgey and secondly il it be forgery
upon whom rests the guilt OF connecting it,
First Is the circular forgery Upon this point Camp
BELLS denial may be thought by TO be satisfactory
reutaon But then the question arises, Is Campbelrs de-
NAL genuine Who will say that Campbell ever saw the
despatch exungy paraded by the Iasgeneer and the
Repube7 What guarantee have that il not an ema.
nation of the mint whence have issued the thousand and
wing abricaons OF the canvass For part such
we believe IT to be for we cannot think Mr. Campbell
will deny the authenticity of the extract from his address
10 his constituents. The intrinsic evidence of its gen.
uineness is perfectly convincing 1t but expresses SEN
timenls which Mr. Campbe.is known to entertain, and
has often ayowed is consistent instance of the gen.
eral in which the wing candidate represented
and sustained by his abolition supporters But this is
not all it published months ago in the wing papers
of Ohio, in the wing paper printed in his district
the signature of Campbell, and its authenticity and
correctness passed anqueslioned by him.
But the InteHgcer and the Republic protest that the
thing is " fabrication" and fraud" and that some
body guilty of "a gross and scandalous forgery" Now
so happens that the circular, it appeared in the Wash
hmm w PHI Isytr
wing paper. too, whose character is recog-
Missed and a,lesed by the official act of the present
wing administration. From among all the wing Jour
nails OF Tennessee, the present administration Sc
lected the Knoxville Wing TO be the recipient of its
favor and its medium OF communication with the pub
lie and The Knoxville Wing the very journal in which
The extract from Campbes address originally appeared
The Republics forgery" has, therefore. BY AUTHOR.
sanction The maxim quod fact per alum faait per
being sound, Mr. Fillmore himself is not guiltless OF
The "fabricaton," Qf It be fabrcaon,) nasmuch as
his official agent is its author The guilt of the imputed
fabrication and "forgey" rests upon associate and
friend of the Ieigener and the RepabLe-upon one Of
the subordinate organs of the present administration
The witness 10 the authenticity of Campbell's circular is
not looof0co, but good and true whig. How stands
The matter now Is the circular fabrication" and
'iogery" Is Mr. Flmores journal the author and the
medium of the ''iraud 7"
In the Knoxville Wing OF the 18th OF September the
subioned article appeared precisely it is published be-
low We submit. that it settles the question of the au-
,hencty OF Campbes circular, the eegraphic despatch
to the contrary notwithstanding:
From the Knoxville (Tenn.) Wing, Sept Is, 1884,
Scorr WHleGgKY IN OHIo.-The following letter is from
the pen Of the regular Scotwhg candidate for Congress.
the district composed of the counties Of Butler Preb
and Montgomery. We copy the letter from the Da yton
Daily Empire" OF August %, 1852. In Greeeys Wing
Almanac for 1913, this Campbeil's election 70 Con-
gress registered a" soil whg" triumph, Ia 1851
Grceeys Almanac claims him "free so.e" and moth
ing else lie had just been elected Congress and an in
vitaon given him TO address comyropss free
sod meeting, when he replied in tho following seOhg
style:
HAMILTON. oct 1850
DEAR have just received yours Of the Ith have
at Columbus, and have been written TO that be
there TO try it the latter part OF week 1t would give
nae he greatest pleasure 70 attend the meeting a. WI
TIVE ACT, ecndem" and ds"on"es IL on all oeea,ors
MEN WHO SUSTAIN IT his he rsafm Outrage , ,se1
psrpstrated upon liberty / WOULD TRAMPLE IT UN.
nYsrLr SAY WILL UTTERLY DsRraarp ,ps svr p0A
AND WILL NEVER CEASE Ny oPPosirioN UNS1Tit
the position took In the few speeches made before the
election and in maintaining hereafter shall stop
inquire what effect my will have upon my success
politician. Political success has no charms for me
when purchased al the sacrifice OF justice and right
Very truly, yours, l.. ID. CAMPBELL.
A. BRooK
Call you this supporting splitting upon" the Compro.
mise But hear this Lewis ID. Campbell, in a public
address the 2s OF July, 1884, his constituents from
Washington, and which is Published by the Lebanon
stsr-a free-so Scott whig paper
The editor Of the Herald, published In Wilmington
has made most unprovoked atack upon III 1 had
the disposition have the time now without ne gect of
my official duties TO reply through the At early
day as possible after the adjournment of Congress
VIII give notice OF meeting in Wilmington, q
which will take occasion defend myself and General
Scott % from the aspersions which the editor has at
tenn pied to cast our ~ characters, and will
70 show that he IL either hypocrtcal knave a
summate ignora both have only
solers that which, in their Characteristic beay they
will readily grsnta hearing before they make mp their
judgment
u have been elected twice by free soil pofo am the
RKrBKsENrArIvE SOIL rRINopkEs-I know Gen,
Scott to be with the subject OF slavery he the
FRIEND OF LIBERTY, platform no platform and Il we
muster enough in Congress repeal the fugitive
law, believe can, 1T is WITHIN MY KNOWL.
EDGE THAT GEN. SCOTT WILL SIGN THE LAW /!
Not so with GEN PIERCE he pletey sold the
South, and to the DEALERS ~ BLOOD
ever FILLMORE WEBSTER wasi
LEWIS d. CAMPBELL"
This extract from Campbelrs address, transferred to
the Knoxville Wing the 25th OF September from the
Lebanon Star, Scott.whg paper in Ohio, is identcay
and literally the very published in the Union from
the Richmond Examiner, and which is now denounced
by the IntAigsner and Republic fabrication" and
forgery" We leave the public 10 Judge whether the