The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-11-28

The RECENT TRAGEDY.-We give place
to the following letter from Mr.. E. A. Pol
lard to the New York Tribune. Much O.
it is but repetition of the expressions con
tanned in that written by him and published
in this city. 1t, however, throws some ligh
upon the relations Of the individual styled
the " disreputable reporter to the late Mr.
Pollard, and as it would not be proper Il
mutilate it, we give the whole letter.
To the Editor of the Tribune:
Sir,-As to the brutal kilograms an
nouncing "joy" in Richmond at the deatl
of my brother by one Of the most cowardlJ
assassinations ever known in the darkes
land on earth, the editors, | think, nigh
have perceived that they came from enc
mics of my brother, and they might have
foreborne display evidently gotten up il
the hideous interest of the assassin. The
telegraph was evidently working in the in
terest of the son of rich man in Rich
mond, and at the hands of an enemy of my
brother. AS to the brutal crowds who arr
said to have stood in the street ant
"cheered" CD murderer who he'd sho
his victim with buck-shot from o second
story ocindo,o, and from room in which HI
had locked himself, if these men were not
as may be reasonably imagined, partners il
the internal deed of cowardice. watching fol
it's consummation, for the sake of all thu
chivalry, courage, and humanity claimec
by southern people, surely such demon
stration might have been unnoticed. As t.
the assassin being unconfined, "uncon
cerned," allowed to remain in the oper
office of the Police Chief, "receiving the
congratulations of his friends "(D, thi:
display was only wanting to crown deed
that has not its match in infamy, in COW
ardice, in insult of justice, in fiendish tone
and accessory in oil the black annals o.
assassination. My brother had many enc
mics. His paper sometimes fell into astyle
of personalities that greatly deprecated
But it is due to his memory, due to the
claims of justice, to state that these articles
were scarcely ever written by him, and II
many cases, as | know, were interpolated
without his knowledge, surreptitiously in
troauced by disreputable reporter, whose
record is well known. My brother tool
compassion on this man when he was
in the most extreme and dilapidated condi-
ton he (the reporter) had been the re-
porter of the old Richmond Examiner, and
repeatedly had involved Mr.. Daniel and
this writer in painful and personal quar-
rels through disreputable articles he was
in the habit of smuggling into the paper
through morbid appetite on limiting dis
reputable gossip, g. depraved ambition in
gathering news of this sort-such as Is
often seen in low class of newspaper re-
porters. The assassin knew that the arti-
Gle referred to was not my brothers.. But
it appears las far as known) that he never
asked for an explanation that he never
sought the real author; that he secreted
himself-as the vilest assassin never before
took precautions for his miserable safety
and murdered, in the broad daylight, al
unsuspecting and perhaps wholly innocent
person, on the cold-blooded calculation that
he might adorn himself with the feet Of
having "killed man." and assumo the
appearance of taking vengeance, where
indeed, he had not had the Justice to inquire
for the real object of his wrath, the spirit
to challenge one word of explanation, OF
the courage to face, even distantly, his vic
tim. Surely, in oil the hidecus and crook
ed adventures of assassination, there is m
equal to the deed.
EDWARD A. POILArn,
Neap York, November 25, 1868.