Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-06-01

of the Falls" and If any thing has
gone wrong the past two weeks oul
readers know what to attribute it.
We had very pleasant trip from this
to Cincinnati, on the steamer Virginia
nothing having turned up to mar our
enjoyment. We reached the city in
the morning and passed our time in
witnessing the "sights and shows
which are always to be seen there, until
seven O'Clock in the evening. when we
embarked on the LighNiAgL Line Packet
David White, for Louisville. The
White was literally crowded with pas
sengers, principally business men, who
sze enabled to transact their business in
one city and by taking the Lightning
Line can reach the other before bust
ness hours commence the next day, thus
losing no time between the two cities,
as the distance is made with ease during
the night by these boats, the David
White and Alvin Adams.
We arrived in Louisville Sunday
morning, where we remained several
days, during which time we had an op-
portunity of ascertaining the sentiments
of the people in regard to the late dis
graceful proceedings in the Ward case,
and we venture the assertion that there
is not a right-thinking, intelligent man
in that city bat deprecates the mob in
the strongest terms, and endorses the
course of Geo. D. Prentice and John j..
Crittenden. A reaction has taken
place in favor of these gentlemen, which,
in the end, will raise them far above the
eminence from which they were at
tempted to be thrown. Great injustice
has been done these honorable and high
minded citizens, and the treatment is
unjust and unlike the true spirit and dis
position of true Kentuekians. The mo-
lives Of the gentlemen were -pure-one
for testifying to the former standing of
Ward, and the other for appearing as
his counsel, have been denounced in the
bitterest terms by men of little judg-
ment-but the end is not yet, the tables
are being turned, and before many days
Geo. D. Prentice and John j. Critten-
den will stand vindicated and justified
in the eyes of every right-thinking,
honorable man in the country. In con-
nection with this we take occasion to
copy portion of an article from the
Louisville Journal, in which Mr.. Prem
tice vindicates his own conduct
Throughout this whole matter he has
been firm as the rock of Gibraltar, and
must be admired by every one for the
moral courage he has shown and the
manly stand he has taken, in standing
by bis friends in the hour of need.-He
says:
WHAT WE WISH OUR TRENDS TO READ.-1nas-
much as our course in the Ward case has ex-
posed us to the most unparalleled and unre-
hitting prosecutions that ever were visited
upon any editor in Kentucky, we have Con-
cfuded 10 make one more statement as to what
that course has been, in the hope that mems
eyes are not utterly blind and mems ears are
not utterly deaf to all the considerations of
truth, and Justice, and right
elf we allude TO the relations that have long
existed between us and Mr.. Robert J. Ward
and family, let the reader distinctly under
stand that we are not doing this by way of
apologizing for the course we have taken in
regard to the terrible affair that has so power
fully agiiaied the public mind The course
we have taken has been strictly right, and
what is right needs no apology, and from us
shall have none. ANY rumor that we are or
ever were under pecuniary obligations to Mr..
Robert J. Ward is false and we could wish,
for the honor of human nature, that all rumors
Of similar character in relation TO one Of the
bitterest and most relen less Of the pursuers
of Mr. W and his family ware equally false
We have lived for years in the interchange of
kindnesses with Mr.. Ward and his wife and
children, and have uniformly regarded him as
the man who would be most likely to stand by
us in any or all the exigencies of fortune
Five or six months ago our Office was burned
down, and our loss was q heavy one for US
Within two hours after the disaster, we re-
ceived letter from Robert j. Ward, condoling
with Us most earnestly, and placing whatever
sum of money we might need at cIr disposal,
assuring us that we should lay him under
deep obligation by accepting it, and specify
ing as the only condition, that, if we did him
1he favor to acceptit the matter must forever
remain a secret between him and us. We
could not take the money, but the whole tone
of Mr.. WIS letter and the generosity of his of
fer affected us even to tears. Only two or
three days afterwards, we called at his house
and found hin in tears, utterly bowed and
crushed with grief on account of his sons
having killed Mr.. W. b. G. Butler. There are
beings calling themselves men, who can pre-
tend that it was our duty, under such circum-
stances, to hasten back to our Office and pro-
claim through our columns that his son was
guilty Of horrible murder and invoke public
wrath and indignation upon the crime and its
perpetrator. If we had been capable of such
afhing. we should have deserved to be driven
forth from among ourkind, wanderer and an
exile in the desert or the wilderness 1t could
no fnorebe our duty, thus situated, to denounce
Matt. F. Ward as guilty of murder than il
would have been had we borne to him the reia-
ton of father. There are other ties than
those Of blood which all good men recognize;
there are other relations than those of kindred
which are held sacred by every heart that is
anything more than mere muscle"
In regard to Hon. -JoHE ]. CR1TTES-