New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-26
VARIOUS TOPICS

ANSWER NOT A FOOL ACCORDING TO Ills FOLLY.
TO the Bdttor Of The Tribune.
SIR: have been reader of THE TRIBUNE
since it was frat started. good many other people
have been readers OF THE TRIBUNE 1862 and know
what its course been ask you to print editorial
which appears In The EUening Post OF date with
this called "A Distinction aud a Difference" 1 hope
you will make no comments on it, as that would
be to insult the intelligence Of your readers.
/ would like them TO see just what a
socalled respectable paper print and ndorse for
vile purpose That Horace Greeley or Tue IRIBUNE *
ever either by word or in spirit SAID 10 the SOUTH WIN
banched face and trembling knees and clasped hands,
"SDare us; you are right ana we ar9 "IO.g' 20 ~ III
peace you with your &c. &c., Is deliberate lle You
have but let your readers what be says to convict
The Epening OF deliberately fasfyng the record for
its own corrupt purposes Please iet your re deTs see
WHO BELIEVES GREELEY WILL BE ELECTED
NeD- York, Oct. II, 1872
he following is the portion Of the article in The Post
to which correspondent particularly refers. Ed:
There was another class Of politicians at the North
no, there not class. but there was one prominent
politician and influential editor, who Tor years before
had done all that he could do to resist what lie aud his
party believed to be the dangerous aggress0ns ana IN
nOvatiOn, of the slave power His party believed that
the south was utterly 10 tne WTong u II ~ nau coie
10 that that the issue between Freedom ana slavery was
be tried by the sword, they cried 80 be IT, ana Goa
help therghtl They brooked neither threats nor vo-
lence hey needed no conversion; tney simply were
loyal AMI true to the logical results Of their principles
and Their lives. But there one man who was not
true who, at the first threat OF violence from
the Souh cried out with banched face aud trembling
knees md Cla5ped hands: spare us you are rgnt ana
We are wrong CO. on go IN peace you Wthy0uf bonds
men ani bOndswOmen, take whatever you please, the
forts ne arsenas, the mints the subtreasuries, the
territOrI-a, everything that you claim aud Ihat you
want tike IL all and go-Only don't hit usl This was
the way this man began and as leading Rebels nave
them. gave them the assurance OF the pusilanimity
those trembling tones Of the great Republican leader
Their friends they knew but here was one whom here
tofoe hey had reckoned on as among re ohefest OF
mercy This man was Horace Greeley.
THE ARKANSAS OFFICIALS REMOVED By GRANT.
TO the EdftOr or Fhs Tribune.
SIR; | have noticed in, think, several ar
tIces your paper and in the report Of Mr. Greeley Is
Cory peech, Catterson given the Of the u 8.
for Arkansas who was removed by the
Presdt because Of his efforts TO the punishment
Of that political desperado Powell Clayton look upon
the removal OF that officer at such Time and in the
mannerand for the reasons for which it made, as
ono of the most disgracefu and corrupt acts Of the
present Administration. Like many others. although
cOnfessng to faults In him and those around him. had
decdedto vote again Tor Grant But that aet ana the
10y OF me- aud know or Others that turned But
OF that incOrruptble District Attorney or have been
msinf0med have heard tho whole story from an
Arkansas manhave heard OF the Inducements that
held oui TO the District Attorney 10 abandon the prose-
cuton CaytOn-O his refusal TO do and subsequent
do and undone certain things his successor would
not be Confirmed and he reappOnted; and that like
honest nan no Indignantly refused 10 become the tool OF
the Washington Ri"g His name, was told, is VIM. q.
Whpple III am rightly Informed, perhaps you Will
feel due honest man, when again have occasion
the name OF the ex-DlsfctA ttorney, 70 uso
the right name. suppose The Hew York Times would
call man like him "Sorehead." G.J.O
Boston Oct Is, 1874
lThe Of which our correspondent speaks arose
from confounding the OF the DistrictAttorney
and the Marshal Both removed by the President
al the same time and for the reason namely that
I'm the performance Of their official duties they were
about 10 bring Clayton to trial in the u g. Court for
sigatng and conniving at election frauds. Mr. Whip
pie was the Attorney, and Mr.. Catterson tho
Marshal.-Bd.l
WHOM DID GEN. DIX "sHooT ON TIE sPOTi"
20 the Editor OF The Tribune
SIR: Please inform me who the man was
that Gen Dix shot tho spot for hauling down the
American flag; also where the spot was There Is a
dispute about it In town. My neighbor says that
there we're OF the misereants about haul down
our starry banner when Dix rushed In, sngle-handed
with revolver in each fist and bowe-knife between
his teeth and remorselessly slew the three Rebels Is
that 40 Another version of tho memorable affair gives
Il as having occurred the Marshall House. Alexandria
Virginia. and that but fell beneath the bullet OF
the intrepid and valiant General. Which Is the true
storyt should add that another chap boldly asserts
that the venerable old General shot anybody in
his whole life; and that the occasion In question he
merely wrote from his padded armchair In the War
Office In Washington, and at the dotatiOn Of other
wise iustriOus man OF very different caiber from
Gen Dix, % other fellow In New-Oreans
that, n anybody hauled down the American flag
body on the spot OF such statement Is absurd
aud Ia clearly result endeaVOr detrtot fDm
the weoarncd laures OF the old battlesearred hero
But what you e1peeti Tue fellow who made II