Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10
THE SAME SUBJECT.

for the editorial pen. We would like to let
him drop, but his friends (if such they may
be called) of the Berkeley Onion, have hoist
cd him too high for US to lower him of a sud
den. This is process which requires to be
gradual, the fear being that his fall might
produce serious conclusion, injuring not
only the subject, but the noble defenders
who have so fearlessly thrown themselves in
the breach to champion his cause.
But for these friends, who seem determined
that the name of the Hon. Joe shall be kept
before the public, We might have let him
alone until the fall campaign at least, unless
another Renehan & Kirwan case developed
itself in the meantime, in which probable
event, we should have felt free to pitch in !;
but as the matter now stands, he is too good
subject for editorial picking to be summa-
rily dismissed With this prelude we pro-
coed to our task -
Joe Chapline then, stands convicted before
the public Of having attempted to detraud the
firm of Renehan & Kirwan, merchants doing
business in the city of Baltimore, of over
$500, an amount which he owed them for
goods purchased at their counters. Does any
one doubt this ? The proof is found in the
scathing card which we publish this morning
over the signature of j. w. Kennedy, the
counsel of Renehan & Kirwan-which card
Joe Chapline and his Misunderstanding the
editors of the Berkeley Union, dare not at
tempt to answer.
This is sufficient 30 far as Joe is concerned,
and We now let him down from his high po-
sition, with this caution: when you want
some one to defend you steer clear of such
bungers as have undertaken your cause in
Martinsburg. Mr.. Kennedy had nothing to
do with this quarrel until these bunglers, by
charge which they knew to be false, drew
him into it. BY this blunder, your connec-
ton with the celebrated case of Renehan d
Kirwan rs. Joe Chapline, has been thorough
ly ventilated, and pretty plight it leaves you
in.
Farewell Joseph, and if forever,
Still forever, fare thee well.
We have now notion to ego for" the ed
itors of the Berkeley Union, but serious
question presents itself. Will it pay? Is
the game worth the ammunition that may be
expended upon them? We doubt it exceed
ingly, and yet their continued oficious and
cowardly insolence, deserves some rebuke.-
Unable to answer either the articles which
appeared in the Spirit, or the card of Mr..
Kennedy, they seek to parry the force of both
L. KopnoIy, with ba aT1f1
ship of the editorials arraigning Joe Chaplne
at the bar of public opinion. This is mean
ness from mean source; source too mean
to be contemplate and too low to be reached
without a plummet. Judge Kennedy has
never written line for this paper, and has
never expressed desire to do so. Like other
gentlemen who have suffered by the rascali-
ties of the negro>loving, justice>hating con-
spirators who hold sway in this State, and
who have robbed them of their rights by a
process more despicable than that Which en-
riched Buffers chest with the silver-ware of
New Orleans, Mr.. K. has read and ap-
proved of our ventilations Of the corrupt and
nefarious career of Chapline, but that he has
ever written or suggested anything that has
appeared editorially in our columns, is as
false as anything that ever found place in the
Berkeley Union, and that is saying a great
deal, when it is remembered that paper is a
weekly receptacle of all that is vile, menda-
cious and untrue. Up to one week ago, Mr..
Kennedy was not even a subscriber to our
paper.