New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-26
SPEAKING OF GUNS.

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festly intended as chaf, importing that tne
Editor of this paper was honorary President
of a gun-making company which had q Gov
ernment contract, and was makiog large
profit out of said contract with which be
proposed TO "re.establish TIE TRIBUNE"
The Erprssss seeming earnestDess induced u'
TO treat this ridiculous story with gravity
which it did not intrin'ically deserve. We
stated explicitly that
/. The Editor of TIE TRIBUNE never heard
of any such gun factory or contract I'LL be
Lread the article in The Herald, and never was
interested in any gun or other contract WIN
the Government to the value Of ono farthiog,
aud there never was any decent preteIt for
pretending otherwise:
9. Neither had THE TRIBUNE association
anything to do with any gun factory or gun
contract, or any Government contract what
ever, nor has il ever sought or wished to
have.
GAnd we may add-since The Erpres' Of
yesterday seems TO require it, that no person
" no has any interest in THE TRIBUNE, or eny
voice in its conduct has any interest 10 any
gun factory or gun contract whatever.
Yet The E1prsss returns to the subject after
this fashion:
list. Mr. Greeley per lbus one Of the many editors
New Yorf Journal hss only emsnopats himseH hon me
Job He in the Ms,eson csas owns up 20 oeng
dupe and tool in order 70 be ifee E'E We ch'ise o.
! rogue"
! Ia the above true, or wanton, inexcusa0le
falsehood! Suppose "Mr. Greeley" had chosen
to be interested in a gun factory which was
making guns at fair and satisfactory prices Tor
the Government, how would that make him
" roguel' Since he never was interested In
any such factory, or any contract whatever
and never did anything to favor any one who
is or was 80 interested, how is he "dupe'
or "tooli" What can excuse such slly ma
hgnityf
The Express wants TO know what we have
TO say for Mes,rs. Snow and WihesOn. We
should want to know of what they are accused
before volunteering their defense. We are
we'll insured that neither Of them has par.
ticlc of interest in any gun factory or gun
contract, and that whatever they said or did
for Mr.. Almy's Company was done out of
kindness to him, in spirit Of comfy and
good will which the public can appreciate IT
The Eypres, cannot. II the Government want
cd the sunr, snd Mr.. As Company offered to
furnish good ones as cheaply as others did, VIC
do not care 10 pursue the matter.
Finally, The ErPre" says:
Nov mari We do not say h.t journals hsv. so Is much
right gneooiaet oobns 40 oihcI, have out 40
..y ,h.y that their n,emps'ste zeal 20 heep pro
ons and ssg,'se Ws may be seeoanted io' On other pa
eplss ,h.n ps!IO'i'fo, viz, . desire 10 sell san'"
Very well since you have made nothing
out of Guns, We accep. your ordeal Of Patriot
ism. THE TRIBUNE alone among Northern
journals, ayowed its willingness 20 LET the
Cotton States (when no other. had soceded)
40 in peace rather than have the country
plunged into this terrible War. The TRIBUNE
was openly and earnestly favorable to the call
of a Convention Of the Stetes 20 devise means
20 avert this War. But when the Slave
Power repelled this overture, insisted on steal.
ing and lighting, aud by bOmbarding few
starving men in Fort Sumter, rendered the
preservation of peace impossible, The
TRIBUNE accepted tho terrible necessity
forced upon the loyal States, and from that
hour has done its very utmost to secure q
triumph Of the National arms in the shortest
possible time. We believed, and sM believe,
that it wss mistake 10 wait until the Rebels
could crush out oil opposition to their
away in Western North Carolina, East
Tennessee, and other naturally loyal (be-
cause essentially non-slayeholding) regions
we believed that il wa, the true
policy Of tie Nation 10 conquer al
early peace BY massing One Hundred Thousand
men a. the earliest moment and rushing forth
with upon tho center OF the rebellion. From
tho very first cur " zeal has been eyincel in
efforts, not To "prolong," but to MAKE the
struggle on our part sharp, quick, decisive;
from the beginning, No have asked nothing but
that tho Rebels should DO compelled TO lay
down their arms md return 10 10y nlty and tie
fulfllment Of their constitutional obligations.
True, we have not favored buying oft the
traitors; We have not offered to abiure our
principles nor suppress our convictions Of the
essential unrighte0usneu and evil tendencies of
| Slavery 10 coax them back into tho Union.
We purpose TO think our own thoughts and ex-
press them after the Rebellion ia suppressed NJ
We did before it broke out; for, though We
never had any interest in making buying or
selling guns, We should much prefer selling
guns to selling our principles. II the Rebel
lion can only be- put down by compelling the
| loval IN proless what they do NOT bslieve and