Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-26

love truth, worship at her Shrine aud shall FOL
low wherever she may lead II some dlstln-
euished individuals shall be made to assume
responsibility which they do not like it viii not
he INV fault but the fault Of truth, The charge
YOU made against me that was drnnknrd IS
false utterly false, false at MI times and in all
nIaces and / cannot but believe that you either
knew it to be so at the time you uttered it or
made the charge in reckless disregard of wheth-
er it was true or not.
The certificate below. is signed by the most
prominent citizens in my own town and IN Eas-
tern Ohio voluntarily rendered to me without
the slightest solicitation on my part Gentlemen
representing every party known in the country,
prompted By sense Of justice to an outraged
and wronged neighbor and citizen, places the
infamous stamp of falsehood on the charge when
in your reckless disregard to truth you were
nleased to make against me- Let me call your
attention to the names on this certificate First
stands the name of the Hon. WILLIAM KESNoS,
long member Of Congress from this district and
recently Judge of Supreme court Of Ohio, a man
known to you for ability, integrity and one OF
the leading democrats of the State. He has known
me from my childhood; Next Is the ZION.
JoHy Davenport, a leading member of our bar,
and the Fillmore candidate for Congress, man
of great integrity and high sense of honor;
Gen JAMES WEIR you know personally, former
~ a member of the legislature; c. G. CARROLL,
leading member of our bar, distinguished for
ability and integrity and candidate now mr. the
Judge of common pleas; DASIEL PEcE, also
leading member of our bar and the Fillmore
candidate for Supreme Judge of this State; JoHE
PATToS, an old merchant in this place, and long
a member of the legislature; r. E. GAROTHERs, q
preacher Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
aud seven years an associate Judge IN the COM
mon pleas court; The Hon. BESJANIS RuGGLEs,
long Judge of the court, and for eighteen years
| he represented the State of 0hioin the Senate
of the United States with distinguished honor to
/ himself and our State--a man whom you or
or any one would be proud to call friend;
1 WILLIAM KENYON, DR., formerly member of
! Congress from this district and now one of the
/ Senatorial electors for Buchanan; THOMAS II,
GENIS, the oldest member of our bar; WILLIAM
p. SIMPSON formerly II Senator ,rom this and
Monroe county; Hon. B. S. CowEN, formerly
member of Congress from this district, seven
years Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
place he filled with great integrity and ability,
! and now one of the leading members of the Re.
publican party in Eastern Ohio; Hon. r. j. AL
ExASDER, our present Judge Of the Common
| Pleas, a leading Democrat and agentleman uni
versally respected and esteemed; PETER TALL
MAN, also member of our bar and formerly
Wing representative in the legislature; o. j.
iSwASEY, also a member of our bar and friend
| to Fillmore.
/ have an abiding confidence in the justice of
tho people Give them the truth and sooner or
later they will do justice to public men. The
How demagoguc who seeks to climb into public
places of trust and honor by slandering every
one that by possibility may stand in his way,
may for the time, III the din of party strife, sue
ceed-but the triumph will be but momentary,
a Just public in due time will consign him to
that disgraceful obscurity which he merits.