Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-01

MR EDITOR by puDllsnlng the suolOlDeu arU-
Gle. tai, n from the Mahoning Courier of lastwesk.
You viii ,bIse many of your readers. W.
The Register Man & IIOn.JOhn Hufchins
The Editor of the Mahoning R eg:ster. fresh from
the lucrative emOlument Ofhis Washington Clerk
ship. and prompted by his ill-advised zeal in be-
halfOf his patron. has felt himself called upon to
put forth a second article full OF low abuse of Hon.
John Hutehins. l say second article, because it is
found in the last issue of the Register, but it. in re-
atty contains no new matter, and Is simply a re-
hash of last weeks TRADE, which was made up of
wholesale abuse of Mr.. Hutchins, void of either
This young man unknown by, and unfamiliar
with the people of this County, with an amount of
assurance which is really astonishing, attempts
with 4 single swOOp of his pedantic pen, to write
down the character and fair fame of a man, so
widely and fayOrably known as Mr.. Hutchins =
This newly fedged Editor, if he knowns anything.
must be aware that Mr.. Hutchins has always been
recognized IN this community as an able lawyer.
an honorable gentleman, and a generous public
spirited citizen; that he bore the reputation in
Congress of an energetic, discrete, and faithful
member. keenly alive to the needs and interests OF
his entire constituency; that he was . trne Tarif
man, by first intentions, that the Postal Reform
Bill which he prepared, and the clear concise speech
when ne made upon its Introduction into the
House. secured for him a wide and enviable repu-
tatiOn that both were published and favorabIy
eommented upon oy the leading journals in Eng
land. that the Post Master General in his annual
report especially returned the thanks of the De-
partment to Mr.. Hutchins for his efforts to bring
about a much needed reformin the Postal SYSTEM:
and that nearly all of the reforms that have been
made since in that Department were borrowed
from Mr.. Hutchins Bill, and were the result OF
his faithful and practical labOrs. This Register
man must know if he is at all familiar with the
history of Legislative bodies, that it is no uneom-
mon thing for a man to talk himself into an early
political grave in such n body and that a member
OfCongress. may, in his efforts to secure a notOriety
pay too much attention to speech making, and too
tfIe to the legitimate business of his position,
But in order that this hopeful knight of the quill
may understand that others besides the humble
writer Of THIS article. entertained a high opinion
of Mr.. Hutchins's course in Congress, 1 will quote
briefly from an Editorial which appeared in the
Portage County Democrat after the nomination of
Gen. GARFIELD four years ago. The paragraph re-
terred TO, reads as follows:
AS to Hon. John Hutehins. it is no mark OF
dlsapprobatIon, that in a newly arranged District,
by the nomination of another he retires at the end
OF two terms IN Congress, l0hen his record Is hon
ordbLe, for faithful application 10 bHsiuets, a Dqfrt-
oIe o1dteartess discharge Of duty. and an uHlcdper-
ing fidelity to priRcipLes."
Come now Mr.. Register, what do you think Of
thus witness Is he not a creditable one? To be
sure ne Is now yylng with you In attempting to be.
little Mr.: Hutchins in the estimation of the people
IN this District, but when the article above men.
toned was written, he was impelled by no motive
to mistake facts or to utter u~ntruth-while his
present abusive course is easily accounted for
when 1t Is known that he is simply playing hl
contemplate part of a regularly organized plan
to cover all over with the unclean slime of SIAN
der, the fair name and fame Of our late patriotic
and fearless member" These men seem to have
forgotten that,
Islander. that worst Of poison, ever finds
An easy entrance to ignoble minds"