The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-17

10 1hk EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In your issue Of the 18th Inst notice article reflect
Ing upon myself - the representative Of Southern press
You say that your article based upon information re-
ceived from the Evening Post Is well known that the
Post is An abolition ncsndiary sewer through which the
refuse dregs Of the Tribune ONCE are changed from prose
into poetry And In another respect not unlike It's great
prototype by no incapable Of any act OF nfamy,
calumnand deracton. We repel the foul, slanderous
and lying asAuatons Journal Of any that
intraascs that the publication Of the Waite
and Block Lit has been controlled by other than high
toned and honorable conduct
AS an editor Of Southern journal protesting TO repre-
sent and uphold the institutions OF that section we
deemed IT duty ,aswe as privilege, to inform the
chants OF and people generally Of the South who
their friends and who were their enemies We regard
those our enemies who have, by their votes and conr
buttons, been Instrumental in attempting 10 destroy the
institution Of African slavery TO incite nsurrecon, and
VINO nave aadea ~ ORGANIZING band OF bandits TO
murder wompn and children, and to lay desolate our
homes and 1reedes.
The traorous combinations that have been guilty OF
there dark despicabe and damnabe deeds s that pol
luted organization known the black republican party
but more properly speaking, unprucpied gang Of rob-
bers, murderere, thieves, fanatics and incendarioe
No political organisation that ever existed has for its OBJ
ects Infamous that OF the black republican
party Cognizant Of these facts, it duty as
well as the duty Of other journalists at the South to
our merchants and adesmen from encouraging or aiding
in any way mercantile establishments, in New York or
ner % a To- Or a. n any man
Greeley Whether IL was duty not we have done it,
and intend to follow II up, until the catalogue is
hausted
We 10 New York to investigate for ourselves and TO
publish to the South those firms whoare growing rchom
southern rade and who appropriate the profits exored
IN many instances from Southern merchants to bull up
the black republican party which has for its object the
destruction Of slavery and the subugaton Of the South
The people Of the South demand TO know who these
are, and shall every exerton to inform them
We are In New York for that purpose, and we do not
intend to leave the city until the principal staple rms
trade presented in their true c0l0rs. Where firm
or part Of IT, has voted been connected with the
black republican party, in any manner whatsoever,
intend to publish the act and on the other hand where
firm has fully sustained the constitution aud the rights
OF the South we intend TO give them the full benefit OF the
fact, whether they be Northern Southern men,
AS for the charges OF the Tribune the Post Sun and
other infamous sheets whose only object is to levy blac
mail" in the publication OF the "White and black list
hurl back the foul calumny upon the cowardly and
incendiaIy source from which II emanates. We have
called upon no concern in this city except when specially
scrpon advertisement since arriving here nor have
we received one cent compensaton-nor has there been
promise OF directly or indirectly
from any source whatever. What we have done has
been at expense, without reward the promise
Of reward from any living person. We defy the Tribune,
the Post the Sun or any gentleman, either In New York
or elsewhere to produce the first particle Of evidence that
have offered to bargain to any back mall, or re-
The natter sny eeniemas IN NeW y opR' can
convict us Of an effort to black mail we say
publish to the world We say farther, that grant
and all letters they have, get, written by them
their friends upon the subject Of the "whte Black
list We We dey any firm or party in this city or any
We challenge the c0wardy scoundrels who seek to as.
perez our character through the loathsome columns
the tribune the dirty Media Of the East or through the
cheap channel ofthe Sun, to an investigation We say
sccldrels lars ROBBERS towards and poltroons you
are whoever you may be, that charges US with "back
mail mako the proof conceal your sSulkng faces
The editor Of the Tribune 90 degraded that he IN