New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-11


chose the latter course"
The gist of the Clerks attack on the Com
missioner is a charge Of Abolition, which we
venture to say the paltry creature making it
never believed nor imagined to be true. Mr..
Ewbank had been for the preceding twenty or
thirty years widely known resident Of our
City and we are confident no man ever heard
of his taking any part in Abolition discussions
or agitations Of any sort. We have known
him pretty well for a number Of years, and
meyer heard word from him relative to Slavery
or any kindred topic; and we are confident
that the experience of others who have known
him longer and better will fully corroborate our
own. Mr. Els time and thoughts have been
so engrossed with considerations pertaining to
Mechanical Science that he has given no atten-
ton whatever-at least, no public attention
to such topics as Emancipation; and the
charge Of Lee that he /" is warm Abolitionist
and the leading patron of the sect" was as
naked and wholesale falsehood as the reptile
could possibly have invented And the evil
dence by which he supports it imports that
Mr. L. had employed one James p. Fogg, OF
Rochester, to put up the Seeds for the Patent
Office said Fogg haring been iarite! to Hash-
ingion and introduced to the PGtest ONCE by ms
rerg DR.. Lee, on rhOSe suggestion ierP0rGTy
appcin 4nent in the Office had been gissn @a!
Lee farther charged tha- hiNer Law
clerk had been appointed in b. eattnt Office,
,rho had made himself useful thess ia sssfing
Off Cor. Scuard's Speeches. On formal inquiry,
it was discovered that the clerk in question
had addressed a few speeches, partly Gov.
Stewards and partly Mr.. .Webster's, to some
distant friends who had written for them; but
Mr. Ewbank knew no more Of it and had no
more to do with it than Lee himself-in fact,
not so much; since the latter was aware of the
fact, while the former was not And this vile
attack, surcharged with falsebood, including
that meanest form which uses words literally
defensible to convey and establish an utterly
false and calumnious impression, was copied in
substance into The Southern Planter, at Rich
mond, Va, and by it pronounced, "serious
charges, if well founded, and may reasonably
excite the jealousy of Southern Agricul-
turists"
In The Southern Cultirator Of August, 1851,
Daniel Lee, Md, Editor returned to the
charge, telling his readers what he would like
to do for Southern Agriculture; but
" With head to the Patent Office thai opposes erevy
l., IL .a.Ef Cas
it was mpraccsbe. At present, Southern Agriculture
has representative at the seat OF the Government for
zee have authority speak act in ts BEHALF &C. &c
In The Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, Ga,
whereof Dr. Lee was formerly Assistant Ed
itor, under date of Washington, March 90,
1851, L. has over a column of attack on the
Commissioner Of Patents, accusing him of
"Atheistica sentiments embodied in his first
Report, and saying,
while lis dteisticdl sentiments excited much opposition
to the confirmation Of the Commissioner by the Senate,
from the bslieuers an The Chrstion religion Of different
secs After delay of ten months this English radical
was confirmed and by his NATURALIZATION, iasoieat
barring and tyranny all subordinates in the Patent
Office he has kept it in stare of eci since
The National Mteiligencr hardly be ignorant OF
the fact that one of the charges made against Mr. Ew
bank is that paying that journal s7 public money for
publishing defense OF the Commissioner written by him
and Dr. Gale and for 300 copies OF said defense This,
with ether similar bills have been paid of the Patent
Fund, TO the amount of S23l rs. In addition to the
above The Nlc York Tribune has presented bill OF $50
for to columns Of editorial and publishing Commis
siCners defense which has also been paid with public
money"
The outrageous falsehoods here compacted
have, as usual, the merest shadow of truth at
their base Mr. Ewbank's official conduct hav-
ing been made the target of gross calumnies,
he deemed its vindicaton due to the public
service, and accordingly prepared defence
and directed its publication in The National
htellgencer and The Tribune, directing that 1t
be charged and paid for like other official no.
tees and this was done In the bill sent from
The Tribune office, the word Editorial was
somehow employed by the clerk to Indicate
that the notice in questionappearedi in the news
and not in the regular adyertisngcolumns and
this word was seized by the prowling Agricul-
tural Clerk and made an excuse for the sheer
falsehood that The Tribune had charged and
been paid for two columns of Editorial defence
Of the Commissioner!
l.. goes on to characterize Mr. Ewbank as
"a humbug of the first water in Mechanical
Science" as placing upon the necks of his
clerks the yoke of John Bull despotism," to
assert that " there is no petty meanness or
falsehood which a preacher of Atheism can
well perpetuate that he is not habitually guilty
Of :" to accuse him of meanness and dishon.
esty'' in substituting some remarks" for I" A
Report" in the opening of his Nee's) Agricul.
tural matter contributed to the Patent Office
Report; to speak Of Mr.. Els bad education
in the Red Republican school of London :" ae-
cuse him of notorious incompetency," "lack