Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-18
T6s only Responsible Man for the
Miserable FnlsehO0ds of n Half.


The Only ResPonsIbIe Man for the
Miserable FalsehOOds of n Half.
IdiOlic Scamp.
The editor of the Cleveland Herald. in
private life, claims to be governed by the
gentlemanIy code, and as a MAN, not as an
editor, would scout the idea of doing that
which would derogate from his title to bs
considered gentleman.
In the same city of Cleveland is one who
hangs on the outskirts of society-not at ali
recognizable by those who feel a loathing
contemptfor Paul Pryism-a fellow Of little
brains and no conscience, who is used, by
those who have dirty work to do, and pre-
Ter hiring it done to doing it themselves.
This fellow,
Worth makes the man, want of it the fellow
during the war sought office, and be-
cause he was fit for nothing else, Gov. TOD
employed him to open letters addressed to
prisoners of war at Camp Chase. His Or
,ders were that all mere family and friendly
letters were to be delivered over-those
containing Information deemed not pru-
dent to be read inside of the prison, to be
destroyed. The former was disregarded,
and letters from wives to their husbands
daughters to their fathers-sisters to their
| brothers, as we'll as those from sweethearts
to their lovers, were paraded and read in
public, wherever the agent could find
those debased enough to listen, and fond
expressions, usualin such letters,and family
secrets were made the subject of the maud
lin wit and coarse jests of the companions
and associates of Gov. TOPS letter agent,
who calls himself deacon GRAY" for a
reason similar to that which impels the
| Negro Suffrage party to call itself "Union," :"
because it entertains no Union sentiment,
| GRAY having not single qualification for
membership in respectable church, much
less to be an officer thereof.
The lower grade of the Republican party
in and about Cleveland found this man
GRAY a fiG person to do their dirty work.
and they got him posted for speech at
Youngstown, in Mahoning county, gross
ly abusive of candidate on the Democrat
ic State ticket-a resident of this city. This
speech is so filled with falsehood as, in this
community where the facts are known, to
excite a loathing contempt for the author
and those who retail his falsehoods. 1t is
redolent of wholesale ISLANDERS ; not only of
the candidate to whom we allude, but of his
family charges which, if true,
could only be known to the author by
pumping the servants or peeping through
the windows-and these the editor of the
Cleveland Herald publishes, as if such charges
against the ladies of a gentleman's house.
/, h; - for
cussion in political campaign, but being
false, is descent into the abyss of infamy,
so deep that contempt can scarcely follow
them. .E0iTGrEgzal aErg DO
A single fabrication, we notice, to illus
trate the false character of the charges,
made against a lady who, in acts of charity.
confining her benevolence to no creed,
color or political persuasion, stands second
to none in this, or any other city of the
State. She is charged with confining her
charities to the secesh prisoners at Camp
Chase, but, as thesspeech written for, GRAY
says, bestowing "never a crumb of COM
fort for our boys in or out of hospital"
During the war, when the pre- sent Irving
House, on Broad street, was occupied as a
hospital for Federal soldiers, a gentleman
of this city wv. S. V. PRENTIss, Esq } hap
pened in BANS store, when the lady in
question came in and gave an order
to send $25 in socks to the Broad street
hospital, where she had learned they were
badly needed. This was but one of the
many 'crumbs of comfort" which the lady
in question lavished on Union soldiers dur
ing the war-expending hundreds of dol |
lars, where others, loud-mouthed in their
loyalty, gave the soldiers but promises of
performance made but to be repudiated.
This man GRAY is as void of truth as he
is of gentlemanlyl 5breeding-his love OF
being so ingrained that at an
Alb olition meeting in Ashtabula county, |
while protesting to be Democrat, made
boast that he had stolen negro slaves from
their master and hid them in the steeple
Of a church of which he was a Deacon
the whole tale, including. the stealing, the
church, its steeple, and the Deaconship, not
having one word of truth on which to base
the falsehood. While acting as Quarter
master to a Negro Regiment, which Office
Gov. TOD gave GRAY to get rid of his pres
ence, he applauded the threat to assassinate
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. As these things the
editor of the Herald knows, as well as the
same facts are known to others in Cleve-
land, we choose to hold that editor respon
sible for GRAY's mendacity. -a -
The Cleveland Leader and the Columbus
Journal both publish the speech of GRAY.
Neither of these editors claim gentlemanly
or if such claim is made, it is not
allowed. With the senior editor of the
Herald the case is different. He has the
education of gentleman. and claims to be
1ne. Hence we charge that in publishing
The speech of N. A. GRAY, Mr.. BENEDICT
las lost caste as man of honor, and Is to
Dc held in the future as one, if possible, be-
ow the editors of the Leader and the Jour
,al in dishonorable warfare, in attacking,
,y publishing calumnies against women.
.or the purpose of iDjuring a candidate for
public favor, whose shoe-latchets he is .pn-
worthy to loosen. ti-.t+-t
A Republican Organ Talked of
In Colulnbus-The journal 10 be
Thrown Overheard.
The Intelligent Washington correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing
from that city under date of Monday last,
has the following in relation to Republi-
can organ to be established in this city in
of the entire ineficiency of
The Journal:
ssLeading Republicans of Ohio talk of the
for establishing Republican pa
per at Columbus. The want of an organ at
the State capital is deeply felt. The Dem
onrats have one. and WHY shouldn't the |