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Managers, competed as it is of gentlemen menl of integrity, knowledge of life, and experi-ence ihliuman character, that they had so long and so intimate a connection with their chief officer without, ascertaining his true character- Their neglect, or call it what you ynllk--to ascertain, his true character has done .more damage to the institution than tliey can repair in years. The public Have ina great degree lost com fidehce m it which can only be regained by time. The position which some of thp managers seem, to have assumed that they were lxuntosustain Mr. Rutherford, because they believed him innocent of the charges made against him, wa3 a false one.The charge once made, his usefulness as a Superintendent was gone forever. As his friends, believing him innocent of the char.M • ' ♦ 4 A * •ges,' they were bound in manly honor, to defend the character .of the man, but they surro should’ not have endeavored to retain him j^.1^ in his jmition~a position of such immense j)er_** responsffiilltyier good or for evil. dimiiWe are told that there are those who stillbeH^e in Rutherford’s innocence. If one ^ tfallen ghl had chax^gd him with crime, her ^bbsevidence uhsustained by corroborating fact3, Suchshoiddlihye been disregarded, but dozensof theteCpnldnot; have joined in a cons pi- lri^racy to- d^troy his. char acter, which is the was 1oate iheorv his advocates have to stand J*** t- ■ by viupon. - : . enou;of the hy pal hftlf-w Lindle bet wee stone {i to see £ of the etgns, niter n newsn town*' and a entert is do; nil coi is knj ** coui called bales, assem with or a leaf.
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Pittsburgh Post
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Nov 28, 1859
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