Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-10-27

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FRAUDS AND FONGERlESI
pJ-We copy the following article from
the National Intelligcncer Of the 2lst:
We call the attention Of our readers to the
following article from the National Intelligent
|ccr. This infamous forgery Of Mr.. CampbelIs
name is now going the rounds Of the Locofo.
leo press. The Locofoco paper published in
|Staunton received yesterday. contains the
forgery, paraded in grand capitals, and intro.
|duced with the following remarks
"Ihe developments made in the following
letters cannot fail to strike with powerful
effect the Southern mind. They are from the
pen Of the regular Scott Wing candidate for
|Congress in the District of Butler, pre5le, .
|&c.
So it goes. Not one Of these papers, thus
|parading this falsehood, will correct-or IL
Done, will do it in some obscure corner, where
ft will be likely to escape observation.
In connection with this matter. the Repub-
|lic makes queer development. The forgery
appears to have been fabricated by the Union
and that paper dwelt very feelingly on the
fact. that Lewis d. Campbell was the regular
Scott candidate and therefore Gen Scott
ought to be repudiated by every Southern
man. Now it turns out there is another
Campbell insCongress. one Thompson Camp
bell from Illinois, regular, out and out
Pierce man. He has come for repeal Of
the Fugitive Slave Law-against any more
slave territory. and in favor Of ar.esting the
slave trade between the States. II is sup
posed the Union took one of Thompson Camp.
belts circulars, put Lciris ID. Campbelrs
name to it, and published it as whig docu-
ment.-Rich. Wig.
Waning against Fergerys
Believing that little is ever effected BY pet
ty tricks. in the decision Of great National
tissues, we seldom notice the little fabrications
which appear openly in the columns Of the
partisan press on the eve Of Presidential
election. Finding, however. that one Of these
counterfeits, (styled by our adversaries ''roor.
backs. y which appeared few days ago in
Ithc columns Of the Union. and which we we're
yesterday enabled to nail to the counter, has
received a fresh and mere covert start 10 the
|shope OF hanlhill for Somhcrn circulation.
we recur to the fabrication with the view to
|put our southern friends on their guard against
it, This it is:
On the 18th inst, the Union contained
what purported to be late letter from the
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, Of Ohio. placing
!Gen Scott in q false position in regard TO The
Fugitive Slave Law, and on Monday last we
received from Mr. Campbell, by Telegraph,
and published yesterday, the following letter !:
HAMILTON, Oct. Is, 1852
10 tie Editors effAe National Infelligsneer =
The publication in the Union" OF Tues
day, the 18th instant, over my name. declar-
ling Gen Scott for repeal Of the Fugitive
slave Law, is base forgery inever wrote
|or published such circular.
LEWIS d. CAMPBELL.
Yesterday there was placed in our hands q
large handbill, printed by the Democratic
Committee in this city, containing the fabri-
Gated letter. accompanied by various infam-
|matory imputatioas on Gen Scott, together
with other electioneering matter. and headed
in staring capitels, ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURE
"A VOICE OF WARNING TO THE SoUrH.'-
This handful was Of course prepared before
the appearance of Mr. Campbell's contradic ]
ton; but we are credibly informed that one
hundred thousand copies Of it have been
printed, and as they have doubtless been
transmitted to the South in great numbers,
we give this information to the wing presses
10 that quarter, that they may guard the
public against the imposition. We do this
lest the Union may not itself come forward
promptly with disavowal Of the fraud which.
we presume, has been practised on it by some
one possessing more zeal than honesty.
The handful here referred to we have seem
sent by the mail from Washington after Mr.. Camp
BELLS contradiction. AS was to be expected it was|
fraud Of too much value in the estimation of the
Democratic press and politicians, to be given up
What mistake, or misapprehcnson, or falsehood u
ever corrected by them7 TWAS stated in speech
delivered here month or two ago, that the Hon
Willie p. Mangum, of North Carolina, had said
that Gen Scott would not veto bill repeating the
Fugitive Slave Law 80 also IL is alleged withost
q particle Of eridsnes 10 support IL, that Addison
whitea Southern Scott Wing member Of Congress,
md Thadeus Stevens, of Pa, had made the same|
statement Two out ofthe four Of the authorities
hus cited by tho Democracy have been examined, |
md they stamp the statement as falss--Mr Camp
'el and Mr.. Mangum, The others, il Investigated,
would, of course, prove equally untrue,-:or i'll
rae, We should long since have had the facts pre-
ented by the Democratic papers
Such is the recklessness and desperation ofpar
lisans "once lie, always lie,n is the motto of
portion ofthe Democratic press Their reason