Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-07-13
I. RAssEy. Sec y.
MR.. LINCOLN AND MEXICAN WAR SUP
PLIES.


| PLIES.
The Standard charged in its issue of last
week that Mr.. Lincoln voted against sending
supplies to our soldiers in Mexico" Knowing
the charge TO be linfounded, We called the at
teution OF the editor to the fact. In his issue
of yesterday he reifcrates it (but adtuces no
evidence to sustain it) and calls upon us to
produce q the papcrs-the vote-the proof" to
show That it is not true. This we think is re-
versing the usual order of proceedings II a
person prefers charge against another we be-
lieve it is regarded as incumbent upon him 10
prore its truth, and not required Of the other
party 10 prore lis innocence. We therefore in
return, having also but little faith in mere as
sertioEs nowadays" call for the papers -
i" the proof -" the vote" Let us have them
and when produced we will cheerfully publish
them, and if they show that Mr. Lincoln did
really vote against sending supplies to our
soldiers in Mexico we shall frankly acknowl-
edge it.
The article quoted from the Chicago Times
i'll support Of the position assumed amounts to
nothing wllatever--it does not insinuatc, much
less charge, that Mr.. Lincoln gave any such
vote. And, though under no obligation to
furnish evidence to disprove charge that can
not be sustained, We will nevertheless produce
Il liltle,-sufficient we think to induce our
friend to forego the labor OF hunting mp the
record, which will be of no avail to him when
naming articles on file pointing in the same
direction and 10 acknowledge, what pro-
per vestigation will show to be fact, that
the charge is slanLerous and without fuunda-
ton in truth.
The Natoon (Ill.) Gaeette, Douglas Demo-
cratic sheet, which was the first to make the
charge during the present campaign, refers to
| it thus
We made the charges against Mr. Lincoln,
in relation TO voting for supplies, upon the in
/ formation Of an intelligent gentleman, who as
sured that the record stood against him.
| The political friends of Mr.. Lincoln called our
attention to the record, and upon examination
we find that instead Of Mr.. Lincoln it was
j ohn Henry of Morgan, who was his immediate
| predecessor, who gave the vote It affords US
unfeigned pleasure to be able to say, upon ex-
animation, that our former fellow citizen gave
no such vote, and further that his record will
" pass muster y with the best men of any par
| ty during his Congressional term"
now hear STEPHEN a. DOUGLAS, witness
whose testimony will hardly be discredited by
/ the Standard. In the course of his reply to
Lincoln in the Railroad Depot at Alton, H.,
on the 18th Of October, 1858. he said j:
Il never charged him (Lincoln) with voting
against the Supplies in my life. because knew
he was not in Congress when they were voted
The war was commenced on the 9Th day of
May, 1886, and on that day we appropriated
in Congress ten million of dollars and fifty
thousand of men, to prosecute it. During the
same session we voted more men and more
money, SO that by the time Mr.. Lincoln enter
ed Congress we had enough men and money to
carry on the war, and had no occasion to vote
for any more"
When be was in Congress a bill was repor-
ted from the Committee OF Ways and Means
to raise the of sixteen millions to pay
the Indebtedness incurred by the Mexican
war, which passed by vote of 1872 to IA,
Mr.. Lincoln voting for is.