Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-09-15
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III
The Inst Sentinel, takes the back track, and
throws the imputatlon Of misunderstanding or
misrepresentation of its language, 1t never
meant TO be understood as charging the bar
with 'placng all kinds of obstructionsi In the way
of the administration of Justice" No, no, no
thing Of the kindl well, this assertion neither
astonishos or deceives ne, and we presume no
intelligent reader is surprised at IL. We never
supposed for moment that the Editor would
mean any such thing after attention had been
called TO It. II our worthy friend has weak
ness, it is just this very one. lie takes posi-
tion ore week, and afterwards finding that the
step is impolitic, or that he has put his head
into hole through which he cannot draw his
launches he wriggles out again. He now says,
he only argued the position upon the hypothesis
of such and such declarations having been
made, but carries along, all the time, the idea,
that il we were not falsifying the bar intention
ally, we had been grossly humbuged. This,
was on the principles 'thou art the man, If
guilty, il not then some other man! This is
clear enough we suppose, from the assertion
made in the Sentnel's last weeks article-"We
do not believe they mean anything of the kind /;
but since the threat is authortatively put forth,
we must treat II as SUCH" No, our friend never
meant any such thing 1--WE would not as
perse the Bar in this District, by even the in
sinuation of what the TELEeRAPH avows, and
yet argues out the whole matchmaking that
about the only argument of his article
This is eminently characteristic of our cotem-
porary, and this kind of wriggling, does no in
justice to either his taste or practice.
Just look at the manliness of this assertion
surely, as we said, THEY DO NOT WANT to be
presented as combining to break up the court. I"
No sir, they do not want, nor have they ever
been, but by the Sentinel, represented as ''com-
bining to break up the court" They say indi-
yidually-each for himself-we have no conf
dence in such Judge, and will not trusts the
interests of our clients in his hands, and their
is no misgving or half heartedness about It,
They mean it. They mean what they say, when
they assert that they will not recognize such a
man as Judge, and until they shall assert that
this is Misrepresentation for which they will
not responsible, Mr.. Editor, you may pro-
ceed directly with your argument instead of up
on the hypothetical idea.
The allusion to us az q "selfappointed organ
and champion" is perhaps, as truthful and
honest as any other part of the Sentinel's arti-
Gle, if not little more so. We have espoused
this cause, after mature delberation, free from
all influence from interested parties, without
CONSIDERATION, and without any one to dog u.
in season and out, to weigh or direct our word.
or positions, and we can assure the Editor of tn,
Sentinel, as well as his fellow laborer over east
that the sense of manlness and self-respect
| arising from that thought, is somewhat agreea
bic. We rather prefer it to the other course
although it may not be as pecuniarily profitable
| What the Sentinel means by 'insinuation, " il
hard to tell No body has damned Judge Cha
| flee with faint praise, or 'insinuation." Tht
charges are bold and unqualified, and corrobo
rated by ample testimony, and no statute of lin
itaons comes in to preclude or rule out, as plead
by the Sentinel Rather rough insnuations!
The declarations of the Sentinel, about "Sint
against freedom and the holy cause of liberty,
and binding race forever in chains, looks Sc
rious upon paper, but we shall wait for some
thing little more specific, before taking action
Please trot EN- out Mr.. Sentinel, as we want tc
| see how they look.