Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-09
Mr.. Gouverneur's last letter to the Editor OF the
Globe.


FRANcIs BLAIR, ESQ.
Editor ofthe Globe. Washington.
Sir: To your editorial article of the 4th,
deem it proper to reply. shall take the same IL
berty with every remark which may escape YOU
calculated to misead the public, as TO the matter
at issue between u.s. Where you grasp at inslnu.
You saw " the question should have been made
in Mr.. Rhea's life time. 1t was: more than once.
When the proof shall be required, will afford it.
Your declaration was not made until alter you
heard of his death. Why did you not do it be-
fore?
The Washington papers assure US, that the
Western mail Of the 9th Of June, brought the in-
teIlisence that Mr.. Rhea was dead. Your asser
ton bears date the very next day. do not say
it was designed-but is it not singular that 1t
should be SO?
You say, "the fact Of communication hav
ing been made by Mr.. Rhea to Gen. Jackson has
never been disputed" 1t would be singular.
that il should be. He may have made many, and
probably did. How can be presumed TO know
what letters may have been written, or when. or
of what construction their contents may have
been SUSCEPTIBLE II on the contrary, as you
seem to imply, you have been more fortunate,
and having become possessed Of their contents.
think. by the production of any, that you can
strengthen the position you have assumed-Why
do you not do SOP Mr.. Monroe. a. discover
from his papers, long since released ati oblIga-
tons of confidence in reference to this subject;
and il there be any thing, Of which am not pos
sessed, say in his name, come from whence 1t
may. you are at liberty to use it. Your attempt
to bring "the Presidents verscity" into discus
sion, is rather too shallow device to induce me
A. hay hnkyn QV
~ feeling strikingly inconsistent with such dis
position.
beg you to recoleci, for it seems necessary
to remind YOU verv often, that my discussion is
,cith you, and on single matter oil fact Was
Gen Jackson Sin conducting the Seminole War
IN fact acting under the secret orders Of the Co.
rerament?" You have asserted it-you are
bound to retrsct or to prove it. will not permit
you TO hide behind others, who are not. az have
a RICH, 10 suppose, responsible for all your asser-
TONS. therefore dismiss all your obvious eva
sious, all your wordy explanations about " mes
ssges,' :. communications" inierences," &c
and huld you to the proof, Of that which you have
assert.d-or that you frankly admit yuu have
been detected in error.
But sir. there is one point in your remarks too
slaringly inconsistent with truth reason to ad.
init Of my silence. You say eff Mr.. Monroe
character and conduct, are made theme for pa'.
tlzan discussion, II shall not be your fault" Da
you then mean to insnuate that the fault is mine
Why did you not think Of - partzan discus
sons' when you thought proper to make the orig.
inal charge? Did you suppose it would be permit
ted to pass without notcef When you found it was
not, why did you not as you promised you would,
simply announce that it had been promptly con-
tradicted By me, and the discussion would not be
invited for obvious reasons at the present time?
Why did you again repeat the assertion, marked,
too. in italics. when had told you was solemn.
ly pledged to deny IT'D
II there be any thing to be regretted in this
matter. now or hereafter, you-and you alone,
are responsible for it. What right. Sir, have you
to make an assertion, whether it be injurious or
no.. il YOU do not believe it to be truel When
il you do believe and assert it, il is questioned
as injurious, what right have you to evade an
inquiry, repeat it again, aud refuse to listen to
any evidence respecting it? What right have
you, when YOU have asserted as u fact, that which
| deny to be true. to endeavor to involve me in a
controversy with others, which you shrink from
yourse,fs You shall not do 1t hold you res
ponsible for your assertion and you must recall,
prpve IL, or he silent. Yr. OBJ. st
| SAM'L. l.. GOUvERNEUR.
| New York, 5th October, 1882.
ASSERTION.