Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-09
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JUDGE WOODWARD on KNOW
NOTTINGHAM.

NOTTINGHAM.
Tbs slanderers Of Judge Woodwards
i..ir reputation are again busy in circulating
misrepresentation in order to deceive he
people. Desperate, indeed, are lha means
resorted too, by the opposition TO defeat
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
In 1852, they boldly assaiIca Jc lie
WoodwurIs character through the pubic
print, charging him with know-No.Ei:.g-
ism, but facts and the searching lizht Of
truth, soon convinced the people that Tie
accusation was false, and they showed their
appreciation of his merits by elevating
him to the Supreme Bench Fearing TO
attack him openly, they now whisper the
same old ISLANDERS, and cIieavor 10 secure
the foreign vote for Curtin. But our citi-
zens of foreign birth in this county are,
we trust, too intelligent to be caught by
such a bait.
For ihe benefit Of tlose who might be
deceived, we publish the following CORES
ponIynce between prominent men and
Judge Woodward, during the campaign of
/ 1872, whom he was candidate for
Judge OF the Supreme Court Ii speaks
for its,lE If any one, after reading it,
suspects him of Know-Nothing proclivi-
ties, he is too firmly welded to f;lsehood
70 understand he truth:
Toa. Geo ". Toodrard:
/ DEAR SIR The undersigned members Of
/ - Democratic party beg leave to call Your
/ attention to certain charges now frequently
made BY the WhiE presses, in regard to
your views upon tie naturalization laws.
an ,llcdged hostility to the uaturalized
/ ctiZnns. We ae aware that you NAV
/ justly regard your life and conduct in the
nigh station yuu have occupied, and the
bluudess confidence & the Democratic
panty winch you euj ', as i sufficient an
/ swer to such calumUics.
but the charges are intended TO operate
and misead persons to whom the truth Is
unknown. We would, therefore, solicit
from you an expression Of your views on
the su ject, if your time will permit. not
doubling that every candid mind will thus
be satisfied. that by no act Of your life have
you been justly chargeable with having en-
/ tertaiued men or measures favuriug ilIiberal
| or proscriptve policy towarjs adopted
citizens, on account o. tie place of their
or their religious opinions.
Very respectively yours. &c..
EDWIN NJ. STANTON.
CHARLES SHALER,
SAMUEL W. BLACK,
WM WILKINS.
JAS. ROSS SEOWDEN, and others.
JUDGE WOODWARD'S REPLY.
P'fsJnrg, September IA, 1852
GENTLEMEN The official duties which
brought me to Pittsburg, keep me con-
stantly engaged. My answer to Your let
ter must therefore be brief.
From my earliest youth to this present
moment, l have been an earnest and
hearty supporter of the Democratic party
and an equally Jealous opponent, so far
as my political action could decorously
and properly 90, of whatever has opposed
it. i am not and never have been s
" Native American in any political
sense, any more than am or have been 6
Wing, Anti-Mason or Abolitionist.
The charge of q Nativism is at
tempted to be sustained by a motion
which made in the Reform Convention
OF 1887. That was simply limitation
OF motion made by Mr.. Thomas, {
, Wing member from Chester county, ant
was calculated to compel his party (wht
were in majority in the Convention,) tt
come up to the mark or back out. They
chose the latter branch of the alternative
and my motion having answered its pur