Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-04-29

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Sir: have examined the letter signed by your
friend ainrs H. Lime, which you placed III my lai-
10 day. aud will give you my reasons Tor fesl'"-
ing to YOU lis bearer. nicId Ui hun ~ lis hhlhor.
TN. letter g 81 cquvuca III terms, aud portinns al
it So rrecuncable with other puruns, that II u in-
possible In determine, with any certainty whether u
/. intended as hostile message friendly hnte IL
il true that the city full nf ruuors that your lrenu'
Col. Lane, intended 10 chalrgr NE, and tllc teller
writers for those newspapers III the eastern c''lrs ist
friendly to the revolutionary movements III hiis"S
and most hostile 10 myself not only announced Tue
fuct snne three four days. but actually hNed thc
time when your friend Intended TO seiid Tie h"',ie
ncssaGc The object Of your friend III causing h's
intentions To be made known to the world ana pun
lsIed in the newspapers IL not for ME 10 cAPi","'
when lie and every one must have known tii"' tlie
effect would inevitably be IL have boih parties ar
rested the moment he succeeded in making the pup
lie believe that lu intended to invite HUSTLE iiee'
ing. .,.,
In the National Integencar of this morning l ma
n .card" published by your friend, III which ne NJ
tempts to assa me personally, and To RAISE q";s'
ton OF veracIty between IL upon point III reference
tu which he admits aud hi lnntively h-sorls' tlc
truth of my statement. but dsmies that he gave me
or any other person &" shadow Of da'h1rhy ioi III!
king any such statement" Having selected Ills M
buual and removed his complaint from the Jurish'c-
tiun TO which public !et'erwritcrs in his Confluence
had declared he would bring it, and appealed 10 inc
public through the columns of the newspaper press
he il al liberty to prosecute it in that form As IoS rs
he pleases. Since the publication Of this Card III
the newspapers your TREND in letter ni winch you
are the bearer, al III which you are deslgha'eu a.
his friend to recevn my answer, referring to The dc
bate on Monday last in the United States SENATE on
the fraudulent memorial Of the spurious legislature OF
Kansas, makes the following request of me {: IL re-
spectfuily Ask for such explanation OF your Inn
suags upon that occasion will remove all inpnta-
ton upon the integrity OF my action or motives IN
connection with that memorial
The REASONS assigned for calling upon me to ylnd-
uryiOn with tina. memorial are. that ION Thursday
of that week 1.-THE week previous 10 the debate Ci
which he complansl that memorial was the sub
jcct of criticism, and III cunucXIon with II
CHARGES Or TIE MOST GRAVE CHARACTER WERE
PREPARED AGAINST Me- lyOur friend Col. Lane. J
IL is not pretended thar made those charges against
hun in Ma! debate. Tie published dc bate shows that
ION Thursday of that week no less than three or
four Senators did denounce tina; ,ria Ian i'm
pudent forgery attempted to be palned off upon the
Senate of the United States through the hands o the
venerable Senator from Mlcigam;' as ~ paper which
has reached the Senate through aud, which has
stamped upon il every mark of forgery" rs "a for.
gerry which has been palmed oil on the Senate and
various other denunclaurs of like character, all
tending to stamp the memorial with fraud and forge
~. | did not endorse these grave charges on the
one hand, repel them the other, for the reason
that while all the facts then known To the Senate
seemed Il justify a strong suspicion, and indeed,
raise the presumption that they true, Yet the
circumstances we're such to render il nv duty
10 do more Than tn reject the memorial upon the nc-
dlsclu-ed in the debate. In fact, followed the lead
of the ustrious Senator from Michigan, who pre-
scented the memorial under the impression that il was
genuine paper by expressing willingness to vote
for his motion u print M matter q" courtesy TO him,
80 long il involved no other consideration than the
amount of money which the printing would cost. But
when Its reception and printing became the test of a
principle which 10 recognise and sanction the re-
evolutionary proceedings in Kansas, announced my
purpose t" vote against it for that reason. Subse-
uueutly such disclosures were made rs to create
Ioubs in The mind OF Gen. Cass in Respect ih. au
thrntci,y OF the paper, aud he, after an interview
with Col Lane, frun whom be had received il, made
the following announcement 10 the Senate, and voted
for the resolution resembling the action of the Senate
whereby the memorial was received and referred, and
therefore withdrew it. Gen. Cass said
.Wtu few minutes have had an interview
with the gentleman who presented ME with the petit
tion and am bound to say to the Senate that AIN
not satisfied that this paper is one which ought 10 be
acted on by the Senate This is all that is necessary
for me 10 say. shall for the resolution Of the
senator from Virginia.
After the "lnemorial' had been denounced by sew
eral senators Ms freud and forgery, and after Gen
Cass had thus announced his purpose vote for lis
rejection for the stated Mr. Seward and
SAID that he had just ersed with Col. Lane upon
the subject, aud he added: