The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-17

STATEMKsT.-The statement of the counsel OF L.
Bigelow Lawrence, FIRST published 10 manuscript,
in Boston, but printed first by as, and copied and
commented on by hundreds of newspapers in var
parts Of the country, has brought out card N
the Boston papers as follows
"Hsvine given up all intention Of appearing before
the public with any statement II Is With surprise ana
lstioD 10 my private affairs, In the New ork H1a!d
Of last FRIDAY That publication, and also copy OF u
which has appeared in this city In pamphlet iorm'
altogether Unauthorized BY me, and were made
without by knowledge or consent u.,-,,o,
Saturday evening, July 18th.
This looks remarkably well u has fine air or
sincerity abou, ii, and were it not that ia Boston
curious means sometimes sanctify remarkable and
peculiar ends, we might let it ga for what is
worth However on the top OF this, g the Little
busy Bee elghts, TO gather honey for the hive It
puts forth statement, thaby the advice of friends,
MIR. T. Bigeow Lawrence exhibited to various
journalists in that city the private letters and docu
mcnts in favor OF the course he adopted against
Mrs. Sale LawfenCc--that he would not have the
statement printed on any coBsideration--and that,
therefore, a scoundrel who has taken advantage OF
circumstances, and "put forth garbled thing m
shape of statement, purporting 20 be MI Law
rence's authorized statement, ought TO bo kicked
from the situation he disgraces."
Now this appears very well There ~ an at
tempt to make great story out of small materials.
But what has been the history of the affair Mr.
T. Bigelow Lawrence, in the first place, has very
powerful argument in his favor prepared by coun-
sci, which he secretly publishes, running all over
Boston to give the facts contidentally He has ~
vailed the late Matthew l.. Davis, who, IN the time
of Jeferson's administration, no sooner got hold OF
some rich government secret than be stopped
every man he met, to make very important con-
fdential communication. No one must know what
il was, and yet everybody must he told of IT'S char
acter and import. So with MIR Lawrence. His
important secret was coniided TO various Journal
lists the papers were several days in the possess
sion of the editors of Boston, that they might read
and nwardly digest "the curious conients-and the
"demands of the press had urged Mr. Lawrence
to make explanations. This was done for one pur-
pose or another 1t does not appear IN the least
probable, that long document was prepared TO be
put up in lavender for use III some future day. /.
was made for immediate use and to give proper
color 10 the whole affair, 'two dozen pink saucers,
and dozen of prepared liquid chalk" were sci
down with scrupulous exactitude to time, place,
and circumstances.
fact that the mails were crowded with bundles Of
the Herald, containing from tifty TO three times
that number, can any sensible man suppose that
MI. Lawrence will be able 10 shift the publication
from his own acts to those of the press The doc
unent, 10 all intents and purposes, had been au-
thorized by MIR. Lawrence. 1t was prepared by
his counsel. Ii was made up from his wfe's pa
pers and from the mos, delicate tnge possible
TO the thickest laying on, including all thu pink
saucery of cosmetics the whole picure with all its
beauties, was the production Of MIR. Lawrence
He had distributed the thing circular in Bos-
ton, and, for aught we know, in every city 10 the
Union, and he and his friends have only to tn ank
themselves that they have now found the whole
story IN print. We had heard one side of the
story-bad been told, over and over again, by the
Boston papers, that the statement Of Mr.. Lawrence
would soon be ready, and when it came to us, as
all documents of any importance always do, before
offered to any other newspaper, We published it, at
considerable cost and inconvenience.
The people of Boston, and the editors thereof,
may get up just as much of hubbub as pleases
them, on this point. All that they can do will be
a mere tempest in teapot" compared with the
excitement, the thunder, lightning, and showers
destined to break forth in Louisville. All the
chivslry of Kentucky will grow red to the eyes,
when our columns are well read, and the " belle
of the west" will be the beauteous star that will
rise upon the gloom Of the storm. Pistols and
coffee for ten thousand may be expected; and Nr.
Lawrence may as well escape the calls that will be
made upon him, by taking refreshing tour to the
Caucasus, or 10 some other distant place, where
neither pistols nor coffee may disturb the quiet
OF his dreams His statement will be his conso-
lation.