National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-13
RARDENs LIFE OF CHASE.
ABOUT TROUGH REVELATIONS AND
SOME OTHER MATTERS.

ABOUF "HOU9H hEVELATIONSn AMI
SOME OTHER MATTERS.
70 the Editor OF the National Rspu6Hcan:
SIR: Some one took the trouble to send me
through the mail, two uncommonIy offensive
emissions Of that very active Nuisance Halstead's
organ. One OF them contained an emlnentIy Hal
steadian editorial, abusing my biography o.
Chase. and the same issue contained also an ex
tract from paper you have lately taken coca
sion TO characterize without laudation. refel
TO the New York World. That journal, It an
pers, ''felt tor write about my humbieness .,
follows:
'sWe scarcely know how to classify Mr. War.
den.. There be Bohemizns that write books al
Men as editorials. There are IshmaelItss Of high
our day English 1,hmaelites Zone very eminent
occurs to US on the moment) and New York Ish
maelite;, but never: till now, Western frontier
For my part, have no difficulty about classify.
ing the graceless scribbler who threw OF those
periods. classify him with the literary rufian
abroad. classify him with the writer's who
have no concern about the truth, no interest In
justice, not q spark Of sslfrespect. The mlssra-
"Bohemians that write books" and insuitod the
peopls OF Ohio. rs well the writer Of this arti-
Gle, BY charscterirng me as "a Western frontier,
prairie lshmaelfte, might be much more o knave
were he considerably les. an ass. But asinIne he
must be, as we'll as knavish. No man OF sense
would have 50 sppealed to sectional pretenslon,
sectional aversion. ACertainly, no man OF sense
would have ascribed to the fact Of my residence
In Ohio any real or apparent roughness 10 my
manners or want Of delicacy in my taste and SEN
The Ibeler IN question falsely said, in this same
article, that have special spltes, and no doubt
my .'an;agonism to Judge Chase's Surviving
children" Now, the book with reference TO
which that falsehood was so reoklessly thrown
such spItes, and, above all. no such antagonism
toward tho ladies whom the World affects to
champion. Yet, speaking Of the same alleged
snt4gpn,%, ths s, same sc S viisiy adds
cation, but he never seems TO remember that the
objects of his spleen arc women, and gentle.
women; not children of the same mother, but
bound together by the kinship Of common
father, whose very weaknesses they had right
to wish to protect from Mr.. Wsrdsn's rough
The ALTERATION in the fnal member Of this In
famous sentence cannot shield II from Just eriti-
eism 1t may have tempted the pretended critic into
however that may be, whoever having read my
biography OF Chase. says of IL that Il contains
trough revelations is, and ieel bound to call
ever says have not, OF all times, hitherto, deli
cately and even tenderly regarded all that should
have been regarded toward the surviving children
Internationally expresses an untruth.
1t was not on account Of any real or pretended
trough revelations" that the eldest daughter Of
the man who made me, in effect, his literary
executor saw 1T to try to drive me in disgrace
from the performance OF my trust Just mentioned.
do not intend to tell just now the story OF that
unsuccessful attempt or Of Its consequences. That
story must come outere long, In q court OF justice
But must not fail at once TO stamp the libel OF
the World as that miserable piece Of defamation
merits.
ALI ask is that my book be fairly read No
doubt, its many imperfectlons will thereupon ap-
pear to the attentive and fair-minded reader, but
no such reader will md in it the alleged rough
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10, 1874