New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-07

gus) by a nonresident of that County,
though Hunt has q handsome majority,
and two Wing Members are chosen; he
runs far behind throughout the District
Ontario gives no large majority to any can
didate who has a tinge of Silver Gray
about him but only to those obnoxious to
Nationalism; and who therefore received
Free Soil support outside of the Wing
party. Its this which puts WAsHlSGros
Hunt 50 well up in every Western County;
it is this, and this only, which sent Henry
BENSErT, ORsAMUs B. MArrEsoN, and
CHARLES E. CLARKE far ahead even of
Hunt. Inthe Country, FREE Soil helped
all who had proved their devotion to it, as
the opposite sentiment helped Seymour,
Mather and Brooks in this City, Such is
the simple fact-what use in attempting to
obscure it !
But says The Times
THE honorable Horace thinks that Oswego did
not do as well as she ought to have done. How
is it with our neighbors? Jefferson was good for
five or SIX hundred Wing majority, when Oswego
was Loco-Foco county Yet Jefferson has now
gwen larger majority against Hunt than Os-
wego2
The Times certainly ought to know
something of the Political history of its
own County, but we beg leave respectfully
TO inquire rfcn Jefferson was good for
five or six hundred majority, when Oswego
was 8 Loco-Foco county?" It certainly
was not in '37; we think it was not in So:
nor 40: nor 49, nor "A; nor As; nor '48.
When Qo8 it! We pause for a reply.
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x Tie Express has been ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ed, in the most courteous language, to desistfrom
its habit of telling its readers that The Tribune
holds this or that, or imputes such and such
motives, n1hom copying from 0arc0lamas tie sen
teaces on pclich such charges are based. Only let
its readers see exactly what we did say that it
sees fit to dissent from or crticse, and we ask no
more. Not The Tribune only. but other journals
some Of them inclined to sympathse with its ge
neral views, have repeatedly complained of the
Express's inyetcrate habit of attributing to 9th
CT journals sentiments they never uttered. We
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swered by epithets and repetition Of the wrong.
We now notify The Express that we consider
every such statement in its columns IS that The
Tribune had imputed designs to the Execu-
tive and Mr. Webster" with respect to the recent
British outrages in Nicaragua, as the meanest
kind Of falsehood and as morally of the nature of
forgery. And now, instead of retracting its ex-
posed calumny, it attempts to bolster it up by
coniurors trick, thus:
The Tribune admits that did iPue designs TO Great
Britain, and when The SUP charged Mr. Webster with rea
and the Executive with beng bis instrument OF acuon'
were warranted IN asserting as we did, ,......-.
That neither Great Britain the one hasd nor tie EIeclt.y9
to them by the Tribune"
The design here is to crawl out of the plain in
tent and purport of its charge by pretending that
it meant only that The SIN had attributed
"such designs" to the Executive and Mr.
Webster" while The Tribune had in like man
ner impugned "Great Britain" Unluckily for
this dodge, the sentence reads exactly the other
way so that, if the charge of such designs is
to be applied distributively, it is Tile Sun which
is represented as having inculpated Great Bri.
tain, while Tie Tribune is plainly accused oil
assailing in the matter " the Executive and Mr..
Webster" But in truth all this dstcibutionis an
afterthought-a iuegle The Express meant to be
understood as it aras understood that THE 1rl
6uue, as well as The SIN, had been assailing the
Executive and Mr. W ebster as we'll as " Great
Britain" and, now that it is called to account, it
cannot sustain its charge, ard has not the man
hood to retract it,
We have done Great Britain no injustice,
and 50 have retracted nothing. In giving an ac-
count of the wrongs done by her officers at San
Juan, in violation of the Clayton Treaty and OF
International Law, we proceeded upon the natu.
raj, obvious presumption that her officials did as
they were authorized to do by their superiors in
London. w have since received assurances that
the fact is otherwise, and to these assurances We
gladly give credit, and regard the whole matter
accordingly If Great Britain disayow the acts
of her functionaries at San Juan, and make repa-
ration for their outrages, our Country Will forget
that they were ever committed; but we did no
injustice in presumng, in the absence oftestimony,
that her officers were acting under her authority
in matreating the citizens and vessels OF the
United States. S.
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