New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-09

H The Express. ia order TO give poiot
TO its attack on the Maine Law. hypocriticaliy
assumed the garb of advocacy OF the Temper
ance cause, saying
1--WE are Temperance men," &c. "When Us
want TO enforce our views, ~s 90 to the Temper
aace meetings" &c &c
Now these pretenses were utterly unfrH',
and the interests Of truth obliged Us TO say 80.
The re of The Express are not Temperance
men, except as all men who take care not to
get drunk are so. and they dOnf "go to the
Temperarce meeting" TO enforce Temperance
views. We have read The Express pretty thor
ouehly since it was first known by that name
and conducted by its present Editors, and we
cannot remember that 1t has ever Ediioriaiiy
urged its readers to Total Abstinence from All
that may Intsxicate or to any sort OF opposition
to the Rum Traffic. Yet, because we felt bound
to expose its Discrimination, The Express ex-
claims scurrility and personality" and pro
ceeds:
eva eould rotor. upon The Tribune with the force
and oirectness of Nsthan's preaching to DAVID
=" Thou art the man,"-n ~e we're disposed 10 do
so, and in a manner TO make he Editors wiace az
their Temperance pRetensions ana seN-Iign'esns
sculations, as the law of Temperance Is here latd
down ANY sancereI can say that our Temper.
ance Is of that sort and no Other, which Bunseiels
and no others approve OF and rejoice IN y, Butt
q species of blackgusrdism and personality, wnicn
no man of truth, no gentleman, NOBODY who vame1
his own reputation fer veraciy or the character OF
other people, would indulge H. II Is precisely sacn
Ismpsrsncs aovoc ss. ;n.o ne wopss .scsssss Of
intemperance"
Now asto personality the readers of eithe,
paper will bear witness that The Express itself
dragged into the controversy its Editors per
ssnal habits in order to give fsrce to bio~h
the Maine Law But for that, Ve should not
have alluded to the subject. Has it any right
then, to cry personality and scurrility.' because
we expose the falsehood of its pretensel 1t
does not now attempt to justify its Temper
ance professions, nor its prstense that "we 60 10
the Temperance meeting" but shuffies OIL under
a CRY of blackguardism and personality But
what should we do when we see the cause we
love stabbed under false pretenses of friendship
But The Express tries q new dodge which
is rather meaner than the old one. 1t says it
could "make the Editorsof The Tribune vince At
their Temperance pretensions and self-nghteous
laudatons" Now there are some dozen persons
connected, one way or another, with the prepa-
ration Of matter for The Tribune, and wspresume
it would be possible for The Express to prove
some one or more Of them not thorough Temper
ance man. But the Editer Of The Tribune so ad-
vertised in its Prospectus and known as such to
The Express and the American public, who
alone directs the course of this paper on ques-
tions of Politics, Legislation, &c. and who alone
has written Editorially in these columns on the
subject of the Maine Law, y Horace Greeley,
and he most earnestly challenges and dehes The
Express to "retort" upon him anything in his life
or conduct, during a residence in this City of
more than twenty years, inconsistent with his
Temperance professions. You have chosen to
make threat and an insinuation we dare you
to fulfill your threat we defy you to justify
your insinuation Do not shuttle off into some
other falsehood, but meet the issue you have
wantonly courted And. while doing it, show
if you can why your charge that we have set
up "pretensions" and INDUCED in selfright.
eous adulations" shall not be branded calum-
ny! We dare you to the proof!