Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-08-04
Letter Of Mr. Welsh. Chairman
of the Democratic State Com

Of the Democratic State Com
miitee.
Herewith we publish the letter of Mr..
WELSH in reply to the Hon. RICHARD
VAUX.
This correspondence, we understand, is
now closed upon the part of Mr.. WELSH.
1t must, however, be admitted that this
letter is rather racy, and that the author
has administered some very severe hits
upon Mr.. VAuX-whch will be fully un-
derstood and appreciated by every citizen
converssnt with the political life of the
Ex> Mayor.
YORK, PA, July Goth 1860.
Ny DEAR SIR 81 feel constrained to
add third note to our somewhat lengthy
correspondence. This might well have
been omitted; but your second letter, now
before me, induces me to call attention to
one or two points, which may not prove
Improbable to you, or the undersigned.
! The "Democratic masses" will tell you
! plainly that you have not succeeded in
destroying single position in my letter Of
the 10th Instant, which was written to in
woke, if possible, the spirit of union and
harmony in the Democratic ranks. The
entire complaccncy with which you "beg'
every question you undertake to discuss is
| confess, extremely refreshing, and will
earn for you the reputation of being most
skiltul tactician in eyading the true issue /;
but you have yet to learn the simple art OF
fortitying your statements with logical con-
clusions.
You say, in your letter, that ''the Dem
ocratie Executive Committee, in the exer.
else of the authority conferred upon it by
, the resolution Of the National Democratic
Convention, nominated Mr. johnson in
2 place Of Mr.. Fitzpatrick. What "0uthor-
ity c9nyerred,' do you refer to Why do
you not produce the resolution itself SO
that we may all see its wording! l have
looked in vain for the passage of any such
resolution, as you now claim to have been
adopted by "thc meeting of gentlemen at
the Front Street Theater. Pray assist me
in exhuming it from the records published
understand me, at the time of its passage
L want the Ora9inal resolution, as it was
adopted by the Convention-not any that
may have been manufactured by q special
committee appointed TO put in shape the
confused proceedings, after ''the meeting
of gentlemen had concluded its labor,
r and widely separated, BY doing SO, yor
will afford me real eradication; for i
will clearly establish the fact that 9Th,
meeting Of gentleman referred to, had thc
most enlarged ideas of the duties of al
t Executive Committee when it clothed thu
. letter, as y0U gay, with power of making
f nomination for that branch of the Demo
cratic party which now claims your scrvic,
: and allegiance.
1t would afford me much pleasure to re
5 view your letter in the same genial spiri
o which characterizos your last production
1t is rare temptation but | must resist it
In your communication, there are severa
points which will strike the public-par
ticularly the IhiladclphiD public-witl
peculiar force and ftnes. For example
e when you attempt to dcmolish "ihc8e loh
lo0s honoyS and GGice," )" of course you coulC
-. not nave included yourself in that unfor.
. tunate category. l, therefore, indulg,
the hope" that you, who have been SC
c modest in your expectations of official sta
= tion, may not be thwarted in your present
Senatorial aspirations, either State or Ma.
tional, and that the bright dreams, which
. as neophyte in Office seeking, and place
hunting, you are now conjuring up in youl
vivid Imagination, may all be realized
: when yOur Caesar" is happily seated upon
his throne in Washington,
Any prolongation of this discussion will
! scarcely be profitable. But cannot re,
frain from alluding to the happy hu you
made in the conclusion of your facetious
epistle. As you penned it, a flush of par.
donable pride must have illuminated YOUR
beaming countenance. But, 81 regret to
say that you are as far wrong in your
reading of Scripture as you usually are
in your logical deductions. No mistake
aVaS made, by the substitution of the name