The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-12-01
Assault by the Louisville journal.

IT. George ID. Prentice, Esq:
Since the opening Of the Presidential
campaign, Ihave been repeatedly assail-
ed through your paper, either editorially
or by such dismissed officers and hum
bugs as Wolford- have never replied
either to your editorial attacks. or the
attacks Of different correspondents.
I have felt assured that you desire
to make some little capital for your
Constitutional -Concervative-St State
Rights-Peacc-on- any -terms-ticket,
and it has gratifed me little to know
that my blows have been felt somewhere.
In noticing your attacks at this late day,
it will be apparent TO all that / address
myself to you, and not to the odds and
ends of all Gods creation who compose
the newly organized party of Democrats
and traitors with whom You are associa-
ted.
In your paper Of the Both Of October
you state, editorially, that "Brownlow
having received office from Lincoln, he
now declares his appreciation, as we I'M
derstand, of oil that Lincoln has done
and all he may hereafter do Every such
man has his price"
This, Mr.. Prentice. is direct charge
Of bribery and corruption, and needs to
be ventilated by a statement of facts,
after which propose to contrast my re-
cord with yours, and to take q brief view
of the relations your family and mine
sustain to this rebellion.
hold an office in the Treasury De
partment which was conferred upon me by
Mr.. Chase without my seeking it, or any
friend applying for me. The pay is not
equal to the labor performed, and at no
time has paid the board of my small
family, with my two sons in the army.
have retained the position because 1
desire to serve my friends in East Ten
nessee, and to unite with them in restrict
ing the benefits Of trade to the loyal men
Of the country.
During the first eighteen months of the
war, you, associated with others, held
Office under Lincoln, or, if you please,
were mixed up with contracts; and when
last saw you, in Nashville, summer was
year ago, you was striving and putting
along, to and from the front, moving
Heaven and earth, to secure some big
contract to supply the Army of the
Cumberland, and writing the most sick
ening and flattering notices of General
Rosecrans, in the hope of winning upon
him and his officials. But all your fiat
terry failed, and all the letters you pre-
scented failed to secure for you the con
tracts you sought: and thus refusing to
give you your ''price," you bolted from
the support Of Lincoln's Administration.
While you were interested in contracts
under the Government, you was as good
n Lincoln man as l was.
To be candid with you, Mr.. Prentice,
you figured badly in your scramble after
contracts, and your clamor for extra
and making a tool of you, and using
your position as journalist, to worm
themselves into positions where they
could swindle the Government Indeed.
I heard the remark made by men who
had always been your admirers, that it
was humilating-nay, notifying and
disgraceful-to see poor old man in
his dotage, and under the influence of
liquor and an inordinate love of money,
in such a drive as you were in, and go
ing and coming 70 Rosecrans' head
quarters, and calling at the st. Cloud
Hotel, at Nashville, to muster up addi-
tionsl hackers.
While / was North, after had spoken
extensively, and my speeches were re-
ported equally extensively, and l was
made to say to the world what l really
did say, that I endorsed Lincoln's entire
war policy, aud the putting down of the
rebellion even at the cost of discriminating
the Southern population, you wrote to
me and proposed TO join me in partner
ship in starting . new Union paper in
Nashville-an offer politely declined
tbs due to you to state. the time, you
were receiving your ''price," and my
principles were not offensive to you. You
are the last man in America to talk about
men having their price" and selling out
tor Lincoln. lEa SAIL
There is . slight difference in the po-
sitions occupied by your family aud mine