Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-21
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~ TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR
~ 5IR Il called at your office this morning.
as YOU are aware, and not having a personal ac,
qunlntance with you, introduced myself to you, and
called your attention TO an editorial article in the
.ffsertedn Organ" of yesterday, the 18th instant
uncer the caption of OFiceholders in the Field .
and told you that | had no doubt at all that was
me hrst named clerk" referred to in that article,
as nave been recently on visit Of few DAYS TO
Jefferson county, Virginia, whittier had accom-
panied my wife and two little daughters whom
left there, and who intend spending the summer
with nay wife'5 mother and only brother Al their
residence in that county; and that, 10 nv certain
knowledge, no other "Sl 800 clerk of the Pension
Office" had been in that region recently Gf .yeil
except myself. Upon this representation TO YOU,
asked you If you would be kind enough 10 allow me
the use of your columns to make brief Statement
OF the facts and the truth, as reply 10 the unnro
voked, ungentlemanly, and indecent attack OF the
editor OF the Orgau'' upon me, to which you re-
piled in the Affirmative
In The early part Of this month, communicated
the fact to the Hon. L. P. Waldo, the Commissioner
OF Pensions, in whose Office am a clerk thar de-
red to accompany my family to Virginia, who were
going there to spend the summer, and asked leave
OF absence for few days to enable NE to 90 with
them, at such time as | could make nv arrange
ments to leave Washington Having fixed my ar
rangements to leave on Saturday morning the lotb
instant, communicated the fact to MI. Waldo
and told him, If no unforeseen accident occurred m
prevent me, that would return home on Tuesday
or Wednesday the 10th instant at the farthest. as
for two or three days, and to make some necassary
ARA ngements for them incident 10 So long an All
sence from Washington. On nv Journey To Viz
gina one or my children was taken very sick in the
cars and renamed quite PROSTATE after we reached
hlE e, and was confined to her bed till "Wednesday
morning, and was just sufficiently recovered IN
Thursday morning. the 18th instant. for me To leave
her safely and satisfactorily, and return to Wash
ingt) to attend to my business. did return on
that day, and reported myself to the Hon. Commits
mis- Toner of Pensions on Friday mornne-neverf for
a moment dreaming that the eve of the cowa,dJv
spy had been resting upon the absence from the 40
OF Government of so humble an individual as nv
self, or that man who had been once hoDored bv
generous Virginia people with seat i'm the Senate
OF their State-who had presided rs a Judge in
Court OF Justice--apd who had been aoain bonorod
by Virginia President of the United States with
foreign msslon-would have let himself down so
loy az TO become the retailer of such
as his article contains, and the publisher of will
ful, deliberate, and malicious lie, az uneouyocav
and emphatlcally pronounce the charge contained
In that article to be, to wit:-that / was in the
county of Jefferson, Virginia, "bssy in instr,ctin0
Ms yeomdnry and mechanics Of that region hov to
cast their votes % ="
II so happens that have a very limited personal
| acquaintance with ''the yeomanry and mechanics,,
OF Jefferson county, Virginia. can with entire
safety say that L could not this tay 90 there and
take one hundred OF them by the hand and coll
theni ny their names, and claim personal aeouaint
ance with them. During the four DAYS thai I WAS
In the county DID not converse with ten men on
half of them were my family connexions. who nov
how TO cast their own votes, and whom, regret tn
say, will cast them in a very different direction from
wnat would cast NINE were there on the day of
the eiecuon. was not absent from nv family more
than Few hours during my stay in Jefferson. and
then went in company with highly respactabIe
and elderly genuenan-a near relative of nv wife .
and who Is q member of the "Know Nothinu,,
party, to CbarlestowD the county seat of Iepr.on
where we both went upon private business and re-
| NAMED short time, and again ACCOMPANIED each
o.ntt 70 sae COUNTY, and, differing as we do, pot
able asperslOns cast upon me and nv conduct AZ
cordially as do myself
Had | gone TO Virginia on a political mission. 7
| should not have stopped in Jefferson county, where
| l know very few persons, but would have zone tn
my native county of Berkeley, to Morgan. SC.
(where know almost everybody whose humble
representative nave been in the Councils of my
native state But never had the vanity TO ASPIRE
10 be an Instructor TO the people how to vote Vir
gina politicians "to the manor born are not ouite
40 presumptuous as that-perhaps those Imported
such work
The editor of the " Organ, says that we The,
learns from Jefferson, Virginia, that one of the
SloOO clerks OF the Pension Office is busy in in
| structing the yeomanry and mechanics of that re-
gion how TO cast their votes 30 and adds this
| Is ht service for such a man, whose Candidates
Wise and Faulkner, have been on both sides of
every question:" &c. &c. Now / care not who
| he gained his information from, fbut I firmly no
lieve that his information was not obtained nom
jefferson county, but from a certain cowardly
striker OF responsibility in this city, the name
OF the editor, as set forth il the paper, is Yes
pasian Ellis, and he has chosen to make an unpro
| roked asssult-editorially-a me, and has as
serted Of me what pronounce Sslibera e lie, and
he must make the most or il. II he has been i'm
posed upon fTcn Jefferson Virginia. - or in this
city, that is matter for settlement between him
and his iniormants, and no affair of mine He has
chosen to maiIgn and asperse me uithout cause or
prouocdfion, and be the responsibility unon his own
head. IL he feels himself agsrieved at anything
have said he will find me ready to give him any
satisfaction that he may DESIRE
As to my former political relations that il m own
business. IL i was once Whip and chose no leave
my party associations and make others, / had a
right In this free country 10 do So NV public acts
Meaning our advertising columns. as In tbis
case The star's advertising columns oniy are open
TO the personal matters of Individuals and are as