New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-25
An Kpis,Ie from very small Private 10 very
Great Colonel.

DEAR COLONEL If ever one was Dorm not 10 De
drowned thou ART the man; yet all signs taiiing'
should you be swallowed oy Tue NOUN VI Niagara
River recommend the Coroner TO lay in wait Tor
vour bodv AT the Falls. True TO your instincts, 1t
pcn,d be found ascending them with the rest of the
F,els In this world you will never be found going
with the current, and whether you will follow the
multitude" in the next, it does not become me 10
inquire. so.doareos
w ith all your obstinacy and wrong neaeeohess'
however YOU have some qualities es'eeHeo a,nons
men. Bravery is one of them. nave never oouDl'
cd vopr courage My faith failed not, even WINE
von were playing Bob Acres upon me Nauohal
iio 80 At Washington when you so thoroughly
f;ebtened the towards Of that city by your phanias-
mseoria of war with England, that not one Of them
has since closed an eye in sleep My opinion OF you
in this particular is not what II IS because you DID
not figh, Duff Green, nor because you did hight Iom
Marshall Apart from such things, regard you
living Stab and TriSt and, dead, you could be
sold for Old Iron at a junk.shop.
So of YOUR Honesty. When any said II was not
i said il was. If they said the U. s. Bank paid
you $50 OOC 10 sustain it, pointed to the tact you
did more 10 destroy II Than any man IN the nation
except Gen jackson for / have never been able TO
satisfy nv own mind whether you or be did the
Bank the most harm see you have sued some
BODY for libel OF this sort. | am glad OF 1t. Now
if YOU want TO be as sure Of verdict as Cooper
used 10 be, subpoena Mass Meeting or the Posse
Comitatus ; 10 q man, either will swear you Killed
the Bank.
What is true of your personal Honesty, is emf
nenily 80 of that virtue in its political phase although
your old Loco Foco associates notice, are In The
habit of impeaching your political integrity Some
of them inpute you luke warmness,-they are
foolish; others charge you with absolute treason
these are wicked. Owing, as they do more TO you
than 10 any n0uin0ly in their own ranks, such In
gratitude is appalling. Many a man served the
cause of American Independence efficiently in red
coat and some did good service in their shirt sleeves
Harvey Birch wore uniform at all, aud ne 10 not
forgotten nor will Loco T ocoism forget It's Harvey
Birch until honor among thieves shall be Tor ever
extinct II any of your accusers iancies he has done
the Wing party us much evil as you have, let him
stand forth while tell him that if this day were
the Loco. Foco Millennium, and the beauty and
booty of your community were apportioped among
its Swiss the entire Five Points and the fattest
Wing Bank in Walst. would be yours while to
him might be allotted some circumscribed den al
the Hook Have not you, more than any Of them,
brought the Wing party OF the City TO an end, un,
timely and disgraceful? Have you not laoored
zcalously TO bring the Wing party OF the State TO
the same condition7 Have you not kept taps
franc for errant Wings? Who has tasted Wing.
gerry ofvour compromising and survived the draughti
How potent must have been the filter, when even
the miserable grave.diggers, who only touched the
collins of its victims OF deitrtum trenenS
to this moment? If Morris Franklin had been
elected Nayor, would he not have stationed man
q banner
gerry in front of your den, Mayor Havemeyer
now warns the upwary against Mock Auctonsi
When Tammany Hall set the Native American
trap for Wings, did not you, with great seit-devo
toion volunteer to be used as carrion TO oalt =
And when il was clear the Wing party proper
having no taste for garbage, would not come INTO It,
did not you make ass of yourself u use this tg
ure here in no offensive sense, bat merely to ind
cate beast of burden) and carry Native American
ism to it
Look at the Convention affair, too. When it was
discerned tina. progress had been made IN the great
American experiment TO educate people for Self
Government, and that after the schooling OF quar-
ter of century, the people, unlike you,) had
learned something, the Wing party, true TO It's prin
cples and purposes, proposed that the Organic Law
OF the State should be adjusted 10 the improved
condition of every thing beside did not you de-
nouuce the project as revolutionary and dlsorganz
ine7 Did you not rival the London Monument, and
like tall bully, lift your head and certify that
the Wing party was innocent of any such wise and
Just design that saving the ignorant, corrupt and
ambitious OF that party, not q Wing could be found
TO countenance the scheme? Did not you for your
self and covey OF equity esy old crippes at Sharon
Springs protest with great solemnity againsit? Ii
was no ault of yours that the result of the election
stultiiied you rs no ever was before, and TINT
Won were In consequence, elected the Ananias of
the day by majority of $4,000 votes
wish that accuser of yours would stand
forth ana tell me Wnat wise ana generous eHte PRISE
of the Wing party has escaped your hostility Has
not come to pass the real sentiment of that party
il as clearly indicated by what you oppose, by
what its own organs advocate Is it not pr1na ia
Gle evidence. with the sound portion OF that party
against the truth or propriety OF any proposition
whatever that you are its advocate In short, have
YOU not been perfect Madam Costello, in wait, TO
nip in the bud every just and liberal impulse ofthe
Whig party or failing that TO strangle or kidnap
them when dcvelopedl
,l.,I,s Vii
to have destroyed the Wing party sooner. l say
thew could not have done 1t all Assaults from with
out have harmed that party but tte-the blows
which have damaged il were dealt from Within
Your accusers have been outsde-you have not.
1t is no fault of yours that the Wing party did not
kill itself by making you Surrogate Flour lnspec-
tor or something of that sort. Not every one who
has been hung would have hung himself But,
have the ungrateful wretches thanks for your
getting w hig Governor to save you from State
Prison7 How many OF them, think they, could
hive performed that feat al time, when, under the
discipline which prevailed at Sing Sing, you were
likely to be logged for not coming sooner? AT
that day there were no Inspectors urging reforms,
of which. reasonably enough they expected to reap
the benefit
The srceaness of some of your labors in the cause
of Loco Focoism seems TO be overlooked in that
quarter. The nation is even yet In broad grin over
YOUR demonstrations at Washington in behalf of its
own Administration. Have not you just made your
self butt for life by your efforts TO extricae from
dilemma Some of the jokes may even outlive
you. See how the case stood.
The Slave power as usual, ruled the Baltimore
Convention To ensure the acquisition of new
Slave market in Texas, ii bribed the West by the
inclusion of "the whole Of Oregon" in its scheme Of
Annexation. \ war with Mexico had no terrors TO
Slavery for several reasons. Mexico was feeble
power; the territory to he wrested from her was
for the and purposes Of Slavery and the seat OF
war would be adjacent to the Slave Territory of the
Union which would be enriched by the eXpendi
,ure of the public money within its borders. Re
miniscences of the Florida war, when it meanly
picked its champions pockets by stealth while he
was robbing Its victims by violence were calculat.
ed soohe the South and reconcieit to the calami
ties of war with Mexico The exigencies Of the
public service might again require the purchase Of
wood al New. Orleans, at STA per cord, for use at
some point where il could not be landed until the for
est was cleared away old steamboats, might again
be chartered at such rntes would allow the profits
OF short trip TO equal the expenses of new boat
aud if in the confusion of war, any Slaves should
escape from the patriarchal jurisdiction, the General
Government would pay for them of course and also
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