Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-11-10
Secretary Guthrie to Bronson.

We give to-day the letter from Secretary
Guthrie, Diminishing Greene G. Bronson
from the Custom House at New York
The first letter Of Mr.. Guthrie to Mr..
Bronson, and portion of the letters, in re-
ply, have already been published.
The Washington Sentinel, which speaks
for the Union Democrats Of the South, thus
speaks of the correspondence:
"In discharging the task which untoward
circumstances have forced upon US, we do
not mean that our position and purposes
shall be misunderstood or misrepresented.
We will protect ourselves from misinterpre-
tation by speaking plainly and boldly
| Against Misrepresentation we have no safe
protection thing better or more effica-
cious than exposure and denunciation -
neither of which will ever reach those
whose minds have been poisoned. Our en-
emes know this as well as we do; and they
have determined 10 practice on that knowl-
edge.
But to return to our sheep, as the shep-
herdesses Of Provence were wont to say in
times that have passed by. To return to
Mr.. Guthrie and his present ludicious posi-
ton before the country, as we say now
Mr.. Guthrie undertakes TO place false is
sue before the country-an issue which eve
nv man Of ordinary intellect knows to be
false issue. He does not, in his last letter
to Judge Bronson, state the plain facts in
plain and unequivocal language. This error
his followers and satellites have made even
still more glaring and offensive. 1t is not
true that Judge Bronson voluntarily and i'm
properly interfered in the local affairs Of
New York. 1t is not true that the last
! Presidential election involved amnesty to
traitors and malcontents. 1t is not true
that Mr.. Guthrie insisted on the removal Of
the New York Collector because freesoilers
had been appointed to Office in the custom
. house at New York.
. Mr.. Guthrie's friends undertake, by un-
worthy cunning and disreputable prevari-
cation, to make it appear that some, if not
all of these things, induced him to demand
the dismissal OF Judge Bronson. The
first letter of Greene C. Bronson was writ
ten not to Mr.. Guthrie, but TO the freesoil
managers that had posted him in the public
prints as one of their leaders and sympath-
zers. That letter induced and caused Mr..
Gutf rie to send his first missiVe to New
York; and the time at which it was sent,
and the manner and the form of the words
in which it was couched, leave no room for
doubt or mistake. The efforts that Mr.
Guthrie has made to change the venue-tc
l. deny the purpose and intent Of that letter
while acting up to it-proves that he is
either a tool in the hands of more cunning
and design ming man, or is fully impressed
with the knowledge that he has been seduc.
lie ed in great and grevious bl'lnder, whiel
lie he has not the upright and straightforward
manliness to admit and make amends for
1t requires more courage to confess an err
ror than to fight in a wrong cause; and il
our short experience, we have more thai
once seen men willing to face death becaus,
of they had not the spirit to face the truth.
q Why did Mr.. Guthrie write to Judg
- Bronson Why did he write on the thir
" of October? He wrote, and he wrote at tn
On time he did write, to rebuke Judge Bronso
ar for not going into the freesoil organization
and his letter was intended TO instruct tn
ha New York collector 10 appoint regular Va
Buren, freesoilers TO office. He had no 9th
lbs err motive, no other purpose, and no othe
'ss plea will avail him in defence, but pie
w setting forth his own ignorance, stating tina
e. he knew not what he was doing, but repeat
49, ing like a parrot words that had been p,
y" into his mouth. II is an insult to the publ
Id an outrage to popular intelligence to pre-
IN tend at this late day that the Treasury de
an partment did not mean to take a part-a
me active part-in the New York politics. Tt
friends Of Mr.. Guthrie-those who sustai
I" and support him-the very organs throue
which he speaks to the public, are now al
zen nouncing 10 the country that Judge Bronsc
for was removed because he cspoused the cau
nm of Daniel S. Dickinson and of the nation
r democrats in New York, in III, war thu
U.s. are waging against Van Buren, and Cochran
DIS. They have even presumed to read us out
the democratic party, to make room f
abolitionists and Boomer advocates, and Il
family of Gerritt Smith. Go on, gentl
men, you are only laying up wrath again
the day of wrath. The time is not far di
=, tant when comparisons, even though con
DIS. parsons are odious, must be made. v
his are ready for the test now--waiting an o
sti- portunity to apply it. We scorn Jarau
200 bush fghting-the skulking cowardice
guerilla warfare. An open, manly conte
hat is all we ask-all we desire.
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700 DELEGATE FROM NEBRASKA. - II
his name of Rev. Thomas Johnson, recent