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could render it necessary for him To ga
into laborcd defense of il. and that,
too. after the publication oi the fact
THAT he had subscribed an oath, which |
III taken in honest sincerity, would have
settled, both here and at Washington
all doubts as TO his loyalty:
The public will very naturally eou1
lclude. from the demand made upon US
by MIR. Tilton to give him a hearing
Through our columns. that lac is one of
our patrons. or. at least, a subscriber I'd
our PAPER: and they will be surprised
ko learn that he has never patronizcJ
Us 10 the amount of dime, and ilai
lwl.n ho come. 10 our office and b,-> 4
|paper II u. lie has never get said t.ahkI
yo.' Yet lac talks like man who has
been grievoasly wronged becau-e We
have tried to avoid numbering up ourI
paper with columns Of matter having 4
for its real object the getting before ihe|
public a platform Of measures upon
which he hopes to organize a party in|
opposition To the measures that have
been adopted by President l.inoola 4
administration for putting down the
present rebellion. We submit to theI
judgment of every candid man who|
NAV take the trouble to read his silly,
,lisloyal cfinsion. to say whether we are|
not fully justified in saying that the
Language and general tone Of the com
munication is at war with the let \
ter aud spirit of Tie oath which he sub
scribed, and which We have appended
to his article, in order that our readers
may make the comparison without the|
trouble Of referring to our last week 8
issue that contains it.
In order to give Mr.. Tilton an cvi.
dcnce of our disposition to publish more
for him than we had promised, (not-
standing his nigardly treatment of us|
in refusing to pay for our rapcr,) we
copy the following paragraph from the
letter alluded to in the commencement
fthis article, to illustrate his apprecia-
ton of the solemnitics of the oath hc|
has voluntarily subscribed:
"Thc oath you refer to. was taken by myself
in common with every half-pay officer in the Uni!
ted States, as part of the papers was required
Iby departmental regulation to furnish. 1t was|
taken before the first Notary Public-Mr. Elwood|
Evans-I saw after receiving the order"
Now we appeal to every honest man
Ito decide if there is not an effort madc|
in the foregoing paragraph to create
the unprecedented does lie not
say in so many words, that he did not
take it because he believed the doctrines
lit asserts, or intended to live up to the
solemn VOW he made and called God to-
witness? If he did take it sincerely
why docs he speak of it as n "dcpart-|
mental regulation" and that no "took|
lit before the first officer he saw, after
he receircd tic orier? thus trying to-
produce the impression that he took
the oath simply because he has ordered
to do so by superior officer.
He says he "took the oath in COM
mon with every halfpay officer in the
United States" This statement every
Intelligent man knows to be untrue, tor'
very many of our "halfpay" as we'll
as whole-pay officers have refused to take
the oath and fed to the leland Of Dix
lie" between two days, and arc now
Fighting against the Government that
made and cherished them, and we think
lit would have been more creditablc to-
Mr.. r. if he had followed their example,
We cannot better express our csti !
mate of men who talk about their great
love of the Union and pirate Of their
loyalty to the Government, while they
leave no stone unturned that is calcnla-
ted to embarass an Administration sur
roundedby difficulties, than by making
the following extract from late speech
Of Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, !
who, like Mr.. Triton, advocated the
election of Breckenridge and Lane, but|
who il now striving to amend his error
BY yielding m honest aud cordial SUP
pors to the Administration Of Presidend
Lincoln in it, eAo~ts to put down the
rebellion. Mr.. Dickcnsou SAYS: