Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-03-29

tion Ofremarks made BY him in the House
on the 18th Of Feb. You did not theI
show me the letter, and you never show
ed it TO me unlil the 26th Of Feb, aftel
the duel, and after the committee raised
by the House to inquire into the causes
Of the duel, called on me for it, wheH
You furnished it to me, and handed il
TO the committee, with an endorsement
to that effect. relied on your descrip-
tlon of it at the time of this our first in
terView, when you further told me that
Mr.. Cilley had refused to receive it at
your hands. Immediately rehuked you
for bearing such letter from Col. Webb,
and asked how you came 10 do SO FIR
him. You replied that he had been Ve-
~ kind and hospitable to you during your
late visit to the North, and that you wsre
ignorant that the act would involve you in
any responsibility, not being conversant
in such matters. You said that when
you presented the letter TO Mr., Cilley he
declined to receive it, and said that "he
hoped his declining would not be thought
disresPectful TO you; that he could not
consent to be involved in personal diff.
culties with conductors of public jour
nails for what he had thought proper to
say in debate on tie floor of the House
and that he did not decline upon any per-
sonal objections to col. Webb as gen.
tleman." And you then asked me wheth-
er thought this reason of Mr.. Cilley was
satisfactory. answered that il was stats
factory; that the reasons were very
proper, and that no more could be ask
ed.
You then inquired what l thought was
the proper course for you to pursue. ad-
vised you to return colonel Webb's note
to him Immediately, enclosed in letter
from yourself, stating what Mr.. Cilley
had said to you, and that you considered
his verbal reasons, for not receiving col.
Webb's letter, satisfactory. You sugges-
ted that it was possible Mr.. Cilley might
deny what you might state to col. Webb.
| then advised you TO send Mr.. Cilley a
copy of what you might write to col. Webb
and that it would be time enough when
he denied it, if he did so at all, to take
that into consideration. Such was the
tenor Of my advice at our first interview.
Whether you had consulted any one be-
fore you consulted me, was not inform
ed; but you seemed 10 think it best, to
prevent misunderstanding or COntradic
ton, 10 have Mr.. Cilley's answer in wri.
ting, and we parted. Invent back to the
House, and you went know not where,
but | thought 10 get a written reply from
Mr. Cilley. neither saw nor heard
syllable of the affair from you or any body
else afterwards until the next morn.
ing.
You informed me on the morning OF the
22d, having again called me out Of my
seat in The House, that you had consulted
with another friend, (Mr. Clay of KY y
and that he had ADVISED you to get Mr..
Cilley, in an amicable way il you could
TO put what he had said TO you in writing
before you address col. Webb; that he
thought with me that the reasons Of Mr..
Cilley for declining to receive col, Webb's
note we're satisfactory, but with you he
concurred that il was best to have what he
had said reduced to writing; and that you
had in pursuance of this advice, after par
ting with me the day before, gone to Mr..
CIlley in person, and requested him. at
first orally, TO put his reasons for not re-
ceiving the note in writing; that he had
at once consented to do so, but afterwards
had requested you TO write him note
containing your request, and that you had
accordingly, addressed him note, and
delivered it 10 him yourself, and he had
returned an answer; and you thereup.
on showed me the two notes, as follows,
to wit:
Mr.. Graoes to Mr.. Cilley.
House of Representatives,
Feb. .2olh, (2lst,) 1888.
In the interview which | had with you
this morning, when you declined receiv-
ing from me the note of col. J. W. Webb
asking whether you were correctly re-
ported in the Globe in what you are there
represented to have said Of him in this
House, upon the I2lh inst, you will
please say whether you did not remark,
in substance, that in decliningtO receive
the note, you hoped would not consider
it in any respect dsrespectful to me, aud
that the ground on which you rested your
declining to receive the note, was dis.
tinctly this: that you could not consent
to get yourself into personal difficulties
with conductors Of public journals for
what you might think proper to say in
debate upon this floor, in discharge Of
YOUR duties AZ a RepresentatiVe Of the