The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-06-17
R. NJ. CAMPBELL.
JEaoMEvrLLr JusE 10th, 1863.

. Mn JACOBS Sir: / find in the last weeks
Times, an article or rather . question concer
Z ming so certain man in Jeromeyille" who, it is
alleged has been guilty ofthe enormous crime
of furnishing rerolyers to arm men to resist
the draft. Sir, I am the man against whom
the. charge is made. My occupation is q re-
taller in dry goods and hardware. I have
4 paid my license, and as I am not a very in
quisitive man / do not make it . practice of
asking my customers to what purpose they are
going to apply the article which they may
purchase from me. And as I am not a super
~stitious man I did not surmise that is was for
the purpose of resisting the draft. Nor do I
yet think so, even after reading the learned
dissertation of the Times But being a con
stitutional man (not after the manner Of soma
men who take only such paris as may best suit
them and trampling on others) in full, and
granting to every man his right to bear arms
as it is therein stated % Butsfearing that the
Editor Of the Medina Gazette and the Ashland
quote it for their benefit and the benefit of
the private sources.
Article Cd amendment ga well regulated mil
itia being necessary to the security of a free
state the right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed."
1t is also charged that / received two boxes
marked stove polish. Now I deny of having
any goods shipped to me labeled stove polish
by my directions, jet / confess that I did re-
ceive a box of r~evolvers so labeled. But it
was not through any intimatio1 on the part Of
me 10 the gentlemen who shipped bat wholly on
their own part, not that they doubted their
right to ship them under their proper name,
but as there was only n small box of them
they put them into an old box labeled as above
named. And as they are gentlemen who mind
It cir own business they did net have any apre-
that it " ould throw any Editor into
spasms. Now if those cditors.and their pri-
vatc sources have sufficiently recovered from
their fright to take a short ride Gas a little
ride is good for convalesccnts) down to this
place they may see that bugbear labeled stove
poE.h. The Editor OF the Times appears very
.,ontrite at heart in chronicling such proceed
ngs and hopes this array to resist the laws Of
,ur country will cease :. once, Now, sir, as
lbove stated it is not to resist law, nor to make {
my disturbance whatever. Bus sir I claim
ny right with other men to sell arms or any !,
ther hardware that 7 may have
There would not have l,een any disturbance :
f it had not been for an over ~oficious gentle /
nan. A tavern keeper in Reedsburg by the !,
,ame of Abraham Grindle and Daniel Fletch- j
r who brought the goods, and as they stop !
ed to have q cha. with their Gum Thus
Iyrrh Brother, they thought that they W ere s
Iuly authorized by being members Of SO holy :
n order to open the box. Thereupon that
amt (to the negro faith) procured a chisel
nd hammer and opened the box. Now ] .
'ouId advise all travellers against stopping G
yer night with this Abraham for if you have
valuable in your trunk you viii have
o assurance that it will not be opened. Also
ny one that has anything to be drayed not to
thrust it to Daniel, for far some one may II
along with a cbisel and hammer and off e
les the lid and9it will be handled by his foul :
g sal
Hoping that this will be satisfactory to all
may concern, 1 will go no further. s.
@aaB B. 1hLTERBRANT.
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