Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — Squelching a Slander. [ARTICLE]

Squelching a Slander.

(Marion (Ind.) Democrat.) I We knew Kernan at the time be was Editor es the Fort Wayne Sentinel, we being employed on the Gazette of that city at the same time. • • • • His employers were only too glad to discharge him after he had, in a few weeks almost totally destroyed the sab•eription list at that paper. [This lie, in different shapes and from different scoundrels, has traveled from Maine to California, and we propose to strangle the life out of it, finally and forever, by publishing the following letter from the then proprietor of the Fort Wayne Bentinel; • Omcs or Dailt St Wkeelt Bmiwi, ? Ft. Ways* In*.. Jmm 20, JB7L \ Will H. Kernan, Esq.,—Yout Rote RESIGNING the position as editor of the Sentinel has been handed me. lam ex-' ceedingly sorry that you have felt it incumbent to do so, for I can assure yon that your services have met with my unoualifird approval. The columns ’ of the Sentinel, while.ttnaer your charge, have been ably edited, aad, it is no flattery to say, better than evkr before. Oar relations, also, have been such as to ■sake the parting a matter of the deepest regret. As it seems, ander the dreamstaoces, that you cannot bb induced to remain, my beat and heartiest wishes follow you, hoping that some day in the future we may once Bsore join our social and political fortunes. Your friend, R. M. Dunn. The original copy of this letter can be aeen at the States office.]