The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-10-14
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THE GAZETTE & CITIZEN.

An article in the last weeks Citizen panied
us very much. Not that we consider il cal
culated to do us any harm personally, noryet
injure the cause we advocate, but because of
the mistakes contained therein. Mistakes
that may be unintentional, yet we seriously
doubt it. The Editor says our comments OIL
"1he Inhlings of clopen: foot" are about as
fair and honorable as the remarks charging
Mr.. Findley with stealing Mr.. Cleaver's let
ter. AS we consider our remarks on the
former occasion perfectly fair and honorable
OF course the latter remarks are. But to the
proof. .,..f
The Editor has the unblushing efffontery
to say that Mr.. Findley neuer sa,o Mr.. Cleav.
er's letter until after he had written his own!
An assertion which requires no refutation.
He says, further, that he had no opportunity
of seeing the letter. This is mistake, he
had an opportunity, and we believe he en-
braced it, The following are the facts:
| Mr.. Cieaver's letter was handed to us for
publication by Mr., Cleaver himself on
Wednesday morning, Sept. 7th; it was "set
up" and we that afternoon laid it before the
Temperance Alliance at Loydsvile, thereby
: making it public. Our paper went to press
that same evening, or the next morning, no
matter which, with Mr.. Cleaver's letter in it.
On Friday morning, Sept. 9th, our paper was
mailed to Hunter Post Office, at which Office
we presume Mr. Fndley receives his mail
matter as it was there he mailed his letter.
We are of course Unable to trace the mean
derings of the paper, all we know after that
is that the return mail from the south brought
Mr.. Findley's letter. The editor may have
examined the "post Office record" we care
not, we saw the envelope bearing the post
mark "Hunter" and the date "Sept TO-" and
have seen it several times since. The letter
came on Saturday evening directed 10 VIM.
II. Clark, Sec'y of the Temperance Alliance.
Mr.. Clark has since informed us that he re-
ceved the letter from the office that same
evening, and it was sent to US the next day,
uhu gwen " 10 az Cuuudtu oCuUOl Oil tuc
llth by Mr.. Stevenson. All this we an SUBJ
stantiate beyond the cavi of doubt. Sever
al persons to whom we have shown the en-.
velope since remember perfectly that il was
dated Sept. TO-
The then senior Editor Of this paper says
he never told the Editor of the Ga,elte and
Citizen that he had taken the letter from the
office. This however, is private matter of
veracity between them, and we will not med
die therein.
Now, "let us suggest a little theory" in
regard to the date of Mr.. Findley's letter.
He probably feared that if he would prefix
the proper date to his letter, (Sept. 9th or
lOth) people would think he had copied it;
to obviate this difficulty we suppose he con-
cluded to date his letter back to the day i'm
mediately following the date of Mr.. Cleayer's
letter, but, our postal arrangements precIuded
the success of this subterfuge. We remark
ed the dssimilarity of the dates of the letter
and the envelope at the time to friend who
was present, and who remembers it perfectly.
The Editor accuses us of inconsistency in
asmuch as we hurrah COR the Maine Law, and
at the same time publish the communica-
tion of "Wisdom," advocating the claims of
Mr.. Danford. We regard Mr.. Danford as an
honest man-we have known him by reputa-
tion, since we knew any body, to be, not only
temperate man but temperance man, one in
every way qualified for the Office to which he
was nominated. No in inconsistency therefore
in that.
| How is it Mr.. Gressinger that we find such
strange incongruitiLs in your paper. On the
second page last week you published nearly
five columns of bllingsgate from Mr.. Heaney
against the Maine Law, and on the third page
we find the resolutions Of the Temperance
meeting at Hendrysburg! "Beautiful consis-
ency, truly"
When will the people learn that the policy
of the locofoco leaders is to falsify and mis-
represent on the eve of an election, and too
late for their practices to be exposed by ::the
opposition! 1t was the case last year, as our
readers well remember; they can here see
that it is SO this year; and judging of the
future by the past we say it always will be
SO in party whose sole bond of union 10
"the adhesive power of the public" Let our
readers bear these things in mind, and think,
OF them after the election is over, Learn
wisdom by the past and these things will in
years to come lose their force by the known
,Oorthiess character of those who promulgs
them. -
Mr.. Howard requests us to publish the fol-
lowing stat ment of facts in relation to this
matter, 80 far as he is concerned:-
Mr.. CowEs:--On the Monday after Mr..
Cleaver's letter was published, when come