The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-07-25

say explicitly that leave my speech to interpret
t.eit ana hoid myself responsitle for it, without
qualification or amendment 4. BURLIN9AME
WASHINGTON, July 10, 1856.
This card was first published in the "IntelliQen.
GER OF Monday, the 2lst instant though it il dated
July 10.
As soon As could procure friend (Which was
W less snAn TWO hours after first saw the cdrd)
the following message was sent 10 Mr. Burineame
WAsHISGroN, July 81
siR: VIII you do me the kindness to indicate some
pace outside OF this District whore it will be eonvs
nient to you to negotiate reference to
''''ff s. brooks.
Hon. A. BUaLINGAmE
Apprehendipg an arrest from the officious inter
ference of Mr. Buriingames frierds Il knew that
no friend of mine would lodge informaiion,) At
night fall left my own rooms and went to the
house Of friend for greater security.
AT about l2 O'Clock Gen. Lane called and deliv.
cred Mr.. Burlingame's reply to my note, which
reads ~ follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July q, 1856.
Sir: Your note of this date placed Ia my hands
by Gen. Lane this afternoon.
In reply, have to say hat will be st the Cliftsn
House. the Canada aide Of Niagara Falls on Satur-
day next, sr IL O'Clock, H., to .gotiste in refrr-
ence to any difference between usn which in your
District"
have the honor to be your obedi.nt servant
A. BURLIhGAME.
In order that the public may fully understand the
whole matter in relation to Mr.. Burlingame and
myself it is necessary to revert to events antece.
dent to the last correspondence between us Some
time during the last month he made . speech in
the House of Representatives, and when referring
to the assault upon Senator Sumner, he applied
this Language to myself: :" Stole into the Senate
chamber, and struck his brother, a. Cain did
Abel" When the seatence was uttered, my
friend, Mr. Keitt who knew that was absent,
pronounced 1t false; under which imputation Mr.
Burlingame quietly rested. / did not At that time
feel it my duty to hold Mr.. Burlingame respon-
sible for his language and might perhaps have
permitted him and his words to pass
1t was not Tong, however, befof Q intination from
divers sources reached me that the friends of MIR
Burlingame were boasting of his valorous assault
upon me-of his expertness with the riae (Which
they more than insinuated had come to my ears,
in explanation of my forbearance)-and that he
quence of his courageous conduct. In regard to
the insult given him by Mr. Kett, it was said that
he (Mr Burlingane,) "would not send, but that
he would accept . challenge"
Under these circumstances felt that forbear
ance was no longer . virtue and requested my
Mr.. Rurnga with the simple question, Would
he receive = call from me?' Tho reply to this
short question is to be found in the following
tract from written statement made to me by Mr.
Bocock
(Extrsctl
"Mr. Burlingame then commenced an explanation
which led to long conversation between us, in the
course of which he made many statements, which he
said we confidential
"Omtting these, the answer which he desired me
to bear you was substantialiy thls that he had no
unkind eiings whatsoever for you but ON the cen
trary, egarded you a. man Of courage and of
honor that while he disapproved OF the assault on
Mr. Sumner, and fslt bound ~ Massachusetts man
to condemn it, he had designed to discriminate be-
tween the man and the act, (let it be remembered
that this Ian suage used the lst of july and
had said no ths subject than his sense Of ro
ii
Stances be was surp ised to find that you had taken
pon to anything which he had said. In relation
to the boasts that had Teen thrown in his name
he stated that they had not been authorized by him
but on the contrary, he very strongly coude eHned
both them and their authors
And if, after all this you were net satised, and
wanted blood, he stated that he could do nothing
else than accept, and would doso
Before leaving MIR Burineame, I recapltulated
whnt understood to be his answer. He agreed that
was right and added, describe - him a. you see
me DO Justice to my kind feelings to him. and do
justice also to my manhood"
did do justice to Mr.. Burlingame in thought
bearing and speech i was pleased with the report
Of his bearing, and impressed with the belief that
ne was an elevated gentleman; and when next
met him respectfully offered him my hand, which
he as respectfully received
On the day that the resolution for my expulsion
was 70 Dc taken up In the House, intending to be
bers, IA also upon the State of Massachusetts,
requested Mr Bocock to submit his written state
nent 70 Mr. Buriingame, for his approval or rejec.
tion In relation 70 this point, Mr. Bocock says in
nis ,.s. s.a'ementi On the morning on which you
maze your speech and resigned your seat in the
House, handed Mr. Buriingame the statement
which bad prepared and he has nerer returned it
to me ;" informed Mr.. Bocock that must and
should nave an acqufttance from Mr.. BurlinRame
and on that evening, (of tho day ON which nv
speech was made3 my friend Mr. Bocock brought
me the memorandum which was appended 10 nv
speech, and which is In the handwriting of EpeaS-
er Banks. The memorandum was In sii essential
points the same as Mr.. Bocock's statement. the
original Of which Mr. BurIinsame had retained, but
Q copy of which I had fortunasely kept This
memorandum I accepted under the advice of
friends In lieu Of Mr.. Bocock'sstatement, and was
told that it generous % DO 90. did it to save
informed, were pressing tim. And yet, after ali
this--after ave days 0fdelsy-Mr. Burlingame had
the efrontery to embarrass his couuseling friends
and to repudiate, on the 10th July. because Of an
assumed false construction, I'm some quartefs An
instrument which contained apologies which he had
made on the irst of ths same month, and which
apologetic construction he had repeatedly admit.
ted to be true and also In the presence OF his friend
Mr.. Banks
He now even affects the chevalicr, and defantly
says, II leave my speech 70 interpret itseif, ana
hold myself responsible for H. without qualifca-
ton or amendment"
He requires me TO meet him In Canada, dis
tauce Of near seven hundred miles BY The mail route
route running through the enemy country, ano
through which no man knows better than Mr..
Burlingams that could not pass without running
the gauntlet of mobs and assassins, prisons and
pentsntiAries, bailifs and constables he knew
that could never get 70 Canada, and that wers
70 do % apd be were 70 fall. that would never
get back. He might - well have designated Bos.
ton Common.
His proposition Is Of . 20 prepostsrous character
that the public will appreciate Il without comment
from me. When he repudiated the msmorandum
which was prepared BY bis friend, ard deilvsred
In his own presence, ! felt some sympathy Tor the
agony Of proud man driven 70 doing wrong that
he might retrievs the honor Of I Etats uhiGh had
been tarnihed by unworthy Representatives But
bis last condition II worse than she former. aud
deliver him TO that condempati0u which houorable
men In every community wiz stsrsiy inAIee !
have no further demands upon him; bus shonid he
BE- screwed up totbe point 0f making demands mp
on me WV yet trset him - ssntiemau. and meet
him as any conveuient and accessibie point upon
equal terms.
Irsspsesfally 81 Inst The subjolnsd letter fFem