The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-05-10

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falsehood
WASHINGTON, Apil %.
IbaYe just seen the following, which
appeared as an eaitoritl in the Ohio States
man Of the 23d inst:
The persistent downright lying Of Agate and
few other Washington letter-Writeri, makes
it our duty to print the names of the Demo-
cratic members of Congress from Ohio for
whom Mr.. Cox spoke when he disavOwed
Aleck Long utteranees in favor Of reeOgniz-.
ing the Southern COnfederacy. We are au-
thorized to say, that our Representative spoke
for the following Congressman: S, s. Cox,
George Bliss, W. P. Noble, W. A. Hutchins
VIM. Johnston, F.. C. LeBlond, J. " White
]. R. Morris, William E. FincK, John o'Neill.
J. F McKiuney--slepsn out of fourteen Dem
oeratie members. The remaining three are.
George H. Pendleton, Chiffon A. White and
Aleck Long himself.
The person whom have kuown as the
Editor of the Ohio Statesman is a gentle
man, Of course, therefore, he did not
write the above; aud the charge, freely
made by Democratic Congressman from
Ohio, that Mr.. Samuel C,x (Member of
Congress from the Columbus, o., DISTRICT
is in the habit of writing editorials in the
Statesman, putting himself, or pettifqgging
to extricate himself from akward embar-
.rassments. must be true.
I am glad, theref,rq, to be able to deal
directly with Mr. Cox, I had occasion re-
Gently to expose two grave crimes, Of which |
that person had been auilty-fraud, in
palming off upon the public through the
Associated Press, a speech, represented to /
have been delivered by him in tbecourse of
an excited running debate in the House, /
which he delivered there; and falssHood; /
il reasserting in that speech, that coucus
Of eleven Democratic members from Ohio
had met, the morning the resolution to
ezpel Mr. Long was introduced, and au-
thorized him to disayow Mr., Longs senti-
ments. I made those charges (and gave
facts and particulars to substan tiate them, /
upon my personal responsibility, and 1
stand ready now as F=did- then, to prove
them to tue satisfaction Of any jury in
Christendom.
Mr.. Cox does well, therefore, not to deny /
either 1sharge. His silence confess the
crime, and he stands convicted of deIiber-
ate fafsehOod; and there is not DemooTat-
ic member from Ohio, besides himself, who
Pretends to deny it. +
Thus convicted, Mr. Cox seeks to raise
new issue and avoid meeting the old one.
Let him. / do not mean that he shall .es-
cape the fraud and falsehood already fast
ened upon him; butaI am puite willing to
fOlIow.hin to his new defense He says
he was authorised to speak for eleven Of
.he Ohio Democrats, and names them as
above. I am glad that he was indiscrcet
enough to come to names. Let me ana
yse the list:
Five, out OF the eleven, aoere at the in
formal and accidenal meeting which be
absurdly called a "oaucus. They were
George Bliss, WIN. E. Finck, Jos. W.
White, F. @. LeBlond and J. F. McKin-
hey. These, and only these, constituted
he "caucus" which Mr.. Cox magnifsd in
o formal convo,a.ion Of the Ohio Demo- 1
,ratio members, and which bis revised
dwarfod again into a meeting
# eleven of them. i1E aFsE
Mr.. W. A. Hutchins had been out Of {
he city, and had just returned that morn {
ng He had just reached the room where
beso five were e,when it was announced that I,
lolfax had introduced a resolution to ez-
.eI Long, and without one further word Of I
BUSINESS they all rushed out to see about {
t. No action had been had, and neither
]ox nor any body ESQ was authorised to
peak even for the fire, much less for the
leven. For the proof Of this / refer to
YIN. E. Finok, Jos w. White, or any Of
,thers named above as present, So much G
Or that, tf !
But Mr. Cox, q take him Of course as !
be author or iuspirOr Of the stutesman's c