Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-03

Messra. Editors In the Daily Spy Of Jan 7,
there is communication signed James Red
path" upon which wish 10 make few remarks
Mr.. r. writes as follows -'' Dr. Cutter says that
the National Committee did nothing for his
train" 81 find in his manuscript account Just
rendered, that he makes these statements"
"Jaly 22@ At Indianola, Iowa, my bill was
rendered to S. W. Eldridge, general agent of the
National Kanzas Aid Society, and by him paid
''Aug. 22d.-In Lawrence, X. T., my bill was
again rendered to Mr.. Eldridge, and by him set
tied"
"Oct 6-My Bill was rendered to the Chicago
Committee, and by them paid" Mr. r. asks,
"What does this mean 7"
reply, it means exactly what it states The
Worcester Committee selected Mr.. Perry Thayer
as the financial agent of my company. At iowa
City, and elsewhere. he purchased teams and 9th.
er equipments, for the company, to the value of
about $1,000. Before we reached the Des Moines
River, Iowa, he had exhausted the funds of the
company, and was Indebted to me nearly $780,
AT Bellefontaine, Iowa, July 18th, Mr.. Thayer
conveyed to me all the property of the company,
to be used in carrying and furnishing the compa.
ny to Kanzas. When Mr.. Eldridge reached us
at Indiauola, conveyed this property to him
(that Mr.. Thayer had conveyed to me), and Mr.
3. then settled my bills incurred for the company
to this date
At Lawrence, X. T., Mr.. Eldridge sold this
property to Mr. E. Whitman. Mr.. E. and the
Chicago Committee paid bills incurred for nv
company between $500 and 800, for which they
received teams that cost over 900, beside $500
from the Worcester company, BY j. b. Sanborn.
In view Of these facts, l repeat what have b.
fore written--' The city of Worcester, through
the prompt and patriotic action of its INTEL gent
committee, sent forward and paid the entire en-
pe1lSes of our company of forty men (Cutter's),
and another company of thirty-two men (Stow-
el1s)"
l will also say, that the city of Worcester, by
its committee, supplied two hundred muskets the
generous subscription OF the Hon. Eli Thaver
One hundred of these were used to Lanes
men.
Mr.. Redpath, in his communication of Dec.
23 speaks of the National Kanzas Committee,
and that only, To that article l replied through
the columns of the Spy, and now re: affirm that
reply.
The public are now informed, in the Spy of
Jan. 7, that the Provisional National Commit.
tee was chosen at Cleveland, Ohio, in JaSae and
acted until the Buffalo Convention elected its
successors This committee supplied Lanes
army-as the emgrants under Dickey and others
were called-,oih all the money they required for
their expenses -
The following are facts. This convention con.
vened at Cleveland, June 20. 1t wisely endorsed
the previous efforts of the energetic Chicago
Committee and advised the continuance of its
action. More than two-thirds of the men, called
Lanes army, were assembled in Iowa before the
Cleveland Convention They were supplied with
arms and money, from Worcester, Chicago,
Bloomington, Quincy, ILL.,, Richmond, Ind, Mil
waukie, Jonesville, Wis. Davenport, Iowa City
Ia, and other places in the Eastern and Western
States. The Provisional National Committee did
not supply one-fourth the money used by Lanes
men.
Again, Mr.. r. writes, the Captain Gutter
says that his and StowelPs companies constituted
the force 4" before whom the Mssourians retreat
ed" This is what said These two compa-
MES Cutters and Stowell's) made part of the
train before whom the MissOurians retreated A
truthful man isrespected-an intentional falsifer
is despsed. Mr. r. also states that "Stowell's
company was not armed from money mainly
raised by DR.. Cutter" The Captain did not
raise one dollar for arming Stowell's men," To
this, would ask il the respectable gentleman,
who lives at II Winter street, Boston, authorized
this bold statement If he will affirm this state.
ment of Mr.. RS in the columns of the SPY
will inform r. and the public where the money,
used to procure rifles and revolyers for the two
Worcester companies, did mainly come from,
Mr.. Redpath says, 8" Jim Lane was sent to
Kanzas by the National Committee" believe
that an untrue statement, for these reasons -
/. Lane and his men were in Western Iowa, en-
route for Kanzas, before the National Committee
was chosen. 2. was informed by Col. Eldridge
that DR.. 5. @. Howe and Mr.. HYATT members Of
the National Committee, were decidedly opposed
| to Gen. Lane going into KaBzas with the train
These two gentlemen visited the train at Nebraska
| City. l here assert, on the statement OF E. b.
| Whitman, Col. Eldridge, and Messrs. Hyatt and
Howe, that the National Committee did not send
| jim Lane into Kanzas. Why did X. make this
| assertion Testive to Lane? Here we have it =
| " And he (Lane) make bold to say, did moro
| to make peace there than even my friend, Captain
| Cutter 1t is truly refreshing to find para
graph in X. s communication that is strictly true.
In the first instance, Mr.. r. states that the
| National Committee sent the main relief to the
free State men in Kanzas Territory, before the
| arrival OF Gov. Geary. This showed, by dates
| and facts, TO be otherwise. Then he saws that
4 the Provisional National Committee supplied
all Tie money Lanes men required for their ex-
penses ~sNs'his is;ogrossly false, that either II.
did know it to be untrue. or he ought to have
known it. He also says that Jim Lane" was a
protege Of the National Committees more i'm
pudent falsehood than either Of those before men
| toned.
Mr.. Rs statemeLts remind one of the boy,
/ who asserted that he saw one thousand cats in
the yard the previous night; being questioned,
| he declared that there were fine hatndred--this
being doubted, he boldly insisted that the old cat
and one other cat were there, and that he would
hot take Pr another cat / insist that Mr.. r..
must aoate the oid cat from his statements
Again, he writes, "rhe Missourians, under
Richardson who blockaded the northern route,
did not retreat before this force. " "Capt. Cut.