Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-29
WIN Mr.. Cha. EFT be Honest:

AA0 WpCh We pun W nun SAho AssSasoSSN~
~, We include the editor Of every Democratic
paper in the country. In a column and =
half of the Co.. stitution, Of Saturday last,
NJ. Clagett repeats the cd story that Geo.
Thompson was sent to this country many
years ago, with English gold, upon . mission
of dissolution. The learned G ntleman from
Maryland has certainly had access TO his ex-
char ges. and must, therefr re, be well ap
priz d OF what Mr.. Thompson said in his
speeches at Philadelphia and Wash'n1ton.
The why does he re publish the forged let
ter purporting to have been written from
Boston, March 18th, 1884, to one John A.
Muir ill, in Tennessee? Mr.. Clsgett, don't
you know that Mr.. T. has pronounced that
letter a 70 gerry? Certainly you do. What
better are you tn n he Who forged it?
Not many days ago Mr.. thompson was
granted tie use Of the Hall Of the Unit d
States House Of Represen atives, and arcept-
ed an inv tat on to address the peop'e OF
Washington therein, upon the issues OF the
Wy. OiIIuS ~ Tic OCScCi dltOu RIOpO6sO ",
some indiana c. ppernead proposed to the
House t. rescind us &C ion granting the use
OF the Hal to Mr.. Thom:s son. and gave as a
re~son the existence Of the letter pnb!ishe
by Mr.. C'agett. So soon as Mr.. Thompson
arrived in Wa>hingt n. he addressed to MIR.
Indiana Copp e'head (proper name immate'i
oily a no<n ash 20 h., nrfborirw Coo Cr,oh q
statement. Il gave the name Of Sherard
Clemens, who ma lie a similar statement many
years ago in Congress. When Mr.. T. ad-
dressed The Washington people, among whom
were the President, Vice Pres dent and other
di,oitari.s, he referred to this matter, and
th.re publicly declared the letter q forgery
that at the time it purported to haze been
written he had never written q letter to a per-
. N IN America, and that NC than all, he
new hid addressed o line to a citiz n of a
slave State. and we think he also stated th.t
At the date of the letter he never had been in
Amer ca. And this is The letter the Copper.
head press Of Iowa is now engag d in pub
lining. Had Bolens, of Washington, pub
lished the document we should not have been
surprised but when Cl4gett, a learned gen.
tie nan of extensive reading, stoops to so
mean and dirty a work as to give currency to
this forgery, there is no apology to be made
for him. The address of Mr.. T. in WASH
ington far excell d in point Of patriotism the
Union speeches of Clagett in 1861. 1t was
an eloquent, manly, straightforward express
sion OF sympathy for our cauee. He uttered
not a word that a loyal man could %di-approve.
So eloquent and earnest was his Plea il our
behalf, that at the conclusion of his address
one Of the first and foremost to press for
ward and seize his hand was the Hon. Rev.
erdy Johnson, who was a Wnig when Mr..
Clagett was a Wing, and at the sound of
whose tuele, always. until now, Mr.. Clagett
was quick to respond. Reverdy johnson, of
Marylar d. deemed it a pleasure to listen to
George Thompson, and his cheek did not
burn W tn shame. But Ciagett, the redouht-
able Thomas w., an old Maryland Wing,
says: "The cheek Of every American cugh,
to burn with shame at the announcement that
Messrs. Lincoln, Chase and Usher attended
the lecture of George Thompson" The
world moves, but some men seem not to
move with t. Gay. tt anon them.