The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

report, in the Herald of last week
Of o. III. Lovell's meeting with Ste
phen Miller, at Portsmouth, on The
I'd instant. Lowell says
81 told him he had committed 6
terrible crime, that a reward wal
offered for him and that l could
have HIM arrested ; but [ saw from
his talk that he intended to give
himself up voluntarily, and l ad'
vised him TO do SO. l would have
given him money to come home
He seemed almost distracted. ]
talked to him about i've minutes
He had not been drinking then
1 got to Marietta, Sunday, the 4th,
came to my home, in Morgan Co.
the 9th. l have not been up tt
town till to-day, the 12th."
We wonder If any of the readers
of the Herald understood the object
of publishing this statement of O.
n. Lovell's. IF not, we will tell
them.
Lowell, all will remember, is q
Republican ofice-holder of this
County, and some people were dis
posed TO censure him for not having
Miller arrested. Some people, and
Republicans too, are foolish enough
to suppose that a man who has
been honored with the trnst of the
people, by being elected to Office, is
obliged to pay extra attention to
the County interests, and that
while it would have been the duty
of any citizen of the County, or
State, that knew him, to cause Mil
Ter to be arrested, 1t was much more
obligatory upon an officer of this
County to do SO. Lowell, and 9th
ers of the Republican leaders, found
out that such a feeling existed, and,
in order to smooth the matter over,
he patched up his story, part of
which we clip.
There r some very peculiar
things in the paragraph we clip,
and we'll notice some of them.
Lowell says, II told him he had
committed a terrible crime, and
that.a reward was offered for him."
Now the truth of the matter is that,
on the I'd instant, the date Of his
seeing Miller in Portsmouth, there
had been no reward offered for MIL
Ter. The reward was not offered
for some days thereafter, and we
would suggest to Mr.. Lowell not to
attempt to excuse himself again by
saying that the reason be did not
arrest Miller was that he knew he
would give himself up, and that be
did not want to put the County TO
the expense of paying the reward.
Even had there been a reward of
fered, Nh. Lowell, IN causing MIi>
ler's arrest, need not have done SO
in such a manner as to have SUBJ
jccted the County to its pay ment.
Lowell, further, says 81 got to
Marietta, Sunday, the 4th, came to
my home, IN Morgan County, the
9th. / have rot been up to town
till to-day, the 18th" This is thrown
out for the purpose of making the
people believe that Lowell did not
have an opPcrtunity to put the auth
critics here on Miller's track before
the 18th, three days after he was in
the hands of the Sheriff of this
County. We WONDER nov, if Nor
gan County has an official SO behind
the times rs not to know there is q
telegraph line running TO Neon
nelsville, and that, IN a few hours
at the fartbest after his seeing Mil
Ter in Portsmouth, be could have in-
formed cur authorities of his where
abouts. Had he even not known
there is a telegraph line running
here, he could, had he been dispos-
ed to half DO his duty, have trans
mitted the information by mail SO
that it would have been received
here by the 4th or 9Th instant.
We have noticed this matter at
more length than we would, had
not Mr.. boveR and the Herald un-
dertaken to smooth over said Lovr
ellis delinquency in duty, and hold
him Zip IN the light of a PRAISE
worthy officer. We are down on
such humbuggery, and will expose
it wherever we find it. The whole
matter in q nutshell is that Lowell
didn't care a continental about MIL
Ter being arrested, and this is the
only sensible explanation of his
course that can be made.