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fwRSNTICEAOTTHe rttlELS,A story that Geoigc D. PiMftice, the famous editor oi tbo old »jfoumat, Accepted in isoi;a brib£ ot $15,000 from Southern men, tor which he was touaJec that paper an organ of secession, «rv recently published in a Louisville pJtjSHd at was explained that Mr. Prentice had written a-sUodg secession article; that the ankle had been put Pi type -and ww lead; fo* the pres* when Paul R. Shipman, an assistant to Mr. Prentice, ordered it to be taken from the form and suppressed, that My. Prentice nevertheku kept the bribe aagat list spent the money. A writer, signing himself « T-M, 0..” sends to the (X*ciH*41iQmMerlt;tala statement of what he knows about this extrnordiiary tale. In the winter and spring of t86j he passedseveral week! to Louisville, and saw Mr. Prenuce almost dally. .The coovemtion op one occasion turned upon* a certain Peawjcratic newspaper in Louisville, which advocated t demand for the rescinding of the BmiQCipatioo Proclunatioo as the condition of voting futthear supplies for the war, Mr. Prentice dtd not hesitate to assert M in the most emphatic term* *' that the Democratic aewspapei had been bribed. Mi. Shipman, rfur wm piewnt. affirmed his belief that the paper had not been corrupted, and that its edyior acted from hi# honest' convictions, Mr. Prentice then said, m support of his own Views, tha* in lS6x he had been urged to favor in the Yauml th* secession of Kentucky, and that it had been talisaaied to him that he could make such a step vcry^pifpfiuble to himself. De-string to see wim offer would be wade, he affected\o consider the suggest ion, and- *was, then offered *35,000 m gold, tone paid when the article was. written and before in publication, and a draft forhad taken its „ oat •• the inducement offeiyd was-not saf*Ament, ~ He was then asked to name ht» tenua.man. who remained in the room wbU? i*-stare-incnt was made, seemed familiar with IT and tn no particular did he conliallict n cuu}nerttoti its accuracy *T ML G.” adds, in conclusion, that his own belief has always been *’ that George U. Pren-mr «a every inch a patriot.
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Buffalo Morning Express
Buffalo, New York, US
Sat, Mar 15, 1879
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