Evening star., 1869-10-11
RICHNESS.
CRANE ON BOSWELL.
Crane fter eur Next Mayor with a free
ts BPead-ax.


Brsad-ax.
Remarkable Sir.aarty bet,c.en Great Ikinds-BOs.
tees Pero7dtioa identical ,cith that Of Lincoin' 8
Cfter Botcen.
We are nearly at our wits ends how 70 keep
our candidate for the mayoralty out of trouble.
We had fixed him all right In the Seventh
Ward, put HIM in the way OF healing up al;
those cankering sores, reelected him President
Of the Ward Club, and Got him in good condi-
tion to prance over the mayoralty course next
June. But here is this troublesome Crane out
in card. pouncing upon Boswell like duck
upon q June-bug, Cor humbug,) and opening
mp whole batch of new sores. Crane hits
Boswell very savaeely for wanting to smother
Investigation INTO the conduct OF Corpcra ton
omcials, and then goes on TO insinuate that
Boswell only q week ago was trying to get
hold Of certain documents, that he might pub.
iish them, 70 the injury Of the Mayor Mr..
Crane says in this connection:
"There Is a gentleman who has an once not
atnousand miles from the City Hall, who has
in his possession certain documents in the
handwriting OF the Mayor bestowing the most
fnlsome aattery upon himself, and which, il
published, would be quite as damaging to MS
HoLor as were the Perry Carson letters to our
worthy Csty Collector. Those manuscripts,
which are made mp mostly Of resolutions,
passed from time 70 time during the past four
suppoeing his Honor was entirely ignorant OF
what they were adopting in his praise until he
read 1t IN print Mr. Bosw well has been anxious
TO possess, with the intention Of publishing
them, as lac has repeatedly avowed to myseif
as we'll as to many others Is this the Mr..
Bos well who less than ten days ago spent an
asove, pleading with said gentleman to give up rp
said documents 10 him. that he might publish
them And was he all the while, a, ne no "
claims, the personal friend Of the Mayor How
about that, Frederick
But Crane doesn't let mp on Boswell with
this unpleasant exposure, but goes on to charge
that In his serenade speech-the last one-he
was guilty Of plagtarizing from Lincoln's in
augurai OF 1861. 1t is true that Boswell bor-
rowed rather freely from Lincoln, but We had
hoped it wouldn't be noticed. The fact is our
candidate for the Mayoralty spells 50 bad that
we were very glad to have him borrow some
respectable spelling. But he made a mistake
in borrowing from SO familiar a source as
Lincolns inaugural. He must be more careful
in future. Here is what Crane says about II:
"In reading the speech Of my friend Bos.
well, which, by the way, pronounce an able
one. have been struck with the close resem.
Siancs between it and u, ,hs tirst inaugural ad
not accuse Frederick OF plagiarism; not bit OF
1t; i only say that Lincoln talked IN 81 pre-
cisely as Boswell talks In 80. A gentleman
possessed OF the culture and originality OF Mr..
Boswell need not borrow the ideas Of any ons;
besides believe he has too much principle to
do such thing. / only allude to it as q re-
markable coincidence. quote:
LiRcoln's Inaugural lBosoelPs Speech, Octo-
March 4. 1861. berS, l-69
In your hands, my "In your hands, my
dissatisfied fellow. cu. dissatisfied fellow. citi-
Zens, and not in mine. izers, and not mine. is
Is the momentous issue the momentous issue
of civil war. The Gov of partial separation.
ernment will not assaiI Neither / nor my
you You can have nS Trends w! s:ss ~ ysp: &
yourselves the agrees laration without being
ors. You have no oathly ourselves the cause
registered in heaven 70, You have no oath reg.
destroy the Govern. listered in heaven to De.
ment; while shallIstroy this party; while
nave the mosf solemniI have the most solemn
one 70 preserve, protectIone to preserve. protect
and defend il. am 10th and defend IL from the
TO close. We are notlassaults OF its friends
enemies, but friends. or Its enemies. 1 am
We must not be ene- 10th TO close. We are
mics. Though passion not enemies but friends
may nave strained, IL We must not be ene-
must not break our mics. Though passion
Donos OF anectton. Themay have strained, IL
mystic chords Of mem. must not break our
ory, stretching from bonds of affection. The
every battlefield and my Sue chords of men-
patriot grave to everyory, stretching from
living heart andevery quarter Of our
hearthstone all overbeloved city to and
this broad land, will from every living heart
yet swell the chorus ofand hearthstone, yea
the Union, when again all over TINS glorious
touched, as surely they land, will yet with US
Will be, by the better swell the chorus of the
angels Of our nature" Union, and Of the Rad
ical Republican party,
when again touched, as
surely they Will be, by
the better angels Of our
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