New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-26
To Hon. anmcs nrnn,,.

OR observe in the Nctc- York Express an ar.
.!''e headed :" The Strength Of the Ccruprorp,ss
HSeSoiss, Which beg leave 10 notice br;,sv
Guy N'n'o'e name has the honor Of 6guriue tl,,re
IN company with few falzehoods ypb;cl, h,.u, 49,;
dence OF having been coined in IN. h,a;,, - -
lodging Representative of the lar,.. Alu " tle
cia district in the Union. Dear Breo Soat sa
won't , you s lis ttl& 0 Un &aeek t9e sS1sa
scotched serpent, imske tremendous efS,rt -
bite my heel. 1. is true that one Air OttaTson
busied himself TO defeat one James Brooks, aud
that said Ottarson also tried TO damage" sad
Brooks BY telling the truth about him to the
working men but the assertion that busted my
ssf with falsifying returns is toolishly false,
the figures in the Express clearly prove. The asser
ton that islsihed the returns IS repeated within
ten lines by the poor demsSogue. who knew that
he WAS telling deliberatetalseh9oGw when he wrote
1t. Were his notorious concern ever suspected
OF such thing as responsibility he might have
chance to prove the story of taisifying but "a
man who wont pay his worknreH regular wages,
and who haeitualy piifers from sny and every
body TO make up startling editions, wOuid be
very likely 10 plead m iorssa y1ape-gs, / shah
let the genensaa go to w ashingt ton witoat uloles
tation. One word as to those figures: stated
that Brooks ran behind the whole batch Of Wing
candidates in his District. That, take it, means
that he had fewer votes than any other man on
the regular Wing sicket. said to Brooks:
Washington Hunt beat goa lls Blakely beat YOU 200
S SG6ssn '' IS SSSss Smith hss
The he Ass;iee qIMgD 80 S \ s'an ia
You Brooks say that / falsifed the returns to-
prove you unpopular YOU give the votes astollows
Hunt s,635 Brooks, 1887 Hunt beating Brooks
27s or so more than said. Blakeley $3.50 beat
ing Brooks 232, or 80 more than | said. Beebe
$685. beating Brooks 240, or 9S more than | said
Assembly s, $50, beating Brooks l93 or 81 votes
I -
further But, instead of answering the fact that
you ran behind all the Wing candidates, you show
that you had more majority than Hunt Blakey,
or Beebe Such quibbng, and denying what
was never asserted is characteristic of the shut
fling member who lodged the Slave bill. You
were by lar the most unpopular man on the Wing
ticket, as your own figures show. You show
your popularity in the Eleventh working men's)
Ward by figuring out that you got the forest
vote of any regular candidate (which You name)
of either party VIZ, Seymour 3s3; Hunt, Gas
Mather 1893 Blakeey, 1889; Wood, l,463;
kingsand, 1887; Graham, l5l2i Bluat i,l61;
Cocbrane, ,230; Brooks, l,035 James we'll might
YOU cxclaim. Oh that some one were here to
write me down an asst" You have saved me
the trouble OF showing your talsehoods for you
have carefully ciphered them out yourself You
charge me with talshying returns, and in the
same article stutify yourself and fully prove that
my statement was literally true. Are deliberate
and wu alsehoods creditabe to you as Mem
Der of Congress, or even as Editor of The r.
press have shown and you have proved, that
YOU were the flag end OF the ticket you charge
me with lying TO show it; you prove all that
said and with characteristic stupidity publish
Yourself in the place that you had markedo out
for me- oh, Midas where are thine ears The
less you say about money used to beat you, the
better for your sake l might be tempted to draw
the veil from the tricks practiced in the Eleventh
W ard they may have been according to the Ian
Of that day, but would scarcely bearthe light now:
Do you know why Cochran's tickets suddenly
disappeared from certain poll and what toun-
drymen's time is worth per hour do you know,
if any one wrote a handb and signed some
twenty imaginary names to it to make people be,
lieve that you were a liberal employer suspend
your falsehoods about those figures of mine, and
get your mind in proper mood to represent tho
Der me kindly in your absence, and meanwhile l
will watch your lodges and tergiyersations COM
placenty and at a respectful diatance
With due regard subscribe myself one OF your constu
ents now ever my authority, and In behalf Oh
$50 working Printers of New-York, Y. J. OTTARsoN'
NeG York, Nor %, 1850.