Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-07
The Confession OF reuben stout.

The Delphi (Ind) Tines thus comments
upon the confession of Reuben Stout who
was a resident Of Carroll
In obedience to an order from Geseral
Burnside. Reuben Stout was shot on the Esd
instant, 10 The killing Of Sol. Huffman. The
Journal publishes a long article in this weeks
issue, purporling to be a confession made by
Stout. while awaiting his execution, We dom
believe Stout ever made such confession II
ne did. and was INDUCED to desert by members
of the knights Of the Golden Circle, he omit
ted one very important point in his confession,
which 10 "A sensible man, condemns the whole,
He should By al means have exposed TO the
country the leaders of the order aud the local
itv In which the Unreasonable" meetings we're
held No the facts are, the whole substance
of the confession is "a base and wicked Ile
with the exception Of that portions which
relates 10 killing of Huffman. aud that was
gathered from the testimony taken before the
ctnr, in which the case WIS tried--writteD
nv some unprncipled aud unmitigated AboD-
|htion scoundrel, or political purposes The
same points with regard TO the h, q. Cs.
have been repeatedly published IN the Laiay.
etto Journal and GWier and the Delphi
/ Journal, long before Stout was condemned to
ne shot, and there is so much similarity III
/ the language and sentiment expressed III the
| confession aud that fssnerely published ~
Il lthese journals, that we are OF opinion that
I Stout confession was written either IN La
/ fayette or Indianapolis.
Stout, we are informed, was an nneducated
man, aud not possessed of more than an ordt
nAry degree Of intelligence. Now any one
reading the confession in the Journal will
at once see that il IS shaped and worded more
like political paper than the confession OF Il
penitent man, knowing that his days were
numbered
There is nothing, now-a-days too low and
contemptihle for Abolition politicians to be
guilty OF doing They will tell an unmitigated
lie. and face the devil himself and swear 10 1t
They will commit frauds at the ballot box, and
swear il is military necessity which compelS
them TO do so They will denounce their neat
ntiphbors as traitors aud enemies to our sol
diers, and come and beg those traitors for san
Iitary stores. (and they always get them,) and
turn right around to the soldiers and tell them
that they are indebted TO the "Union men
for luxuries sent them, when at least one-ha
of those luxuries are given by copperheads
Some OF their merchants wont supports "cop
perhesd" Democratic paper, but will urge
TRAITORS" copperheads" and "butternuts' L
buy of their goods, and after receiving the
money, turn round without the least hesita
ton, say they are "d--d copperheads, ant
that "ail such men ought To be hung" Thi
is Abolition consistency and honesty,
The whole story OF REUBEN STOUT
f confession is a very lishy affair." and doe
not exhibit much tact or shredness on tn
part of the Abolitionists who got it up 70
political effect, If REUBEN Stout ha'
made any such confession, why did he not
as our cotemporary asks, give the name
of the men who belong to the "treasonabl
4 organization and whose teachings le
y him to acts that lost him his life? WASH
). rsaroN declared that if he could secur
ARNOLD, he would reprieye ANDRE, an
the Administration could well have afford
e ed to pardon STOUT for Information th1
/ would have led to the arrest and punish
Al ment of the men who, it is asserted lie
i him from the path of duty, and who, i
N that case, would have been the reall
n guilty parties. 1t is very shallow a
a fair, and the men who have thus unde
10 taken to make political capital by attr
lR buting assertions and language to dea
III man, which he never uttered, ought to hid
re their heads in very shame if they are nj
"a lost, as believe they are, to all such fee