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CLEVELAND, O, Oct. 18th, 1850.
"Messrs. Editors Democrat and Chroni-
Gle, Rochester, N. Y.
GRNrs Ny attention has been at
ltracted by an extensive article and ed,
Iitorial In the issue OF the Union and
Advertiser Of October 18th. Aware OF
the uAtairness of Democratic sheets in
publishing TRADE against politics !
opponents and then refusing them the
means Of defense through their col
umns, prefer TO ignore taat channel
entirely, and ask through your col
umns al opportunity to explain my po-
sition and the exact truth in the case.
| went South in the interest of Mes
srs. II. Fl. Warner & Co., selling and
advertising their Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure aHd other remedies. To
cay that my impressions of the South
and Southern people were glowing, and
that anticipated similar treatment to
that I had always received at the
North wonid be but to exactly express
my feelings before l started. | had
bsen at the South but a short time,
however, when found the spirit ex-
actly the reverse of what I had ex-
pected. Let any man, Mr.. Editor, go
from the North to any part Of the South
and express Southern sentiments, aud
talk freely and he will be received with
open arms but should he be Repub-
lican at heart, and in the strength Of
his manhood honestly express his
convictions, not only will society ostra
else him and business men frown upon
him, bAt he may consider himself for
tunate II he escapes without outrage.
Such was my misfortune. Instead OF
adopting time e.serving policy, ! ex-
pressed my honest views, and ii nearly
cost me nay life.
1t is trae that wrote the article to a
nor tdern paper containing an account
Of southern injustice and inbumanity.
and il is also true that was beset and
mohbed for being the author of that
letter. My escape was 8 fortunate one,
and due wholly TO my desperation.
The statement made by the editor Of
the Florence Times, of South Carolina,
that l denied the authorship Of the
letter upon my bsnded knees, is a
malicious and wholly invented lie, and
on par with the southern spirit to
which have before referred.
In the article publishei IL the Union
1t is asserted that l did not receive
rough treatment, and that the south-
ern people uniformly treated travelling
men with respect. should like to
know who is best fttsd to know about
this--a man who is on the ground and
whose body to-day bears the scars
which he there received, or men who
are more that 1000 miles away, and
who have never Travelled through the
southi
am aware Of the bitter partisanship
and animosity which exists just at the
present time, and that even the slight
est things are magni6ed for political
purposes but, as an honest man and
one who feels his wrongs, solemnly
aver that while in the employ Of Mr.
II. Fl. Warner, travelling through the
south at two eapsrate and distinct times
| received brutal and unoalled-for cut
RACES, the only provocatisn being that
| was northern man and expressed
northern sentiments. Southern papers
and partisan sheets at the north may
dsnouncs and vilify me as they choose,
but such is the truth, and by this
an willing to abide. W. B. BELL.