The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-06

Hon. Thomas 3. CarSkGdOH:
sIR:-Your reply TO my last answer to
you 10 at hand. It begins with your
usual scurrility in regard to myseli, and
when you have exhausted yourself in
that line Jou hoist flag Of truce, and
bag for cessation OF hostiities in the
line OF peraonAl discussion, and to confine
the argument hereafter to the question In
dispute. Inasmuch as you commenced
this lice Of personal disCussion and have
gotten moro than you bargsined for, and
therefore propose to stop 1t, appreciate
your wish in the matter and have con-
Cluded hereafter to accommodate you,
provided you carry out the treaty. But
taking your reply to my last answer, to-
gether with the one which preceded 1t, l
am at loss to see anything remaining to
be argued bstWeen US. You make up q
list OF what you call charges made agRinst
you and your party by me, and to some
OF them you make roundabout denial,
but your deniais apply either to such OF
the list az are wholly immaterial to the
matters in issue between US, or to those
formulated by yourself, and not made by
me. But as to the main charges, Rs you
choose to call them, made by me, you
have not only not denied them, but have
directly and indirectly admitted every
one OF them to bo true. In your fret
letter to tho INTHLLIGREcER you under
took, ns then understood you, to prove
that the true and only way to adopt the
Prohibition Amendment to the Oonstitu.
ton was for its friends to organize them
solves into Third politicsl party, with
candidates for all tho Offices to be
filed at tho election. Knowing from my
associations with the friends OF the
amendment in every part Of the Stats
that your policy would be fatal 10 the
amendment, took issue with you in that
matter, and bhoTsd to tho satisfaction Of,
at least, forIy-niue fftieths Of sll tho
voters Of the State, that your third party
movement, II carried out, 30 far from aid
ing the adoption OF the amendment,
would, in all probability, bs the means Of
defeating it; but at the same time gave
you credit for sincerity in your PROBES.
sions in the matter, Your reply Satisfied
me-, as well as the other real friends Of
tho amendment in this part Of tho State,
and elss where, 30 far as had commune
cation with them, that bad mistaken the
true object and purpose Of your third par
ty movement. And then went to work
to "smoke you out" and compel you to
show your hand" and expose "tbe tIus
inwardnees" OF your third party organ.
izalion, and have succeeded. My co.
called Charges" EgAinst you, which you
have thus admitted,to be true, Rs stated
above, are IS tolIows:
/. That while advocating your third
party organic alton as the true and only
way to secure tho adoption OF the amend.
uent, you knew perfectly we'll that your
party would be utterly powerless, Of it's
self, to secure it's adoption.
2. That you knew at the same time that
in order to the adoption OF the amend
mSns 1t would bs necessary to obtain from
the other parties nearly, or quite, 10000
votes in its favor,
s. That knowing this, as you did, you
and your third party friends generally,
both writer's and speakers, indulge in such
TRADE Of abuse and pursue such q
course toward the other parties, colleC-
lively and individually, as to drive
hundreds, perhaps thousands Of them
from the support OF the amendment who
ullkub Obu6G WHO NOLo LUZ ltb
4. That you don't desire the adoption Of
the amendment now, or at any future
time, except 1t BIO by votes cast on your
third party ballots, which you and your
party 1attar youreelvea would carry with
it the election Of your candidates for OF.
Office, and make you the ruling power in
the State.
g. That you don't want the amendment
adopted at tho next election, because you
know that you can't elect any Of your
third party candidates at that election.
You have tried your hand in that direc.
ton, and know the late that awaits you.
Q. That you are perfectly aware OF the
fact that the only reAult Of your Third
party movement In this and other States,
thus far, has been to aid my Democratic
friends 10 elect their candidates to Office,
which fact affords you infinite delight,
while at the same time you can't find Ian.
gHRge strong enough to express your
alleged adherence OF that party.
After theee concessions, II seems to me
that Argument on the matters heretofore
in issue between M Ia at an end, If, in.
deed, you ever INDUCED in anything
amounting 10 On argument in support
OF your Third party policy. But the fact
OF the matter 10 that you have made no
argument, and you can't make any argu-
ment In favor OF your third party pro-
gramme 40 help to the adoption OF
the amendment; the absurdity Of
the proposition being too plain to
admit OF an argument in its sup.
port. And the luTther fact is that
l have never found one who regarded
anything you have written ss an argu.
ment except your aid.de-camp at Parkers-
burg, and your other Third Party hench'
men. And this aid.de.Camp Of yours
gems TO be Of the opinion that you are in
competent to the performance OF the taak
you have undertaken, and, therefore,
comes 70 your assistance as the occasion,
in hia opinion, requires. He is man Of
pRrts, and has mAde two remarkable dis
coveriee which escaped your attention:
/. He says ! admit THAT the early
Abolition Party caused the defeat Of one
OF the old parties and thus precipitated
the Issue aud the conflict between
the oppoSsrs Of slavery on the one side
aud itS defenders on the other, which
ended in the final overthrow Of the SyS-
tenn"
9. That the Free Soil Party and the
Abolition Party were one and tho same.
But ! have admitted nothing Of the
kind, and il l had, 1t would not have been
true, in the sense claimed by him. I eAid
that the Abolition party caused the defeat
Of Mr.. Clay in 1874, bnt this did not
destroy the Wing party, but on the con-
trary that party elected General Taylor,
Its candidate Tor the Presidency, at the
very next election. And that party was
not the one which, in any sense, precipi-
tated the conflict between friends and
enemies OF slavery, WHICH resulted In its
destruction. Nor was the Free Soil party
the same az the Abolition party. That
party sought only to prevent the intro.
duCtlon OF slavery into free territory, but
did not purpose to interfere with slavery