New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-17
A SECOND LETTER FROM Mr. aERRiT
SMITH.

xour in behalf Of our Maine Lav-that excellent Ia"
h;ch Won are defending 40 ably ard 40 inhuentlsuy.
"a, cunts for q days delay in thanking you toy
ing my long letter TO you. II was manly n
q publ s; and il win be manly in you n pSo-
.lsh this sso. |
Thee torial with which you have seen rs u &C an
psny my letter does confess both surprise greve
me. II has made bad worse. You have bat multi
Piled your wrongs sgainst me, instead Of blo'nng ou
by the repentance had had hopedf,r, both the eect
and the sin Of those wrongs which you had previously
inflicted on me.
Let ne first however, TO your allegation that nave
vropred YOU You bold that broadly SIN against
"ne truth in charging you with being the chief ana
most responsible propasatOr of the calumny tna' 1ii
mot vote on the Nebraska bill. So far are you non
confesspg the truth Of this cha'ge as 'nsnany !"
claim that your columns have vnoicsted me from the
c,Iunpv. This claim cannot fail TO as:onish your
readers for they have all beeved-and believed II
Zoo because they were your reade's-;hat did not
vote on The Nebraska bill. Moreover, they have all
believed that why did not vote on was because,
in my low self inc ugence preferred sles p to duty
Twill not deny that you published most prominently
cat the time my vote on ths bill, provided your
copypg the record Of the whole affirmative aod nega
five vote deser ca 70 be 90 chsractezed But whence
comes IL that in spite Of your doing your readers
ipcludir even the Aboonists-the forever suiy be-
cause forever Whig-chested Abolitionists-have al
along believed that did not vote ON the bill! Oh
course il comes ON the fact and most naturally too,
that YOU have spoken expressly and strongly
against my Anii-Slayery integrity, and that you have
aIso repeatedly spoken in ways which, 10 ssy the
Iess imply that did not vote il. All this neces-
sary had the effect both TO prevent and to craze, so
far az my was concerned, any impression whch
r - Qll mi afA6 IN m ..T
all this when did not have the effect to lead your
readers that my name was Ut IN me record
did have the effect TO wear out thele recoecuons OF
having seen il there. Doubtless The W. y. Herdtd
did also publish the vote the Nebraska bill. But in
asmuch ~ that paper represented me as having gone
over 10 Slavery, and being engaged IN purchasing
Southern plantation. and in stocking it with slaves,
they who believe what they find 10 lie columns were
not very like either TO receive 10 retain the imorcs
son that fresh convert to Slavery, voted against
the Nebraska bill Now your readers believe you
perhaps even more than the readers of The Heratf
believe it. Hence, when they were reading in your
columns-ay, in your very editorialsat the time of
the agitation in Congress on the Nebraska bill, that
wac giving signs Of utter aposacy from the cause OF the
slave and that the slaveholders having covered ne
all over with the slime of their fatery, were abou,
swallowing entire, it ia not at all strange that the
mere fact of names being in The record OF the vote
on the bill should have little or no influence upon
them.
But have not done with defending myself against
your charge, that have wronged you, in holding you
as my prlnc1pdl IN inc Cbse III manu-
About The fst day of the present month, the base
charge with unusually base Accomplishments, that
was not present at the taking Of the vote on the Ne
brask BILL appeared in your columns. On the 10Th
inst YOU retracted the charge. But you know that n
this day you would not have done 80, had you not
been compelled to do it by my prompt denial of the
charge That denial you refused to publish; and
even the miserable thing which you gave to your
readers in s stead, not published until yod had
given the SANDER full fortnight in which to send its
poison through the public veins.
So much for your charge of my having wronged
sou. have shown how entirely baseless it is. 1t
will never be renewed by you, unle-s, indeed, you
sbal come 10 sarpass even yourself IN draug6ts upon
Unpopular credulty And now, to your fresh wrongs
against my self
First. You seek TO cover over your gross injustice
10 me by declarations of your uniform "kinduess and
Tenderness TO my errors and weaknesses" That
am Oh euing al d weak man, and that such great
ly need "kLdness and tenderness at the hands of
my fellow men, is cheerfaly admitted by Never
theess, there is one thing which | need even more
than kindness" and tenderness" IL is justice.
Justice must have. can accept no substitute fort.
you will give me that will be content, even though
you shall not add the grace of kindness and ten
"derness" But pray what do you mean by your
profe ssons OF kindness" and Tenderness" toward
mel If but irony, mere joke, make no com
plant But if you intended to have them taken liter
orally, and sinseie, then are they the most mpu
IDENTIFY false professions which have ever known.
Second: You cheaper my letter to you by repre-
sehtiDg II TO be the fruit of an uncomfortable temper.
admit, that the words of angry maa are entitled
TO ell the ess consideration for his being angry
think however, can safely say that if have ever
disgraced my manhood by exhibitions of anger, not
my neighbors, not even my family, know it.
Third. You couple with my name eccentricities and
" monomania;" and confess that am sorry you do.
Desiring deeply that my efforts in aid of the great
and good Objects which cherish, may tell as far as
possible, am always panied when see them crippled
by epcountering the public suspicion, that am an &C.
centric and insane man. Tad begun to hope that as
Temp crance and Freedom were getting so well ad
vanced among us, l should soon be entirely exempt
from this suspicion. speak of Temperance and Free
dom-since il was not un ii | became Temperance
mon, that any did much hint that am eccen-
trio and since IL was not until became Abolition
ist, that was called mailman. l was well
awere that might have saved my reputation for
mon sense and sanity, had | consented to be more
MODERATE or somewhat qualified Temperance man and
AboltOniet. But II still seems to me, perhaps how
ever, only because still eccentric and insane)
that should in that have been less consistent
and as time would prove, less useful friend of rem
perance and Freedom.
There are many facts in my Temperance and Adolf
lion history that have favored the charge of being
eccentric aud mad. The fact that athou IN il is nearly
thirty years since espoused the of Temperance
have never since espoused allowed myself TO vote
for any for the office of Supervisor or Justice of
the Peace until had first ascertained that he would
refuse to license the sale of intoxicating drinks has
favored the charge The fact too, that for than
twenty years, and even as far back when imme
Jiate emancipation II was always an immediate
cipaiionstl was cogged by my colonization, came
under the conviction-a conviction Immediately trans
lated into practce-thst, among the supplies of my
family, there ought 10 be none-no cloth, rice, no
sugar, no coton-that are wet with the tears and
sweat aud blood OF the poor tOng and unpaid slave
that fact too gave counenAneo to the charge of my
beng an eccentric aud crazy man. | believe, how
ever thai the day will como when such facts will be
regarded as perfectly consistent with a rational oppo-
siuon to drunkenness and Slavery Another fact which
favored this charge is, that at very early day be-
cane persuaded hat not only no Shareholder however