Year: 1862

just as onr elections were transpiring you
sent into Ohio your venomous missiles, aim.
ed at the editor of The CRISIS, as though
you had been recently appointed DICTA-


TOR by the Abolitionists of this State,


either to aunihilate US at once, or send us to


some bastile for such punishment, taking
your billingsgate as an evidence of your


only know how to inflict.


AS return for your choice language, We
send you back greeting from Ohio, the VIC


torious shouts of redeemed people, from
the rule of just such bragadocia jackasses as
yourself! What do yoW think of nP If IL
sweats you, it is to be hoped that it will cure
you.


You use the words traitor and 'treason'
with as much f1uency as though you were
on very intimate terms with both. A tree
is generally known by the fruit it bears. Y on
had two sops in the Southern army, one of
whom was recently killed at Augusta, Ky.
The editor of TIE CRISIS has son in the
Northern army, who was in Kentucky at
the time your son was killed fighting on the
other side! .re.-.
Now, in the chances and accidents of war,
your son might have killed our son. or vics
versa, and yet you call US 'traitor!' Now,
were you in such straits, that to clear your
skirts of the charge of teaching your sons
treason, you were driven to this vulgar ex-
hibition of yourself to save your reputation
among your abolition friends, ,oho haze you
IN their payf We stand in need of no such
defense, for we despise the Abol;tionist, just
as much as you can hate Democrat! You
went begging amongst these abolitionist not
long since, and in Philadelphia alone they
raised you forty thousand dollars! How much
do you expect to get out of them for your
vile abuse of the editor of the CRIRIs, who
sent son into Kentucky to save your rot
ten carcass from the daggers of your own
flesh?


We speak thus to you only from the fact
that you forfeited, by your most contempti-
BILE language, all consideration as man by
descending to the level of brute. Less
than year ago you sent to Us letters Of
friendship and kindness, in regard to your
unfortunate neighbors who had been arrest
ed in their houses and sent to Camp Chase.
We treated your letters as coming from q
gentleman, and saw and conversed with your
unfortunate neighbors.


From this and like acts of kindness, we
were bounded by heartless crew who are
incapable of approaching decent act to
friend or foe. Despising in our very soul
such contemplate meanness, such spirit Of
savage brutality we, of course. paid not the
least attention to such clamor.


Now you set up the howl of brutality, to
make yourself equal to your associates in
the lower level chosen for your pathway
We hope you will have a pleasant journey,
and we ask forgiveness for STOPPING so low
as to make ourself heard in conversing with
you. A friend of yours was anxious to make
us believe you knew nothing of the article
published in your paper. We gave you full
time to take it back if you lid not approve
of IT, YOu have m ade no explan alton Or
retraction, and we, th herefore, have felt con-
strained, greatly against our incinatons, to
show to the public, in our own defence, just
what is known to many people to be true
We now commit you to the mercy of the
public.