New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04


On Friday last "Col." Weir came TO Lawrence.
Having remembered that his "tarnished +" honor
required little furnishing up, he concoctsd the
following piece of "sandpaper for the purpose:
No. IL "WHIrsEY HoUsE, LAwREscE,
X. t. June l9, 1857. !
"The Hon. G. w. SMITH-Sir: At All sssenblage
Of citizens Of Kansas Big Spring on the 10Th inst,
certain insulting expressions were used by you toward
myef which impera,ively require notice at my hands,
Unavoidable engagements have, up to TINS date, pre-,
vented earlier attention thereto. Awaiting myself OF
the ft opportunity, have now to request retrac-
lion of the language used by yon upon that OCCASION
Ny tri,nd, Mr.. Boiling, will receive any comu'unca-
ton you may deem proper to l MAKE wM WEIR
Hereupon followed the reply, which stands
No. g "MoRRow HousE, LAwREscE,
June 10, 1857.
"WN. WEIR, esq.-Sir. Your. note OF to-day is
received. In answer have TO say that the occa-
sion referred your note the language uscd by me
was a fitting reply TO your conversations; ana until
your charges withdrawn l have no fetractlon to
Make and ,and ready to prove the truth OF my asser-
Respectfully, your obedient. O. w SMITH"
Then follows, in logical sequence, the warlike
manifesto which WIS to bleach and purify the repu-
tation of the big "Weir" and all the little Weir. 1t
stands
"No3l WHITNEY HOUSE, June 10, 1857.
"HoD. G. w. SMrrH-Sr: Your note of to day is
Just received, stating, IN answer 10 my note
Of came date, that, on the occasion referred
self was fitting reply to your lmyl conversation
and until your lmy) charges are withdrawn you
have no retracton TO make
ain reply have TO state that am conscious Of
having ade no charges, and that, consequently, IT
YOU have no retracion 10 make NUT demand that
You name friend to settle, in conjunction with Mr.
Bolhg, the matter in controversy between u:
"R,spectfully your Obt Serv't; -, WIN "Eh
Then comes, " fourthly and lastly"
No al "MoRROw HOUSE, June 90 1857.
WV. WEIR, esq--Sr In answer to your second
note have dy TO say lift is intended as the pren.
ipary to hostile meeting, although stand ready and
willing at all times to protect and defend my person
against assaults from any quarterly you well know,
vet having been a member of the Convention that
framed the Constitution of Kansas, which, as well as
the laws Of the United States, prohibit dueng, can
NOT if there were no other reasons consent to viola
ton of the laws Of my country. Besides, have al.
ways deemed dueliDg relic of barbarous age, re.
soed to only by towards, which in this enlightened
land il repuGiated and frowned down by every good
citizen, patriot and Christian.
At this point the curtain dropped ON the second
acts it rose on the third act yesterday evening.
Judge Smith has son, another George Smith, jun,
of some fye-and-twenty, who, although patriot
and Christian" considers it branch of his flal
duty to investigate the warke merits OF" Your ODE
dent servant, WIN. Weir" The aforesaid George,
moreover has been through the Kansas war, has
done good service and has scruples, conscientious
or otherwise, against meeting the Border Ruflans
or their blatant allies, in either general or par
ticular WAY. Being under the very natural impress
sion that the "galant Colonel aforesaid intended to
pitch into his Governor, he dispatched note which
will not give in full, but which demanded whether
he (Weir) had made charge against the courage
Of the Free.State men at Big Springs. This was
significant. Reply to it which way he would, the
charge unmitigated liar was likely to be repeated,
and this time by a spruce young blood who rather
liked the warlke idea, and who, as his gray haired
sire's CHAMPION no doubt felt he was in the right
What "COl." Weir thought of it this depOnent
saith not" Up to the present writing he has not
thought proper to yOuchsaie a reply to Smith, ju ::
When he does it will be, likely, as follows:
"SIR: But for your "youth you would not be per-
mitted to cay so.
Very respectfully, your obedien, &c.'