Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-11-01
More About the Coalition.


Hon. Francis P. Blair, Jr.. nsmber of Congress
from st. Louis, has published card in relation 10
the attempted coalition last winter between Judge
Douglas and the Black Republicans. Mr.. Blair
;s unwilling 10 bctray the confidence of private
interview, and hence we are left to conjecture on
". a. to what took place between Judge Douglas
and himself II is Sufficiently evident however.
that Douglas sent message to Blair to the effect
that he wanted to zee him at his house-that this
message was sent BY Colfax one Of the Black Re
publican leaders in Congress Blair accepted
N. invitation and had the interview-and that the
character Of the interview was such as to lead
Blair 10 believe, in his own languag. ethat Judge
nouylas would not be the man to "call for three
cheer. over the defeat Of the Emancipationists of
Missouri" Mr.. Blair does not give the converse
ton; but what he does say about it is enough
The evidence is not only direct and positive that
Blair and Douglas had private consultation at
tho latters own house-but that at Douglas s"g-
osstiom, Blair wrote letter to the editor OF the
Freesoil paper in St. Louis. urging him to cease
his hostility terards Douglas IN the columns q ms
paper. We append the letter of Mr.. Blair, that
the reader may have all the facts OF the case be-
fore him. and thus be enabled to form his own con-
clusion:
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. IS. 1858.
Isaac II. Sturgeon. ESQ:
Dear Sri have received your note putting
certain interrogatories TO me in reference TO inc
conversation held by Judge Douglas and myself NJ
his house last winter. 1t has always pceh u prh-
chile with me to hold sacred every private CONVEX,
sation between any gentleman and myself, ana
this will forbid my saying anything in answer to
the questions YOU have asked. Although MI
Douglas. by his conduct to me, and by the unscru,
pulous attacks of his partzans, has forfeited all
claim to my orbearance, yet do not CONSIDER 'hat
because Others have failed to conform to the pro-
prietics Of life, it furnishes al excuse ior me- W
follow their example.
After what has been said, however. il is just and
proper to myself to say that the letter which was
written by me to Mr.. B. Gratz Brown. OF the MIS-
souri, Democrat, and which has been the basis ol
the assaults made on me by Mr. Douglas rartisaI'S
for violating an alleged confidence, WAS "r,ne" !"
strict accordance r'fh the njshes q JudHe D""3'"S
himself In fact, deemed it to be the single OBJ
;ect of the interview to which | WAS invited to
mitigate through me- the hostility of tho radical
Democratic press Of ST. Louis toward hun.
wrote for this purpose believing it to be his de-
sire, and had no agency whatever IN giving cur
reucy TO the rumors about the contents of that let
ter which have found their way into the newspa-
pers The black gunrdsm of the newspapers III
the interest Of Mr.. Douglas ON this account com
pels me to make this explanation and is the only
occasion for my writing word on the subject.
have said was invited to this interview by
Judge Douglas I say SO to repel the idca that
sought any interview with him upon political sub
iects The invitation and message came through
the Hon. SCHUYLER Coliax, Of Indiana, and has
never to nv knowledge been treated rs private
matter. take the occasion To say, that neither
the messare sent me nor ANYTHING that ever &C.