Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-09-10
lrrom Tue same.
A Card from Judge Wick.

Ed. Journal: | am willing to hope that
you do not desire to do injustice to any
one, yet must admit that your sayso's,
or positions. in last Saturdays Jour
nal look as if in this friendly view of the
motives may be mistaken. | allxde to
your editorial about jeff. Davis's letter, in
which you mention one from me.
1t is impossible that | wrote letter to
Mr.. Davis which could by any forced con-
structien be worked into any part of ga
secession harrangue." for when 1 wrote last
to Mr.. Davis, secession was not yet fully
inaugurated, and it i, equally impossible
that could have expressed sympathy with
rebels. for the rebellion had not yet bro
ken out. At the same time it is emphat-
ically true that never wrote line to Mr.
Davis expressive of any sympathy for
what may be supposed to have been the
views at the time OF those who afterwards
became rebels or secessionists. l have not
written to Mr.. Davis since Sumter was
fired upon, nor since Mississippi seeded
from The Union. nor, of course. since the
war commenced, nor have / ever used a
word in any letter to him which would
not be perfectly honorable to me as a pat
riotic citizen Of. the Democratic persuasion,
and supporter..of this war to suppress
the present rebellion, much as mourn its
existence. .tfst..si ..sE
Let the custodian of any letter of mine
to Mr.. Davis publish the same verbatim
and in full, with its proper date, and this
will appear.
Very respectfully.
August 20, 1858. w. w. Wick.
The courtesy of Judge Wick's note dis
arms criticism. or we might object that he
has taken rather unnecessary amount of
our space to say that 'he did write to Je ff
Davis. but it was before secession was full
ly inaugurated. and he could, therefore,
have expressed no secession sentiments, or
sympathies." which is really all he DOES
say. We shall not csntrovert his contra
diction. but we beg to suggest some con-
siderations which may qualify the loyalty
it implies: 1st. Captain Conner. who
found the letter, says it was dated in 1861.
secession was fully inargurated in Decem-
Der. 1860. 2d. Captain Conner is an in
telligent man, and quite able to distin-
guish secession harrangue" from 10y
al remonstrahce, one of which political
letter to JEFF. Davis any time after the Goth
of December. 1860, would very surely be.
81, The letter was deemed of enough i'm
portancs to be sent to Washingtoa. 4th.
1t is . lamentable, but indisputable fact.
that Democrat of the Vallandigham per-
suasion cannot be trusted to interpret his
own declarations. They insist that they
are all loyal. that they desire the preserva-
tion of the Union, and that they have new
or done. and their conventions have never
said. anything to embarras the prosecution
Of the war or encourage the rebellion
Yet they denouncs the tax. without which
the war could not DO prosecuted; they re-
sist the arrest of men notorionsly guilty Of
enlistmsnts; they condemn
the draft, which they chiefly have made no.
cessary by their. failure to volunteer-if the
Judge should controvert this, he will
please explain why his party so resolutely
and uniformly oppose all efforts to give
the soldiers the privilege of voting. and
why. when they do vote, only one in about
ten vote the Democratic ticket-thsy coun-
tenance or excuse the organized bands,
to be "Demec crats." who protect
deserters; they alone have written letters to
the army urging soldiers to desert, and
them protection;. from them
alone come threats Of resistance to the
and above all. the rebel pa
pers proclaim that il is fofhe1s alone 1s
Con1sdsy&eypaust look for ossistanee. This
is the interpretation which the rebels and