The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-05-24
A Personal Matter.
from the Sentinel of yesterday

Now if the Journal really desires to
correct its own Misrepresentation in its
report of the K;nnan case, all it has to
do is to withdraw that article and sub
stitute for it the truthful report by the
editor Of the Kokomo Tribune, to which
it's attention was called in my former card
in the Sentinel It might help some, too,
in this work of correction, to give to its
readers some editorial remarks in the
Kokomo Journal of April %, in refer
ence to the temper aud spirit of the
Conference, and the manner in which
its discussions wero conducted. The
means Of correction are in its own hand.
Till it does this, its persistent demands
for specifications are idle and irrel-
evant; especially while it continues it's
garbled and er porte presentations
Now, if the journal proposes to en-
geneer this case through, keeping the
loathsome thing before the public, and
waging a war against the Northern Ind.
Conference in its discharge of grave
duty-why, then, let it do so. We
shall simply abide the issue at the bar
Of public opinion.
The Journal has an earnest coworker
in the Richmond Radical par mobile
yfratruns ! copying each others articles
with encomia. The 'Rradical, as copied
in a recent number of the Journal
chooses to understand my remark about
'venal and subsidized press in the
sense of direct hire Now, there are
other ssubsidizing' agencies and other
indications Of 'venality' besides this
Why the mind of the Radical should
SO readily fasten upon the definite idea
of hire, shall not presume to say. 1t
is welcome to its own construction, and
to self appropriation of the words to
its own use and its own sense.
VIM. H GooDE.
Union City, May 10, 1870.
The Rev. w. H. GooDE seems deter.
mined to have a quarrel with the Jour
nal.' His persistent cards leave US no
choice but to suppose that is his desire:
If personal controversy is really in
accordance with his appetite, he can be
accommodated until he is groged. But
he makes a avery grave mistake if he
supposes he can lug in the Methodist
Church or the North Indiana Confer
ence We have no warfare with them;
on the contrary, nothing but the kindest
good will and the most profound re.
spect. We have never questioned the
right of the Conference to do exactly as
it did with the Rev. Mr.. KINNAN. I'm
der all the Circumstances, we hoped that
the Conference would feel it to be it's
duty to accord him the investigation he
asked. We believe that such course
would have been the better policy but
the Conference having decided differ
ently,we have never intimated that it
did whit more than it had perfect au-
thority for. So, at the very threshold
of this notice of Mr., GooDE, we dismiss
the church, behind which he seeks to
intrench himself for the vent of hi
personal malice. 1t is with Mr.. GooDE
as man, not Mr.. GooDE as an officer
of the church, that we have to do.
First, as regards the accuracy of our
report of the Conference proceedings.
The gentleman whom we sent to Koko-
mo, to represent the Journal was at
that time comparative stranger in the
State. He knew, probably, not one sim
gle m ember of the North Conference
He is a man in whose integrity, ability
and Judgement we have utmost conf
dence, and up to this date we have
seen no good reason to discredit sin
gle sentence of his report. On the con
trary, ministers Of the Methodist Church
as eminent as any in the State, standing
as high in the Church councils certainly
as Mr.. GooDE, who were present during
that debate, of their own accord testi.
fed to it's substantial fairn ess and ac-
curacy, while they differed with us as
to tho propriety and policy of the Con-
ference action. Upon two previous oc-
cassions we have invited Mr.. GooDE,
to make known in what particular the
report was inaccurate, but he has refus-
ed to do so. Had he complied, if we
found that injustice had been done him,
we should have cheerfully offered him
the amplest reparation in our own pow.
er. We proposed to appeal to steno-
graphic notes to decide the question,
taken by another reporter. Can Mr.
GooDE suggest fairer arbiter His
constant refusal to intimate the slightest
point of variance from the truth in the
report, compels us to accept his contin-
ued attacks upon us as the outcroppings
of that spirit which, in the debate in
question, SO panied his friends and OUT
ragged the decorum of religious body.
One of the ablest ministers of Indiana.
said to the writer Of this, that the Jour
nall could not too severely condemn the
spirit and temper of Mr.. GooDE's ad-
dress on that occasion We appeal to
every person who heard him at Kokomo,
whether his speech was a NANTES tation
Of that charity without which even
preacher is but sounding brass and
cymbal.'