Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-17
CHAsE's ATTEMPT AT EJACULATION.

Il is an inevitable and natural consequence
Of departure from the path of truth and recti-
tude, that the erring lind themselves speedily
fentaneled in an endless maze Of falsehood and
Implicitly. plungng deeper and deeper into the
abyss Of discrimination and deceit, until finally,
Eaiseh0od will answer 10 longer, and the wretch
becomes an object of contempt and scorn, crush
ed beneath a sense of guilt and infauy; or it
may be, If hardened and scared in evildoing,
| defiant Of the judgment and contumely OF
discerning and correctly Judging public.
Our quondam friend CHASE is experiencing
this truth, equally applicable in political as
we'll as a moral sense, as the last number of the
JIcatrose DemocrGt abundantiy testilies. Con-
yicted before the world, OF altering private
letter, changing its language and perverting its
meaning, he meets the charge by indulging in
TRADE of bllingsgate and invectiye, and in
! imputations the most gross, directed against
| the private and judicial character of Judge
| WuMor. Arraigned for the perpetration of
contemplate trick, inexcusable under any. cir
umStauces-cbarged with crime affecting his
! character as a man, and his reputation as an
editor, which it was in biz power to disprove,
! if false, and which blackens his name and fame
! if trRa; be neither produces the evidence Of bis
innocence, nor yet shows his contrition by plead
ing guilty, but launches out into a strain wOr-
I thy Of a fish-woman aud by yinference insinuates
against Judge WuMoT all the crimes in the
calendar, murder and treason hardly excepted
Now with Judge WnMor's private character,
we have not anything to do. The people Of
this district will, perhaps, be astonished to
! learn, that the man they have so often and so
uobly sustained, and whom they finally elevated
to the responsible position he now occupies, is
both gambler and drunkard. He is COM
petent to take such steps to vindicate his own
reputation as be thinks necessary, and would
not thank u.s. we are certain for volunteering
in his defence. Mr. CHASE, however, by his
own showing, has heavy reckoning to settle,
for having assisted to place upon the Bench a
Judge whose character is sullied by such grave
and infamous practices as he imputes to Judge
WILMor
With his Judicial career, we have this much
to do: We Go not believe that the election of
any man as Judge removes him from the peo-
pie, or divests him of the attributes and priv-
leges of a Freeman We desire to see the pro-
blem fully solved, and we believe it is in a fair
way Of solution, in the case of Judge WILMor
We have no intention now to discuss the mat
ter; but we cannot refrain from saying, that
the very bitterness with which Judge W1LMor
has been assailed by CHASE aud other members
Of the bar, is sufficient evidence, that they have
no fears of disturbing the even tenor of the
Judges impartiality by their warfare and that
their professions Of fear that his political pre-
judices may sway him, are at once stamped as
hypocritical and false, by their own conduct
If there be the slightest swerying from the
strictest line of impartiality, forgetting thath
man nature is weak, and Judgment liable to er-
ror, publish his shortcomings to the world
Specify the offence, and produce the proof
But until that is done, we protest against these
vague fears, these undefnable apprehensons
We have all of u.s. enough of errors both of
commission and omission, to answer for, without
being held responsible for underlined crimes and
errors which exist ouly in the imaginatons OF
those who would be rejoiced to see us stumble
and fall. There are jealous eyes watching eve
~ step of Judge WILMo1's judicial career, and
we assure the public that they will have timely
and ample notice of any error or partiality he
may be guilty OF upon the Bench.
The charge against Mr.. CHASE was plain
one. 1t was an offence which if not disproyed,
was calculated to do his reputation great iniu-
ry. To every rght-minded man, the wilful al
tering Of the contents of letter to misrepre-
sent the views of the author, is but little short
of positive forgery. The alteration of letter
from Judge WILMor to SIMON CAMERON is the |
charge against Mr.. CHASE How does he meet
it We will give his own language, to show
how obtuse the moral perception of the man
is -
We published the letter from what we believed to be
correct copy We have not the original and there
fore cannot compare them but entirely willing to
take Mr. W1LMoTs word that the original does read as he
claims for we cannot that his version makes any diff
ference In the sentiment and point Of the letter. The ver
sion which published made him say that preferred
Cameron over ali his rivals naming them Buchanan Daw
son. &c. &c, and those rivals named everybody knows
% belong to the old line Democracy he terms them
We therefore difference in the version as pub
lished and the version which he gives himself nor have
we found impartial mind that discover the differ
ence. = We published what we had no reason |
to believe not true copy of the letter and what his
correction shows to have been correct copy in all
the essentials of correctness viz substance meaning and
1t s possible that among the several copies taken
word or two might have been passed
and not discovered for the that it did not mar
the sease.-
For cool impudence and for unblushing effron-
terry, these extracts bear off the palm Does |
Mr.. CHASE consider his readers so dnll Of an. |