Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-18
HOW THEY AGREE IN OHIO.

We alluded few days since to a letter
written by Col. John M. Cornell, prom
inent Democratic politician of Ohio, de-
Ginning to take part in the canvass in that
State, an invitation to do so having been
extended by the State Central Committee.
1t seems that writing one letter did not
give him satisfaction, and he has written
another which we find published in the
Commercial. He begins by paying his re-
spects to certain Democratic sheets as fol-
lows:
l regret to have stirred up a commotion and
was ignorant of the tumult until | read my own
Ohio EagEe OF last week. and was put upon in
curry, and found myself notorious because L
had published my reasons for declining to speak
for my party in Ohio in this, its year of humil-
latlon. L discovered in my Eagle, my biOgra-
pliers not of my own selection; among them
our precious trilObite of the Cincinnati Enqut-
req, my cOmbustble hame-headed friends OF
the Cleveland PLGindeater, and whatever hire
ling Hessian Colonel Nevins now keeps to take
the place of 1.-The old wheel horse" who made
the Ohio Statesman the honored organ of our
party in the days of its glory and success.
He then goes on to give letter which it
| seems he had written some time ago for
publication, but was prevented from max
ing it public by the opportunities of polit-
| icaI friends, in which he shows that Nc
! Cook was not the nominee of the Demo
cratic convention of Ohio, but was so de-
clared by fraud.
1t will be remembered that the vote be-
tween McCook and Ewing was very close
in the Convention. Ewing's friends be-
Il, l.. l., II, md
was hoped, Mr.. Connell says, that the
publication of the vote by counties, would
settle the matter. But the vote by coun-
ties was never published, and he charges
that it was destroyed by Mr.. McCook' s
| friends in order to conceal the fact that Ew-
| ing was really nominated. He gives his
views on the new departure and alludes in
| terms of high commendation to the cam
paign of 1867, when the Republican ma
| 'ority was cut down to about three thou
sand and compares it with the present
campaign as follows:
How different the present campaign! Does
| it not look much as if our leaders had learned,
from the Republicans who remained at home
during the war to fight the enemies there, and
fattened on Senatorial hOnOrs and public con-
tracts, that eowardly virtue-prudence for self,
and the trick of selling out influence, princi-
pie, party and the right for any adequate tenn
| pOrary advantage the individual politician might
| gain, though honor and the cause be sacri-
| feed
| A dear friend of Vallandigham writes me that
| 1.-The new departure was with him hastily con-
! sidered and i'll digested measure" and there is
| reason to believe he lived long enough to la
| ment his hasty conduct.
| His detection and his death has sadly affected
| the morale of the party.
He was lost when our need was the Sorest >
| Our coronach walls out for him gone, and
| forever" when his flower was in flushing"
And at time when no one appears to take his
place as the great tribune of the people, it is a
| sad thing for our cause that we lament the en-
| forced absence from the fray now of so many
| with formerly.