text:  Certainly it is unhappy for the Seceders that the only disavowal of the most fiendish sentiments heard in our days has come from an individual not authorized or at all commissioned by his party--from an individual not showing any readiness to face the whole charges disingenuously dissembling the worst of them and finally offering his very feeble disclaimer which equivocates between a denial and a palliation--not until _after_ he found himself in the position of a petitioner for favours