Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-30
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MOSES M. STRONG,
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL
ELEcToR,
Reioiced at President Lincoln's
Assassination.
WAS GLAD OF IT!'
/" Would Liked to have Assisted
@ u R P R OOF

{ twill be Aemembered that two weeks
ago we made statement that Noses al
Strong, while at Oshkosh, shortly after
the receipt 5of the news ofaPresident Lin
coins assassination, expressed himself as
being glad Of 1t and that he would have
GLADLY ASSISTED in COMMITTING THE ACT
Mr.. Strong wrote US a letter, which we
published last week, denying every, part, o.
our statement;c denying that he wasaat
Oshkosh at the time alluded to !; denying
that he ever felt or expressed the senti-
ment charged against him, and never
thought of the melancholy affair with
| other than feelings of horror, We were
unable to produce our proof last week
but promised 10 f,srni,la 70 es soon as pos
sible. We have obtained the proof, and
now place it before our readers. " Here
it is: i i.s DIe
Madison, us, Oct 25tA, 1868.
w. j. WRIGGLEswoRTH, Esq Dear Sir !:
Having been absent from home for the
last week, your favor of the 18th inst. and
paper of the 10th, were not received until
to-day, and l hasten to reply BoI
The article relating to Mr.. Strong is
substantially though not exactly correct
The facts are these: 8ThE ,ioisi. +
Soon after the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln, l was at the Adams House,
in the city of Oshkosh, and Moses M.
Strong was also there; and while sitting
in the bar-room, the subject of the assas-
by the landlord. Mr.. Strong remarked:
!" | AN GLAD OF 1T 1 aoould liked to haze
gone doson and assisted ~ Mr. Adams,
(the elder) being very nervous man, in.
stantly seized bar-room chair, raised it
over his head, and stepping toward Mr..
Strong remarked: damn your traitor
Gus old soul! I OUGHT to beat your.
brains out; and WILL If you euer open
your mouth, or speak another s6ord IN may
house!" Mr.. Strong sat there for a few
moments, without speaking, then went
out, and, as understood, took a boat and
went up the river. ser " 80
This letter is at your disposal, to do
with as you may deem best for the cause
VI siuti ahu JoSeiSS'. lttsif5 lfEtItf
am, dear Sir, M ..
9ag Yours truly, lSj
1880 H III S. G. BEAN.
The affair now resolves itself into
question of veracity, and is the statement
of disinterested party, who has nothing
to gain save the triumph of right, against
an interested party, who has everything to
lose by the establishment of the truth
A man who is not candidate for office,
and can gain 10 political friends, but many
personal enemies, against man who is
candidate for high and responsible office
and who, when the facts are fully SUBJ
stantiated and extensively published, will
hardly have a political friend, and very,
few personal friends in the State. 1t is
the statement of MAN OF KNOWN vERACl.
TY, against Hoses IL. Strong. The state
ment of Senator BEAN, an honest and true
man, a patriot and statesman, against No
ses ~ Strong. tits fact which has been
proved by the written statement Of a man
who saw and heard it, and is only contra
dicted by Noses M. Strong, whose style Of
honesty and truthfulness needs no COM
ment in Iowa county. And this is the
man the Democracy propose to elevate TO
position, office and power. This man,
who WAS GLAD when the best Presidcn
we ever had was foully murdered, they
propose shall cast their electoral vote for
his successor. This man who, in his own
words, would gladly have assisted in com
hitting the murder, they propose shall
cast the vote of the loya Third Congress
sional District in the electoral college.
SHALL HE Do IT? Are the rank and
file Of the Democracy so degraded, SO plia-
BILE, so easily led by the nose, that they
will vote for this man No, NEVER! The
third of November will show Noses ~
Strong, and the party he claims to lead'
that THE PEOPLE will repudiate him they
viii spmm him as. they would spurn his
tool, j. Hikes Booth, if alive and running
for office. sESH fT Ieapa
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