The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-28
Interesting Correspondence.

IL Is DOaSted Dy the DEMOCRATIC press lnat
there is considerable hostility towards General
Scorr manifested in Wall street. The an
nexed correspondence shows that there was
kind feeling towards the General in Wall
street thirteen years ago, and we do not know
what he has since done to forfeit the considera-
ton and respect of his fellow-citizens:
NEW YonK, April l, 1899.
Sin: Your friends and fellow citizens Of New
York have learned with unfeigned qualification
the result OF your glorious efforts to avert, in a
manner equally honorable to both parties, occur
rences which menaced a collision that would have
been deprecated by the whole civilized world, be-
tween two great nations connected by every tic
that can bind together kindred people.
What you have accomplished in the recent paci
fcation on our eastern frontier is, however, sir,
only what knowledge OF your previous career
could not have failed to induce US to anticipate
As the. hero Of Cippetoa, your name has been for
more than q quarter Of q century, familiar TO the
,chole american people, and is, tn the minds Of the
rising generation, associated sci the most emora.
Die etents Of their cotntrys hstory; while in the
rous contests which it has been your duty to carry
on against savage foes, we have ever found the
talent and energy to applaud, which were con-
spicuous when employed against the veterans Of
Europe.
But if general, who wins laurels on the field of
battle in the vndicaton Of nations honor, be en-
titled to grateful recoIections, how much more
deserving of them must he be by tohose prudence
and ,Disdom the necessity of a recourse to arms is
averted? Without again adverting to transactions
now present to the minds of all, in you recog,
Mise the republican commander, ,Uho. though ardent
supporter Of the instiutions Of his country; ,Dho
entrusted ,oiih The neutrality Of the Canadian from
tier, not only kneo hoU to preserue and maintain the
majesty Of our o,on laos but too well understood
the duties which one nation owes to another TO TO-
ment, for the propagation Of political incipes,
civil ,nar among the subjects of a neigbboring and
friendly power
AS a testimony Of our respect and esteem, and
with the view of exchanging congratulations on
the most important event to which you have re-
Gently so happily contributed we would invite you
to partake of public dinner in this city such
day as it may comport with your convenience to
appoint.
James Tallmadge, Thomas w. Ludlow
w. A. Duer, Robert Ray, F..
Aaron Clark, Jonathan p. Hall,
George Griswold, John Rathbone, jr.,
Samuel b. Ruggles, Thomas Suffern,
Samuel Wood, b. Robinson,
Dudley Selden, p. Perit,
James J. Jones, Benjamin L. Swan.
New Yonx, April 2, 1889.
DEAR SlR: 1t lie now two years since that, in
spired by the mertorious services you had render
ed to our common country in Florida and Aaba-
ma, and rejoicing in the then recent appreciation
pronounced by the President of the United States,
upon the finding of court martial Of inquiry, in
which these services had been brought into ques-
ton, your fellow citizens in New York had the
honor Of inviting you to meet them at public dim
ner, and of receiving your acceptance OF the invi-
taton.
Untoward circumstances now no longer exist
ing, but which then weighed heavily upon this
community, induced you to ask an indefinite post.
ponement of the dinner, and influenced US, the or
gans Of others, to acquiesce in that request. But
now that the commercial difficulties then existing
have passed away, and that you, from that period
to the present, have been going on from one ciuic
triumph to another, soe, in addition TO the preserua
tion Of neutral obligations the Canada from
tier and the bioodiess removal of the Cherokees from
their ancient homes, you have, under circumstan.
ces of peculiar difficulty and excitement, sue
cceded in preventing any violation OF the
peace of the country, and in preserving the due
differentiation of the State to the Federal authori
ty, in the territory in dispute between the United
States and Great Britain, on the frontiers of the
State Of Maine, claim the fulflment Of your
pledge, to meet your fellow citizens of New York
at public dinner; and our present purpose is to
invite you to name day when the debt we re-
joicc in owing to you may in part be paid.
Philip Hone, -E Jacob r. LIE Roy.
Thaddeus Phelps, .,5 Edward Curtis,
Augustine Fleming, G. W. Lawrence,
Charles King, Jacob P. Giroud,
Charles b. Davis, James b. Murray,
Charles Aug. Davis, w. NJ. Price,
Jsspar Hoyt, Charles g. Ferris.
Ogden Hoffman, Russell II. Nevins,
Archibald Oracle, Willis Hall,
J. Watson Webb, Samuel Glenn, ...
Joseph Monroe, Joseph Hoxie, .s
VIM. Douglass, VIM L. Stone, ,. ..
Hiram Ketchum, John Devine Graham,
II. Maxwell, a. R Wyckoff,
John A. Stevens, WIN II. Aspinwall,
George s. Doughty, Samuel l. Gouveneur,
nj. G.. Palesien, Charles Graham, +
s. Bibby, Daniel Uilman,
George w Brown, X. r. Ward,
Joseph Blunt, VIM. w. Greenway,
VIM. Wilton, Morgan l.. Smith,
Cornelius Low, John A. King.
Letter from MIR. Watson G.. Haynes.
II, tho EJ;for of The IV1 chin fon RpnnbEr.