Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-10-05
CONGRATULATIONS,
OF INC JaZetl
H. J Walters, Esq"

MeSSrS. Editors Some left handed
friend, under the above caption, prefers an
indictment against ne, to the material part
Of which l ask ROOM In your columns,
where it appears, to plead not guilty. 1t
has only been by perverslon of my Ian
guage that | am quoted as have been, by
your correspondent, who masks himself be
hind an anonymous signature.
| have never been an = unscrupuous"
or any other kind Of wire worker"
l fearlessly appeal to the record of my
acts 10 this community to repel the allega
tions that my course relative to the war
- has been radically for So Ithern interests
BY mixing up the subject Of a converse
tiOn upon several topics | an made to say
that | felt like counSeiing resistance to the
draft rather than aiding to obtain reduc
ton of the quota Of this district. After
the dispatches Of Mr.. Barker were re-
ceived here | was spoken to on the subject
and expressed the doubt that further effort
would effect anything, for the reason that
| did not see how the deficiency would be
provided for, under the call that would be
created by the reducritsi
said that the excessive quota was great
wrong, and # repeated would amount to an
outrage which would teud TO resistance to
the draft used the quote ton resistance
to tyrants is obedience to God" as expires
sive Of the feeling that would animate
those who might be prompted to attempt
resistance and all this in discussion of
possible contingency This conversation
was brief and hurried one, and while |
may have been misunderstood-I kHov |
have been misinterpreted-it would never
have been thus represented if | had not
been subsequently placed in the position of
a candidate for the Senate
did not say when Sumter was captured
that was 'giad the South ha d come out"
&c, nor anything akin to it. | did then
say that | was glad no HveS had been sacri
feed, because felt that if blood had been
spilled it would have more deeply emb:t
tered feeling on both sides, and rendered
more difficult any effort at adjustment
L do not want to extend this reply to
your correspondents disingenuoas critlsism N
of my course, or | should refer to some
other allusions Of his article am not an
admrer of Mr.. Lincoln, and disapprove
many Of the acts of his administration, but
1t Is entirely gratuitGus to assume that
would rather 'have jeff Davis enthroned
at Washington than Abraham Lincoln"
Let me add do not believe their allie
cations would have been made if | had
not, unexpectedly to myself, been made
candidate for the Senate do not reply
to them because l an candidate, but for
the reason that they are untrue in point of
fact, and that | do not want, under any
circumstances, to lie under the imputation
Of holding sympathy for or with the mis-
erable consplrators who have wickedly as
sailed the integrity of the Union.
In conclusion, while do not want, ex
cept in self vindication, to speak of my own
exertions or those Of my family, in pro,
noting all the movements having ref erence
to raising volunteers and bounlies and pro
viding for the comfort of our gallant sol
diers in the field and their families at
home, since the inception of this unnatu.
raj rebellion, | am ready to compare notes
with X or any other individual or family in
this community. Ii j. WALTERS.