The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-21
Personal Rows Among the Politi.
clans.

The following correspondence between
Prince JOHN VAN buren,, and the noto-
rious Count GuRowsK5 appears in the
New York Herald of the 9th inst:
To the Editor of the Herald
l have just received by mail the enclosed
communication which l ask you to publish for
the benefit Of all concerned.
l do not regard this rs private letter. as the
writer announces his purpose to publish it at
the expiration of ten days, and 1 suppose that
/ have right to do so now
Truly yours, J.. VAN BUREN,.
New York, Nov. 5, 1862.
COUNT GUEowsKI TO MR. VAN BuREN.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9TH, 1921
252 G Street.
SIR: In your speech at Rochester you spoke
Of Gen. j. WadswOrth in way which brands
you as the meanest among the mean.
1t would be showing you too much honor to
spit in your face.
However will SO far soil my hands and tell
you that | am re IDLY to meet you wherever YOU
wish and in any way you may choose
Ii this is not answered within ten days it will
be published. A. GUROWSKI.
Hon. John VAN buren,, etc. etc. ETC.
William A. Fitzhugh Esq'r will receive any
further communications from you for me- G.
In the Herald of the 9TH we find the
following note from Major General Cas-
sIUs MARCUS CLAY, to Mr.. d. G. BIED-
SAIL:
New YORK, Nov 5. 1862,
SIR-During the late political canvass in this
State you were reported in newspapers as hay
ing made a slaEderOus and false attack upon
me, which my political duties did not allow me
to notice ut the time. The excitement being
now over, ask you as a gentlemen to retiact
the offensive language referred TO- or name
convenient place for he to meet you. refer
you to my friend, Hon. Isaac Dayton, 247
Broadway, for particulars.
Yours, truly, c. NJ CLAY
ID. G. BIRDsALL, Esq.
Mr.. BIRDsALL answers the above gentle
invitation in o long letter, rehearsing the
language to which Mr.. CLAY took excep-
tons, and concludes as follows:
l desire now to turn him over to discerning.
noble and liberty-lOving community, with
simple statement OF the reasons why l do not
meet him, VIZ:
1. am law-abiding citizen. Having never
knowingly broken law, I cannot now consent
to place myself beyond its protection by meet
ing HIM III deadly encounter, premeditatedly,
when the laws Of my own State declare such an
act to be u felony.
=. My business is such that cannot aft ord to
waste more time upon him now, it having been
sadly neglected Of late by reason of my time
having been SO much employed by the efforts l
have beea making to redeem my State from the
arbitrary sway of men holding the same fanati-
cal opinions that Mr. Clay does.
3. That should be guilty of base ingratitlde
should | meet and Kill him after the great ser
vice lie has done my party in opening the eyes
Of the people 10 the true intentions of his po-
litical associates
In conclusion, I will simply say that when
MIR. Clay has done his whole duty as a Major
General, in speedily closing this bloody, and [
think, unnecessary war. so that l can again
visit his native State and he still feels aggrioved
at What have said respecting him, l will meet
him in any honorable manner he may suggest,
according to law, and give him full and entire
satisfaction.
Yours truly. d. G. BIRDSALL