The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-10
General Custsr'S Reply so tiBe
Attempts Of the Radical Press
10 PerVert isis Testimony.
WASHINGTON, August 20. Io66.

Ell StdteS Non'ifc'
Departing from vi at ] have ever consid.
cred Il judlciuus custom, deem it not only
appropriate, but incumbent upon me, t
correct the false impressions regarding my
past and present position which at thi,
time are being so assiduously disseminated
throughout the country by a StBSlDiX
ED, tNSCRUPtLOUS and FANAIi-
CAL PRESS. IL is TO be expected. il
times like e prcscut, when now poli,ica
era Is being inaugumtcd-an era which is
de stined TO rcmodel and develope the char
acter OF our political strnctur--that the
views aud sentiments entertained bv men,
themselves the victims of passion and pre-.
judicG, will embrace wide and unlimited
scope, and that, blinded by resentment,
their judgement he-cl0uded, and imreIied
by modgadnt, uawoHhy ond mast picied
0iabHioa, none who Cndcavnr to intorpose
an obstacle in their path. or who differ from
them in opinion, can hope to escape their
viiilIicatlon and Misrepresentation. A few
OF the most extreme Radical Journals have
pretended to discover an Inconsistency be-
tween the views embraced IN my testimony
bt fore the Congressional Committee on Re
construction in March last, and in my pres
ent action as a delegate to the PHILADELPHIA
Convention and a supporter of the priuci
pies cnunciated in til, resolutions and plat
form proclaimed und adopted by that Illus
tlious nationa) and pau%otic assembly, CoM-
POSED OF REPR' sHNrtTIVES from EVERY
STATE AND TEL lRY IN THE UNION ard,
therefore the fret tHiy NfHiDmui Coarsaijoi,
TLttch has d$SeWbi,d in orr c0nitfry dmTng
tie past SGC YctyS. Prominent in this repre-
sentatlon, and w,liiuI peryerSion or truth. is
the organ controlled and edited by your
sell, ard, were it not for the oificial position
wyich you hold, would not deem myself
justified IN referring 10 you or anything
.ruianating from you. | will not refer to
the scdluOus and lnilammatory epthetS you
applied to that Convention, Of which | am
proud to have been member, but will only
class chem with your iUsidi0us and wick ed
b@"angucs pronounced in the city Of Phia-
dciphja dnl'ng the sitting Of the Conven-
ton, III which you cnleayored to SUR the
passions Of what yoq Supposed mob 70
deeds OF violence aud blood. Neither will
! occupy time in exposing your baseness in
characterizing those gallant soldiers of the
Union, who took 0art in the Convention, as
being influenced by any hut the highest, no
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