Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-08-21
Answer to a /" Personal Matter"

yclept lhe True DeAVcia',
equally distinguished individual who taxes
periodical fit Of letting the pubic know
that the editor of the Gazette is his " "un-
cle.o were good deal surprised last week
st the TRADE of silly abuse heaped upon
us and racked their brains in vain to re-
member anything that had appeared in the
Gazette to give occasion for display Of so
much bonbast We had On the previous
week commented on two articles In the
Democrat-one on the outside drawn from
the brains Of one of those demented " dem
ocratic christians" who would substitute the
dogmas of hell as the teachings Of heaven,
in which the purse and the sword are
charged to be in the hands Of abolltlonlsts,
and the other an insidious editorial article
charging all the present troubles, as well as
those to come, on the change the people had
made in electing Abraham Lincoln instead
Of some Southern traitor. We construed
the first a. meaning the Lincoln admins
tration and the republican party, and sta
ted that such language and covert insinua-
tions did not sound very patriotic on the
part of professed Union man, and lily be-
came one holding Office under that admin
istration. This was the extent Of our Of
fence to this respectful nephew" and
makes the pretext for half column arti-
Gle from which We take the first two para
graphs to show what an ass an Office leeeh
can make of himself:
I'VE are not aware of ever having inten-
tionally done aught to injure or offend tour
uncle) the editor Of the Lewistown Gazette.
Certain it is that, in view Of the relationship,
we have endeavOred to avoid all cause for
complaint on his part and more than once,
during the heat of political campaigns, al.
lowed slurs TO pass when ret0rt was almost
duty His course towards US oflate has been
most extraordinary. 1t was certainly not our
fault that his greediness for Office, as mani
Tested in his effort to get two good places at
the same time, caused the best Of the two to
slip through his fingers, even after 1t had
been pr0miSed to him n ither was it our
fault that, while intriguing for the postmas-
tership, he made promises which he cannot
now fulfil!
Yet, having failed to accomplish our re-
moval from Office by the ordinary processes,
he now resorts to the dishoRoruJie alternative
of misrepresentiDg our political record and
position. What he failed TO accomplish by
fair means, he would now do by foul ones.
He endeavors, by insidlous peryersions of our
language, to fasten upon US the charge Of
" assaiiRg" President Lincoln's administra-
ton. We shall not, however, handy words
with him. The charge is false, and he knows
it."
We know Of no two good Offices which
in our " greediness" we endeavored to Sc
cure, nor does any one else. Notwith-
standing our long connection with the whig
press of this State and subsequently the
Peoples Party, embracing a period Of a
quarter of a century, this is the first time
such a charge is made, and comes with q
grace peculiarly refreshing from one who
has been an Office hunter from the day he
thought "patent democracy would pay
/ best-who sacrificed friend and foe alike to
obtain of5ee-and even last year submit
/ ted to the dictation of James Buchanan
either to put up Breckinridge, sell his cs-
tablishment, or take dismissal from office,
with the complacency of faithful spaniel
As to the promises We could not fulfil
We have brief history to give which may
not prove much to his credit. This res.
pectful nephew, after the election last
year, wrote letter suggesting that We
might do him a material service and at the
same time secure an Office for friend, by
procuring letter to the Secretary of the
Treasury asking that gentleman to contin.
ue said nephew for the time being, and mo-
TO discharge him until the writer was in
formed of the intention to do so. Hi
proposition 3ce hare in our possession n
has o'cn handrrtting. During the winter
be made it again verbally, when we agreed
to carry out our part, and accordingly die
so, he merely stipulating that he shoulc
be retained until July, aofer he agreed t.
resign. On the faith of this promise
: which any honorable man would have re
garded as sacred, ace made promises, ant
induced young man to procure testimon
ials of high character with view of lay
ing them before Mr. Chase when the prop
er time came. In April or May last VA
was some doubt In the mind of Mr.. Henr,
FrYsinger whether he would come back T.
Lewistown, bus it was not until June, tha
! he intimated to the editor of the Gazett