The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-11-03

The chivalry and the negro-Democ-
racy, North, having started the false
hood that Mr.. Giddings was identified
with old Brown in his invasion of Vir-
GINA, he has taken the trouble to brand
the SANDER, though it was hardly nec-
essary, as the people would not believe
the men who make the charge upon
their oaths. The following is his let
ter:
"While coming to this city on Sat
urday, first read a telegraph dispatch
from Washington, saying "that John
Brown, (the prisoner captured at Har-
per's Ferry,) refused, in the presence
of Senator Mason and Messrs. Faulkner
and ValIandigham, to answer the ques-
ton. whether he had consulted Mr..
Giddings about his Virginia expedi-
tion" 80.
cit is evident that the object of these
gentlemen, was not to obtain the facts
on which to predicate charge of crime
or of any immoral or dishonerable act.
Had such been their object, they would
not have published what was not said /;
but they pl oclaim their suspicious, and
by such inuendoes and insinuations,
seek to impugn the character of one
who was not present.
81 do not feel called upon to reply
to such attempts to cast reproaches up
on myself. Isay to these questioners,
gentleman, I am your peer. | have
served my country as long, and / hope
as honestly, as either of you and you
know, and the country knows,
that any question you may pro-
pound to me touching the Gov
eminent, its past or present position,
will be frankly, promptly and fully an
swered, to the extent of my knowledge
and belief; and pronounce this at
tempt to assail me dishonorable, I'M
worthy of your positions, UNIV orthy of
honorable men.
But you must not expect to escape
the responsibility of your own conduct,
by thus assailing one who has for years
cautioned you of the results that must
follow the efforts Of yourselves and
party to extend slavery, and your de-
termined purpose to involve the people
of the free States in the disgrace and
crime of supporting an institution
which all honest and independent men
of those States repudiate. No man of
our nation has done more than one of
you to produce the results which have
recently attracted the attention Of the
people. They are the immediate and
unmistakable effects of the efforts Of
yourselves and party to establish slave
ry in Kansas. Murderers there were
rewarded by Executiev appointments
to Office. Browns sons were the VIC
Tins of that despotism, which your
party exerted in favor of an institution
which the people abhorred
"These facts do not rest on suspicion
nor on the refusal of victim to answer
any question. They rest upon the re-
cords and the history of the Govern
ment itself No evasion, no tergiver-
sation, can change the enduring truths
to which / refer. And you would bet
ter subserve the public good by exert
ing your influence and occupying your
time in correcting the evils you and
your party have brought upon the
country, than by vain efforts to involve
others in the crimes which you and
your associates have committed.
'To the public / will say, that Brocn
secer consulted me IN regard to has Pr
ginia expedition, or any other eapedi-
ton Of any matter schoterer.
j. X. GIDDINGS."
Girard House. Philadelphia, Oct. "a, 1852