American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-02-16

litical corruption they had never sounded.
whose Over-grown concsit and bouudless
presumption led him to believe that be
eOul control the independent masses Of
the county. whose vaultiug ambition would
not suffer bin to resign the little post Of
honor to whic1 be had been elevated BY q
trick. whose sSOtism would not permit
him to acknowledge bis error. nor whose
dogged obstiuacy suffer him to retrsos bis
steps aud shape his course In accordance
with the wishes Of his constituents.
With view to escape the force Of the
passage Of the resolution BY the Convention
aud deceive the public into the belief
that be was acting ia good faith. Mr..
Shaw asserts that -ts '-wasuot st the
meeting. aud that the minutes Of the
Secretary Of the meeting. Mr.. Keller,
contain nothing in regard to the passage Of
any such resolution, bat tn after the
minutes had been handed BY Mr.. Keller to
the G-zs,te. such q resolution was insert
o. iu the minutes by Mr.. Clarke"
When Mr.. Shaw peuued the above hs
knew as do half the citizens Of tho county
that such rssoiution wds passed BY tho
Convention. and bow he persuadss bis
"Christian." conscisace.to le! him dseisus
the public BY holding forth the idsa that
no such resolution was passed and that Mr.
CLARK iusulted the public aud violated
good faith BY "iusertiug the resolution in.
20 The minutes. we havs Mr.. Shaw Ia
answer. The facts in relation to the inser
ton Of the resolution are simply these;
after the meeting had adjourned. the Sec
rstary. (Mr. Keller, came to US with an
imperfect sketch OF the proceedings Of The
meeting, with the original resolution in
the minutes. but not copied Of, stating
that the "minutes were imperfsci," and
10 the presence Of Dr.. Efinger and others
requested as to "6ll them out, and hand
the American Democrats copy" While
engaged 10 copying the minutes. The dis.
tiuguisled editor OF that paper called upon
US and with his Characteristic Importance
demanded to know "uhsthsr Mr.. Keller
had copied hat rtsolution ihto the minutes, -
We replied that "bs had not" giving At
the same time our authority for acting in
the premises. This Is briefly the history
ofthe proceedings. and from this. with a
full knowledge ofall the facts. Virgil E.
Shaw would have the public believe that
the resolution was never passed and that
we inisrpolated 1t into the minutes. For
this shameless effort 10 evads the truth,
decievs the public aud escape responsibili.
ty. We leave Mr.. Shaw to the public and
his conscience.
MR. sHAw'e CHARGES.
The assertion that we have uniformly
charged TIE Republican party with being
iD favor Of negro equality. and negro sutf.
rage. that We charged the Republican
party with being possessed Of a spirit Of
msd fauatioism. which proposes 10 con.
sumate its bellish ends in the dissolution
Of the Union. that we said that as q pri.
vats cilissn or public journalist we were
opposed to the Republican party. is so pre-.
poslerous. 90 extremely ridiculous. so ab,
aurd. so maliciousIy and oontemptibly
false as to need no defense at our hands
we simply ask our patrons to read the arli.
ole (which we rspublish in this paper
from which Mr.. Shaw makes these deduc-
tions and draws these conclusions. and
from thence prououce our acquittal or con.
dsmnation.
Ma. saAws MOTIVE.
The motive impslling Mr.. Shaw In hiI conduct to-
wards tho Gazette can be nons other than sinister,
meanly and corupty so. So strongly does his every
act smack of"pytDais uAtsrprns,"or psysonaI RaiH
Al the weakest nnny IN the asl lum could dotsct his
object. liw slmply an otoh upon his part to break
down th o0aEette aud build up the Democrat, TO make
the Interests OF the party subsorvs those OF "pIivao
enterprise" Does Virgil X. Shaw propose to strength.
Gu the OPP oston BY driving tho Gazette from i sup
poh' doos he propose to build up the Republican
party BY driving Into the democratic ranks Its Whig
and Amsrerlcan elements by denouncIng them AZ
worse than democrats2 Has he 90 far forgotten the
"oaih signs and grps" as to pour Imprecatlons upon
The American prnoiplei does bis natural instinct,
made more conuptby the teaching OF tho "Rod
Lodge Clique;" til stimulate him In his opposition
70 "old Whigsf" Has he forgotten that the Rcpubi.
can party 10 composed Of Whgs, Democrats and
Americans, all who are opposed 10 the corrup.
tsons Of the democratlc party who no ongcr cringe
70 the slave power. Or ishe 90 miserable a d ema.
goguG 90 buried In the slime Of political corruption
% eager for the hhy lucre ofpartsan gaIn as make
all other Interests subservs au "indiyidual enter.
price," all other Interests SubSsrvs hiS private ends
Let us hear from Mr. shaw upon these propositions.
The Political Condition Of the Country.
Signs Of the Times.
In times gone by. when the Wing and
Democratic parties were 10 the political
arena, their warfare was one purely OF
principle, each struggled for the ascendeu.
oy upon National Issues. The measures
Of political economy then agitating the
public mind, and dividing US as a people.
have either been settled. abandoned or
.wallowedup by questions Of local interest.
The policy Of National Bank. so ably
contsOdOd for by the great lights Of The