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NXIIT
Washington, Thursday. March 90, SO.

Washington, Thursday, March 90, $50.
Dana: Thank you for your note OF yesterday.
now SEQ how my letters havO been maltToated and
can try 10 guard against future mischief That Of
Friday night was not finished til little after midnight
and went down to the office and obi aimed a promise
that II should be taken b. the porter to the q
a. m OF that promise was violated, and |
have learned that for several nights owing 10 the sick
poss OF porter!l the letters not taken to the
p O. at night at all, and, OF course mine which wers
deposited 10 tho bag f. perfect good faith, lay over,
while those took or sent to the cars at IL D. M
went on. You do not speak Of mine making an al
diton to my letter Clingman, but know It was
taken TO the u. O. In season trust you received IL
so as TO amend In rho Somi.wccky.
II any letter fails to arrive by mall which ought 10
bring -as you easily determine by noticing the
dat of the papers by the same MALL wish you would
notify mo at once. | rally working hard here
and | want the credit OF IT,
don't believe in Preston King for President His
Texas votes arc In tho way. A candidate must have
a slim record In these times. | think Fremont OF
Banks must bo pat up-perhaps both.
look su~picously that magazine project be-
cause | regard The Tribune great idea Just gun
TO be developed, and don't wish anything else {,
Interfere with IT, Better do one thing well than sew
oral things mddling well. To mako The Tribune
the first paper IN America is fortune and fame enoug
for us. aud that not doing let Us try
to do what We have undertaken before We apply oul
energies to making picture books.
don't understand what You say about 7. B.:
letters. have understood that many moro had beer
sent. | will inquire.
Mccormick was here last night and this mornn.
TO complain of somo grievance at your hands but
was too busy and had too much company 10 lister
to him then. There Is lercc excitement abou
punn'S being not being the Kansas Commission
| Banks has Just been here, and guess he won't 81
on. Yours HORACE GREELEY.
What doing AbOul Little parrtt'i DOM
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Who takes tho responsibility Of emitting my dis
patches when you are away
We hope 10 elect Banks to-day. iours,
HORACE GREELEY.
TX.
Washington City, D. c., Jan. %. 1866.
C. A. Dana, esq.

Washington City, d. c., Jan. %. 1856.
Dana. You are wrong every way about old Brenton
7, YOU will look through my dispatches, you Will find
that distinctly stated that he had como back to Banks
after the caucus following his bolt, and was voting
steadily for him. Il think you will find this not far
from a week ago. You cannot have looked ut
number OF "The Globe" without finding his name re
corded among the voters for Banks, and you ought
not 10 have pitched into him without being sure you
were right. Hiw did you suppose our vote hAd gone
up high OF latef Besides you let Ball DO attacAeo
In a communication from his district for boiling aiter
no had back
You should not have omitted my dispaeeh' bron,
ton VIII tell IN the House how promised nm anu u
not perform. II up in tho House to-day, anu no
promised TO bring 1t up again. Ho has so' "fdu,ne'
and lots Of such to certify for him and denounoe lho
Tribune. $500
1t ls very easy for you to mako Hight OF this mat
ter in New-York but for mo, in tho face OF tnir'y
doubIe.dyed traitors ten Of them voting against US
and the other twenty curSing mo bocsuse they CAM
do likewise, aud sssa1ing me every day or Two on
the floor II is different matter. You have terribly
Weakened our power hold tbese villains In cheek or
punish their misdeeds. l wish you had mano an
editorial correction. Sadly. IL VI
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,,.., .,l.sn from tie Mails and burnt on 1u0
h,roe OF plotting treason and melting hAufrooeH
rh.t article was calculated TO excite intense eS
% ne At the South. and IS good nowhere ~ inPn.
,ho, NO foment Abolition as means OF WesAehins So
,,rorino the south-not OF regeneratinR anu W
building IT, OF course we can nave no tho
Sotb ~ We seem to invoke upon that region .no
-. n, fire and sword. And again, by seoAihs
" -. the south at the mercy OF Great Brtalh' "'
Lrtr,nv challenge all the HoHpuB OF that region "
a. NTH our B'hoys In provoking war lou uo NV
~, var with England, and abhor the thought OF }"
vot that article was strongly Calculated lonen' ono
- -, s ralu the southronS see that We desire sOo'
~ ~ because they opposed the two Adamses par
h~on Nv. -, Tohnnot for their Injury, but for their
tcuarly old John-n"' i
good. 49,, ana urort IN TIE ,nsurrcc-
OF course don't believe ono ~oIu - va" 1900
40, programme Invasion always H0use" ih'o "
notuitv especially among the lowest str~.a Oh soVi1
no,Ioyo two negroes would volunteer 10 nSnt ass'
an invading force to every ono "uo "'' ~
camp. But this is inmatnnal
do wish you would consider my position: ~
Yesterdays paper I SEQ you talR Oh RUS .,,. Ia
$50 49, ...sui,ca ma Now don't know this and
80 80, asssrted n OF course the barbarian VIII
r.onrd this as fresh attack upon ana usnAn'e "
h,,n nv me- and can do nothing TO woeceNe n''n
vvtsh you had said nothing OF the SUIT "'
that it Is lust; ! am sure IL Will Vonu T." N~- A.
others denounco or reyilo Rust; mean -. ~
sneak Of him unless obliged 10. no 10 80 80, {,
,avs trouble here before the session ehSoe' III"
must not even be suspected Of It,
somebody IN Mondays paper IS quito wrong IN ss'-
ing "the only Know Nothing, avowcoy S"on' "no
vo,rd for Mr. Banks, Mr.. Edie OF FenhsyN .I
Rde IS very poor sbote, and President OF tns fon"'
sylvania State Council not the Twelfth se"uon sN"s'
but the other. Every Banks man nom ua' o'Se'
bpt Grow Is a Know Nothing. Robson, j. H. camp
hell Pearce and Others have ayowed 1t on the moor
Lew Campbell is etenally boasting OF DIS Aniei'' =.
nr,noiplesD The Connecticut Now-HamPshTe' khouo
island and Massachusetts members were all ohoseu
On Americ am nominations. II IA our polcy !" s''n
tho distinction as much possible, but inc ren
above quoted tends TO revive and aggraVate H. fcsSe
avoid this as much rs possible
Percy walker, OF Alabama, Is not AntfNe1' OUT iS
Know. Nothing; oliver and CarutheS. OF missouri
Talbot. OF Kentucky, watkins, Of Tennessee ana
powie OF Maryland, are not kno~'NothinSs' Ou'
AniIK " wings. Cox. Of Kentucky Is not AM"
Neb but Ia Know Nothing; ~ is Evans OF AcNAs'
I cannot guess how these plumbers were maze WIN
the WhIg Almanac at hand Ohio gives out seventeen
votes for BanlS-you have II eighteen.
shall 60 TO PittsburR. Yours. H. 70.
C. A. D-I can't see how my letter OF SUNDAY
should fail for TuesdAys paper, when you have The
| Unions" article Of same date.
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Washington, d. Co Jan 10. 80

