Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-03-07

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commits about as many errors as coul
possibly be crowded into a column and
half Of that paper. Who ga Friend to th
Union" is We don't know, nor do we wan
TO know, but as be seems to think that re
spect should be paid to "eray hairs" "
suspect that he is some old Democrat o
the modern school One thing he seem
to have forgotten, and that is "gray hairs
should be respected when they cover
head full of virtue and truth. but whel
they shadow brain filed with errors snc
teeming with falsehoods. We opine bu, lit
tie, if any, respect Is due them.
We are impressed with the belief ths
ga Friend to the Union" is Sir Oracl,
on a very small sesle--s bar-room pUliti-
cian-a street corner brswler--sn egotisti
cal retailer Of Democratic falsehoods. On,
OF those kind of modern Democrats shC
seize hold Of falsehood with cOmmends
; ble zeal, and rolls it as q sweet morsel un
I der his tongue. Who, as a matter ofchoiee
would prefer giving currency to an error
rather than to the truth, for the one assimi
lstes so much closer to his nature than the
other. An individual who was never
known 10 stop aod enquire, 10 this true
but who, if hs can make capital for his
party, most shamelessiy circulstes the most
glaring fslseboods There is one thing
certainly true as regards "A Friend to the
Union"-he is 40 intense reader of the
Terre Haute Journal, and this accounts for
the many ridiculous blunders into which
he has fallen. He makes that sheet his po-
litical Bible, and hence his head is filled
with the most laughable falsehoods i'm
sginsble
Let US point out a few Of his errors OF
his falsehoods
lst BE charges that the Republicans OF
Sullivan county are "AbolitioRists." be.
cause. ss he says, their candidate for Gov
ernor, Col Lane, in speech at Crawfords.
vile, "denounced in the vilest terms the
Fugitive Slave Law as the great monster
of all villsinies, and the most stupendous
fraud"
We can not much censure this Friend
of the Union" for believing this falsehood,
for the Terre Haute Journal SO published
it. and then had not the honesty TO pub.
lish Col. Lanes card denying it, which ap-
peared in the Charlottesville Journal few
days after the change was made and for
the benefit of the Journals correspondent
we here insert that card
To the Editor Of the Charlottesville Journal:
DEAR SIR: In the short notice of nv
speech of Saturday, 4th, in your last num-
Der Of the Journal, an error (no doubt un
Intentionally occurs in reference to what |
am reported to have said upon the Fugitive
Slsvs Law. Ny statement upon that oc-
casion was thIs-that there were provis
ions in that law unnecessarily harsh and
oppressive, and for which / should not
have voted, had been in Congress when
the law was passed. Still, inasmueh as
the Supreme Court had decided the law to
be constitutional, its execution ought not
to be resisted that the proper remedy
would be, to elect men to Congress who
would amend the law so as to make it.
more in accordance with the enlightened
public sentiment of the age and character
of our institutions. I also stated that /
preferred the law Of 1893, aud thought il
equally effective and far less odious.
Yours truly, Il. s. LANE.
We know Of no Democratic editor 10 the
Stste-save he who conducts the T n. Jour-
nal-who published this charge against
Col. Lane, but afterwards published his
refutation over bis own signature-and no
truth-loying conductor of public journal
would have failed to have done so.
I'd. "a friend to the Union" says:
Their present candidate for Lieut.. Gov
ernor, participated in the Republican con
veBtion of Wayne county, in which was
adopted the following resolution, amsng
others of similar character, viz: That
we recommend Helpers book as an effici-
ent helper in the 0rsrthrop Of American sla
very"
This is very unfortunate assertion and
We only wonder at any one being 50 bold
as to make it. o. P. Morton, the Republi
can candidate for Lieut.. Governor, never
participated in Republican Convention
of Wayne county that recommended the
Helper bOok-no Republican Convention Of
Wayne county ever did recommend il, apd
the charge from which "A Friend OF the
Union" procured the above extract, ap
peared in the T. II. Journal about t.oo ,eeeks
before the Republicans Of Wayne county mel
in Convention at all And when that Con.
vsntion met il passed no such resolution
3D.. The Journals correspondent further
asks the following question:
Did not sixty eight Republican member:
+ of Congress endorse this same Helper
book, including Representatives from In
diana
We answer no; they never did any suct
thing. A number of Republican member:
of Congress did recommend compendium
of Helpers book, but the book itself the,
never did recommend. We have now th,
Compendium before us; it contains just fie'
hundred and fourteen pages. while Helper
Impending Crisis. is volume Of four hun
dred aud thirteen paoes-both are before NJ
while We write
4ih This correspondents Of the Journs
says further:
Bob Hudson agrees with Seward (tu
notorious AbolitioDist,) and says the
Helpers book is work of great merit"
We never said any such thing. and ~
Friend 10 the Union" asserts ths, which b
kHcws IL false. ~hen he makes the ssser
tion.
5th. TLis writer says further, that Hol
ace Greeley has said, that "John Brown
a martyr in the Republican cause"
We have never seen such an sssertio
from the pen Of Mr.. Greeley, and as &c.
Friend Of the Union" is such a reckles
falsefer, and has, as We have above showr
told so many glsripg falsehoods, We hav
: no hesitsncy in saying that NJ. Greele
never made any such an assertion
We have no doubt that this Sullivan col
! respondent, is regarded as quite an acqu
sition By the editor Of the Journal h
seems to possess in an eminent degree Ii
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