The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-18
The Mystery UnravolIed, how the Con-
tents OF the Carpet-bag got into the
Papers.

Tho Mystery UnravoIIed, how the Con-
tents OF the Carpet-bag got into the
Papers.
Our readers cannot have forgotten the ele-
CANT. highly instructive, and very racy epistles,
which were lately published in batch, and
which were written by certain prominent poll
ticians of the Democratic and Free-soil school
to a Mr.. DONALDSON and Mr.. GREER, as also
the very piquant letters of these eminent poll
ticiaus and wire-workers to each other, touch
ing the subject of the Democratic nomination
of candidate for the next Presidential term.
We opened our eyes with wonder, and no
little degree OF incredibly, when we first saw
this highly important and apparently secret
correspondence exposed to the glare of noon
day sun in New York paper. Our first
thought was that it was another ''moon hoax
but little scrutiny into the peculiar style OF
the different writer's, in which the distinctive
characteristics of each, so far IS we were &C
quainted with them, were clearly discernibe,
soon convinced US that the letters were genuine
This being settled in our own mind, theme
inquiry naturally arose, how came they to be
made public2 By whose treachery, or what
legerdemain, came they in print2 There must
have been cheating round that board, we
thought; but who cheated, who played false,
who peached. who thimble-rigged, who had
exposed the sayings and doings" of these pc
litical wire pullers, was thing we could not
fathom, and which little concerned US, though
it seems the letters had only been shown to ''a
member of the Democratic General Commit
tee." But Time, who has ever proved him
self great friend TO Truth, has in part d.
vulged the secret, though, as if purposely TO
keep our curiosity alive, he has diyulged only
part of the secret.
The following letter from one of the wire
pullers, Mr.. NATHANIEL GREER-or, as he
and almost everybody else is occasionally
styled, the "HoN." Mr.. GREER-to the editor
of the New York Herald, tells part of the
story. 1t appears from this that the letters
were genuine; indeed, there remained no doubt
Of that before, Notwithstanding the extreme re-
luctance of the editors of the Union to believe
them so; and Mr.. GREER, it seems, was as
much astonished and annoyed at seeing them
in the Herald, when he supposed them snugly
hid away in his carpet-bag, as our neghbors of
the Union seemed TO be. But the letter; here
it is:
FoURTEENTH STREET, August Pm.
To the Editor of the Ne,o York Herald:
In looking over your paper of this date find
number of my private letters.
In justice to myself and the Democratic National
Committee, shall request you to publish the fol-
lowing statement
came here at the request of the Hon. c. II Don
ALLISON in the early part of June, for the purpose of
attending to certain matters set forth in the pub
hshed letters. After Mr.. Doualdson's departure
for Texas / was induced to show the eorrespon-
dence 10 a member of the Democratic General
Committee of this city Some few days after this
the letters were distracted from my valise, and
package similar in size and appearance was sub
stituted. ! had, Of course, suspicion that this
done, and was greatly surprised, on opening
the Herald of this morning, to see that the whole
Of this correspondence published.
merely make this statement in order to show
my fellow committeeman that have had neither
part lot in the matter Of the publication of
their letters.
Imperative obligations compel me to leave the
city for the West to- morrow morning, but shall
place full power in the hands of my legal advisers
to prosecute the Herald and all other papers giving
publicity to this correspondence, well to fer
ret out the of its being placed in your hands
Iowa is young and gallant State, Democratic
to the core, and will pledge herself to stand by the
position it ia well known che now occupies. As
of her citizens, shall be found ever true to her
interests, and determined 10 oppose the extension
Of slavery, now free from its blasting effects. We
are Jeffersonian Democrats.
Hoping you will publish these few lines as a mat
ter Of public and private justice, remain yours,
sc. NATHANIEL GREER
Mr.. GREER, it seems, has gone home to
Iowa, by which we learn that he has "a local
habitaton and name" and is, therefore, some
body, and not man Of straw. He promises
very strongly for that State, and undertakes to
endorse her Democracy. Doubtless he will
make good his promises; having 50 much expe-
rience and experiences in lingering the political
wires, 1t would be strange if he did not so pull
hem as to make her people dance to any tune
and keep any time he may dictate. But, as
70 that matter, we hand him over 10 the people
themselves We shall never again see the
name of ''Hon." Mr.. GREER, but we shall in