Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-23

singular and very unsatisfactory one: "Because
he desired to leave to leave me utterly non.com.
mItted as to the language until it was published
that to it he was alone privy, and response.
blem How strange that he was unwilling to
commit me, as to the mere language ofthe note,
and so swift to commit me to the .tact ofsan
unqualified, and, as Ideemed it offensive refusal
to serve the State in the highest office in her
gift But he says that though he did not sub
init his letter to me, or even send me a copy5of=
it, for the reasons just stated, that ssabout the
time he sent his first letter to the ENQUIRER
and before 1t a5as blisfe1, he addressed let.
ter TO me; then holding Court at Olarksburg,
apprising me of what he had done. 46olt
tie time, and sbetore 1t slpds pub lishedl Are
we to infer from this that he had given me. no
tice of his having dispatched his letter to the
Enquirer in time to conference.-the publication,
IT disapproyed itS If so, he is entirely mista-
ken, for his letter to the Enquirer was in the
hapds of the printer before his private letterwas
Sortten; the letter whichiS now before me, be-
ing dated the 29th of August, the former, the
9th, of the same month. If 1 had been apprised
then OF the precise character and contents of
his public letter, was too late, when received
the notice, tohave arrestedits publication. His
private letter was written on Sunday, August
2gtn, and received by me on, Monday, the very
day, 1 believe, for have no copy of the paper
containingit, on which Mr.. Clemens card was
published the Enquirer 1t is thus. demon.
strated, from the face of Mr. Clemens state
ment" itself, that never did state to him that
| heiwas authorized to announce to the public.
through the columns of the press or, otherwise,
that declined to allow the use of my name in
any way, iniconnection with theip pending Gdber-
material canvass in Virginia, or that Iwould de-
cline the nomination if rendered.
But the same conclusion isequally well estab-
Iict1 - .,
ling. His letter addressed to me there, and nv
reply to it were published in the Wheeling pa
pers on the very next day, not at my instance,
but by the special request Of Mr.. Clemens him
self. When sent him my reply, through the
hands of his friend, / had,no idea that would
ever see itsin print, for the reason that suppo.
sed it must be very unsatisfactory to him. /
dSclaimed, indeed, all imputation of his entering
INTO an intrigue against or acting treacherously
toward SINE, but declared explicitly that he was
not justified, in my Judgment, in deducing the
Inference heshad done from our conversation at
Grafton. Let 1T be remembered, that here again
he treats his conclusion Us mere inference,
viz: that I authorized him to say thatI declined
! the use of my name in any way, "thouel1sI did
noteeactiy say. sol IF Ibid not eractllfsay so,
on point on which exactness was of the last
Importance, Mr.. Clemens was not exactly war
ranted in affirming that had said So But again:
on the evening of the day on which he received
my reply, Mr.. Clemens called at my room, and
found me engaged inc conversation with several
friends, after brief participation in which, he
SAID he wished to have q private interview with
me. We retired together to the piazza attach
ed to my room at the "Sprigg House" What
passed between us then isiknown only to him
and myself He said that he had received my
reply; that he had left the whole matter to me,
and that he was satisfied with it, though he
would have been gratified if could have re.
T0aF 1f1nYaF FGS.
me in his Statement, - to wit: that authorized
him to state my position. 1t was then that l
remarked to him, that though I did not re1iem-
Der having used that language, twas quito
probable that he was correct in his recollection,
as wished my position known by all; that my
complaint was not that he had given. publicity
to my position, but that he had wholly mis-.
apprehended it. He admitted most unequivo:
cally that he had committed a great indiscre-
ton, but protested that he had acted from pure
motives, The earnestness of his protestations
was such as to inspire me with very apoig.
nant regret, that he had placed himself in
such q dilemma. He said that Tat leastlhad
no cause to. regret what had passed, for
that the publication of his letter in the En-
Qttiref, had elected many Aattering icompli
ments to me, which otherwise would not have
been uttered. He inquired if i had seen the
copy of the Fredericksburg Rec0rder which
ne had left for me, pronouncing a most glowing
eulogy upon me, 1.-THE text of the editor 81 dis
course being Mr. Clemens letter)? ] told him
that Mr.. Caldwell had handed it to me by his
request, and that had read it We concurred
as to the authorship of, the panegyric. He
also referred to a very complimentary notice Of
me IN the Richmond Dispatch, terminating
from the graceful pen of my friend Baldwin,
told him that I had read that, too, that those
things of course were gratifying to me, and
that It was not on my own account, but on his.
that regretted his indiscretion This regret
was as warmly expressed as it was sincerely
felt: He concluded by saying that he would
probably not see me again, as he would take
the cars in the morning for the East, aud that
he had called specially to say that our cores.
pondence would appear in the Intelligenee,.
and Times of the next morning. 1t did ap.
pear accordingly, but without comments, the
editors ayerring that they forbore allscomments
by special request We, parted that night witlis
out the Slightest feelings of unkindness on
either side, as verify believe; certainly With
out a trace of it on mine. have not seen AR
Clemens since By, publishing my letter under
these circumstances, and also forwarding it TO
the Enquirer with a note expressing the hope
that the editors had no wish to do him Injustice
and asking its publication us an act of isticeto
him, he fully endorsed it statement, and estopped
himself, upon every principle oflaw and reason,
from 81 wing or insinuating that had acted with
dupllcitY5 towards him.. II submit {ban ltJ,Sf