Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-15
BROWNLOa on PREsTIgg.
Assaults By the Loul.vrrrs JourBal.

10 George ". PreatteS, Esq.
Since the opening Of the Presidential
campaign, l have been rerestedly sssaiIei
through your paper, either eiitorf Nv OF
BY such dismissed officers and humbuGs Is
Wolford- have lever replied either 70
yeur editorial attacks or the attacks Of
different correspondents. I have felt as
sured that you desired TO make sorne iit.Io
capital for your Constitutional-C Conserve
tlve-otates- Rights Peaee-on-sny-Terus
Ticket, and 1t has eratiied me a little tn
know that my blows have been fslt some.
where. In noticing your stacks at this
late day, It will be apparent to all that I
address myself to you, and not 10 the ODDS
and ends Of all Gods creation wh1 COM
pose the newly organized party Of Demo
erAts and traitors with whom you ars asso-
ciated.
In your Pspsr Of the 3Oth Of Otober You
state, editOrially, that Brovnlow. havine
received office from Lincoln, he now de.
clares his appreciation, as We understand,
Of all 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 statement of facts. aher
which 1 propose to contrast my record with
yours, and to take brief view of the rela-
tions your family and mine sustain to this
rebellion.
I hold an Office in tho Treasury Depart
ment which was conferred upon me bv 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. I have retsfnad
the position because 1 desired 10 serve nv
friends In East Tennessee, and TO unite
with them in restricting the benefits of
trade TO the loyal men Of the country.
During the frst eighteen months Of the
war, yoa associated with others, held ofSee
under Lincoln, or, If yo1 ylease, were mix
ed up with contracts; and when I last saw
you, in Nashville, summer was year, YOU
was staving and putting along, TO and from
the front, moving Heaven and earth, 10 se-
cure some bigcontract to supply the army
Of the Cumberland, and writing the most
sicAening and hattering notices Of General
Rosecrans, in the hope Of winning upon
him and his officials. But all your hattery
failed, and all the letters you presented
Jailed to secure for you the contracts YOU
sought and thus refusing to give you
your ''price," you bolted from The support
Of Lineoln's Administration While YOU
were interested in contracts under the
Government you was as good Lincoln
man as l was.
To be caudid with you, Mr.. Prentice.
you figured badly In youI scramble sfter
C attracts and your clsmor for extra priv
ilegss-Others, associated with YOU. ana
making tool Of you, and using your DO
sition as journalist 70 worm themselves
INTO positions where they could swindle the
Government. Indeed I heard the re-
mark made BY men who had always been
your admirers, that it was humiating-nay
Notifying and disgraceful-to see = poor
old man in his dOtage, and under the in
auence Of liquor and an inordinate love
Of money, in such drive as you were In.
going and coming to Rosecrans' headauar-
ters and calling at the St Cloud Hotel, at
Nashville, to muster up additional baekers,
While I was North, after I had spoken
extensively, and my speeches were report
ed equally extensively, and was made TO
say TO the world what really did say,thst
| endorsed Lincoln's entire war polioy. and
the putting down Of the rebellion even at
the cost Of exterminating the entire South.
ern population, you tOrote to no and pro-
Prosed to JOIN 'Hs IN partnership ~ START
ing a1ssl0 Union paper IN NaskvilLs-au Of
fer which politely declined. Il il due
TO you to state that, at that time, You wero
receiving your 'tpriee, and my principles
were net offensive to you. You are the
last man in America to talk about men
having their aprice' and selling QUITO Lin
coin.
There is q slight difference In the posi-
tons occupied By your family and mine,
and, as q necessary consequence, your prin-
ciples and mine must differ. I'd
My wife and little children, after I had
been incarcersted for three months and
sent out Of the country, were uneersmdni-
ously forced to pack up and vScate their
house and home, and go North at their osVs
expense, upon thirty-six hours' notice, and
thus thrown upon my hands North, while
my property remained here for the Use Of
the Cenfederacy. Thought all the time,
and still think, that the. .GoVernmeat ought
TO have done something more for me than
to confer upon me thissmall Office, although
I have not expressed this opinion before.
My two sons entered the Federal army,
and one Of them isnOw at home on cratch-
ea, because of wounds received in leading
his regiment Of cavalry in q charge upon
WIZ forces in Middle Tennessee. Nv
other son is in General Gillem's command,
and was in the fight when the great Ken
lucky hOrse-thief, Morgan, was killed, un-
der whom and with whom your sons have
been fighting against the GoYernmeas on
which their rebel mother and contIact-hunt
ing father are living. One Of your sons was
killed IN Kentucky while on horse-steal-
ing expedition under rebel oficers. Your
other son is now on trial in Virginia for
the murder of brother rebel BY the nnins
Of White. Your wifeis an AVowed rebel,
and ought 10 be sent South by the Fed
eral authorities; and you are but degree
removed from a rebel and traitor, hav-
ing completely played out. There is
not true hearted Union man in your
Office, unless he be some one Of the en-
ployees. Your paper is no longer Union
authority, but is rapidly sinking into dis
repute, and meeting with that eontemps
its treason merits.
With pity for the sorroTs Of poor old
man, 1 am &c, a1 laa
". g. BRowELow.
November 5.