Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-07-25
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oEfFERSoN COUNTY, July ~, 1857
Ar. Editor When read the first let
ter of democrat" in the Free Press, which
in my humble estimation, SO wantonly and
discourteously attacked Mr.. Lucas gem
tleman of fine reputation, acknowledged abil.
ity and established character concluded
that the Hon. John Blair Hoge had monop.
olized the good manners that were allotted
to him and his supporter, and had left none
to adorn and embellish his friend and feudal,
man, "Democrat;" butefter the perusal of the
second letter of Democrat" in this weeks
Free Press. in answer to mine in the Shirt.
believe that some of that scarce commodity.
to>wit Courtesy, is left to the unknown an .
thor of the Hardy letters at any rate sufi>
cient to prompt him to adopt, in the second
epistclary effort, an apologetio tone, for the
sins committed in the first He saws that
grave charges had been made against Dir.
Hoge; he was charged with having made an
agreement, and he merely desired TO say in
that letter, as one of the delegates from this
side of the district to the late Fairmont Con.
vention, that he know of no such agreement.
AS this was his only intention, what circu,
tons route he took to accomplish it. Like
Democrat" 1 do not desire neyspaper
controversy, and I should not answer him
again, had il not been for this clause in hia
letter: "Ihe friends Of DIR. Lucas ,aoou1d
hare Uotcd for Dir Hoge, any man of them,
from tbs side. dnyhOao, as soon as he aoos out
Of the a0Gy-agM "Justice" be good enough to
n0n1e one man among them qvho lcou[3 not
hare vote9 for Hogc pr This is startling
assertion, because of the ignorance of facts
which it displays. 1t is we'll known, an in
disputabe fact, that it required the most
persuasive arguments to get several of the
Jefferson delegation to vote for Hoge one of
them, "a man who voted for Iacas,) never
could be persuaded to vote for Eoge on the
other side of the mountain the Pocahoutss
delegate, only, voted for Hoge, and he was
Lucas man, because of Lucas request, and
as he has stated in his published letter, boz
cause of tho Payne arrangement As il was,
with oil this effort on the part of Mr.. Lucas
and his friends. Hoge's nomination over Mar
tin was by small, very small, majority
democrat" delegate to that convention, in
making such an assertion as the above, shows
the worthlessness of his denial that there was
nosuch angemont between Hoce and Payne.
so far as his powers of observation 60; for it is
not likely that man who could not see the
difficulty OF bringing many of the Lucas dell
egatea to vote for Hoge at all, when on tho
spot, participant in tho action, won}d be
very apt to hear anything about private ar
rangement between two persons when he syGs
not present Perhaps he has tina. class of
vision, however, which We sometimes hear
of, that enables its possessor to discover fiji
on barn door, but renders him unable to
soc tho barn door itself. IF such be tho case
and democrat" has this wonderful faculty.
which prevents him from observing what is
sranspiring in public and before him, and
enables him to assert in positive terms, that
an arrangement did not take place 10 private !;
then indeed has Mr.. Lucas to fight not only
Mr.. Hoeo and his supporters, and his alleged
breach of faith, but also queer and unnatural
powers, as wonder striking as whom
''Birna1n woods came to 'Dunsipanc.'"
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