New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-11
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
PETER FRANCISCO AGAIN.

ihiLh fhANClctO AGAlN
To ne Editor Of THs " y rri1u..
SIR: Ny attention was called yesterday n A..
article in your paper of Wednesday, sigusdl
N. F., in which the writer impaens the tru,hf,l
pes. Of sketch which originally appeared n
the United States Magazine, from which itv..
copied into your paper, entitled peter Firm.
"eisco, the Samson of the Western Henri
"sphere." The incoL sistencies Of your ear.
respondent are So glowing and seif.sv;.
dent, that il would BE- work Of superera-
cation to point them out, did not fear that 70,
might suffer in the good opinion Of some person.
s,hayinr adopted q child which is legitimate.v
inne.
I'M F. commences by pronOuncing the sketch
grossly inaccurate and after quoting passage.
SAYS there is hardly word of truth in the
above" He then proceeds TO narrate ineide0.s
in the life of Francisco. snd gives an outline Of bic
biography, for which he gives no other authOiy
than his own ipse dirit Now j. NJ f. NAV b.
thoroughly versed in the history of the State of Va
cinia, as well as of the rest of the world but Ia
must pardon me If prefer to base the aathentic.
~ of my facts upon names waich are better known
than that of your correspondent. And would
reu arb that if j. NJ. f. is SO earnestly desiroas az
correcting the errors of history It would be "a
we'll 10 commence nearer home, and to aid hin IN
SO doing would suggest ilo1es Historical Cox
elections of Virginia" 20 begin with. Ii DO
will refer to page 207 he will find the following
passage:
for his PERI ma 9Th, lived an raised his iansiy IA B5.
rshsm xhee he died " year, since liz origin WIS os-ca.
AicnAp hen rf'ut snd eansd 70 re,sn tie bad %
reco ec his aud the nst know dso he prev
ofhisc was IN hat eouut when snal boy hranas n9a
* America and being adventurous urn he INDEBTED A.
on BIZ rrriysi he was sold 70 Anthony Winston ~ u 81.
county wl,s, estate be sbored m huy until tho br-snr
kns OF he Da'Iioc enthusiasm Of the times he assed aud D.
tancd permission Of bis owner TO enlkt Ia hs Conasnsl
Army"
At the close of the sketch Howe adds:
"He was appointed Sei ssart Of the House. Of
DELEGATES IN which service he died in 1895 aud ls inferred
with military honos the public buryinssrOund OF Rich.
mord"
For some other facts contained in the sketch 7
am indebted to my own father, who was IN Rich
mond in the Winter OF lS52-33, saw Francisco
there. srd heard them related as current topics Of
conversation; and certainly there can be no better
traditional history than that which is chronicled
during the lifetime of the hero The incidents
which J. NJ. f. relates are so nearly allied in an
guage aud every detail 10 those gwen by liose
that were it not for his denial of the truthsulne
of the opening paragraph should Judge they were
copied verbatim from the same article in his In
NY facts.
Your correspondent volunteers a sentence, which
10 say the least of it, is singular. lie says tha.
Francisco was engaged in almost every battle Of
"any consequence during the Revolution" Now,
nv reading of the history of that glorious contest
NAV be defective, or Francisco may have been pos
sessed of the power of ubiquity, or perhaps }. VI.
+. NAV not consider Saltwater, Eutaw and Saw
aunah 10 be Of any consequence. for Il ia certain
that Froncisco was engaged in neither Of these
lie Who attempts to correct others should himself
be accurate.
finally. J. NJ + more than intimates, in his clog
ING paragraph that but little is certainly known Of
the history of Francisco, reminding me of a min
lister whom 1 once heard argue in the firstly Of bis
sermon, that at the resurrection we should be
raised at natural body, AID apparently convinced
himself OF that iact and IN his secondly h. dee
sroy ed the natural body and substituted the spiri-
ua body finally" We knew bat little shout Il
at the best
A. do not wish 10 occupy too much of your val.
liable space, am willing 10 let the authenticity Of
my sketch rest upon the yeracisy Of Howe, rather
than that Of an unknown correspondent. aud sub
scribe myself Yours respectfully,
RaAray v !, Aug. e. 1855 yOuS r. CHAPLIN