Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-10-03
p. 8. Noon ESQ

Il appears from the
Mountaineer of the Goth ult, that in your
| speech at Carrolltown on the 22d September,
you said that the Tribune" and ..Ailegha-
nian" expected to receive aid from me- Now
what reason those papers have to expect aid
from me would be hard to show. do not
read them. | occasionally read the Noun
taineer" published over the name of Mr.. Lloyd
! and find that the perusal of one Know Nothing
paper is enough.
You of coarse meant to endorse the lie 80
industriously circulated, that the friends oi
Magellan iRtend to vote for Muilin So far
as you and are concerned, look at the case
AS regards myself have never been and am
not now Mr.. Mullins friend. Since 1853.
when he betrayed friend of mine, I have
| always opposed him. He was the X. N.
nominee in 1855 and 1856; during each cam
paign had charge of the Democratic Com
mittee, and certainly attended to his case
He has never got even with me as yet, and at
this time, in company with all good Demo-
| Gratis, am determined to lick him if it is in the
pins. In 1858 you, not being able to hold
your own In a controversy which you had
provoked with me, got Mr.. Mullin to assist; at
least an article published in your paper was
attributed to him, and the authorship has not
been disproved by you. That article was Pc
culiarty insulting and not calculated to endear
him to mo. He was then, as now a bitter
opponent of the Democracy
Now looking at the record, which of US is
most likely to support Mullin? You were
also in trouble about the Washington election.
My dear Phil, how could you talk about cleo
tion frauds, when the Gameleal at whose feet
you sat. to learn how to dismember the Dsm-
ocratlc party, was at your side and followed
you in a speech? refer to Mr.. r. L John
ston, who figured as a clerk at tie celebrated
election in Morris township, Huntingdon
county, in 1885. How could you shock the
very delicate feelings of that gentleman who
having taken all the advanced degrees in
ballot box stufing, under Thaddeus Stevens,
Dickey and their clique, now travels in this
county and outside of it, Safeguarding me
himself, or has 1t done by his puplngs in the
1h0untdineer and his teascrs at political meet
lDgs. 1t is to be hoped that his arrangements
for rewarding them with the best offices in
the county, will be carried into effect about
the time that be, In recompense for his at
tempts to destroy the Democratic party, will
be elected President Judge of this district.
While on the subject of Johnston, let me
mere say another word As my space in this
weeks Democrat & Sentinel is limited, 1
must condense- In the "Mountainecr" of the
10th ult.. Johnston makes the little ex mix
wiser say to me; "You have in your poss-
session challenge from K. L. Johnston Esq
which You are afraid to accept"
Now Johnston knew that he was making
Lloyd publish a wilful, deliberate falsehood.
At the meeting at Hemlock on Monday oath
Sept. proposed to discuss with him the prop
ositions contained in his published challeng e.
He declined on the ground tha. be was not
prepared. although be had told the meet
ing that he had been traversing the county
for week, speaking to those very issues,
and although [ insisted, he would not discuss:
he would not meet a plain countryman in
DEBATE, and he, the astute lawyer, the cum
ming politician, the dexterous wire worker,
stood there like whining school boy who had
not got his lesson.
Hoping that you will hereafter deal gently
with the feelings of your friends.
am yours, &c.
Oct, ID 1860.
WurTr