New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-06
4 THIRD LE7TERFROM GERRIT SMITH,
PrrrRpoRo', Saturday, Aug. la, 1855.

PrrTRBoRo, saturday Aug. IL, 1870.
T, Tux Nyw-YoRK TRIBUNE this evening re GIVE
vour Yesterday sheet But for one thing init should
ret eel At liberty ak you TO print another let e. Tor
nc-r,t even IN which shall be little more than
h.ndbreadh You have dealt So justly with me 10 Prut
ing my two long letters; and your Willingness To puo
lis in all your editions ana for 80 insufficient com
pensaiiop my Speech the Nebraska bill, Is so iio-
ars that am hnfashamed TO ask for any more space,
however little in your columns.
This ore thing to which | have referred Is your
having your readers TO believe that departed IRON
the truth in accusing you Of sailing my Anu-S4Very
integrity while WAS in Congress. Now VIII you not
ho 60 .ood rs 10 reprint few Of the lines in which
- Al s.sail III A few lines will suffice. You can
;ske them i you pease, from that editorial in viii n
ven speak Of me being the most RADICAL AoohnonS'
ever cent 10 Congress, and nevertheless rs giving signs
NJ INV BETRAYAL Of the Anti Slavery cause. II Won
will conn !, with this request you will vindi'ate my
yerscrty and will from The necessity OF WIN
d'ca,ing it BY the Iise means would give you the
data of the editorials IL question bu' that keeps no MES
of rewspapers, and have 10 rely solely on my recoi
lection To know What they have said OF me.
Do this for me which have now requested, and
viii IT, couien that you have had the nsi WORD IN our
controversy. Indeed, sirce you nave admitted mat
ally did vote on she n. baska BILL although had 70 SIT
ND until dnig 30 order 10 do and since too, You
.'e about 10 publish my speech on the OIL j think
can veiy vel afford 10 leave unans ~ered all you say
O III VANITY, ana want OF Drhine, Auu lOOlHH
"blather" SO, too, can very we'll afford to leave
unanswered yOur conclusion that my argument IN
favor cf the rights of the majority Is " the verlest
"fidse" and go, too, can very well afford to leave
unanswered al, you have made out or can possibly
make out of extracts from one of my grlyae letters
We certainly have every disposition 90 oblge
Mr. Smith, but we really cannot quote a. be de-
siIes FROM ally former articles of ours assallng
his Ant-Slavery integrity, for the reason that,
go far H. we are a care, We never publ shed any
such articles We have already assured Mr.
Smith If this fact, and yet here he comes again
to the charge just as fresh az ever. Once more
We repeat it, Of Mr.. Gerrlt Smiths moral Ia
tegr ", - an Anii-Slayery man or Otherwls9,
We Bsver entertained nor expressed dOubs
We cave alsO car, fully examined file of TIE
TRIBUNE for the post two years to see if any
such expressions bad, by anI sccien of which
We were unconscious, made their way into our
leaoitg columns, bui VT could dlsoover nothing
Of the sort; aud -Ve again assure Mr.. smith that
if there ar. any ,ucb, wa,ch We did not know 1T
the time aDd cannot find now, they do rs much
il Justice TO our Op MON rs to his character.
Tba, Mr. Smith is knave Or aoythng APP
proacbiug kuave, is What we mover tn ought;
ard ,f il has ever been said i'll our name, We de-
sire most emphatically to disclsim the false ut
tersDce
But what shall Dc said of the gentleman Tho
on his o~n confession brings charges like those
Mr. Smith has recently brought against The
TRIBUNE, when at ths same time ne kesps no
fles Of newspapers, and relies solely on his re-
collection to know what they have sail Of him
In our judgment the best THAI can be said OF
lin Is that he ought to be heartily ashamed of
himself