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Bat I am now speaking of the paper, which 1 all the history of the tames treated as a proto- i col, or rough' draft, of a contract really ext- t cuted, no matter what Its form may be. As lt;to this paper and its objects, I hare never pn - ' tended, in my letter or elsewhere, to speak as i a wtness, but as an historian. It is. perhaps, i unfortunate that newspapers furnish the mu- I terials of history; but I have always been cred- lt;ulous enough to believe a statement of facts i when published as editorial in a respectable i newspaper, where the editor and publisher are ] rwpekabU persons, and had the means of j knowing the truth. lt;At the time of Mr. Chase’s election, W. B. i Thrall, Esq., of Columbus, was the publisher i of the “Ohio State Journal,’’the central organ of the Whig party in Ohio, and Henry Reed, Esq.. now editor of the “Cincinnati Commer- I ciaf, was its editor. These two gentlemen had ample opportunity to know the truth in relation to this disputed paper and its contents.It was picked up on the counter, in a tailor's ahopvat Columbus, where Mr. Townsend had , been getting his coat repaired. It passed into the hands 01 Mr. Thrall, publisher of the Journal. It was carried by Mr. Thrall to William Miner, Esq., Clerk of the U. S. Court, to see if he oould identify the handwriting. Mr. Miner and Mr. Thrall compared it with papers, on file in the Clerk’s office, in the handwriting ef Mr. Chase, and all doubt was removed as to the writer. It then passed into the hands of Mr. Reed, the editor of the Journal, now of the Commercial, who, I believe, still claims to be . the owner of it From Mr. Reed it passed into j the hands of Thos. B. Stevenson, Esq., then editor of the Cincinnati Atlas, in whose office it was exhibited to numerous gentlemen, who knew it to be in the handwriting of Mr. Chase, and whose names I shall state if the genuineness of the paper is denied. I never saw the paper, but was always informed by those who aid see it, that it was the programme, prospectus, protocol, contract, agreement, or memorandum arrangement, of the various political jobs of 1848-9.But my principal reliance for the history of these jobs was on what I found stated in the Ohio State Journal, whose editor and publisher I knew to be respectable gentlemen, and who, as I have stated, had ample opportunity of knowing the facts. When the first outrage, deciding the law question for a consideration, was committed, and before any elections took place, I find the following prophetie denunciation:
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Dollar Weekly Times
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1855
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