Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-11-28

, ministration" into this traitorous con
binatioD, expressed the opinion thi
{ each State had a right to separate fror
r the Union at pleasure, and declared th
2 government destitute of all power
, preserve itselfby compelling obedonc
I. to Its laws, with much more to tn
| same effect,
: To this ! oppose my explicit donia
: ! declare that all you say about me Il
this connection is perfectly and entire
, ly false, not only in its general tenol
but in every detail No act that eve
! did, no line that ever wrote, no wor
: that | ever spoke can give the slightes
support to any ono Of your charges
} On the contrary, all my utterances
public and private, are diametrically
the reverse Of this.
Up to this point have been willin,
to excuse you on the score Of incapaci
ty. You could not be expected TO so,
the nconstitutIonaity oil the rclurnin,
board law, or the legal right of the peo
pie TO choose their own electors, or the
dishonesty of altering election returns
or the rule that fraud makes void what
ever it taints bv its touch. In ouotinf
the Louisiana court to prove princi
nle which il did NOT mention merriam,
you only repeated like a parrot what
others said before, without knowing
what IL meant, When you asserted
the oonclnsiveness of ,Le roturnino
boards action on tho authority Of tbS
statute and n iudicial decision Won NAV
have omitted the word nprima facif'
from your rendering of both because
YOU thought tbat c9ucllsipe and Drimo
facie were svnenvmous terms Yon
nrobablv did not write that mart of vonr
article which most falsely accuses me
of admitting and iustilvino the murder
of innocent and HELPLESS peoplo bv
thousands All your misstatements mn.
on the Florida case could be accounted
for by your lack of LEGAL knowledge.
Even your INSTRUMENTATION of Mr.
Buchanan might be considered the nm.
avoidable blu1der of narrow mind
struggling with n subiect bevond its
compTebension. But this slander of me
il n different thing Giving Won credit
for as mneb Ignorance as Won can noss,.
bly plead. and making ali allowance for
tbe eurions moral s,rd5;smns with which
Won are afflicted still Indictment must
90 against Won that here Won have ,giH.
| TiHy broken the ninth commandment.
Manifestly Won soupht most dilipent.
ly for evidence 10 show that had been
opnosed 10 the Union favored secession
and advised AGAINST the right of the
Government 10 execute its own laws.
| The further YOU went in your search,
the more proofs Won found to contra.
dict the calumny which YOU had pre.
determined TO utter and YOU found alb.
solutely nothing. for nothing existed.
TO sustain IT, But, true to the morali.
ty of the returning board, YOU resolved
to make what You could not md. You
took my opinion of goth of November,
1860 and there Won saw an exposition
of the subject precisely the opposite of
=. w. 49, 49, N"N Nif~'NN y.
that which you wished to impute to
me. Then You falslfied the record, sup
pressed what actually wrote, and at
tributed to me sentiments which ] ncv-
orentertained or uttered. Your account
OF the paper and ITS contents is not on
" different from, but directly contrary
to all that IS contained IN the paper
ltseli.
That IS bad enough, but that is not
the worst Of IT, In erder to give some
snow OF Authenticity 10 your iaise YER
sion OF my opinion, .yon pretend to
transcrloe paragraph but your tran
script Is pasely fraudulent. Let any
man take vol y OF The Attorney uen-
erals opinions, look at this one on page