The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-09-22
FORGERY! FORGERY!
Another Base Falsehood Exposed
Mr. Rose after sA Democratic soIdiersS
with . sharp etfekI
JoHNsTowN. Pa, Sept. l6, 1870.

JoHNsTowN. Pa, Sept. 16, 1870.
Editor Cambria Free1lan-Dear Sir: A
party signing himself "a Democratic SOL
der" publishes in this weeks Democrat a
communication wherein he gives extracts
from two letters which were published in
the Johnstown Tribune in 1868, and has the
bardihood to say that l wrote them. The
first of these extracts is as follows:
"PETERsBURGH,IVA, Sept II, 1858.
our boys all regret being from home on next
election day. If we had vote, it would be q
Curtin"
The writer of the communication thereup-
on proceeds to say
"Mr. Rose DID come home to vote for Cur
tin and was in favor of his election. He re
turned shortly to hs regiment and writes a
letter to the TRIBUNE of October 80, 1863,
from which take the following extract
"'CAMP NEAR RoMNEY October 2Ist. 1863.
Since our return to this place, nothing of
Importance has occurred to interrupt the usu-
from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Bt1iu for our
friends at home The election of Curtin and
the defeat OF Vallandigham victories as
great as that OF Meade at Gettysburg"
l did not write either of the above letters.
l never was at Petersburg, Va. While the
regiment was at Petersburg, with Colonel
Thoburn's Brigade. l was at the headquar-
ters of Col. Campbell,a at Mechanicsburg Gap
on detached duty. as A. A. A. General. and
1t. d. K. Lewis, of Co. f. was acting Adju
tant of the Regiment. On the 18th day of
October, 1863, when the T1i6une's cores
pondent wrote the last letter, was in Har-
risburg, Pa. with Hon. @. L. Pershing,
attending to business before the Military
Department. and not in camp near Romney,
Va. The Tribune correspondent referred
to the returns of the regiment from Peters.
hnro as the cODtext cloarlu SbouS Panord
evidence is now in Johnstown, in the Bri-
gade books, to prove the fact that was not
in camp Oct. q, 1868, and to any who de.
sire further information, / refer to Col. Lin.
ton. and other officers aud members of the
regiment, who will inform them that / did
not accompany the regiment to Petersburg,
Va, nor was l with it at any time during
its stay at that place.
Again, l did not "come home to vote for
Curtin" did not vote for Curtin. was
not entitled to vote in 1863 | did not
vote at all. did not offer to vote /
did not advocate the election of Curtin. l
never was in my political views anything
else than Democrat. II had been Re-
publican, as "a Democratic Soldier" strives
to make out. and which here say / never
was, why did the Johnstown Tribune. in its
structures on the proceedings of Council. say
that that body had turned out good Union
man and appointed life long Democrat in
his place, reference being clearly made to
the election Of Clerk to that body ana to
myself as the person elected to that posi-
tion for the year 1865? Or why did the
Democrats bluDder 30 far as to send me as a
delegate. in July, 1865. to the county con
vention. and that convention eject me a
Senatorial confeFee
When or where did / ever make Repub
lican speech. When or where was recog-
nized as Republican l never did the
frst-I never was the last.
have thus far iutruded on your space to
show how shallow the assertions Of "a Dem
Ocratic Soldier" are, and as by this the
Democrats Of Cambria county may Judge of
the character of the charges made and doubt
less yet to be made, shall close, informing
you that it is my present intention not to
notice or reply to any further personal or
political attacks made upon me during the
l remain very truly, &C..
w. HoRACR r sR