The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-07
Ghe GatelIiesnte1:
omoo, Nos. 20 and ~ rourtoon,h Street.
HON. TH0S. CARSKADON
HE ANswERs JUDGE FUReUsoN,
Confirmation OF u Very Lively Argument
Concerning the Third PArty-ThO Pro.
hibitioniSts Desire the Death
of All Other Political Parties.


fine sense Of courtesy and honor lmpel9
very deliCately to hint ct the Judge
breach Of propriety in his last communi
cation. AS an exhibition Of venom, NAL
ice, Misrepresentation, sophistry, inuendo
lev cunning and demogoSy 1 have no
seen It's equal. he need not apologize h
me for hIa brutality in pummellug maj
Of straw Of his own construction. Beinl
an expert on that line he shall have thu
field to himself; but I challenge him bRCl
to the discussion Of the real issue, which
is in no wise personal one, nor at sll dc
pendent for solution on the Judges gool
nor my bad chsrscter-but is one Of prin
clples greater than party leaders or writer's
viz: How best to destroy the liquor cursl
in the State and Nation; will the forma
ton Of the Third party help or hinder II
the good work?
To the discussion OF this question
shall in the future, as in the past, conRue
myself; but in passing will try to purge
the record OF the judges false accusations
against the third party, and myself, 90 fal
Gs my connection with the party rendera
any reference thereto germane to this dis
cussion. His first charge OF egotisn
against me, and the second that having
read q smstteripg Of history, mistook my
miaajon, having nothing to do with and
being entirely irrelevant to the question,
needs no reply.
To charge third, that ~ joined the
third party to have my name and fame as
great leader go laundering down the
ages linked with the names and fame oil
the old Abolition party leaders, Garrison,
Lovejoy, Giddlnge, Sumner and Phillips"
Lrepiy is not pertinent at all to this issue
YET, ithpe, 1t we're very laudable ambi-
don, In which I differ from my hon.
orable friend, who, not willing to
trust the "sRes," does his thunder.
ing now. wish that could feel that ]
was worthy Of the distinguished honor he
charges me with aspiring to. But when ]
remember that nearly twenty years ago,
With that Christian statesman, Col. Sam
Young, Of PoCahontas county, member
Of the State Senate, and others, we urged
upon our fellow Republicans the impera.
tive duty while We had the power to take
up and adopt temperance reforms now
being urged, and that st the same time
wrote the INrRLLIGENCER Chen as now
the leading organ) urging this action, in.
HistinS as did that while the Democratic
party sin ways that are dark, &c." might
hold its own, the Republican party could
not live without a live moral issue, and
that, unless taken up by the party, II
ought to be done outside, &C., to which
the INTELLIGENcRR courteously replied
that the object was good one, but would
be best and soonest accomplished by our
remaining in the party.
And now, after having waited linn
patiently, it is true) and sinned away 90
many long years Of grace, / fear my
chances to ''Go laundering down the ages
are indeed very slim.
In the language OF tho immortal Lin.
coin at tho dedication Of the soldiers
cemetery OF Gettysburg, in 1858, will re-
| mind the Judge that "the world will lit
tie note nor long remember what we say
here, but can never forget what they did
here" So in this great baltic the name
and fame OF the Haddocks, Gambrils
and others who lived, and others who al
great sacrifice fought in this noble cause
amid the ieera and SCOTS Of those who
would not ente. themselves aud hindersd
those who we're entering, will come
'thundering down the ages," while
eroskers, Pheriaees, and othera In collision
with the crime, will be consigned to the
political damnation their treachery and
trickery merit.
To charge fourth, "that I let locEe q
TRADE Of abuse sgainat every individual
J ......kn, - hnkb aIJ norEiau 1uho raf1aa m
join the third party" ] reply that the
charge Is not true, as q reference to my
articles will show. l have in none Of
them abused anybody-hsving no cause
or inclination to dQ 90,
tried to, and think did show, that II
party in It's platform and principles or
want Of principles was bad, then the men,
bers endorsing and acting with 1t must be
| in the wrong; that that which was politi.
cslly wrong could not be morally right, and
that that which would be individually
wrong could not be morally right; that in
morals there 10 no neutraiity-that i
there is q wrong, q failure to antagoni2e
and oppose 1t 10 tfeasoa 10 the right. And
one other thing is, and / think ought more
than oyer to be, apprehended, that mar
cannd knowingly be politically and moral
" wrong and spiritually right
"Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servsntE
We are to whom 70 alsy,j '''i'
/ Will the Judge answer the logic or SHOW
the abuse in this?
didn't abolish slavery" Why didn't ht
add as astoEndlnGly the "D1tGh did1,
God almighty aboliBhed slavery through
abolitioniBts, as he will abolish whisk.
and Democracy through prohibltionista
| In this, however, he ContrRdicts himself
where he declares in one place that
want to link my name and fame end "g
laundering down the SgeD" as 3 Srea
leader along With Garrison, Lovejoy, Gid
dinRs, Sumner and Phillips, who no I'D
miss are honored by the lagos" and CANT
I"tbundering" down bscaues Of their cue
cessiul Leadership Of great reform, Whicl
in another plsl, he deCts:e they ~ oeEe
TstheT than helped. 6olnebody's mil
tsksn. tho ''aReA" or the Judge; whiChP
Oharce sixth: "You gloat over eleC!in
a Democrat President in 1854" utteTl
false; no semblRnGs Of anything OF til
sort in my htuCIeb. IL IoPly w NY wa
parison Of our party to Loudon's thTe
tailors, ] did say Inst We had borne tnre
years curses for having elected q Pres
dent. The party did not, nor can "
vlosE over or rejoice in the success OF tn
Democratic rum party anywhere. Nstthe
will our fidelity to tho prohibition cIua
in State or Nation allow ua to disbRnd Q
cease voting our convictions Of duty, bl
cause Of the cry in the North, "You wi
ruin the Republican party" and In th
South, "YonT object Ia to break up tn
Democratic party" t
Replying to this clEnior OF old part
leaders for the dissolution Of the Pronib
ton party, allow me to BAY for their cou
fort, In substance "a Mr.. Lincoln did l
his reply to the opportunities Of the sam
character Of patriots, who in his time wel
demanding the dissolution Of the Abol