Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-02-14


The Lecture Of Richard ReaIf, John Brewnt
Secretary Of state, at ChRpin's Hall thtl
EseninE
Mr.. BichaEd RsalE John Browns "sis Secretary
Of State" will deliver a lecture this evening
Ct chaPin's Hall subjeot-"POels and Poetry.
We received yesterday the following note from
Mr.. Realf, which explains itself After AlludinG
TO some business matters, be says:
CLEVELAND, Feb l9, 1860.
IL
have now word to say to yourself, not at ell
sEpOssulAtoTy Of your recent paragraph in regard
10 myself nor depreealOry Of future hostile Grill
eism; but jast to set yOu "a thinking a. to
whether You have correctly measured me-
On the day on which your article appeared,
aeut, through lsdy Of this city, S25 out Of my
own slender purse. TO an escaped Il. T. fugitive,
Ever now, while write, possess The secret Of the
whereabouts Of certain others who are commonly
supposed to be dead, but who are alive and well.
The net proceeds (if any, Of tO,mOrrOWs lecture
goes to them. Suppose you attend the Lecture,
and witness tha disposition Of the funds.
humbly conceive that have something other
10 do IN this world than 10 bs making protssta-
tions Of my love for humanity and therefore, Sir,
am content TO lot The tongue Of the world wag,
But there dos come time when loud pretenes
will not at ell avail I am glad Ofthst.
Your paragraphs! vas Aippaat- some what
saerisio1s in his sneer at my change ofreligiouH
creed" Would It not have been wise in him TO
have sought some certain knowledge in regard
thereto, befole be bad written 50 confidently p
Does he measure the souls ofoihers or their neces-
EitCsl Is has true way the only true way Of
creeping a little closer unto God
This note Is headed private" Bat you may use
Il IS you will have grown somewhat pelT reliaut
Of late, and do not vince beneath the scaipel.
Respectfully,
RIoRARD REALF.
Mr. Realf claims that We have treated him with
undue asperity. lie says that he wrote that letter
to the President Offering to testify, in order to get
himself out Of the clutches Of the mob that was
being formed to hang him in Austin. Texas. He
surrendered himself to the u S. District Judge
in that locality, and thus had bis protection. He
knew all the time that be was doing this, that he
could not testify TO anything that would implieais
any one 10 the Harpers Ferry raid. excepting the
actors in that affair Hence he felt justiaed in re-
sorting to the russ he did to get away from Texas
at Uncle Sans expense, By SO doing he saved
himself from the fury Of remOrseless Southern
mob, and disappointed Mr. Fugitive Law Mason
BY giving testimony entirely exculpatlng the Re
publicap party from any completely in the Harpsrs
FerFywar. -
The following extract from the Washington
States and Union shows evidently the disappOint
nent the southerners at the result Of Mr Realrs
testimony before the Senate Committee
The jester Of q Scottish king, being upon
one occasion distant from the place where the
court was held aud unable to pay the eXpen-
ses Of travel, cunningly exposed TO view two
packages, labelled respectively "Poison for
the King" and HPOison for the Queen" He
was arrested, carried as q State prisoner to
the national capital, where he yindicated his
innocence by swallowing, in the presence Of
their Majesties the powders pretended to
have been prepared for their destruction.
In like manner Mr.. Richard Realf, Secre-
tary Of State under the provisional govern
ment Of John Brown, intimated his purpose
to testify his condemnation Of that infam-
Gus conspiracy, is escorted by a public
officer, and at the public charge, from Texas
to Washington, receiving, we presume, the
mileage and per diem Of q Witness
What may be the purpOrt Of his testi-
mony we do not of course, know, but if the
letter written by Mr.. Realf 10 the New York
Tribune, from which we annex extracts, furs
nishes specimen Of his true sentiments, we
think the clever adventursr has, in his own
language, barely ESCAPED being lynched as an
AbolitiOnist in the South"-been transported at
public expense to the HoTth--and has hastened,
ike his Scotch exemplars, to show that he
viii very readily eat any words which he may
have spoken against his Republican friends in
his anxiety to rejoin them.
Mr.. R. Is evidently man Of fine literary abil-
ity and has eetured in England as well In this
country. He cOntsmplatSs giving the greater pOr-
ton of the proceeds of his lectures for the relief
Of the survivors of the Hsrpers Ferry nfair,whO
are greatly in needy circumstance. He has sat-
isfed Us of the fact that be has already given
twenty-five dollars for the same purpose, through
lady Of our acquaintance, in this city.
o-o----. ~. 4.