Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-02-22
LETTER FROM JOHN RUSSELL.
PENNSNILLE. ZEE

EENNSN lille, i EB I5tn, 1900.
S J. Row. EsQ.-Enclosed find letter,
which desire you to publish. As the Ed
itor Of the Republican, after using por-
ton Of three numbers of his paper in at
tempting TO place me falsely before his read
ers, thaying published but one letter of
mine has virtually, as | understand it.
closed his columns against ne, by saying
that be is done with me. | give him this
farewell epistle. }. RUSSELL.
Ed. tCLEARFIELD REPUBLICAN. Al
low me once more. and. perhaps, for the
last time in this controversy, to intrude up
on your patience, by briefly noticing few
of the many glaring inconsistencies, which
stand out in such bold relief in your two re-
plies to my letter of january 25d, and your
comments upon my address, in the latter one.
First: Your reason for positively as
serting that my address was reported cor
rectly by the .JouJWay correspondent. Be-
ton was written by John himself. 0 what
an excuse. Well, why. or upon what eyi-
dence did you believe this? Or, are you 30
constituted that you can believe things with
out evidence? provided it will subserve
your purpose. Now, be honest, f0r once:
I Did you really think, from your acquain-
taDca with me, that / was the self-conceited
egotist which you would have your readers
believe?
Your second reply begins with; The ad-
dress, or what purports to be the address.
&c. Now, here again is u mean insinuation,
without the shadow OF evidence, that l.
falsely reported it. IF | deemed it necessa-
ry, I could furnish indubitable proof of its
correctness as / furnished you with it,, But,
you distort it By emitting letters and
lv. =
instance, I'VE trust for the county, instead
of the creeljt Of the county; and My God 5
blessing, instead Of May God blessing, &C.
In reference to your grave charge OF false
hood terrible iaoteed yOU hare nude 1t. L
might have qualified my statement by say
ing that not one word, to lcitch you so str0Rg-
~ object, was contained, &C., had supposed
that any man, much less an Editor, would
have been so supremely ignorant as to fail
to comprehend my meaning. But here, as
usual, you fly from the clause upon which
you harped in your former issue, because
you were cornered there, and for want OF
something you grasp at nothing. But to
crown the climax OF Inconsistency and ig-
| norance, if not Of malice prel1ease, we find
you Eesuvius like belching forth volume
of lava against John for not telling you
who made this Government; and in detail
ing to your readers who lived and died in
the daily parctice of what he calls the sum
of all Williams off your eggs and on the
straw, away from your subject entirely and
laying hold Of that which is irrelevant to the
issue before you. But why attribute to me
the credit of calling slavery the ''sum of all
villanies?' Are you indeed more ignorant
than the school boy of ten years, of the
language used by the immortal Wesley
Or do you not know the use of the quotation
mark? Or did you with full knowledge
Of these things wilfully and malicously de-
sign to misrepresent and falsify for want of
better argument, in order to effect your OBJ
iect? Verify" Daniel, [ believe you are
done" and if you can do no better than
you have done. [ am done, too; for | scorn
to continue a correspondence that can be of
so little interest to the general reader.
Farewell, Daniel, till we meet again.
JOHN RUSSELL.