The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-21
THE GATE CITY
MONDAY. nov. u.



ASSAULTS - xns 1ouzsvrIls souRnAI.
10 Gsps y. Pysss;cs, ~:
Siadg be openisg Of this Presidential
campaien have beeu repeatedly asaailed
tn, ugh your paper, either sdieorially o.
by such dismissed officers q Wolford. !
have never replied either to your EDITOR
Al pttacks or the attacks Of different COR
res noudents, | have felt ssaured that
you desired to make Soma little capital for
your Constitutional Conss States.
Rights psace.ou-any terms ticket, and it
gratifies me little 70 know thst my blows
have been felt somewhere. In notieisg
your attacks at this late day, il will be ap.
parent to all that address myselfto you,
and not to the odds and ends Of all crea
ton who compose the newly-o organised
partuof Democrats and traitors with whom
you are associated.
In your paper Of the 30ih Of October,
you state, ed,torially, that "Brownlow
having received office from Lincoln, he
now declares his appreciation, as We un-
derstand, 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 a statement of facts, after
which / propose to contrast my record
with yours, and to take . brief view Of
the relations yout family and mine sus-
tain to this rebellion.
hold an Office In the Treasury Depart.
ment, 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, add at no
time has paid the board of my susl fsmi.
ly, with my two sons in the army. have
retained the position because desired to
serve my friends in East Tennessee, and
to unite with them in restricting the bene-
fits of trade to the loyal men OF the coun.
try.
During the first eighteen months Of the
war, you associated with others, held of.
fee under Lincoln, or, it you please, we're
mixed up with contracts; and when
last saw you, in Nashville, summer vas .
year ago, you was staving. and putting
along, to and from the front, moving
heaven and earth, to secure some big con
tracts to supply the Army Of the Cumber.
land, and writing the most sickening aud
fatering notices of General Roseerans, in
the hope of winning upon him and his
officials. But all your Hattery failed. and
ell the letters you preseated failing to se.
cure for you the contracts you sought.
and thus refusing 10 give you your
"price," you bolted from the support of
Liucoln's administration. While YOU
were interested 10 contracts under the
government, you was as good a Lincoln
man as | was.
To be candid with You. Mr.. Prentice.
you figured badly 10 YOUR scramble after
contracts. ard your clamor for extra
privileges-others. associated with You.
and making a tool of you, and using your
position as journalist, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
into positions where they could swindle
the Government Indeed, | have heard
the remark made by men who had always
oeen your admirers, that it was humilst-
ing-nay, mortlfyiDg and disgrsceful. 20
see poor old man ia his do,sge, and nm
der the influence of liquor, and an inordi-
nate love of money, in such drive as you
were In, going and coming to Rosecrsns's
headquarters and calling at the ST. Cloud
Hotel, at Nashville, to muster up addi-
tional hackers
When | was North, after / had spoken
extensively, aud my speeches were re-
corted equally extensively, and | was
made to say to the world what I really
did say, that | endorsed Liucoln's entire
war policy, and the putting down of the
rebellion even ut a cost of DISCRIMINATING
the Southern population, you wrote to me
and proposed TO Join me in partnership in
starting new Union paper in Nashville |
--an offer politely declined. 1t is due
to you to state that, at that time. ron
were receiving your price" and nv |
principles we're not offensive to you. You
are the last rnsn in America to talk abous |
men having their "price" and selling out
% Lincoln.
There is slight difference in the pos;.
ions occupied BY your family and nine.
mo Is necessary consequence, your
principles, and mine must differ. NJ
vile and little children, after l had been
ncarcerated for three months and sent
'nt OF the country, we're uneerem onious-
iorced to pack up and vacate their
louse and home, and go North at their
wn expense. upon thirty six hours notice
no thus throwo upon my hands North.
'hile my property remained here for the
ss OF the Confederacy l thought an
ne tlme. and still! think, that the Gov
rnment ought to have done somethicc ,
'ore Tor me than to confer upon me this !,
mall Office, although have not expressed :
his opinion before.
wy TWO sons entered the Federal armv
no one of them is now at home ~
'u,enes' because Of wounds received in
'auing aus reeiment Of GAYS airy in CHARGE
pom wheeler's forces ia Middle Tsnpe.s
&c. Ny other son is ia Gen. G;llsm,.
and was in tie fight when ,bs
reat ksntucky horse thief, Moran was :,
lied, and under whom or Win - 80 4,
'ur cons have been fighting sgria., ~. /"
overnmeut upon whose boanty ths;s
bel mother and contract -hunt.nr fa,ber
9 living. One of your sons vas killeaj
Kentucky willis on horse atealin.