New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-03
OFFicK Press AND TRIBUNE, I
~ ''D E s PRkss AND TRIBUNE.
MR.. HALEs REPLY.

RrcHMoxD HoUsE, CHICAGO, Oct. %, 1859.
CESrLEMES: Since received your note of this
morning, ! have seen a number of The ~ Y. Herald
10 which YOU refer and find in an editorial article
the following:
1.-THE main thing proved by this correspondence Is that for
the last year and half at least, the project OF the Harper
Ferry ouibreai was well known seward Sumner Hale and
other. and that they in their intense -eh.hne and to
pen and bear the disastrous fruit that has borne They
not the crazy fanatic John bIowse the real e9prs and
to grace the ealows."
In the same paper, l find in large letters the
folowing
Black Republicans, implicated in Old Browns plot"
And again, in the same paper under The head, Most
Important Discoveries, in large letters, the foowng
Further documentary testimony involving Seward sumner
Hale Lawrence Chsse Fletcher end Other prominent APO
hfionist friends his interview with Seward Summer and Hse
Again, in another article in the same paper, which
appears as editorial, understand it, appears the
following relating TO Col Forbes:
Again he had interviews with ard Hale aso in
WahnsOni and in fact appears that all the leading epsb
heaa' and Aeolon the country wsre fully c9sn,aat Of The
with him, they did not denounee HIM to the sahones
have not read the paper through and do not know
but the thing is repeated many times more i'll the
same paper, but have quoted enough to answer my
purpose. The foregoing extracts charge in equivo
cal language that Seward Sumner, myself, and Others
knew all about Browns projected outbreak at Harpers
Ferry, encouraged H. implicated IN il, that this is
proved by documentary testimony, and that we deserve
afeon's fate on the gallows.
shall not undertake the task of indicating either
nf the gentlemen named IN connection With myself
from any charges which may be brought against them
collectively or individually by newspaper any
Other mode but leave that to their own hands, not
doubling their entire ability TO do far ably and
satisfactorily than could So far relates to my
self can only reply by DENYING every word and syl
liable aud pronouncIng the whole, from beginning 10
end i, general and in detail false, and challenging
The world for particle OF testimony written or
verbal sustaining of the charges thus recklessly
brought against me, for single circumstance oaleu-
hated east suspicion upon me IN an unprejudleed
mind
fad any knowledge or intmaon from sny
one that an nsurrecton outbreak anything of the
sort was contemplated by John Brown or any one
else in Virginia elsewhere nor had the remOteSt
suspicion of thu fact aud when the knowledge OF the
late occurrences in Virginia were hrst made public
through the newspapers OF the and am sure that to
no human being We're they more unexpected and sur
prisng than they were myself, on heard BY
with more regret. . do not know row 10 make this
denial more broadly than have; but when the jam
decd eye of some polt opponent 10 the Free States
who rs now exung ant reJoiSnS over ms s'd history
IN the hope that il NAV lie made Of scIEc account poll
ealy by which the Democratic party NAY reap some
benehi, and the Republican party injured shall have
pointed out some possible omission, behind which l
may De supposed 10 have sheltered mrsot. VIII he
leady 10 meet that But will 90 further. and say,
hat II there be any such evidence against me "a is
harged let Il be laid before the Grand Jury ef Mary
land or Virginia and LET them find a bill sssrs me for
any violation OF the laws of either Of those States and
pledge myself 10 20 any day into any STATE OF the
Union and meet the charge, IN person. b, fore any Judi
eial tribunal.
I'M, Won ask me 10 state my connection with and
knowledge of the author of these letters and the in
surrection, now happily al an end The LATER part