Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-04-29
Miss Anna E. Dickinson and the
Editor Of the Commercial.

Ev
Editor Of the Commercial.
The letter of Miss Dickinson which we publish
ed at her request as act of justice, seems to
have thrown the editor Of the Commercial into
the most terrible rage imaginable. Not satisfied
with replying through the columns of his own pa
per, he hastens to the Ece,y Erenig with an ar
tcle i'll order that he may draw that sheet to ms
assistance and thus if possible. prejudice its rea'-
also against the lady whose kindness he had
abused. And we were not little astonished to see
how readily its columns were opened to aid the ac-
cuser of one whom its editors had often lauded -
Why should this paper Join in the fray, with such
a slurrlng term as the Princess of Radicalism Z
Her only offence having been her opposition to
the nomination OF Grant. and the assertion of the
fact that the tall OF the Confederacy was not tire
work OF any one General OF the army. Both replies
OF the editor oil the Commercial! to the letter OF
Miss Dickinson abound in perversions, misstate-
ments and downright iasehoods. This looseness
of remark, occasiohed. no doubt, by great mental
exciement,ls not confined to the lady in question,
or what she has published; but the GAzKTTE
which gave terrible offense, it seems, because 1t
afforded her space in which to reply to the gratuit
and false statements of the Commercial, is
mali.ned and abused without stint. He sets out
by calling it a democratic newspaper" but as he
proceeds mis- blood soon warns up to fever heat,
and he describes the GAZETTE "as paper" which
Justified slavery, encouraged secession, assailed
Abraham Lincoln, chucked over Bull Run.
groaned over Appomattox and joined consistently,
for many years IN the chorus against those whom
it named nggers"
Was ever SO many falsehoods III a single sem
tence. Why, our friends know how the GAZETTE
battled against secession, and how willing it was TO
adopt any honorable compromise to prevent SO
calamitous result; they know how We mourned
over the terrible consequences of Bull Run, and
lamented the unfortunate dead whose young life
blood was uselessy poured out to secure an ZAP
pomatox, when results far more satisfactory to
the great mass OF the people might have been at
tanned without such bloody massacres of American
citizens; and as to the word 'nigger," it new
er seen editorial columns.
All these false charges having been made
against the GAZETTE, the editor of the Com
me,ciai proceeds to denounce, misrepresent
and abuse his former friend, Miss Dickinson,
III manner most rude and unbecoming a
gentleman. So far from stating the truth,
and the whole truth, the article is dlsgustingly
false, vindictive and malicious, bearing the most
certa IN evidence of the terrible rage and morti-
cation which its writer had permitted to overcome
him-.he consequence Of his own presumption and
folly.
1t is not necessary for us to take up the cause
of Miss Dickinson. She is, infer, fully COM
petent to defend herself against the little buger OF
the Commercial But we will say that so much
tempt to parry the well-applied lash we have ever
witnessed. In his former article headed "a
Friendly Query Answered." the editor Of the
Commercial did convey the impression that Miss
Dickinson had sought an gagement from him to
deliver a lecture IN Wilmington; he did succeed
III creating the Impression that he had refused her
suggestion to deliver a lecture here BY quoting
from confidential business note of that lady.
All this she fully sets forth in her letter; and so
far from It being a preposterous outburst OF We
hemence and inaccuracy' by his "infamed friend
who has given full vent TO her temper "four-
.tths OF which rs either erroneous, extraneous
OF lmpertineht," the letter appears to be, and we
heI'eve Is plain, careful and dispassona.e state
ment vi facts.
But the most curious statement about the reply
is that Ii charges that the letter contains some
'hse or SIX essential misstatements,' which it
says W. shall leave for the present lat least uncor-
rected, and then fails To correct any OF M ISIS
Dckinson's charges.