New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-07
r. N, Hon WILLIAM BrcLrR. L. s. Senate 4:

To The Hon. WmLIAM BIGLER L. s. Senate:
SIR: For some time past, an anonymous and utter
" unindorsed string of calumnles and misrepresen-
tatons entitled "Infdelity and AbOlitionism; An
"Open Letter to the Friends of Religion. Morality
"and the American Union" has been gratultOusly
flooded over the country. i have been repeatedly
asked to put my foot on it, but declined to do So as
| do not deem anonymous ISLANDERS worthy of SO
much consideration. But respected clergyman
of your State sends me one of three copies of this
deectable concern which he has just received under
your frank, indicating that you are engaged in
general distribution Of this tissue Of lies throughout
your State or at least among her clergymen. l
pay therefore, to you, the responsible indOrser,
respect of which the naked and skulkirg libel was
and is utterly unworthy and proceed to expose some
of the more fragrant of its ialsehoods:
I'VE assert and defy contradiction, that every auztion
Boosting ndde doctrines is now an orssnlaon IN favor OF
Fremont and we assert also that all ih9s d,sinn
Of the Union are openly cooperating win te'' 4ahoHS
This is grossly false, Mr.. Bigler and you
know it. II is false, that even the handful of
Northern DisunionistS support Fremont, as | shall
soon show; but all these are insignificant in
numbers and power when compared with the
Southern Nufers and Secessionsts, every one
hostile to Fremont, and nearly all supporting Bu-
chsnan. In South Carolina, those who desire and
expect speedy dissolution Of the Union are a
very large if not the larger party; they hold high
stations and edit influential journals; one member
of the Cabinet (Jeif. Davis) ran for Governor on
the ticket of the State Rights" contemporaries
ofls5O party; and throughout the South there is
powerful interest in favor of dissolving the Union
whenever hey can no longer rule il. You know
how Bully Brooks boosted in the House that he
could have caused civil war by merely raising his
hand; you have read his grave proposition that the
South should march upon Washington and seize the
Federal treasury and archives, in case Fremont
should be elected, before he can be naugurated;
and YOU know that Keitt, Wise, and other eminent
Southern supporters of Buchanan, are habtuslly
INDUCING in similar buster. You are slanderng
very large portion of your fellow citizens, Mr.
Biger and utterly classifying the record, in assert
ing that all the Disunionsts-Or any considerable
portion of them-are found in the Fremont ranks
2 Following in the same track. your libel pro-
ceeds to copy from The Ner- York Standard of
April 10Th last. representing il as Fremont AbO.
tion organ" and speaking OF it again as - this
advocate of Fremont, The Standard That,
Sir. is deliberate lie. No one can have copied
from The Standard without knowing that il is of the
Garrsonian non-voting school of Aboltionists, Bit
terry hostile to Col. Fremont and TO the Republican
party. 1t is as utterly averse 10 FremOnts election
as you are or as your Secessionist allies at the
South can well be.
g. Your pamphlet proceeds TO quote from " The
Boston LiberatOr, Garrison's psper-a piper that
supports John {. Fremont"
This, Sir, is another black, blistering falsehood
The LiberatOr supports no candidate for Federal
Office. being hostile TO voting, 20 the Union. and
the Constitution but especially hostile to Fremont
and the Republican party. Columns TO this effect
might be quoted from it, but the fact Is notorious
among intelligent men. The LiberGtor will not
even support Gerritt Smith, and it never supported
any Republican or Anti-Nebraska ticket Yet the
lie is repeated, and reiterated as if its author found
real pleasure in the simple act Of lying.
4. Passing by several insignfean; or irrelevant
Ges-smong others that involved in calling Wendell
Phillips A Boston Infdel, when he is an ortho-
dox Christian. and then insinuating that he is
suppor,er of Fremont. when be is his nflexble CD.
ponent-I proceed 10 the following:
rur N,wYosK TRIBUNE Is the chief party organ Of these
infd di.uniouit That Journal been tie reservoir for
years of al the evens .nirs aHd revolutionary doc
Nv when are notorious inhdels IL has
i, columns The rcyoinf doctrine. Of Pre- Love- to
i,psn All the Mid. nous'rous. ard absurd ories Of he
day tie poliicsl equsiy snd the
qSea; social equally ct hacks 4-a whites have i.as4 favor u