Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-06-03

ia mar provide Tor tile anBointment of /
commission d finally, the substi- |
ute did aa ported from com
nittee and gt adopted BY q a vote
s two tc one Here, then, are at least
ezFez Inexactnesses' IN one short para
5faph Of a dozen lines The reader-can
imagine how many there are in col
INN and half Of such material. And
low for the facts.
General Potts bill was referred. as
ioon as printed, to the standing Com
nittee on Benevolent Institutions, That
committee, through Senator Corey, its
chairman, reported a substitute for the
bill. That substitute provided generally
for a Soldiers Orphans Home, with a
suitable Board of Management. II was
an excellent bill, and our assailants have
made no objection to il. No Republicans
It texcepting Senator Root, a Re
publican sore-head, and Yeatman, a
Cincinnati " Reformer." This bill was
first considered in Committee Of the
Whole and then referred to a select COM
mittee of FIVE. The majority of that
committee reported the bill back, with
some good amendments. Senator Root,
representing a minority Of the commit
tee. reported an amendment which was
designed, and so understood, to kill the
bill. That amendment was adopted, the
Democrats zUikk JieIy fe5O II any e,ree6-
k0HS 0l0kiHg fer II, and the Republicans,
excepting Root, all voting against 1t.
Roots amendment was thus adopted,
and the bin thereby mades absurd that
no friend of the Orphans Home could
vote for It. However, the Democracy
gave It their unanimous support, although
the bill, with Roots amendment, pro-
posed to squander for naught sixteen
thousand dollars of the public money
The measure in this form passed-ayes,
10; nays, I4-the Republicans except
ing Senator Root, all voting against 1t.
These statements are all verified by the
official reports of the Senate, now before
US. We leave the reader to Judge what
kind of a record they make for the can
dor and truthfulness of our assailants,
and whether persons guilty of such de-
liberate and wholesale misrepresenta-
ton as we have exposed can be worthy
of credence.
One of the most recent TRADES against
US contains this declaration:
"a few years ago, by the aid of his SOL
dier friends, he f,listed himself on the party
bef.sre he could assist in electing the ticket
Dt N0LAuE A0E
This lie has been peddled about the
county for a long while, and its authors
now, for the first time, have the boldness
to print It. We first came to this county
in 1886, and became a voter long before
the person who retails the above SANDER
was even a resident The declaration
that we were not a voter of the county
at the time to which the above quoted
statement refers, is a deliberate, mali
cious, villainous falsehood, and we
brand the writer thereof, whosoever he
may be, as a falsiier, without benefit of
clergy. Since the year 1861 we have
not cast a single vote except as a resi-
dent of this township and county, and
on two or three occasions voted as long
ago as 1868 and a for the very individu-
al now standing at the back Of him who
retails this charge against US.
On the other hand, this exceedingly
young person who undertakes to de-
nounce other people as ''carpet-baggers, -
has not yet, if we may believe his own
statements, put off his swaddling clothes
as an embryo Pennsylvania, much less
moulted the pin-feathers Of Ohio citizen
ship. We do not choose now to inquire
how, when or why he left the Old Key
stone, or what vicissitudes of fortune set
him down in this meek of woods" as an
instructor and example for US ignorant
Ohians. Suffice it to say, that though he
may have renounced all claims upon
Pennsylvanians, Pennsylvanians have
not, at least until quite recently, ,renounc-
ed all their claims on him.
We are made the subject Of the follow
ing threat, which, in view of all the cir
cumstances, IS very solemn:
"The frequent and labored attacks of the
ndzette has made on Hon. j. r. HuRbell,
Geed scarelS be referred to. Were the gem
tleman named made of such material as
the Gazette editor, and had he no k-ener
sense of the proprieties of lifes and the con-
timaey. he cs,IlId iTlapaIe this little man
wi, a shaft Wni h would let out all the
respert for the laws which govern gentle
men, saves the Gdsette man from merited
punishment"
Our attacks, so-caIled, were criticisms
on the public course and character Of
the individual from whom the above
threat emanates. They were made in
defiance of similar threats, accompanied
by that of personal violence. They will
in like manner be continued, on all
proper occasions, in equal disregard of
any such bullying attempts at brow
beating and intimidation.
And now we propose to give some
facts as to the sincerity of this pretense
to gentlemanly honor. The person in
whose behalf ii is made, at the time the
Republican county convention met in
August last, went among the delegates
with his hands full of our private letters,
written to him two years before, and
read extracts therefrom to such of the
delegates as he thought he could influ-
ence. When asked to read or show the
whole letter he refused but put upon the
garbled extracts his own construction.
Such is this chivalrous individuals fine
sense Of the prOprieties of life" and
such his respect for the laws which
govern gentlemen!' All persons who
have occasion to write private letters to
him may now profit by our experience.
The public will also Judge how far such
a person would hesitate, were it in his
power, to commit that further violation
of gentlemanly amenities which he
threatens. And we will Just add that
there are facts in cur possession with
which if we chose we could with perfect
propriety not only take the blood out OF
the ambition of this person and his
6rokegx but the wind out of their threat
enings.
Finally, we are called to judgement by
these immaculate and highminded
gentlemen for alleged disloyalty to the
present Representative Of the county.
The public is already sufficiently III
formed as to the PromPtness. measure
and kind of support we gave that gen
tleman from the hour his nomination
was announced until the vote was count
ed. Nor are we without the most graft
flying assurances that the Republicans of
the county were fully satisfied that our
whole duty was done, and done too in a
manner with which the feeble, hesitating,
unwilling and damaging support given
Mr.. Hamilton by his defeated rival for
the Congressional nomination in 90
would bear no comparison. Had we
given ozt1- competitor no more hearty
support than that, we confess there
would have been some ground for the
charge of sel6shness and meanness. But
when our own party finds fault with us
it will be time enough for our vindica-
ton from all such Democratic asper-