Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-07
MORNING LEADER.
W WEDNESDAY, mORNING, DEC. ,, 1855
r t...Ir For the Leader
Mr.. CrtHwold and the New York Trl-
w buneSs CorrespOndent

r s..I.Ir For the Leader.
mr.. GriswOld and the New York TrI-
bune's Correspondent.
MFaRs. EDroRs-Three weeks ago would not have
supposed my private affairs and business transactions
could be Of sufficient importance attract the attention OF
epublic, any degree And ow,notwithstandng what
see am unwilling to believe the public are as much
Interested In the controversy the Tribune has pro-
yjked the Correspondent and Editors Of That paper
Imagine Still, the Editors of that sheet have come
to the AID Of their correspondent regarding hmas unable
10 defend himself and all the influence Whchit possesses
IS exerted to inure me II possible, feel called upon to
| say few parting words.
would gladly say what have to say In the tribune"
If that paper would extend to others the justice claims
for itself It would publish my letters There Is nothing
Of which It complains persistentyand 1t is
sTarng Of its complaints Of othershan Of other papers
for copying In fn Its articles which they review Or
critcse. But the first step Of its Charlestown
pondent was a wrong step and every one since having
been IN the direction, It IS perhaps too much
to expect its conductors with all their boastcd preen
sons Of fairness by publishing my letters aid max
ing that fact apparent to It's readers or course they
will not publish them, and you have Published what
has previously passed between me and the rribune,'
must trouble you to insert this In your paper
The Tribune CharestoWn correspondent Is very anx
ious TO Ignore that which constitutes the burden Of my
second letter which was In substance that he was not
proper person to make charges against another because
be was If TRUTH and that portion Of his pre-
tended Charestown correspondence was congeries Of
hlsehoos and an imposition upon the public, HelR,sses
over these charges very gngerly and exhasts himself
/ upon other matters to which VIII refer and then
! return again to this i'+
Mr. House, for that "a the name Of the correspondent
stimulates great Indignation at my mputation upon his
ir
been long withheld In my first letter in reply to his
first DID say could not imagine why he should single
me out for remark, Withholding every fact essential to
the formation of cOrect opinion upon the subject 10
which be referred, aud saying word Of my as soci
clate who to receive $1,000 because had not
purchased his favor did NOT say thatif had offered
him money he would "exposodp me- as he says
In his last letter That invention OF his own and
aspseunen Of the fairness with which lie quotes. | had
done nothing which feared to have exposed Wbat
complained Of was that he should write an article the
whole SPIRIT OF which iasc-because II would CON
yey, and was intended to convey false impression and
now complain because the explanation which Is per
ecy satisfactory, here far as KNOW did not appear
In the same paperas his article
L bid make the mputauon, as 1 have stated, Mr.
House and understood It. lie did not deny IT, but
sought to parry it. and did it bunglingly In my second
in which removed the mask which he supposed con
| cealed his identity and enabled him TO discharge his
poisoned arrows with mpunlty In referring to his very
singular course, said would ~gve him the evidence
have of the inercenary motives that control him. only
that would be obliged 70 mention the names Of those
who not in fault for his condpet and which have
right to use freely he does mine" My admission
was unfortunate, Before that he meek maid
en-. Now he Is bold and valiant aVmGISfA SOLD
IER, as described by himself and demands proof and all
that
Mr. House denies that he msquotedmy first letter and
says a cannot give single example" | can, In his
second he says of my first 'he wAndes TOO ncarto
fiction to remain uncontadcted. Hsassertion that The
other Counsel received expect to receive; from MIR
Brown, larger fees than he claimed, Is unwauancd"-
There is no such assertion IN my letter stated twice
In that letter that other Counsel expected TO be paid
from the money which was being raised by Browns
friends and which could otherwise go to the support of
his family and added that did NOT see why should
be censured and exception taken to other Counsel
Such was Mr. Browns own view of the matter and so
he stated letter written to Mr. Hoy which has been
published in Boston and Cleveland without any agency
mine and which, imagine, is the only letter written by
him, in prison. which has appeared IN print that the
"T'ribune" has not published. fN
That Is one example, could Instance others from
his second and third letters. .'I.H.IH y
Mr.. House also says in reply to my charge that his
Charestown letters unreliable, thrt "cannot In
stance point" say they are, but shall not trouble
myself TO obtain adavits 20 settle the question between
us. He only challenges me to "instance osE point" |
win try 10 accommodate him refer him to that n-
tensely interesting scene, In which Mr. Harding the Dis
trct Attorney, is going about with copy" Of the "lr
bune" containing Houses lotters n his hand utterlng
excavations" described In his letter Of November
and to the statement made In connection with that inn
porant fact That ale has way expressing profound
contempt by ejectng saliva aof and catching Il his
chin, which he practices with great success" l am
willing Mir House should say whether this statement IA
reliable or not. And anu willing the public should
Judge Of the elevated conceptions Of man who amid
Of deep and thrilling import moving tho heart o
the nation and reaching down to the very fountains o
feelings thus daily and rhe with suchpueritles
whether true or false ~
But pass from these matters to say few words upon
that which, have said Mr.. House desires to ignore
am not surprised that he should be angry that the
Editors of the tribune shonld to his relief
have exposed the fraud they were practising upon tho
public They wen claiming and receiving credit fol
their enterprise In keeping correspondent at Charles
town, and have exposed the imposition, am aware
there ID short Editorial in the rTribuner sEnhN0 Il
deny this charge, but itwas only seeming.
The essence Of my charge that large part Of the
Charlestown letters were not written ut Charestown
that they fancy sketches mixed up with facts and
information which are accessible 10 all wen The
Tribune Il Is iraeI further and said they
written in New York, knowing, did, that when Mr.
Iionse left Charestown he et SAYING he was going tC
New York 'and that he had not returned To Charestown
The Tribune" with the tact which belongs to the craft
5 groups several statements together thus
"IIe says thato Correspondentls Is notin Charestown
hut IN Xnrl nd hiatt latta /.
TiEN, said, but FHE LIaTERs meaning the wlolel-
"whloh have Justly excited such universal attention. ar,
. written here"
This congomerated statement Il says Is not true
may have ,becn miea by relying oa Houses statement
that he was going 10 New York, THAr Is MA,
but am not mistaken Ia say Ing he Rs. not for soyoia
days after that and at the time Of which | wrote n
Charlestown. This tho essential allegation Is de-
MED by Correspondent or Edltor,
= know the gTIbsine" adds ADag Correspondent Is al
y Charlestown" &c Whether by this Il is meant that
Mr. House had returned, and was then IN CharlestoNn
I whether "Our Correspondent may not with TRUTH and
u dOesno refer to other Of the three which Mr. House
i In consideration Of my ignorance" informs that Tho
@Ihbdhs" had at diferen, times at chaflestown dc
not know Probably the latter, for / think discover
different and an Improved style IN the Charestown Jet
ters during the last few days But this is matter
Is Of opinion, in which have not much confidence
Is Previous toyTtng this letter bad written two The
- Tribune has favored with Ave articles, Of different
y kinds The last with heading of its own copy Oi
T. your note appended TO Mr. Houses second letter. IA
which you make Mr. Hoyt say In reply to suggestion
| Ia IA