Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-24

| will publish this, without alteration.
Some two weeks since my. professional serVl,
ces were requested in behalf Of 4 man confined
ON grave charge The papers had treated
his case as one of admitted guilt, and request
ed your reporter to publish no more about 1t.
He replied that he would publish what he
pleased and Il few days after appeared i piece
stating that the prisoner counsel would Apply
to Judge Lowe for bail, and that application to
the magistrates was not made because they
cannot take bail in such cases, except where
there is slight suspicion Of guilt. replied
to this in NY associates name and my own,
and this led to your local article oil the same
day, to my reply in the Sentinel, and to your
piece of Tuesday, signed ''rhe Reporter.
have stated this because do not intend
that YOU shall avoid responsibility for the last,
by separating the reporter from his Office, and
printing his piece is an advertisements. You
arc liable for your agents and partner acts
His first two articles were published us the pa,
pcr's sentiments, not his The last Is allowed
without cause, and printed without comment
to show that you do not endorse 1t. 1t Is the
Gazette piece, and 50 recognized ~ tie press:
as have proof to show. But you should not
have published such i piece, even Tor man
mcounectei with the paper. therefore COW
slider that in printing It you have violated inc
privilege Of the press, transcribed the bounds
Of propriety, and sullicd the fair name for tenn
ncrlucc and dccency of discussion, which had
always thought WIS your boast and pride.
Now as to the merits of the issue. That
nv articles were written with some feeling, |
admit, but | defy you to show, in either OF
them. departure from the subject, TO indulge
in irrelevant allllsionS, or gratutUus insult. In
the first ask that our declining to develop
our defence, may not be construed into IN
admission Of guilt. beg YOU to be silent
till YOU hear it. | say hat you ale ',uslllly
cautious and correct, but are in error there
1t is evident of what J. complain. | think |
had right us counsel, to make the request;
and TO have il treated at least with clvllIty, AMI
am no more to be charged with dong fh"" Tor
the purpose Of seeing my ''ctfuslonS5 III print.
than with lischargiug any other duty to my
client with the same purpose. reporters are
often mislcd and misinIormcd, and yours is not
infabc as his rlce--rcports have shown. \
few words of diSpassonate explanation, pub
lshcd wM my card, would have settled the
matter. But you repeated the charge, denying
nv statement, and clinching it, as you claimed,
by Il ''legiimatc deduction. our deduction
!: as false in logic rs in fact. 1t is true that
thc Market House is burned. and equally so
that did not 20 TO Europe to-day, but the
ca1lsc Of my not going TO Europe, Was not the
burning Of the Market House. So, however.
true it is that magistrates cannot bail IN certain
cases that was not our reason Tor not asking
bail. And if you had searched the Code
further. You would have found that 1t Is not
the '.pcrsouncT' Of witnesses, nor yet what
they san they will swear to, but what they It"
swear to, that the law regards.
| cyposcd the fallacy Of your reasoning IN Il
piece which, knowing you would not ,publlSl Il
unmutilatcd, if at all, [ gave to the Standard
and Sentinel Still nothing iorc IN to the
issue, nothing personal, nothing Which could
mortifv YOUR family or friends. nothing against
any Individual, but only 'thc .lhrandrm (i"-
-cfte.' And if my piece, written under pro
vacation. was too HARSH none know better than
Yourself that I would have made the proper
aDlcudc therefor on proper representation.
The reply of Tuesday followed. and that now
answer =, :.
We're Your paper read only in Alexandria |
should rot think this necessary But; by
YOUR impartial and lalr-spokcn style you have
acquired large circulation abroad And that
YOU should have made your first departure
from that style in behalf OF one otyour own
editorial family, against me, requires from
me some defence.
I pass by the imagined wit of the vain rcle.
titions' of nv name Ofmy private affairs
assert that your reporter had no more right to
sneak. as he did. than would have to publish
your own Bank account, Or the dishes upon
your table. 1t Is simply none OF your business
if 7 .:miclutc TO Jericho every day 1t Is
true that taking interest i'll the advancement ni
If this city. | have engaged in those move
; ments which thought would promote it. |
own twenty shares in tho insurance Company
which [ took to assist in its organization, be-
licying it would benefit the community. | have Il
reht 10 attend its meetings, and vote there.
I own ten in a Building Association, taken for
the purpose of assisting me- in providing Il
home here
; have Joined L Military Company i'll order
to aid it, formation. | have ''Po'fnt the
: meetings of some of these, ut the special re-
quest of the Gazette, buI that have ever
made speech in one "t' them l. Il mistake.
And that joined them, Or any other company,
far the purpose Of making speeches or writing
is an absllrdity -
{ Arain. have assisted to form Il Fire Com
pany which has added to the security and i'll
tcreSt Of the city, and originated the most
credlahlr public proecS>lnn she lIa> Srcn :lncc
the war. Taking an interest III politics ih'r'
ATTENDED, meetings, and shall continue t" 10
50. notwithstanding that Il paper, which. Though
protesting to be of my partly, will not publish
ANYTHING disrc<prcinl to radical tyr;lntS, thinks
it all right to rdculc me for The interest ! take
in public affairs. The ''Markct llouS. meet
inc attended. against my inclination, ut the
special request OF Mr. i. Smowlcn. .ir, to do
; 50, and to sIn,k on his rl~In'ic"' Ofthr deli
cacy of Tuesday reference to il, all can judge.
NV tondneSs for writing admit. That the
; Gazette is in some measure responsible Tor any
J vanity may have on this score, will appear
: when state that was for several years It's
correspondent; that, during that tInc rs cry
! was always ''morc' that it has published
picces Of mine not written for publications with
Hatteripe comments, and that have often been
solicited to contribute to its columns. But one
week before the article Of Tuesday, | did so
contribute, upon the publishers request, who
came to my office for the purpose. The deli
cacy of these illusions. and my own desire to
avoid reply to them will be still further ilh,Str'-
ted when state, that on yesterday wrote to