Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-03-06
Correspondence of the Americana
LETTER FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb'y 24,

"Unl0n, In the 1mcrtcdn OF tue lftn
inst, puts words in our mouth which We
did not utter. We never said that the
leading Republicans of Indianapolis lex
pected and desired" Mr. Julian's re-nom-
nation. We said "coucede." We are
well aware that number of Republicans
Of this city (and Union" is one of them,
do not desire Mr.. Us re- nomination.
The memory of man runueth not back to
the time when they ever did. Right or
wrong, they always have opposed his
nomination, and generally his election.
This year they concede his re nomination;
but, relying implicitly on the consist
ent' action of their party friends, who
have ever, to greater or less extent,
scratched Dir. Us name, believe he
will be defeated by some quasi Re-
publican or Copperhead. La other words,
that enough Of the anti-Juliau men will
bolt the nomination, as heretofore, to
preclude the possibility of the election of
Repubhcau. We"dont' happen to know"
that Union is sufficiently attached to
the Republican cause 70 advise his friends
10 act any differently.
But let us address ourself to the
''pith" of Unions" communication, for
he is gentleman whom We would treat
in respectful napner, as his commuui--
cation indicates fearlessness, and carries
with it no vague or uncertain meaning.
A man, though he be fool, can fully
comprehend it. He says, "wbenever Mr..
Julian has been in politics there has been
disaflcction in the ranks of the Republic
can party, and that it has continued TO
increase in each year until it has assumed
formidable proportionsl" Now, go tol
Unions" ingenuity is but poor if be can
not devise better fiction than this. Let
him not believe that the old anti slavery
friends of Mr.. Julian have suffered iaju-
ries and insults at the hands of chronic
boilers, for the past ten years or more, in
order to take such false coin as this in
payment Classification" indeed Pray,
who created il? Mr.. Julian? Not bit of
it 1t was the unfaithful political rogues
who sought his place, aud, failing to OBJ
tain it, wheeled about, 10 violation of their
faithfully pledged honor, and bolted and
scratched his name, even to the number,
as Union" says, of nineteen hundred
in Wayne County alonel And at this
result, "Unlon'' cries formidable disaf
fectior!' Why, certainly, and there al
ways will be, if Unions" friends have no
more regard for their honor than to bolt!
And what sort Of grace is it for Union
to speak of this disaffectiou when the orig
inal cause, if any, and the action itself,
lies with, andis chargeable to none other
than his friends? This is once more pre-
senting the old thread bare plan of the
thief crying stop thief"
AS far as Mr.. Julian is concerned, the
charge of classification" has no perth
nouee. He has always been an organizer
of the Republican, party, aud never dis
organizer lie was one of the Vice Pres
idents of the first National Republican
Convention, which met at Pittsburgh, in
1856, and was Chairman of the Committee
on Organization through whose report of
a plan of action the party first took life.
lie has ever since proven true to the
prinesslsS ct thai -aarty. and voted every
National, State and County ticket of the
party placed in nomination, and abided
all results, whether he himself Was sue
cessfui or not. every Intelligent man
in the State who knows anything Of the
history of political contests in the "Old
Burnt District" knows that Mr.. Julian's
enemies Onions" friends) cannot say
this much for themselves. They can't
make reasonable pretension to it. They,
like "Union," while crying disafectiou
and charging Mr.. J. with disorganizing
the rarty, were themselves boiling the Re-
publican nomination for Congress in every
contest as regularly as it transpired.
Certainly, "Union" is lovely man to
talk about disaffection. Falstaff, a CON-
mon liar and coward, in reading Prince
hal moral lectures, was just as consistent
as Union" in his effort to inculcate po-
litical virtue and party fealty.
But Dir. Julian has "quarreled" with
every prominent man of his districs.
Pray, did nobody ever quarrel" with'him?
Has he always been the aggressive party?
Have said prominent men been the meek
lambs who never went ont Of their way
to stir up the muddy pool? Were they
always 50 much inclined to the ways of
peace that they never did Mr.. J, any dirt?
And this "quarreling,' was it because
Mr.. J. was wrong and his opponents rightY.