Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-01-13
Very respectfully, your friend,
s. A. DOI-GIAS
Fl. G. CROTCH, Esq, Galena, III.
GEN. JONES LETTER IN REPLY TO THE
FOREGOING.

HoN. S. A. DorCLAs, Chicago, lll.--!Sir:
Herewith is inclosed your letter dated
August I, 1858, to H. g. Crouch, editor
of the Galena, Ill. Courier, cut from that
paper Of the End inst, with an editorial
accompanying the same, headed "A Base
Cdiumny.' ! will not eondescend to no
.ice the scurrlous editorial, eredicated up
on the many ,eilltut misrepresentation of
your letter, p.eferring to deal with you, as
more responsible than your instrument
say"wis!fA interpretations" because
you say You "have distinct recollection
OF the facts in the case" aud because the
journals and debates Of the Senate prove
your statements to be wholly destitute OF
truth, so far as you refer to my colleague,
Gen. A. c. Dodge,) myself and our
friends as having ever expressed or enter
taiaed the idea, as you say, Of defeating
the bill unless the road was extended 10
Dubuque" though we surely had as much
right TO amend it as our southern friends
OF kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama had
to suggest and require, as think they
did, that you should make the road extend
to Mobile, through those three States.
You knew well that neither you nor
your colleague, Gen. Shields, ever had
such consultation, either between your
selves or your colleagues of the House,
before offered my amend ment to make
the road terminate at this place, instead
of at Galena. You moreover knew equal
y we'll, that when ! approached you near
the close Of the debate in the Senate on
the bill with my amendment, and asked
you whether you had any objections to my
offering it, stating AS | did that it was
merely to extend your road to Dubuque,
IL or Is miles further west. that you not
only freely assented thereto, but hanked
me for the suggestion, and that | imme
diatels thereafter, il your presence and
hearing, obtained the consent Of your col
leagues to the same effect. THAT then
offered it and it was passed. with
out dissenting voice or vote from any
quarter whatever, as the records show.
You must also recollect that within
twenty four hours after the passage of the
bill through the Senate, | informed you
that had had conversation with Col
Baker, the then representative from Gale
ma in Congress, and that he declared to
me that he would not let the bill pass the
House without having my amendment
stricken from it, and that you then said
tina. YOU cared not what Baker wished
that it WAS right the road should termi-
nate on the Mississippi, and 50 connect
with our proposed railroad, and that you
would SO state to your colleagues, Col.
Richardson, Maj. Harris, and others OF
the House, who would take charge Of the
bill, and would prevent Baker from max
ing any such amendment in that body.
The assertion on your part that ! or my
colleague, or any one OF our friends. had
determined to dctcat your bill upon the
ground stated by YOU, or for any other rea
son whatever, is false, and is publication
bcisg deferred until the day OF the lat
cleo t0n Ia Illinois, too late to DO contra
dicied BIZ myself or other, aIcws that yea
and he tyour Galena organ who acted Tor
you. designed to misl,sd the Galens peo
pie, nnd thus accomplish your selfish pnr
pose. The journals aud the debates Of
the Senate show that Glen. Dodge aud /
heartily co operated with you and your
colleague In every effort and every vote
which WAS given on that question, For
many considerations We could nv. but be