New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-20
before the Congressional Committee raised 10
investigate John Browns doings IN virginia
Hsra ia this nrecious Governors test mony:

investigate John Browns oOlhgS iu '"6''"
Here is this precious Governors mohy;
"Gov Robinson Of Ksn'ss testified to the er.c' th IN
J;fs,s which he expeced would extend. nuti the coun
try generally should bee me inyovee. emu aa1''' o'
9Th. only other person who svoS ed to the witnea mi
lar object was James Redah Ihk A. L. inhGNk core
epondsn After he bed ell boPe oil acc2n Phhog ~ 90
81 10 reed TO witncss the designs of hmsef aud some
Others who operating "h hun re tad on, Few wee
in their secret though were operating WIN tem Inc
reason Of his opposition to taxing poes'n OF TIE Territorial
ard Lesompon Stste Government the box was be-
cause he EAU in snch pocy an ed 70 vac any
ccn.,ouetlv TO hs hopes Of revaluon Hence he. and
tho.s sm who were Chiefly reporters OF the press four
of them TRIBUNE -pondeutsl made wal upon Gil
VINO likely TO aid IN securing quiet IN dT DESTROY
acted the principle that the end Justified the meeu' aud
thew HasITATED RALsEHOoD or LIBEL AGAINST ANY
Man THYis WAY provided promised to FUR
This he aid accounted for the ISLANDERS of the Reporters
WHO in tae scheme ssaust those who opposed them
Wnes knew Of but att 70 set on foot revo.uGr
This led by Col Lane who Mr. Redath said was under
astsong pledge to act as n eaas' ~ neh'Irs Soon ss
the crestion Of the Military Board witness eeard Gen hSn
that no had sisoa orders TO the BncidiofOeueas 10
strl at several points in the Territory with ayiew as ne
under- TODD effect general slaughter Of PfosisveIy
his orders O5cyed If gwen Some nie S
troops ~ that Vicinity az tbs time ana ML & White
tone Of his officers n said that L"ns veil tBe
feather sod backed down Witness supposed. u e Of
ye5ssiou with Redrath that tis was az INSANE oaceyied
Lanes alone bot he now UNDERSTANDS 'NS' !" va"
plan Of tAe he outiouisis ,,.-..., pbuIins and
"TRR Y. TRIBUNE ea' n'ed pg 'He n ,v caimsd tLa,
Redpsh. well as many obe raie ,s correspo d
by means OF the piss winch they hau s'.e !, ~ on
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a. ys,co tst R.sIl tsnioo aud "a were also core
spsrdents and that all CT ihe' including heoPSh' ae
SO far "Gov. Robinson" Now hear The
Times
.qhere That will do 70, 1t IL enly necessary to
Add ths, these consprator,-HRton, kss Redpaih and
en6iher-were tho corrcp Hdcqfs 81 IHE I; IkIBVNh.
nan who stood h thcr way Aud for purposes infamous
bloody revolutionary they se~Ped it through Ins IRiB'
JAR. which employed then.'
Now hear THE TRIBUNE:
None of the persons named ADORE by The
Times had been correspondent Of THE TRIB-
UNE for gears prior to 1860. Hinton never
was. Nor was Realf. Kagi may have written
us a few letters in 1888, as Redpath probably
did in that or the preceding year, but the
regular. authorized, well-hnOwn correspondent
of THE TRIBUNE in Kansas from the outbreak
of the troubles there to the end was VIM. A.
PHILLIPS, now q Colonel of Union Volunteers,
and as true and honest Il man q, lives. He
never wrote one word that he did not believe
true, and never spoke evil of any man that that
man did not, in his Judgment, fully deserve.
There are FIVE thousand people who know him
and "Gov. Robinson" and not five OF
them oil would believe anything that the latter
might say to Col. Phihps's prejudice.
The Interpolation above" four of them were
TRIBUNE espondents1'-s. we presume,
The Times's, not Gov. RobinsOn's;" so that
there is one fasebood the less to be carried to
the Governors account. But he only pretends
that James Redpath told him this yarn, long
after said Redpath bad ceased to write for THr
TRIBUNE. We are confident Redpath never
told bun a word of this, or that whatever he
did say is grossly perverted above. Only let il
be understood that Gov. Robinson is The
1meS'S sole authority-that he processes to re-
late the substance OF a private conversation be
had years before with single individual who
had long previously ceased to have any rela-
tions with THE TRIBUNE, and you have the
entire basis of The TimeSs calumny.
The substance Of Col. Phllips's letters to
Tue TRIBUNE during the dark days of Kansas
were embodied by him in a volume, The
Conquest Of Kansas" which defes the severest
criticism. Probably nine-tenths of all the let.
ters from Kansas We ever published were from
his pen. Ho held no Office till he volunteered
in the War for the Union, and, though he early
incurred the hatred of Charles Robinson, we
defy even that unpriDcipled adventurer TO say
one word directly and squarely impeaching his
good name.
We have printed The Times's testimony.
Viii It lot its readers see our answer
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