Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-09-30

OF their veracity so far as to impel them to
acts and assertions like this, it is easy en-
ough to understand how and why | was
( mlsrepresented by a reporter of the Con-
yenton, whose motives for doing so were
just as strong as those which actuate nv
political opponents now" Without the
manly courge to assail the reporter out
right, and pronounce his report to be false,
he first takes the pains to state that he
was Wing, and then prates about his
having the same motives to misrepresent
him as Wings now have. 1t matters not
to us what were the politics of that repor-
ter. He was an officer of the Conven-
ton, duly chosen, and acting under the
responsibility as such official incumbent
To suppose that Judge Woodward would
have permitted himself to be thus misrep-
resented without bringing the matter be-
fore the Convention, and having the de-
linquent officer dismissed, would require
a greater amount of credulity than we
possess. But we are, fortunately for the
vindication of truth, left to no such un-
certain surmises or differences. Mr. John
Agg was the stenographer to the Conven-
ton, and was assisted by Messrs. McKin-.
ley, Drake, Kingman, and Wheeler.--
We know not what were Mr.. Agg's poll
tics, but we do know that three of the as
siStants, and probably the fourth, were
and still are Locofocos. Mr. Mckinley
is the present editor of the Democratic
/ Union, PUBLISHED at Harrisburg, Mr. Drake
is a legislative reporter, and known to
many of our public men as a Locofoco,
Mr.. Kingman is, We believe, now the
I Washington correspondent of the New
York EUenlng Post, an out an out Loco
foco. Mr.. Wheeler is also a congression-
al reporter, but we do not hnow his poll
tics. With such corps of reporters to
compare notes, and revise their reports,
most of whom, if not all, of the same par
ty to which the Judge belongs, the idea
of him being misreported, designedly or
otherwise, is too improbable to be enter
tanned by any impartial and fair minded
men for a single moment.
/ Deny it as Judge Woodward may, ex-
plain it away as he may attempt to do,
there are other evidences to which we
shall now refer, which shows that ne was
in earnest when he offered the resolution
and that he had no such purposes in view
as he stated when Mr.. Earle referred to
it some months thereafter, and as he now
alleges he had. To show that his object
was not, as he now says, to limit Mr..
Thomas motion. or to make the Wings
come to me mark, we need but refer to
the 9TH volume of debates, page 445.--
/ 1t will be there seen that the Chair ruled
Judge Woodward's amendment out of
order, and stated that it could only be
introduced by moving to strike out Mr..
Thomas amendment, and adding his,
Judge Woodward's, to the original reso-
luton. Had Judge Woodward been op
posed to Mr. Thomas proposition as he
now states, he would have thereupon
moved to strike out Mr.. Thomas motion
and add his own. Did he do So Not he.
His reply to the Chair was that CHS i'm
preston was he could substitute his own
proposition as an amendment" to the one
offered by Mr.. Thomas. In plain Eng
lish. be was in favor of Mr.. Thomas a.
mendment, and would not move to strike
it out SO as to enable him to offer his
, All he wanted was to add his own to Mr..
Thomas, and then the resolution would
have exactly suited him. "Mr. Thomas
then said'-we quote from the Journal
of the Debates-"that with view to en-
able the gentleman from Luzerne MIR.
Woodward) to bring forward his propo-
sition, and to take away all obstruction to
its Immediate consideration, he Mr..
Thomas) would withdraw his own amend
mcnt.n The amendment of j udge Wood
ward then came up, not as he now states,
to limit Mr. Thomas motion, but as an
independent proposition Of his own. Mr..
Cox. a Whig member, from Somerset
county, then took the floor, and denoun-
ced the proposition in strong terms, CON
Guiding with expressing hope that 1t
would be voted down by decided ma
iority. Thercupon Judge Woodward
made his speech, from which We have al
ready given several extracts; but we will
now add few to show that he made the
proposition in ernest, and not for the pur-
nose which he now alleges. These ex-
tracts are as follows, and may be found
in vol. 5, pages AS, as, AZ, 4S, OF the
Debates of the Convention:
MIR. Woodward said that he had not ante
ipated this morning that an opportnnitywould
be presented to linn to Introduce this subject
TO the notice of the convention; he was not,
therefore prepared at this time to say more
than few words; although, 1t ,oaS SUBJECT
phich had been on his mind for some time
past. and had claimed his secious considsra-
ton,
haze long fen desire, said MIR. w. that
something should be done IN relation to 1t,
that the facts should he investigated, and
that some proper and Efficient measures should
be adopted, il, upnn that investigation IT
should turn out that measures OF some Kind
were rP0uiSIte.