Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-11

THE JOURNAL.
The editor Of the Journal, this morning, in
publishing our article relative 70 the Torch
Light correspondent, takes occasion to read us
Rhomily "upon the furious spirit manifested
in our notice Of the correspondent For the
benefit Of the editor Of the Journal we viii
state that we consider ourselves competent to
decide both as to the manner and matter Of
replying to an attack When we are at loss
10 decide for ourselves and can find no one
better qualified to advise, we shall call upon
our neighbor When thus called upon il will
be time enough for him to advise When a
man, wilfully and knowingly, publishes what
is false against us--when he makes charges
which he knows to be untrue--under the cover
Of a correspondence, without the courage 10
sign his name, and thus attempts 20 shirk
the responsibility, we shall not be nice and
polite in our denunciation Of him Thus il
was in this case. The correspondent alluded
10 had charged that the present proprietors Of
the EMPIRE had been sent out by the Admin
istration--that Marshal SIFFoRD had stock in
the paper-that the Administration had favor
ed this office with editors and patronage
that two of the proprietors, in Dayton, were
receiving their pay regularly as Clerks at
Washington, &c. We denounced those charg.
es untrue, as they are. We denounced the
author of them a liar, as he proved himself by
making the charges. We did not and will
not, mince matters When a man proves
himself liar, we shah not hesitate to desig-
nate him as such, no matter even If he does
hold position, either socially or politically,
which would, under other circumstances, enti-
tie him to the respect of the community We
detest personal controversies between editors;
they are distasteful to the reader, and with
out benefit to those engaged in them We will
not seek them, and will not participate in
them, unless compelled in selfdefense Yet,
when such a contingency arises, we shall not
be backward in maintaining our rights, and
denouncing the calumnistors, in language
brief, and not to be misunderstood Nor will
we seek to shift the responsibility attaching to
our denunciation
The Journal says If the correspondent
succeeds in establishing as fact that one or
more of the proprietors of the EMPIRE hold
clerlships at Washington, he will prove what
most people will consider, to have been denied
in unqualified terms in" our article and that
this point made good by the correspondent
after it has been controverted by the Empire,
the most of his inferences will, under the cir
cumstances, legitimately follow To aid the
correspondent and our neighbor of the Jour
nal, we tell him that two Of those interested
in the publication Of the EMPIRE, are clerks in
Washington. We have never denied it, and
the editor of the Journal knows the fact We
informed him oft But we also informed him
that these gentlemen, although interested in
the paper, were in Washington City, and had
been faithfully performing their duties aud
keeping up their desks,-that having funds TO
invest, they concluded, being citizens of Ohio
and printers by profession, TO invest in the
printing business in this city. And here, let
us ask, what greater wrong is there in invest
ing in printing office, than in other proper
established and kept up by the Administration
Is this evidence that Col SIFFoRD has stock
in it? We claim not-nor are we apprehen-
sive that any one blessed with common sense,
will so assert And, according to the Jour
nal own showing, as the correspondent has
stated what was untrue in regard to Col SF
FORD, in regard TO the present proprietors
having been sent out by the Administration,
in regard to the patronage furnished the EN-
FIRE, in regard to two clerks being here
who ''receive their pay regularly from Wash
ton we say as he has stated what was false in
regard to all these things, as the editor of the
Journal knows, all "his differences will under
the circumstances by most people be con
sidered untrue. 1t is n poor rule which will
not work both ways, and We thank our neigh
Dor for acknowledging its soundness.