American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-02-16
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-,- , From the Cincinnati conmarc..l,l.as 10
So t-, The Quliman Lstter. t.aq.s..
The 'trnthtulness Of General Quiiman
has neversabe.p disputed. The whole
oountryaduriug bis lifetime shs 8 absolute
confidence 10 shis vtTaGity. d As the New
Orleans D,hs says,ol5 him CHS name is
coDseersted sss symbol of lofty honor and
uucompromis:ne veraOi,y." apd:"If Quit
man had a political fault. il was bis sutrert
Disqualification to play sucotssiul3rols
otduplieity .equlvocsticB % and cOnGea uie1t.
Siugleness aud unity marked his whole
lie. lie Oomp,eb bepded ut one nneaning III
what was said to, him by others; he had
but one n eanin G 10 convey swhsn he spoke
to- Dthers. Ii was the las-of his nature
10 be frank; il was an intellectual snd
moral uecessity With him to dave ops his
opinions to their logical auttsra nee. i No,
pnrtisan can be found who will dare direct
ly to impeaeh bis testimony. We hal
occasions while he was living, TO speAk Of
him As = model OF personal integrity a fair
minded high, toned man. whose purity OF
character end honesty Of pnrposs were not
to he questioned by honest men, When
he died lie paid tribute, certainly earnest,
TO his memory. namiug him as among the
brave and iOoorruptible'meD, whose good
names were precious To- the nation . A
letter wLioh he wrote on the Gath Of March
lS56.has just made itsaPPearanne in print.
1t is Ola nature to carry confusion into the
ranks oI the Dou0lss r1en.a There are
among the followers of Doug as bold and
desperate men, but perhaps there are
none whose hardihood is equal to the task
Of impuing ifalshood-or duplicity 10 Gen;
Quilmsu. The Enquirer does not deny
the authenticity OF the letter, or attempt
to discredit it.t On the contrary it saws
i hthat"what Douglas was than, (l856
in sn.Quitmsn's Judgment, bo is now,
and the Southern people so believe."---
This might appear honest, but upon ex'
.amniDg the letter, as printed in the En-
quirSr, we find it mulilaled The matsri
al portions are carefully expunged. The
following passage, the Grst of that pub
lished and without which the rest is un,
inteligabe is omitted: ,s--a sl,.s
|, IJeiieVs that at The day The Nortern
Democrats are soandsr and more rsiiabls on
tie SIatery qUsstionathaa they have svsr
besn The Kansas bill has driven off ALT the
compl omisets, and LEFT those that remain
no alternative but afuil vindication of our
whole rights,a1 believe therefore, they
will prefer d bold ultra Southerner TO "a
renegade.lg 7lgrsh io s3iaw a5' sr-t y-
| In A SHORT coNvERsATIoN WITH D. Ua
LAS YEsTERD AY.rHE SAID TO NE THAT WHAT
HE MOST FEARED WAS THAT TlMID S;UTHEsN
MEN WOULD FALL BACK )a 1nsgIet sa, ".-
| shall be conienls with Buchanan. and
l will sustain Pierce H. nom mated. 1t is
also my interest, to be- non'commital, but
when write 10 an old friend like yourself,
will be frank V 'uyg.1emI tR 0.s5 O..
Here the following words, occur aud
the Enquirer uses them: -'sMy preIsrsnce
is for Douglas, He is bold, fearless and
setrelianto Were hs' elected b q would
not come into ofioe,wilh a. body igrsrd
Of old fogiss and politicians, ready to seize
upon all the Offices He is strus to 1.-THE
: Soutb'' L. But the annexed. themost'im-
portani pOssagenof Ihs letter. is carefully
excluded. lil-l1n.g st' aarlls ,idyul si
He DEMANDS NOT ONLY THE USE AND I'm
JoYMENT OF -THE COMMON Tariff TRY yEJF
THEIR (slSvebolders) PROPERTY i BUT IN,
sIsTs UPON ITS. PROTECTION To INN qwE
ARE INDEBTED FOR THE KANsAs s1i BILL
wHIBH NOW HREsENTs THE POINTS OF CON
TACT He is THE TRUE REPREsENTATIvI
OF THIS PRINCIPLE, AND OPP sEs THE ,AB NJ
N1ABEE PRINCIPLE OF. SeUATTER S9vERElGY,
TY. .,.,,.'-..'''es..--,,.t,. ~
The studied on lesion ofibese sigpifcSP
/ sentences from the ,lYiteg as published AMI
endorsed by, the Enquirer is, YhieinIspe,
ed 10 be 40 evasion Of the stsots, a confess
ion Of their forcs, Our Contemporary. i
sfrsid to let 9 readers knoNtbatJ ohn a
Q0ilmen wrote op ths, s4tb day of March
1s5O-fo a,lriscd in, Mississippi ian ."olS
|, freud; with whom be would ssbe tepki |
s-flit be ,hsd q shcrE convsrsaI Won viii