Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-22

tee should sign q second letter, transmit
ting this one, which should be signed by
the Board Of Equalization and State Off
GERS, to which Gov! ID. and myself assented.
| applied to Colonel Swayne, who was a
member Of the Central Executive commit
tee, to aid in drafting this second letter,
which was rather a tickish affair, consid-
ering the Colonel was a Seward man. 1t q
was, however, satisfactorily fixed and
signed, and reads as follows: rsi
REPUBLICAN STATE CEyTsAL Con-. RooM,l -
- COLUMsUs, ONO, Dec. 7, 1850. ! '.i
Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: -eas
Dear Sir The Republican State Central Conn
for your speeches in the State during te recent
campaign, and express the earnest hope that to-
Judge Douglas, during The famous Illinois sGs ca@l SIn
nanent form. We regard them asldmiaUGss ssddf
Republican party spccessCnlIy vindicsted from,
the aspsrsions OF itSj fbes, and eaculatedJ to-
make q document of great practical service
Presidential contest. We herewith frt transmit T
sop,. letter, signed by our Governor elect, Re-,
publican Stale officers, and the Repu blcan nem--,
bers of the State BOari of Equalization represent
ing the several Senatorial Districts of the State,
now assembled here, uniting with US ia the request
for copy of your speeches. If you can comply
with this request will please send by express TO
WIN. 4. Bascom, our Secretary the package, who will
supern tenl tue pu bl cation of the same.
Very respectfully, yours, ETC., 10 '"i
.'.'H ~ SAM'L GALLOWAY, .'r
LuGLBN BUTTLEs,
n. H. SwAYSE, 'HI.-iY
X. /. \: \. BBGgHTrH' BGSE1
'f ''.''- VIM. 4. BAsCOM,;
Central Executive Committee.
\ l carried the two letters around, and per-
sonally procured all the signatures, but
when l asked A. p. Russell, the Secretary
of State, to sign, he paused, and looking at
the document ratI inquisitively said,r
4" Baber are all these names and papers to be
published? 1t looks very like Presidential
movement" replied, certainly they are
to be published; how else are you to let the
people know what good document you
are getting out for the next Presidential
election? and you know, Russell, it will
make good document whoever runs. You
Chase men are SO foolish you cannat bear to
hear anybody else spoken about" then
carelessly laughed his suspicious of, and told
him he might aswell sign, as every one else
had. The signatures all having been OBJ
tanned, went to the office of the Treasurer
of State to have William 7, Bascom, the
Secretary, send the paper off, and supposed
there would be no more trouble. A. p!
Stone, the Treasurer, was sitting by me, as
Bascom was putting up the papers to send
to Lincoln, when who. should appear in
solemn procession, but +. NJ. Wright,
Auditor of State, A. Z. Russell, Secretary
and VIM. B. Thrall, Controller and very
demurely said, "Baber, let as see those pa
pers again. we think there Is a Presidential
move on foot" When the words Presiden7
tial move" were pronounced, Chase's right
hand bower, A. p. Stone, sprang from his
chair several feet, as If shot, and exclaimed
with an oath, %if it has anything to do
with the Presidency, my name shall not be
used" Bascom looked with grave astonish-
ment at the scene, and |, who was the only
Lincoln man present, without showing
any indications in g my! cOuntenance,
turned and coolly handed them
the papers, remarking, stake them, gentle-
men, and examine, the documents speak
for themselves" when Wright, Stone, Rus1
sell and Thrall retired into che hall, aud af-
ter few minutes consultation, returned
the papers, saying, ''they had concluded to
let their names CO." By that time, my pa
tience with their course being rather ex-
hausted, 4 remarked, 'that the State Gem
tral Committee and State Board of Equal
iZation represented the party; that the sig
natures of the State officers had been stig-
gested by the Governor; that their names
were matter of no Importance, and that
! would strike them out and send the docu-
ment thus mutlated to Mr.. Lincoln, who
would then understand what sort ofimen
they were.s This suggestions seemed to
cool the whole party, and all further troU-
BILE appeared to be removed, and L started
over tomyoffice for the purpose of trans
mitting them, with the two letters written
by the Hon. Samuel Galloway-oneto Lin
coin and the other to Lincoln and Hern-
don, advising the former Of the objects of
the movement, and to publish the CORES
pondence forthwith. But note, to my
great surprise, was handed me IRON Gov
ernor DennisOn, requesting thatthe- papers
be sent back to him, as he wished to, look
at them again. | accordingly sent them,
but with the precaution OF keeping copies,
as I was beginning TO be very suspicious Of
what the Chase party might do. The pa
pers being detained day, or,t two, and get
ting uneasy, 1 went for them myself, and
was told they would be sent the next
day, when they were returned with the
following very interesting open slip Of
paper: ..,,a1 1o sn;,,.,o7,-..., l..,.,,l,
DE-. BABER:7-I 60 to Cincinnati this A. NJ. Twin
not be able 10 see you. send you the letter. i
can't suggest any less alteration than have marked
in the brackets l.. Q. ~ leave out tnat part. But
leave the change 10 bel tnaile by youl The word
SOTRpsndaiG% d i, o. any sapiTpept hope y0H yin
: II you revise the lettsr.I would Ieayp
SSs RSSSsss q sfsSs nay hAye e men "a
Il will return tslatypr ~ Saturday ai5, ~ ant
L was 0f Course much Surprised at the
suggestion TO alter anything i0aletter over
the signatures of other gentlemen, espe-
cially as Gov. ID. had-ixed the phrase0logy
of the letter TO suit himself when it was
first drafted, and so said to Mr., Galloway,
and accordingly the letters were forthwith
mailed. 1t seems Geo. r. Morton; clerk
In the Auditors Office a )vigilahtb Chase
man, bad been stirring up the whole hive,
from tire Great Mognl down, and the OBJ
inoxi0nsWurdS Governor, Denrtison desired
doctrines of the Republican creed thor.
onghiy discussed and completely vindicated
from the misrepresentation Ofifs foespwas
rather hard dose Tor the negro suffrage
element whose dogmas Lincoln had ex-
pressly Fepudlated in his speeches; 90 Gov
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