The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-23
note from Col. oOnneIL

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Note from Col. CONDeH.
LANCASTER, Aug 18th, 1906.
Mr. Gris,ood viii you favor myself and great
many OF your very best Union subscribers, by in
serting the enclosed communication in your next
issue OF the Gazsne. The number and respectablitc
of those Of your subscribers who ask this favor is
probably greater than you may be aware Of and they
ask as matter Of justice to be heard by all Of their
Union friends upon a subject, upon which it is much
TO he regretted there should be such wide differences
Of opinion among true Union men equally patriotic
and honest. I'm, .H u 4ase4ll
II you are afraid or dsncned to publish the en-
closed please return 1t at once that it may be other
wise used. Truly Yours, M
uEHA iatBd aatinFl ',o JIM. CoNNEBL.
.up'g --Hlfilv '--+- reatil
Col. CoNNELL will see by referring
to the preceding COLUMNS that we are
neither .'alraid' kor f"dfsinclincd" to
publish his communication, potwith-
standing the epiritiof it's opening par.
'agraphsmays mrdesignedto provoke
us into a refusal to give it a place
Nor are we impelIed to its publication
by any feardrf the, consequences Of
such q refusal, in the communication
being "otherwiseused" in any manner
for our annoyance or discontinue
We publish it simply for the reason
that We choose to meet at the outset
its assumptions concerning onrself,
without waiting 10 have them hurled
at us through some malignant Copper
head medium, with added features, Of
lunfairpcss and injustice. 'M uuv
p The lofty tone of rebuke assumed
by Col. Coinell in speaking Of our
brief notice of Mr.. EwISa's letter. de-
riyes all lis force from misinterpre.
tation ora misrepresentation of what
we said. By no other mode can any
expression in it be made to appear dis
respectful or insulting to that eminent
and venerable gentleman. We here
re insert the paragraph protcndcdly
deemed so offensive by Mr.. Ewing's
champion, in order that it may be
scanned immediately in connection
with what we now have to say in
relation TO il: ''
Mn. EwrNGs LErTER--As wo hayo not seen prop.
er to print IN the columns of the Gareffe the lengthy
letterol Hon.T Ewing, Of this city, on the subject
Of the Philadepda Convention, We shall not give
pice to any Ofth6 reviews or criticisms which II has
called out. It's great ability and the force of its
reasoning from the premises laid down, may be fully
conceded-yet when we zee u employed as beacon
to light and lure ns INTO the Coppcrhead Democratic
camp, and an aid to the restoration of the nation =
worst enemies to political power, we must he excus-
ed for perslstlng IN keeping our footsteps turned in
the opposite direction. No weight OF q great name,
J0ndd to the highest order Of intellectual capacity
and acknowledging patrOttil iitentions III setting
forth views Of the kty orthe citizen in this moment
Gus hour, though directed to the advocacy Of
mediate object not necessarily harmful IN ITSELF is
stlclcnt tO overcome the instructive aversion ielt
toward II by the great body o American Union patrl.
ols as leading suiPly to contamination most Of I'll
10 he dreaded by every truH friend of the Republic
Any thing winch tends in the remotest degree to n
restoration of Democratic rebels 10 the control of the
government, Is 10 be guarded against with the same
vigilance used against the pcstencc thnt walkcth in
darkness AMI Wasteih NJ nOon1av, and the irer aud
more plausible tile guise IN which il appears, the
more dangerous It Vs. ana the more sedulousy to be
avoided
The assumption that we churacteriz.
cd the letter of Mr.. Ewing ms "a bea-
con to hight and lure us into the Cop
perhcad Democratic camp" &C.. is
contrary to the fact What we did so
characterize, was its employment for
that purpose; but wc did not intimate
that it was so employed or intended to
be, by its author. And in using this
language we were not assigning rea-
son for emitting to publish the Letter,
but merely declaring that such unau
thorized use Of it by evil disposed par
ties constituted u sufficient inducement
for us Individually to persist sin keep.
ing our footsteps turned in the oppo-
site direction" from that leading into
"the Coppcrhead Democratic camp
That the letter of Mr. Ewing ,cdS and
is employed by others in the manner
intimated by us, is a truth that no
living man can gainsay The meanest
copperhead and rebel newspapers and
stumpcrs in the land haye used and
are using IL fo' 40 other real purpose
under heavon than TO NlIght and lure"
Union men ''into the Copperhead Dem
ocratic camp, aud as an aid to the res,
toratlon of the nltion's worst enemies
to political power" The Devil can
quote Scripture for his purposes-and
so can traitors quote even so unobjec-
tionable document as that Letter, for
theirs--yet this fact detracts nothing
from the merit of either tho Scriptures
or the Letter, and its assertion is not
disrespectful to the one or tho other.
Another groundless assumption in
Col. Connell's communication is that
we said "there was an instructive aver.
sion felt toward it, (thc Col. is refer.
ring to Mr., Ewings lctter,) "by tho
great body OF American Union patri-
OTIS" &c. Let tho reader look at the
sentence thus partially quoted, as it
stands in our article 1t contains no
mention whatever of tho Leltor-so
that 1t could not DO what was alluded
to as the thing toward which an in
stinetive aversion was felt. The com.
monest understanding ought to be able
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