New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-14

cnmstsnces whatever have one foot Of land there.
| As to the injury to the mercantile community and
others that war would occasion, that's no con-
cern Of ourI, as rabid Oregonte classically ex-
pressed himself. | should not be surprised 10 see
this bill Of BRowN's pass the House. Jus1cs. Jr
Hon. Andrew Kennedy NJ. C..
COURTEOUS SIR find in the Fort Wayne
| Ind) Sentinel Of Feb. oath, a four column ad-
dress from you To the People of the 10th Con
! gressonal District in the State Of indiana IN
reference to letter addressed by me TO you
through column Of The Tribune; and though
YOU are careful not to compromise your Congress
sonai dignity by any appearance of controver-
sy with one Of so inferiora caste as a newspaper
Editor, and choose to appear in the more im-
posing form of an appeal Ito the People OF the
| 10th Congressional District yet feel lmpelled
to examine your statements, az they are in good
part personal to myself.
You commence with complaint that had
! not the manliness to send you my paper OF Jan.
29th, in which my former letter to you appeared
If it were the fact that omitted to sendit (as
| must presume from your assertion,) | certainly
committed great oversight. 1t is my custom
to send paper to any one who is specially con-
cerned in any thing contained therein, and l
most undoubtingly believed had done so in this
case until your letter reached me Just now. And
yet if l. in the hurry of incessant avocation, Cor
got it, what harm was done? Your daily duties
are performed in hall where twenty or thirty
copies of The Tribune are taken, some Of them
by your colleagues and by Members of your own
party, who would inevitably direct your atten-
ton to this article as one or more of them in fact
did. But your article in response, appearing in a
distant journal which | had no such means Of
obtaining was not sent me by you, nor by the
publisher, and I am indebted to an Indiana friend
for a copy of it. l leave the public to Judge you
by some more charitable rule than your own re-
mark that e a gentleman would have sent me
copy for inspection"
You proceed to half column of what, in any
character less exalted than that of Member of
Congress, would appear to me very like equivoca-
ton and qubbling, about your recollecting that
he (Greeley) or some person who, | was told,
passed by that name, was present at one of the
meetings of the Post Office Committee" &c.
and your not recollecting that any thing passed
between us on the subject of the Tariff but that
YOU anay have said that the present Tariff m
creases the cost of every thing the West has to
buy and reduces the price Of every thing it has to
| SELL SC All this is after the fashion of very
small lawyer, rather than Of very great Mem
| Der of Congress- You admit fully that you. hold
and have often expressed the opinions attribute
to you, and you do not and could not complain that
| have stated them unfairly. Now if you had any
real doubt that the conversation passed between
us as set forth IN my letter. why not appeal to any
one of the half dozen gentlemen who were pre-
sent at our interview Mr. Hopkins, the Chair
man of the Committee, Mr. Belser of Ala. or
Mr.. Dana of this State, all or either of them, sit
near you every day, and must have rccolect-
ed when you wrote Though so unimpor,ant a
matter has probably passed from their remem-
brance by this time,) the conversation have re-
lated. Why seek to throw doubt on statement
the truth of which you could not and have nc rea-
son to deny
But you proceed to set forth the great intrinsic
unpfooaoHlty vi your noiuiiiS suCH Co'NcIss-
ton with the humble individual 'who passed
by the name of Greeley talk of my being
present at the meeting Of the Committee
by my urgent request, thrusting' myself
Gin the way of Members g or in the character
of an evesdropper catching the private conyer-
sation of the Members" q And you close this
branch of the subject with this overwhelming
exhibition of lotiness
"If Greeley, with whom had no acquaintance had pro-
posed with any subject, far
swerng his iapertinence should have r6ke9 him
,rGat Of g0od manners .!
Let US look into this 4 little:
You, Sir, arc a Member of Congress, as you
are very careful to remind your readers repeatedly
in the course Of your letter. At the time referred
to, YOU were in the Committee Room OF the Pos
Office Committee, a Member there, too, and IN