Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-17

kindness" His election was preferred, under
certain circumstances. to an "old line Demo
crat" This is what Mr.. WILMoT expresses,
while CHASE garbles the letter to make him
express preference for CAMERON over the thir-
ty odd candidates named to the Convention
Yet the acute and legal mind Of Mr.. CHASE,
cannot d" see any difference in the point and SEN
timent,n and he -prociaims that his publication
is "a correct copy in all the essentials Of cor
rectness, viz: Su5st0ace, meaning and sense" Ii
AIr. CHASE can find single reader of common
Judgment to sustain him in such an uptenabe
position, or who Will accept such a lame apollo
gy for his dupiicitv and meanness, we are de-
ceived in the intelligence of the people of Sus-
quehanna A more pitiful attempt at petty
Jogging we never saw-eyaSive, contradictory,
and improbable We trust, in all sincerity,
that Mr. CHASE is able to satisfy his own con-
science-thou@h moral perception must be We
~ weak. that can be satisfied with such eycu-
Ses. The ostrich, We are told, when pursued,
buries its head in the sand and foolShly ina
gines that it is concealed from view 1t is so
with our cotemporary of the Democrat. He is
a lawyer and he would hardly insult the in
telligence Of a jury by asking them to render a
verdict for a client upon as weak defence as
he makes for himself
Mr.. CHASE takes no notice Of the alteration
Of the word disparagement to q diScouragement,"
because it serves him for half column of frothy
verbiage, in attempting to twist and torture the
expression to mean no word of discouragemaent'
at the election of CAMERON. He probably could
see "no difference in the sentiment and point"
of the words; though one referred to private
character, and the other is made to refer to
the election
While he can see no infamy in the alteration
of the letter, Mr. CHASE, evidently feels that
it is necessary to explain how he came in pos
session of the original. He blunders out lame
excuse in the following words:-- .. ~.
The first we heard of WILMors letter was after the Re
publican this place which regarded at Harrisburg
WILMoTs peculiar organ recently baptsed such, had
heard from some OF CAMERONs friends about this letter
from WILMoT Mr. LArHRoP also informed that he had
heard such letter in being Soon afterwards in
cdent occurred by which enabled get If in
possessionand honorably too. We read the letter to-
gether expressed our opinions upon it freely, and there
It ended.
Mr.. LATHRoP will not say that we read it to
him for the purpose of influencing his for CAMERON
and other person at Harrisburg will say that they
il in possession. Soon after this, Mr. WLMoTs
organ at Towanda assailed representing that
at Harrisburg for the purpose of aiding CAMERoNs cleo
n infrN sItc md
that procured through friend copy of the letter to
be used in sedefence against the wicked charges of Mr.
WILMoT and his friends Mr. NILMoT may therefore blame
his overzealous friends not his enemies for the pubca
tion OF the letter.
1t will be observed, that San incident" for
tunately occurs by which he was enabled to get
it in his possession" and honorably too p
Perfectly satisfactory to us, particularly after
the last declaration; though we fear that in
quisitiye people will have some curiosity to know
what that incident was.
Mr. CHASE admits that he had the original
letter in his possession; that he read it to Mr..
LArHRoP, and expressed his opinion freely upon
it; aud that afterwards for certain reasons he
he procured through a friend a copy In q
former quotation, he says, we published the
letter from what we believed to be true copy"
Now, it is somewhat singular that Mr.. CHASE,
(if he speaks truly should not have noticed
the omission of the words, "of the old line de-
mocraey." We venture to say, that of all the
men to whom the letter was shown, there was
not one who would not have detected such an
omission. Certain it is that when the garbled
letter made its appearance, the attempted I'M
position was instantly discovered by every one
who had seen or heard the letter read; and
Mr. LAPoRTE Immediately exposed the cheat
through the columns of the Herald, at Harris
burg. 1t is this plain and convincing evidence
which Mr.. CHASE attempts to shuttle off, by
claiming that his omission was not material to
the sentiment and point of the letter" He
knows better than this he understands per-
fectly well the state of popular sentiment in the
North, and that while under the state of par
ties of which Mr.. WILMor speaks, the election
OF SIMON CAMERON would be acquicsced" in
the people Of this section have been expecting
since the result Of the last election the selec-
ton Of sound friend of Freedom. Such an
one is not CAMERON, and hence CHAsr's anxiety
to make Mr. WILMor appear as if willing and
anxious now for his success :
In our charity for Mr. CHASE we had hoped
that he had never seen the original of the let
ter to Mr.. CAMERON. He might then have plead
in excuse that " he published what he believed
to be true copy" But by his own showing
he has had the letter in his possession-has
read it to Mr.. LArHRoF-expresscd "his opin-
ions freely about" He cannot plead that he
was SO indifferent to its meaning, that a garbled
and mutlated copy was imposed upon him.
His explanation has made the whole tronsoc-