Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-09-22
For the Free Press.
REPLY.
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hccA see tcufftiou3 aflicle hlicl ~
sigued BY 3. R. EoKLEr, and 10 which
seyeral isAocent persons are implicated.
50 Tar s ! am concerned, myself I
would say nothing, except that modern
philosopher has said that insults are like
counterfeit money, we cannot prevent them
from being offered but are not bound to
accept them. And with the poet I would
eVelaim,
What means the rash and needless eharioteer,
Down the steep rocks to urge bis mad career,
Sees be not round him various dangers grow,
High Gus above and yaWning deeps be,Ow
YET down the drtafy, dreadful path he hies
hadly meets ruin; and Gesparing dies.
But when theIe is an attempt to lRrnish
the well earned reputation Of honorable
gentlemen--chaiges made upon them and
| am the only person wh0 knows whether
the charges be true or false, feel bound
to hurl them back with irdignation in the
face of the author-E. R. Eckley.
In relation to Messrs. Trip and Craine ]
did not see either Of those gentlemen from
the time the Republican Convention ad-
journed till after the Figley's Mills article
was sent to the Press, neither did receive
any commucaIion either written or oral
from either Of them, and as 10 Mr.. Wey-
and, be is gentleman with whom l had
not the most distant acquaintance until |
called at the Office for the purpose Ofehang-
ing the reading Of one sentence. II was the
Last On the paper, it was in the shape Of a
charge, but after some reflection l conclud.
ed 70 ask the General the question, giving
him the advantage Of denying il instead Of
requiring me to prove 1t. Upon this occa.
sion Mr.. Baxter introduced me to Mr..
Weyand. To the correctness Of the above
statement | am willing to appear in any
court and make oath. But the General
does not rest here. He charges upon the
journal in which said article made its ap
pearanoe. He saws envy not the Journal
that can bs used ID distract -vhom? Not
my country! No-lny party? no,--any set
Of Christians or Philanthropists? o,-none
of these--but TO distract its friends aud
patrons and censure the motives Of those
il ought 10 cherish.
Republicans read with care the above
from the pen Of our would be Statesman.
Here is an advocate for muzzlDg the press,
more corrupt than Napolsan and quite as
corrupt as the administration of James
Buchanan, who by this method Of bribing
the press by patronage is sustaining one Of
the most corrupt administrations on earth
and extending the most bighting curse
through the length and breadth of our be,
loved land. This doctrine would make
the press 10 wink at and sanction every
corrupt design and action of its patrons in.
cluding all manner ofVice and crime. The
editors very we'll knew that if the charges
| In the Figley's Mills article were false the
General was the last man to lie under them.
They also knew that the General had every
possible advantage Of the humble subscri.
Der of the article.
Had they been false he had hundreds
of spectators TO testify. He could have
brought from under the hand of thirteen
ofthe Carroll deleg proof to brand me
with base, black slanderous falsehoods.
Gen. Eckley knew that the jorrnrl was
at his service, and common usage invited
him to the onset. l'ut the General knew
, that il was true, / had written II as in the
presence Of God.
\, But what has tie General done, he haa
written an answer ia reply, which would
almost provoke smile, but when we re-
member that this comes from the pen Of a
would be Statesman, how humiiating 1t
appears, and my own opinion is that the
General had no idea when he penned that
article that Mr.. Weyand d Baxter would
ever publish ii. And whata doleful figule
It cuts in the Free Press. This article
which no doubt was written for the Carr.
oil Democrat and would have graeed thai
paper. there 1t would have had kindred
spirits, there you would not so readily have
noticed its want OF manly courage, It's low
vulgar blackguardism, there you might
see the same doctrine of bribing the press
by patronage or If not you might see the
effect Of this doctrine (the Deputy Mar
shalship for instance. But when it ap-
pears in journal which advocates a differ
ent doctnne--whieh is conducted on high
honorable principles; and whether the ar.
ticle be Of literary or political nature
they are addessed to the judgement, sense
Of justice, OF the higher feelings Of mau
are touched 10 telling strains.
| How vulgar and defoFmed then must
it appear in the Free Press, tuCh expires.
sions cmenating from the pen ofa states
man as--rickety--debauc --mother Of
abortion--maggots' and worms, these ap-
peals to the low passions Of our nature,
what do they provol Nothing but that
there author is blackguard. go
/ verify believe that Gen. Eckley did
say that lie would blow the Republican
party to hell. He is most asuredly tryi q
to destroy it. v
| He made use Of every stratagem to bolt
the Republican convention, He forced a
set Of resolutions upon il TO affect heTeaf,
ter the champion Of our cause; and now
lprdes himself on their being introduced
and voted for by the Carroll delegation,
He thel consulted the Democratic party,
and sdsises them whom to take up for
Commissioner, to defeat Mr.. Wier. And
whyi Was MIR Wier too immoral to suit
the GeneralH was he loo profane or too
irreligiossl Neither Of these can be the
cause, for Mr. Wier is an elder in the
Presbyterian church. Was he then an
enelnyl mol ho was an old and special