Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-10-31

Will ptoDdOll not sen iOI more
than halt what is due me inclu-
ding the costs which he has COM
PEELED ne to make. Thus he
effected the object he had in
raising the mob Had | dream
ed 1t possible he could have so
succeeded, | should have gone
back TO court, though | should
have been thereby put under the
necessity of killing three or four
persons, and perhaps of losing
nv own lite. And now in, adj
dltlon to all this, to try to cover
up these gross outrages perpetra-
ted upon me, this torrent Of abu-
siye iol>ehood IS published to
overwhelm me if possible.
| had no personal hostility
to Mr.. ShlnkS. | had political
hostility to hun for two reasons:
Fist,
He is wholly unqualified to fill a
seat In Congress. I'd. lie sus-
tanned measures in Congress ut
terly subverslve and destructive
OF the Constitution and the
Union, both OF whlDh | am very
anxious to preserve for my posteri-
ty as | have enjoyed them. And
when my country's all is at stake
as 1t now is, in choice between
its interests and personal friend
ships, | hesitate not a moment to
take my stand Tor my country.
Gross and groundless as these
outrages are to me personally, |
sorrow less for them on that &C
count, than because they add an
OTHER to the many evidences we
have, of the rapid speed with
which the Constitution and laws
are being overturned and destroy
ed, and anarchy, lnterneclne strife,
and the reign OF terror, are being
inaugurated in our beloved, but
unhappy country. The result OF
the recent elections gives me a
CLEAN of hope that daylight is
coming. Had abolltionlsm sue
ceeded again in the elections this
tall, our beloved Union, and the
Constitution that forms ii and the
Government, would have been
hopeiesslv gone. The Abolition
lists and the SecesSionists are but
the two blades of the same pair OF
shears, that hive been, and are,
shcar:ng this Union and Govern
ment to Nh.eLs. Either without
the 9TH. would be powerleSs and
harmless Bat together, how po-
tent for mischief they are and
have been! This | have said, and
warned ny countrymen OF for
years. And it is now shown by
what an intelligent rebel officer,
taken prisoner at the hattie OF
Antietam, recently said, rs re-
ported in the Boston Courier, an
old line Wing paper. lie SAID:
81 tell YOU there is not one
thing old .Ietl' prays for so much
as to have Wadsworth put in
Governog of New York. | was
in Ricalnond when the papers
with the nomination came, and
they al. said there could not have
been a more lucky nomination.
The Abolitionists
have got control OF the North just
as we have of the South, and
they don't want us any more than
we do them; and what persons on
both sides don't want they won't
have. Ii Wadsworth should be
beaten. and Andrew should be
beaten, and the rest OF them, Il
would just show that Il majority
of the North want Us back in the
old Union, and there are so ma
ny now in the South who want
the same thing, we should have
to come back. But tell you,
the Abolitirnists will have it all
their own way, and your North
ern old line Unionists and their
relatives down South will have TO
cave in
Thank God! the Abolitionists
have not had it all their own way
so far, and every patriot and true
Union man, prays God that they
NAV not have 1t all their own
way in the elections to come off
next week, so that old line Tn
lonists. o. whom | am proud to
know that | am one and always
have been, will not have to cave
in either North or South, and our
glorious Union. and the ConstI-
tuition, formed by the fathers OF
the Revolution and sealed with
their blood, and the Government
creates by that Constitution, Will
be saved from their present ex-
treme peril, and handed down to
our posterity as we received them
from our fathers. And "re-
ioice" that |, even |, in my hum
BILE and obscure private position,
sam counted worthy to suffer
shame" for being an old line I'm