The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-10-28
bosror. Feb. 10. 1853.


BosroN, Feb. 10, 1858.
MY bEAn sIR:--I have received your fri
endly letter on the nth, but the book did not
come to handj Notwithstanding which my OBJ
legations 10 ybu are totthe less.
fuly agree with you as to the patriotic
purposes and brillaht prospects with which
General pietce enters on the Presidency.
II there should be occasion for it, | will
send you the data for which you ask, and for
the suggestion of which am highly indebted
to you. started, as yop may perhaps know,
from the same point, SO Tar as regards educa-
tion, atmosphere and mental culture, with
Mr. Everett and Mr.. Bancroft. Their lives
have been of more learned and meditative
cast than mine, and mine of more adven-
turous and active complexion than theirs. In ,
the details of each, ,correspondencies and con-
trusts occur, which may facilitate what you
propose in suggestiveness to the minds of
Engshmen.
Meanwhile, amvery truly yours.
tst C. CUSHING.
G. EDWARDS LESTER, Esq.
When got to Washington, ten days after
the Inauguration, Mr.. Cushing called on me
Immediately, at Willard's. Hotel, and invited
me to come to his office, where he would ex-
plain the foreign policy of the administration,
"ior me to put into the London Times" The
London Times don't keep correspondents who
would miss such chance as that Invent;
he locked his door, and for two hours wrote
at his dictaton what he wanted published in
the London Times. Il subdued the matter
somewhat, and read II TO him. He approved
of it, and you asked me to read the letter to
you. Who had told You that wrote it! You
know don't. have never seen that letter
in the London Times.
You know that wrote for General Pierce
as strong as could everywhere. You know
that the London Times wrote for him as strong
as it could. You know that, in both cases,
we only give utterance to the general feeling
of the country. You learned in some way,
afterwards, that the tone Of my correspon-
dence changed. You know, too that the
opinions of the country changed. | have
learned from a variety of quarters that you
got uneasy on the subject.
!, One ofyour most intimate friends and pro-
teges came to me last summer, (whether you,
sent him or not, and told me in so many words
; that as the administration intended to help
me, ought to help them. If he did his duty
you got my answer, At two different time,
after this ON his repasa from Washington
3 your friend came to me again, and pressed me
to go to Washington and see you, when, as
he said, IL all ,ooutd be made right. did moi
: go. should have felt degraded if had
There are other men--some of them standing
very high--that you wanted to have approach
me on that subject, and you know the motives
you offered me. You know, too, that you
Cabinet talked about this matter, and another
man was sent to me, and you know what he
was told to say. II you don't can prove it
and on authority which even you will no,
question.
: You know that the Cabinet at last decidct
n upon those attacks upon me of which have
e spoken; and lest you should know it, viii
: inform you that after they had appeared, Mr.
q John l.. O'Sulliven called upon me ut my
d lodgings at the Union Place Hotel, October
II, and read me long latter from Mr.. Cush
n ing, written the day before, in which he a
vowed that his object in writing the lettel
r was to induce me not TO publish any portion O
: his private correspondence. presume tina
e you had nothing to do with this, although il
:, properly appertained to your department
n being diplomatic affair. l think that it was
! due to me, ut all events, to send a diffcren
d man; and II any more messages are to com,
: from the Cabinet to me, hope they will com,
j through men for whose public career hav,
n some respect. Please to save me from an,
: contact whatever with aboltionists or fill
= busters.
d Governor Marcy, have for the presen
n done. You are now an old man, and you
}. political career is rapidly drawing to close
d | want to put to you question: When yo
: were mounting up the submits of life, and it
8 morning spread over The mountains withou
I" single cloud, how would you, the husband O
refined wife, and the father of believe
children, have liked to have had such an as
sault made upon you, aud laid in the mornin,
. newspaper upon your family breakfast table
u The authors and publishers of these libel
b will all be held to strict account before lega
tribunals. Your organs declare that thei
motive in these attacks was to hurt me with
the London Times. Idid not happen to bt
appointed its correspondent on recommends
ton of your Cabinet, and think it rathe
doubtful ifyou can get me dismissed. Look
sharp that you don't get put out first. The
London Times happens to be somewhat be-
, yond your beat.
| remain-with what kind of sentiments
I can hardly say-your ob't serv't.
, C.. EDWARDS LESTER.