Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — AN EXPLANATION. [ARTICLE]

AN EXPLANATION.

[The foil Giving communication explains itself. Mr. Moore handed it to us. at the same time remarking I lhajt we could publish it or not, as we | thought would be for the interests of : the Republican party. As some unpleasant rumors have been afloat, which his article fortever puts at re.-*. we publish it with pleasure.] .}fr. Idditof: I,sco in the Gazette of week ■ before. Inst, the statement of Mr. Brown, in .re are nee to the Barkley vote, anil in his i cosfimunicution frequently uses my name, i ••Hid, niter .making h ; s statement, says lie i distinctly told me so; which, perhaps, may i make the impression on soure, that 1 inis-.-.•(.•presented his statement to me. Whether . this construction was intended by Air. : Brown net, I atn unable to say, but as > tliere-h':ts been considerable said on this subject in connection with my name.l beg leave to make a statement of the facts and cir-i I cuinstunees of which I have a knowledge in l i the matter. On the.evening of the Conven-i lion Mr. Win. 11. Nichols, of our township? g.yent over to Mr. Brown’s for the purposem l : ascertaining how the vote of the Convention o, i i.it townstr.p storw. o n his return, he stated to me Ciat Mr. Jackson, for Clerk., received sixteen votes and that I did not re ceive any. I tisked him how manv votes were polled, and he said twenty-three or' twenty-four. I then ;:i-ked him who had re-i ceived the balance of. the votes, as Mr. Jack-I son had only reec-iw-d sixteen of them; he i said he reconed they were given to Mr. ' Brown, for Commissioner. Thinking- that. Mr. Nichols did not understand himself, I said nothing more about, it at that time.

On ‘lm Saturday following; while on my ; way to Rensselaer, in company with Mr. Perry Paris-and Mr. Nichols, Mr. Nichols turned to Mr. Paris and myself, and said he would tell us the truth about how the vote Stood in Bark ley townahip. lie said that j Mr. Jackson had received all the votes but : one, and that Mtu Brown said that, he voted ! for me, and that, in counting out the votes? his vote was thrown away and was not conn-1 ted, and that Mr. Brown was very much: a:u;or<;d about it, 1 said to him, I reconed i it was not throw: l , away intentionally. He: He said it was thrown out [i-irpose!y, and i that Mr. Brown said so. I asked Him tyho , were the cflicers of the Convention; lie said i that Mr. Brown did not say who they were, : but that lie (Nichols.) could g-ne-ss, dsc. I went on to town, thinking 1 would see M -. Brown, or some person from that neighborhood, with whom I was acquainted, and : would learn more about it, but during t’jel time I stayed in town, I believe-I saw no? person from that neighborhood, with the ex-i J ceptipn of Mr. William Parkison, passing] along the street on horse-back, and saw him,] • I believe, no more that day. 1 was at the] I Court House once or twice during the after-i : noon, but did not learn anything about, the cote cl that township. I '.vent home think-] i that Air. N ichols was under a mistake about the matter; but on the Wednesday following, when the paper came out, the official returns |of tliat township showed that Mr. Jackson ] had received twenty-four votes and that there i were twenty-live polled, and that I had not ] received any, which partly coroborated Mr. Nichols’ last statement. This tiling became - a neighborhood talii. Several mentioned it ;to me. I believe 1 mentioned jtr to some ] three or four in casual conversation, and : that I would go and see Mr. Brown about it. They advised me so to do. Accordingly, I ■ went to see him this day four weeks ago. ] Air. Brown commenced the conversation

about the vote of that township, and stated to me substantially the facts, as set forth in his communication in the Gazette. After he had finished his statement, I remarked that my business over was to know the straight! of it, as there was considerable talk about it, | and that I thought the matter ought to be! set right before the public, fie said he thought it unnecessary to say anything about it; that he had never made the statement to any one except Mr. Nichols. 1 did not malto the full statement of Mr. Nichols known to Mr. Brown, as I sincerely hoped the thing would never have be m hoard of again, and as they were brothers-in-law, and fearing that it might interfere with their social relations, which should exist between neighbors and relatives, which I wished to remain unimpaired; nor should I ever have mentioned it had it not been in vindication of my own character from imputation and stain. I never said anything about Mr. Brown’s statement until Mr. Thornburg had prepared his first article for the press, when I stated it to him, and the Saturday after its publication 1 mentioned it to Mr Davies, editor of the Gazelle, Mr. Charles Boroughs, on Sunday, and to Mr. William I’arkison, Tuesday or Wednesday before Mr. Brown’s communication appeared in the Gazette. I had up object in view only to exonerate Mr. Parkison and Mr. Brown, and to set them right before the public. They are gentlemen for whom I have always had the great- ] r .-f i.. teem and respect, a... hone t, upright I and | citizen. . aw! J feel it to be tuj duty

( to state Air. Brown's version ot the affair: I and I now appeal to aw of the-above-named ] gentlemen, to whom I mentioned it, to soy ] whether I misrepresented Air. Bkown in the least. I make the above statement with the best of feelings toward ail concerned, and if 1 have misrepresented any. it is done unintentionally and I cordially invite correction. Now, in conclusion, let me say'to my fellow citizens and brother Republicans of Jasper county, that although there mav be some things which have transpired in the party, at which some feel hurt, and of which all do not approve, let us forgive and forget them at the present, and come up to the polls, to-morrow week, as brothers bound together in the bonds of one universal brotherhood, to battle against Slavery and its extension, and for freedom,, freemen, free labor, and Irms institutions. Respectfully,

WILLIAN E. MOORE.

Hanging Grove, Oct. 3. 1859.