Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-08-04
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A CARD FROM rpxuSp Kmxx.


A CARD FROM EDMUND KfRKg.
To the Edhof of The Boston Transcript
. Sfs: As the small amount of printers
INK which you used upon me in last even
ing Transcript somewhat sfects my friend
Co, Jsques-tof whom you charge me
with having q "weskness"--you will. 1
know. allow me small space In reply.
confess to weakness for Col. James
and hope the day may never come when
have not a weakness for him, and for al men
like him. L consider him true. .,brave, pat
riotic, Christian gentleman. He is widely
known and esteemed at the West. Before
the war he was for fourteen years President
Of Quincy College. Illinois, and at the
breaking out Of the Rebellion was selected
b" Governor Yates to raise three years
regiment
He did 20, and With that regime nt was in
the font Of the assault OF Fort Donelson:
did effective service at Pittsburgh Landing:
saved our left wing at PenyvilIe; fought as
never saw men fight before" {those were
Gen. R,secrans's exact words to mel at
Stone River stood his ground till three
horses were shot under him, and three
fourths Of his men lay dead or wounded
about him, at Chickamauga, and was the
Jfrsf man to enter the Rebel intrenchmepts
on the heights Of Mission Ridge. Such
rocord, think, should justify any weakness
] have for him.
With his supposed Emission" I have
nothing to do. Iwent with him--or rath.
er he went with me, for my pass directed
Gen. Grant to ''aIlow j. r. Gilmore and
friend to pass our lines and 90 South-to
unegrivocally, that the President knew
nothing Of his accompanying me.
MIR. Lincoln, though an old.time friend
and acquaintance of Col. Jacques, has not
even seen him for now nearly :hree years.
How the newspaper statements in refer |
ence to our visit to Mr.. Davis originated !
do not know. Until II o'clock last night
when returned to my home in this city
had communicated to no human being |
except Gems. Butler and Grant and the |
President, the fact of having been in the |
Rebel capital at all.
So much for your paragraph. Now. al !
low me few words in reference to a tele. !
gram in this mornings Advertiser. which |
charges me with being an ottoche of the n. |
Y. Tribune, and with having some connec-
tion with the Sanders Greeley negotiation
that is said to be going on at Niagara Falls.
l am NOT, and nerer hare been, connected
with the New York Tribune. At the ur-
gent solicitation of Mr.. Sidney Howard ray,
the managing editor Of that journal (who is
very dear and intimate friend of mine,
did consent, nearly two years ago, to the
Tribune Association publishing cheap edi-
ton Of my books lLut that arrangement
was long since discontinued and did, in
July last, write half dozen sketches for
that paper. ..
| have nor, however, exchanged a word
W l.,
fully three months. and have no connec-
ton with. in fact know absolutely nothing
OF his negotiations.
This much, however, in reference to that
much-talked of matter. being Yankee. l
can guess II piWresuh IN nothing Jeffer-
son Davis said tn me last Sunday land with
all his faults believe him man of truth:
This ,oar must 90 on till the last of hlis gln-
GRAFTON falls IN his trucks. and his children
seize his musket and fight our battles, unless
you ackno'olettge our rights to se!f-goUern-
nlent. We are not fighting for Slavery
We are fighting for INDEPENDENCE, and
that, or ertcrmination, zoe ioiU hare"
Ii Messrs. Sanders, Holcombe, Tbomp-
son l. Co. have pulled the wool" over the
eyes OF Mr.. Greeley, they have not pulled
it over the eyes of Mr.. lincoln. He, l
know, fully understands and appreciates
their overtures, and you can safely assure
your readers that the interests and honor of
the country are safe in his hands. Ifevery
man, woman and child in this nation knew
him as do, they would believe this, and
would say, as d., GOD BLESS HIM
have returned from the South much
prostrated BY. disease contracted there. but
if my strength allows, | shall tell you, and
your readers, ''how and why ! went to
in the next (September) num-
reading public know me by that cegnomen,
but as desire to be considered personally
for the statements herein,
my true name hereto.
JAMES r. GILMORE,
No. At West Cedar street, Boston.
Friday Morning. July %. 1864.