American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-06-06
RICHMOND, Sunday morning,
June !, 1851, 7 o'clock.

June !, 1851, o'clock.
SIR: / have just received your communica-
ton through DIR. Petticolas. AZ.
If you expected that / would submit to be
criticised just rudely as it likes your habitual
disregard of the feelings and the reputation Of
everybody else, you were mistaken IL saying
"about matter of pure literary criticism, "
that gentleman is, in effect, low pretender,
an ignoramus and blockhead, be legitimate
criticism, then so is mine on you. You blacken
me, and yet object to my merely painting you.
You say that you will reply in the same
strain, and with severity" ] did not expect
any thing else. You take it for granted that
| will rejoin. Nothing more probable. A direct
appeal to arms must, you think, ensue and as
you are, Of sudden, ayerse to a preliminary
interchange of vituperation, you suggest that,
to avoid amusing the public, we should go on
to Washington and fight.
/ do not wish to avoid amusing the public
1t is my business to do So l thought it yours
You often make it so, at the expense of unof-
Tending people. Besides expect that the pub
lie will be much more amused than concerned
if ! should shoot you.
Allow me, however, to prefer letting this
thing 60 through its natural gradations. 1t
strikes me you were in too great q hurry to be-
gin it, and are now too eager to end it. l do
not think it decent to begin at the conclusion,
in some cases. To spill mans blood before
he has nsulted you, and merely because he may
by and by, seems to me premature. Nor do
exactly comprehend how you propose to proceed
when at Washington, or which of us is there,
by amicable arrangement, to insult the other in
advance, or whether we shall fight without it,
| can wait to see what your next paper will say
of me worse or more causeless than you have
constantly said of hundreds of worthy men,
Al. 4
servant, EDWARD Nj. JOHNSTON,
Editor Of the Wing.
To Mr. JOHN NJ. DANIEL.
SOCIAL REFORM IN ENGLAND.-Horace Gree
ley, writing from London, says:
'0n social reform in England the most salts
factory agency at present is the society for i'm
proving the dwellings of the poor. This society
has the patronage Of the Queen, is presided
over (I believe) by her husband, and is libe-
rally patronized by the better portion Of the
aristocracy and the higher order of the clergy.
These, aided by wealthy or philanthropic citi-
zens, have contributed generously and have
done o good work, even though they should
stop where they are. The work would not,
could not stop with them. They have already
proved that good, substantial, cleanly, whole
some, tight rooted, well ventilated dwellings for
diO pVSi hiS hbpOlut'ly ShShpNi VNhtI
so that Shylock himself might invest his for
tune in the construction of such with the moral
certainty Of receiving large income there
from, while at the same time rescuing the needy
from wretchedness, disease brutalization and
vice. Shall not New York, and all her sister
cities, profit by the lesson?
"Of the correlatve doings Of the organized
Promoters Of Working Mems Associations, Co
operative Stores, &C., | would not be justified
in speaking so confidently at least until shall
have observed more closely. My present i'm
preston is that they are both far less mature
in their operations, and that, as they demand
of the laboring class more confidence in them
selves and each other than, unhappily, prevails
rs yet, they are destined to years of struggle
and checkered fortunes before they will have
achieved even the measure Of success which the
model lodging, and the bathing and washing
houses have already achieved. Stll, have not
yet visited the strongest and most hopeful of
the Working Mems Associations"