Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-12-03
FOR THE SPECTATOR.
o TiiE EDITORS.

TO THE EDITORS.
AS Gov. Coles has agsip resorted to
your paper and has published in il his
famous letter to Mr.. Forquer OF the
8 h Of July, which letier he lad publish
cd in the in'eAigencer in August Iasi |
have only 10 request that you viii pub
lish from FAC Imelligencer Of tie 25.h
utimo my remarks upon that letter, TO,
gether wl,hths certificates ct Capt. Buck.
master. David Blackwell, ESQ. the "A
torney General, E. ] West, David Prick
cit and Alfred Cowles Esqrs thcrewilh
published.
To nee, and repeI the abuse and &C.
cusations OF an Individual high III ot.ioe
in the state, have been compelled Sc
veral times TO appear before ihe pubic.
l have regretted the necessity oi the case
winch required me to do SO. II was moi
a controversy Of NY seeking. And had
he con'en,ed nluseii vain nls ysrUai
MISREPRESENTATION Of me, should poo
badly never have thought il worth while
10 noitce hlnt.
But when found myself assai.ed ~
Two successive libeilous plsilca,ions
trumped forth in the newspapers, AID
lhey over fictitious names, | len myself
called upon 20 expose tncir author 10
he public.
What | have written was intended to
be strictly in selt-deIence. Aud if IN
5 cad OF Gov. Coles accomplishing lis
designs, The injuries ne has endeavored
| 10 heap OH me nave reCoiied upon him
self, they were OF his own GevisiDg-lhe
affair was one Of his own seeking.
The communication above referred to
which wrote Tor The In elisencer, was
| intended TO close, and this closes my re-
IA al ks in relation 10 him.
SAM'L. M'RCBERIS. Z
November 29tA, 1925.
From the Illinois Intelhgencer.
| Mfr. Blackwell,
Some weeks since letter was pub
lished IN your paper, from his Excellen-
cy Edward Coles, to Mr.. George For
quer, upon which must b. permitted
! 10 make few remarks.
| Gov. Coles first atlacked me in your
| :"
aper, over 6 Commune aied !" then in
the Spec taior over : Justices" he has
now gone back to your paper, and again
attacked me in a letter TO Forquer, over
the name OF 9 Edward Coles"
His two anonymous attacks, have
heretofore sii,ed Gin the Spectator of the
9th OF Augusta have now only 10 exa-
mine few plain matters Of TACT; they
are those upon which his deniats and the
additional assertions in his letter are pre-.
dloated; and | will give proof or shew
what relation those denials and assertions
bear to truth.
Isl. Gov. Coles, in his letter, says tina,
ne positively denies that Capt. Buck
master ever made any such proposition
70 him." to wit: "if he would pay the
| costs, and what the Comm issionefs were
bound to pay their attorney, they would
dismiss The sui."-.'Dor did Capt. Buck.
masier," says Gov. Coles, ever tell
him tina, the Commissioners were willing
to dismiss the suit, upon his paying the
cost and attorneys Fee" l have given
his words in order that there shall be no
room for equivocation, that he has made
this denial The above proposition Capt
/ Buc kmaster informed me he made to
| Gov. Coles, and that Gov. Coles refus-
ed 10 accep, il. II was but indirectly
connected with HIS attack upon me,
though as fact Coming from Capt.
/ Buckmaster, as il will be remembered,
l mentioned il in my letter. could
| then have given proof Of this proposition