Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-09-14
CoMPoUHDIEe EREAsoN.

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/ ties of the Democracy, which when beat
en- in argument and found wanting IN prin-
ciple has ever. with Jesuitieal cunning
and unseruplous meanness, resorted to
personal vituperation and abuse. Weuse
strong language but we feel that none can
4 be too strong to reprobate this contempt
bic spirit of Democracy which whenever
over-matched by its opponent in discus
sion, straightway finds comfort and ven
geanee in besliming his good name with
some Of It's own native flth.
The charge made against Mr.. Hamil-
ton is alleged to have originated IN cir
eular which was malieiously distributed
by some personal enemy among the dele
gates to the convention which put him
in nomination. tits sufficient answer
to the SANDER that It had rot the least
weight In affecting the result of the ball
loting and rather aided DIR. Hamilton
than otherwise But this answer viii
not satisfy his political opponents
with whom any libelIous story, no matter
how groundless or absurd viii answer its
purpose as we'll as one established by evi-
dences strong as proofs Of holy writ.
Even though it were overwhelmingly re-
futed il would still be banded about BY
Democratic newspapers aad orators and
gulphed down BY ignorant Democra tic
cormorants as a choice morsel of Demo-
cratic gospel It is not therefore for the
purpose Of VindieatiDg Mr.. Hamilton
with his enemies but his friends that we
undertake any answer 10 the charges
made. That his friends once Fepudiated
them in the convention as groundless and
absurd makes It evident that no very
elaborate answer is now necessary.
Mr.. Hamilton, whose bank was rob
bed, is alleged TO have appointed one Of
the parties implicated IN the robbery, and
who turned States evidence, as a secret
detective of revenue fr auds, and to have
given him a letter Of recommendation to
the U. S. District Attorney at Cincinnati.
Now these charges are all of them either
false or true only in a modified form.
Mr. Hamilton never appointed the indi-
vidual referred to as a detective, and
whatever he may have done in that line
was done upon his own responsibility.
Mr.. Hamilton nev0r recommended him
to anybody, but on the contrary in all
that he wrote or said upon the subject
he gave it as his positive belief that the
so-ealled detective was an irresponsible
man
1t is next charged that Mr.. Hamilton
compounded felony" with the bank
thief This allegation is as groundless
as the other The only suit compromised /
by Mr.. H. was a civil one. The prosecu-
tions dropped Mr., Hamilton was not
responsible for. since it was done BY the
Prosecuting Attorney of Union county
on legal grounds only.
Having thus briefly disposed of these
slanders, we have now some charges to
make against the slanderers, tO-wit, the
Herald, its pop-gun correspondent and
Col Reid. We charge them with an Of
fense far worse than compounding felony.
We charge them with compounding the
highest crime known to human law, the
greatest ofense against God or man, and
that offense is TREASON. a few years
ago one JEFF. Davis eonspired with sever
81 other Williams of the South for the
of our Government They
made war upon it in open day aud in the
of all the world for four years,
md according to the constitution and
aw of the land they deserve to be hung
BY the neck until dead We charge the
LII 81 nj D,;I --,EI -, tl,.;, ;,,t,,
covenant with these criminals with the
ntent of enabling them to escape the
punishment justly due to their almost
guilt Not only so, but
We charge these parties with offering JEFF. i
Davis and his eo-traitors q bounty for
heir crinael They have said to these !
men, and repeat the assertion shameless
y every day. that their guilt is nothing,
nd that they are as blameless, as respect /
bic and as worthy as the most loyal cit /
zens in the land The Herald and Col I
Reid keep saying this, although they {
now very we'll that Davis q Co., are not i
My thieves and traitors but MURDERERs. \
There are widows in this country whose I
husbands these men have killed. There a
re young men almost within stones S
brow of Col. Reid's Office upon whom
hey have committed mayhem. There
re orphans whose bread they have stolen, t
nd there are sleeping in our cemetery /
rave and true young men, the only sup S
ort and comfort of aged mothers, or lit 4
e sisters and brothers, who came to their S
cath at the hands of these men. And G
ct Col. Reid and the Herald propose to p
ompound all these offenses. They pro- t
ose to give the perpetrators more rights b
ian you or I have. They propose to c
axe them the law givers of the land :
instead of the brand of shame they pro
2se to attach the title of Honorable to =
leir namesI
Why compounding felony is nowhere T
impaired with such infamy as that MUIR
.r is a mere misdemeanor compared with Ia
Lch an outrage. 2,
We regret that this war Of personalities Be
IS been inaugurated by our opponents. 81 81
tempts us to attack the character of b
81. Reid, to investigate his political an O.
eedents, and to examine his military CO
cord. There is no soldier or statesman e.,
lo has not committed his errors, and d
j. Reid is 20 exception Doubtless BBP
ere are things both in his political and FPq2 F.
ilitary life which if made known would EEr
unfavorable to his good name. But Ga
shall not take advantage of them un- sT Srl
IS the aggravation becomes extreme. We a. IL