The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-09-06
From the Washington Star.
"ODDs, BULLETS AND BLUDGEONs ~

of the existence of the following paragraph in
the National Era of this city, a journal we
rarely see, under the pressure of our business
engagements:
"The Erening Star of this city discourses
as follows in reference to the newly-fo formed Re-
PUBLICAN Association:
"'1n the same number of the Tribune we
find Constitution and bylaws purporting to
be thcse of the Association of the Republican
party in Washington City, which, as matter
of coarse, can all be comfortably seated in the
sanct1m of our neighbor of the National Era
if tha apartment is twelve feet square. The
Repu ,lican party in Washington City is moth
ing pre- nor less than the never.to-be forgot
ten l'an-Buren-B Buffalo Platform party of the
federsl metropolis, weakened by the loss of at
least onetenth of its members, in the with
drawAl of the two individuals who, having been
conspicuous Free-Soilers in lS4e, are now pro-
prietors OF the Organ newspaper, which, to its
credit be 1T written, has, as at present edited,
no affinity whatever with Aboltionism, direct
or indirect
"The editor of the Star has no occasion to
speak alphabetically about the size of the Erd's
sanctum, as we can assure him that the Office
has not been removed since he was a regular
contributor to the columns of the paper His
connection with the Era perhaps afforded him
the opportunity of acquiring that intimate
knowledge of the Free Soil Association of lS4S,
which he displays in the above paragraph but
he should remember that good schoolfellows
never tell tales out of school, g."
We owe our friend, the editor of the Organ,
not "one," but thousand, for the gallantry
he displays in coming so promptly to our de-
fence from the grave charge which the loc,tm
tersenss of the Era makes against us, as above
quoted. He (of the Organ is glorious fell
low, and points his sharp rapier with mimi
table skill. Witness the conclusion of his CON-
ments upon this article, as follows, viz:
"What right has the Abolition paper to claim
gallant defender of the South, its institutions,
and the Union, as an ally, upon the mere cir
cumstance of his having been a contributor
to its columns? We will tolerate no such in
situation. We therefore demand, on behalf of
our colleague, a withdrawal of the insinuaton,
and ample reparation for the SANDER Other
wise, odds | bullets and bludgeons -. But
we choke down our indignation, confident that
our colleague will deny the charge, and demand
that the contributions be published; and, in
default of this obvious measure of Justice, that
we shall be empowered to wait upon the Hay
ten who has perpetrated the SANDER with a
mortal message, and bespeak collins for two"
Placing little faith in the integrity of the pur-
pose of whoever may be the writer Of the origi-
nal paragraph in the Era, as, if knows any
thing with reference to our contributions to
the columns of that paper, he also knows well
that we have never for an instant sympathized,
with our pen or mind, with the Era's politics,
with its purposes or its abstract views on the
subject of American Slavery, we hasten to re-
lieve the doubts and quiet the Indignation Of
him of the Organ by giving the explanation hA
demands
Thus, the editor of the Star, for many years.
before purchasing this paper, was writer for
the press, daily, weekly, and monthly, by pro-
fession, on nearly all subjects in which the
public at large took interest-politics, history,
literature, the arts and sciences, &C., &c. Always
industrious, he furnished papers for the periodi-
Gals, the weekly and daily press, upon any SUBJ
jects with which he was familiar where his
views on them were judged to be of sufficient
Importance to be satisfactorily paid for.
Thus, while he furnished letters, &C., on pol
tiles and reports to the Washington Union,
with which journal he sympathized politically,
he also furnished for the National hetelligencer
a series of elaborate papers on the progress of
the industrial arts in the United States, written
from New York; and for the Republic of this
city, the wel-remembered series of "Ichabod"
letters upon fashions in Washington, the SQUAD.
bles of ofiice-seekers, the roorbacks of those
with beams in their own eyes, who were bent
on picking the notes out Of those of the Ad-
ministratiOn, and, indeed, on any and every
thing amusing and entertaining then occurring
in Washington. Shortly after the beginning of
the European revolutions of l849, we COM
menced, and for months continued in the
Union, series of contributions" Oh that sub
ject, prepared with laborious care and only
after consulting all the trustworthy English
and continental sources of information within
our reach. When the subject became some
what hackneyed, the Union proprietor declined
longer to publish them, and we were applied to
by the proprietor of the Era to furnish a SINH.
lar series of contributions on the same sub.
ject, for his journal, with the handsome compli-
ment, by-the-by, Of an offer of just twice what
the Union had been paying for them.
We were rejoiced to find so much true liber-
atty evinced by publisher holding the opin-
ions of DIR. Bailey, of the Era, as was evident
in this offer made, with the full knowledge on
his part that upon American Slavery and Amer
lean politics we were as far apart as it was pos.
sible for gentlemen to be; and we were perfect
" willing to furnish our views on the condition
of Europe and passing occurrences there, for
that journal, so long as his readers would stand
them. So we commenced and continued the
preparation of the papers in question, weekly,
for many MONTHS in none of which, however,
was the question of American Slavery or Amer
lean politics alluded to, otherwise than in
dressing down" Exeter Hall, and those cler-
gymen who pinned their faith to it, on all pass
ing occasions. AS these were not few, we event
ually made the Era's columns too hot to hold
our doctrines even on European affairs-and
their further publication was respectfully and
dlu bx, H. Po,lo II
that he was induced to that course by the COM
plants of many of his patrons 1.-THE Abolition
ists) who sympathized with those parties-the
English Exeter Hall pseudo philanthropists,
whose hypocrisy and imbecility for real good
results we had aimed to expose. So, our con-
tributions to the Era ceased when it would no
longer publish Our doctrines.
Our literary labors in connection with any
subject but American party politics, were always
for sale, like those of all other literary men, liz
we may fairly claim for ourself that appelation,
after having lived and supported those depend
ant on US for some sixteen years, wholly on
what the world was willing to pay for our lucu.
brations,) and we we're always happy to furnish
them to those publishers inclined to pay best
for, them. Thus, while writing Democratic pol
itics for the Union, the Democratic monthly
Reuie,o, and dozen other Democratic partf
publications, we furnished articles for the Wing
monthly Reriew, which the conductors of that
periodical did US the honor to adopt as leaders.
These latter, however, were, like our contribu,
tons" to the Era, wholly foreign to the subject
of American politics. They were upon the ma.
val history of our country, some fifty years pri,
or to the commencement of the American Rev,
olution.
We trust that we have relieved the anxiety
of our friend of the Organ in our behalf and
in that of the true cause of State Rights ID
which he claims us, so gracefully, to be his feE