The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-04
CENTREvILLE, IND, Aug. 25, 1855.

CENTREFILLE, IND, Aug. 70, 1000.
To the Editor of the National Era:
Mr.. Vale pretends to give the
facts as to his purchase of his "job office"
The real facts, well known in this State, and
to none better than himself, are these: Early
in the last autumn, he united with four gentle.
men in the purchase of the Indiana State Jour-
nal establishment. Up to this time, the Journal
had been the central organ of the Wings Of the
State, and its Anti-Slavery character remained
unchanged in its new hands. 1t did not ecen
profess any change in this particular, although
it advocated the Anti Nebraska movement. Mr..
Ludgrove edited the Journal, and Mr.. Vale
edited the Free Democrat, both papefs being
printed in the same establishment. 1t was
known that Mr.. Vale had purchased 81 inter
est in the Journal establishment, as hs had
right to d. especially if he could thus srint his
paper cheaper than on his own presa. No
body, that l am aware of, ever blamed dim on
this score. Owing to this union, in business
point of view, rumor was soon started that
the two papers were to be merged, and the
Free Democrat discontinued. This Mr.. Vale
promptly and positively denied to his friends,
and publicly denied through his paper at the
same time. He denied it again in the last
number of his paper but one that was ever is
sued, by promising his readers to enlarge it
for the new year six columns, and calling on
them in the customary editorial style to exert
themselves in its behalf But IN the gerry merit
and last issue he announced the tran$ter Of his
subscription list to the Journal, rhich lad nec-
er been, and did not then pretend TO ds5 the er
ponent Of the principles Of the Free Amocra
These are the facts, we'll known to NJ. Vale,
and capable of proof by hundreds of F, &c Dem
ocrats, "a considerable number" of whom, he
coolly says, he consulted before he embarked
in his novel experiment!
A word more. Mr.. Vale charges me with
incorporating into my speech, as reported for
the press, a sentence which was not actually
spoken. This is quite possible. apprehend,
however, that nobody, except my Know Moth
ing assailant, would think it either very re-
markable or very criminal, that, in writing out
a speech which occupied nearly two hours in
the delivery, l should insert single sentence,
or even a half dozen sentences, that had not
been uttered, giving additional force Or finish
to the argument; or that l should SUPPRESS the
same amount of matter which l might con-
clude, on reflection, would impair =. That
speeches are not always printed precisely as
delivered, is personally known to NE. Vale |;
for, in inserting the late speech OF Judge Ste
vens in the Journal, he prevailed oa him to
suppress that portion of it which spoke in no
very complimentary terms of his SUMMARY dis
continuance of the Free Democrat, and trans
fer of its subscribers, without consulting his
friends. \
But Mr.. Vale insinuates that did not dare
to assail him in his presence The modest
valor of my antagonist, and his conscientious
ness likewise, are here quite noteworthy, when
it is remembered that my charges against him,
still outstanding, have been publicly made
through the press of the State; that ! proved
them upon him in an article published in the
Liberty Herald of March I'd, which he has new
er yet seen proper to notice, either in my pres
ence or elsewhere; and that in his presence, in
the very Convention that listened to ny speech,
stated, while deprecating the controversy that
occurred between Judge Stevens and himself,
that l reaffirmed all that had ever said of his