Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-19

We have rarely seen a more malicious and
repreheusblc style Of attack than that which
soma Of The Democratic organs are making up
on Hon. Wv v GHoLsoN, The Republican
nominee for Judge of the Supreme Court The
elevated character and personal popularity Of
Judge GuoLsoN, his eminent talents as jurist,
and his universally conceded fitness for the
place for which, by no act Of his own but in
spite Of his expressed wishes, he has been
made a candidate, should have at least secured
him decent and manly treatment from his op-
ponents From the better portion Of the De
mocracy, such has been the case A few nous
ing demagugues, on the other hand, rashly eager
to assail so conspicuous a tower.oi-strength on
the Opposition side, early commenced trying
| to blackcn Judge Gholson's reputation, because,
forsooth. having been born in a Slave State,a
passed portion Of his life in Mississippi he at
one time, as they alleged, actually held slaves
And finding that no one denied this grave I'M
putaton they went a little farther, and assert
ed that the Judge had not only owned slaves,
hut insinuated a suspicion that he bad, some
time or other, sold some of them. At length,
they boldly declared that on leaving Mississippi
for this State fifteen or twenty years ago, he
drought all his slaves to the auction block and
sold them 10 the highest bidder And at one
and all these stages of their assault no words
were violent enough to express their pretend
ed adherence of such enormities.
Now, the people of Ohio, as these malicious
! spies and scavengers in due time will learn, are
not going to trouble themselves about the ear
| ly anteccdents of a man, born in a Slave state,
and no, according to the worst that maignity
has alleged against him, has only done as slave
holders by inheritance and education arc won't
to do, when everybody knows that, for fifteen
years OF more, he has been one OF the most
| highly respected citizens Of this Free state,
coming here from preference of our institutions,
and conscioutiousy aud consistently support
ing free principles Let these demagogues do
their worst They will only help to swell the
atmaiority by which Judge Ghoson would
! in any event have been elected This sort OF
dirty work always recolls upon the party that
/ resorts to It or gives il cOuntenance.
The last number Of the Statesman publishes
the grand result of these mousing operate MS,
go far as they have been directed to the finding
| of proof to substantiate what has been charged
to the account of Judge Ghoson, as twenty
years ago a stakeholder. This appears in the
form of a letter, bearing the signature OF GER
tain Mr.. Rootes "a misprlnt for RooterO Who
! processes to have known Judge Gholson in
Mississippi and also his private busir---s,.-
| Whether this Booter (or Rootcs) ostcis'oIy
hailing from Pontotoc, Miss, is live man or
| a myth, we cannot say. The letter has very
much the appearance of having been written
BY rabid partizan, in the latitude of Central
or Northern Ohio. The writer, however, tails
to confirm the "auction block story, Will:
evincinga malignant purpose to represent the
case in the worst possible light, and It the
! Democratic organs accept this Rooter letter as
! that of their own witness, they are compelled
to admit that, for weeks past, they have been
circulating an entirely gratuitous and ground
less ialsehood. Here is the OILY pertmont por-
ton Of this precious document:
81 know, Of my own knowledge, that Judge
! Gholson, in your State, did own slaves while
he was a citizen of this site, and that he did
sell them before leaving this State for Ohio
Judge G lived in this town during the whole OF
! his citizenship in this State; therefore, ! am
| enabled to speak positively in regard to his
having owned slaves, and of his having sold
them Just before leaving Mississippi for Ohio
Some Of the slaves, if not all Of them, which
he sold, are still in this country, and doubt
not the purchasers Of them have Judge GhOl-
sous bills of sale OF this, however | am not
certain, as ! have not had an opportunity TO see
any of them since the receipt of your letter ]
will, in the course of few days, furnish you
with such information, in regard to the NATTER
as not even GiddiagS lCW dare to question ~
Whether this last sentence was nIerpolated,
or whether this Rooter is fictitious parsonage
and the letter sham Throughout, or whether
he is a real and veritable blackguard, the reader
can Judge for himself Whether all that this
letter states he true or false, is not, as our
Democratic ncighbor, the Enquirer, has already
said, of the slightest consequence to the free
men Of Ohio. Yet the malignant denuuclatlon
and vIlitcation based upon the assumption Of
lis truth, l1W be egarded as OF some import.
ance by the Independent frcemen, as these in
termeddiug calul niators will find, to the cost
Of their own party, Judge Gholson is not
man of such character as to render it prudent
for these petty dabbers in politics to attempt to
pull him down from his present exalted stand
ing, by this sort of detraction. On partzan
grounds, we can wish nothing better than its
continuance. If Mr. Rooter can turn up any
further information OF this kind" let him, by
all means, make diligent use of his nasal
organ.