The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-08-18
A Personal MATTER.

l PSi-haa iSShesy in"hitSstGu u clluf
lish disposition to attack, malign and
traduce us because he deems us &c
have taken the wrong position upor
the Vallandigham Platform, aud be
cause his innate ignorance and jack.
assical stupidity leads him to believe
that any one differing with him upon
any proposition must be essentially
wrong in everything else. In his
barren expedient for argument he was
driven to the necessity of Illuminating
u lie with regard TO our political
record, pretending to base his asser-
ton upon the authority of Capt. n
b. Humphrey, of this city. Captain
II. saw Abbott's published falsehood
and Immediately spiked the old tum.
ble- bugs blunderbuss with the follow.
ing letter which brands Abbott as n
liar through the columns of his own
paper:
ALBANY, Oregon, July nth, 1871.
Editor Bedrock Democy'ot:-
| DEAR SIg:-ln your issue of July |
you refer TO some person whom you as
sert WAS, according TO my testimony, n
Radical during the war; and during the
exile of Mr. Vallandigham was eating
the ratlons and wearing the uniform oil
II United States soldier. believing that
you referred to NJ. Y. Brown, OF the
| Democrat, in said article, deem it my
duty to make the following statement:
That NJ. V. Brown was u soldier In
the Union army, ut one time, during
| the war, | believe. That he was d
Radical ut any time, during the war,
| do not believe; neither have | ever stat
cd that such was the case. Not wish
| ing To misrepresent any person. and
| believing that you would not intention
ally 90 30, and for the pusposc of cor
| recting any misapprehension that may
/ have arisen from any remark j may
| have made on the subject, and In Justice
| to Mr.. Brown, you and myself, / beg
| you to give this statement place In
your colums.
Very respectfully, yours,
\. d. HUMPHREY.
After having been forced to eat
lirt and acknowledge himself ca
'uminator by the publication of this
letter, Abbott's deep humiliation and
chagrin leads him to the perpeiration
OF other crimes against decency and
fairness and induces him to steep him
self still deeper in the dregs of dis
honor. II alluding to US he says:
'';Since we quit the Albany Democrat
"A paper which we rcsuscitated and
placed on paying basis at no little
sacriiice-he has let no opportunity pass
to stab US privately and publicly, be-
cause he knew our hands were tied,
and we could not protect ana defend
ourseif.'
In regard to his placing this paper
on a paying basis We have this TO
say: When he assumed editorial
control of the STATE RIGHTS DEMO
Graf, in August, in 1866, Immediately
subsequent to the retirement of James
oMeara, the paper had a circulation
of one thousand. In June, 1869, after
Abbott's name had appeared at the
gable-end of the paper as editor for
nearly three-years, its circulation was
just 516--a decrease in its subscrip-
ton list of almos one-halfl And a
large number of subscribers compris-
ing this meagre list had been many
times heard to assert that they simply
continued taking the paper to keep
the local press from sinking into de-
cay and not because of any feature
that the paper possessed either for in
terest or ability. The fact that the
DEMoRAT has been enlarged in form
and has also constantly increased in
circulation since Abbott's enforced
departure from it, is a sufficient COM
mentary upon the relative fitness and
capacity of himself and those who
have had control of it since he left.
1t is true that we were business
partner with Abbott during his con-
nection with this paper, but his ego
tistical jealousy led him to exclude us
entirely from the editorial columns
and assign US to the mechanical de-
partment of the Office, where even his
dictatorial spirit also inspired him to
often intrude himself and to perpe-
trate many outrages upon the mechan-
ical rules of printing Office. And at
last, when his dcspicable egotism, in
sufferable ignorance and gross inca
pacity rendered him wholly unbeara-
bic to the Democracy of the county,
and the Board of Directors of the
STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT Publish
ing Association removed him and
still retained us as co-publisher with
Hon. c. b. Bellinger, his jealous rage
melted him to wrong us in every
manner possible, even to the refusal
to pay us debt of over $500 which
he had contracted by drawing an ex-
cess Of funds from the partnership re-
ceipts of the establishment; while his
dishonesty led him to appropriate
the partnership funds to the purchase
of an elegant sporting rifle and to fail
to charge himself with the money Sc
used. As further illustration of his
baseness, when we asked him to turn
over to US his undivided interest in
the accounts and material of the office