Washington, D. Va Jah ~ 49,
F-,.nd Dana: We have to-day our hrst mai rum
Nsu, York for some days. BY 1t nave yours VI
Monday and Tuesday. A.,
on course, 1 know how such things occur as o'u
,0s, Saturday and dIdEt blame you, pnt 10 'nihA
re- "a on the whole q detrment He IS always
aoirr things too late, and has 20 DO hurried ana
nromnted more than we afford And hen mo
ANNOYING folly Of filing up the inside OF tho paper
after midnight with that opera rubbish croWding out
n.rar already anc.ent-I tell you he won't DO.
have laborcd many years to give The Tribune
Ventilation for candor and generosity toward Unpopular
cr,eds and races aud Stewart Will use this up IL
von viii let him II isn't article on the Jew"
he Is always surring them, snd this is not IN' inc
tribune I consider even Stewards anttlHsh ar
t,r,es though partly true, impeled by bad SPir''
and calculated TO make needless enemies LEU
us try 20 cultivate generous spirit IN all thihss
Hldreth is goa writer, but he Is essehuSnS .
Timothy Pickering Fcdcraist of hny or SHY years
arc and Is always hghting the battles OF mat c'~S'
Of we'll meaning but shOckingy malodroit pohuo'S"'
He hates slavery mainly because the SCUM uurnoN
out old John Adams You must gradually @aon "i"
to let tho dead bury, etc -,
Wen elect Banks yet, now you see u We wv" "
We made a good push toward 10 lASt o'gn''
Yours, n W.
Let me thank you for your handling OF van.
man is an ass, but a very malignant ono uo''
this letter is genuine
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washington, wednesday, Jan. 30, $50.

Dana 1 retain your note OF Scott HARRISON
h,vn m doubt OF Ms tr1fth and vas we'll to print
II al home but think II would do No good 70 put IN
The Tribune He has laid himself open by voting ior
Dunns cheating resolves, aud there VIII DO aouhuSh'
opportunities TO show him mp before spring
As to ----, let his nsmo be mentioned 81 soiuon
as possible and then with suppressed loathlns The
lttIe wrrtch is moro malignant and interchangeable
than anybody In tho House. The night we sat up
all night he acted whpper in, waking up Dunn ana
hunting up Richardson purpose 20 prevent choice
will enclose IS letter TO him but never lot him
be treated with so much rcspeok a. Is implied In print
ipg--'s letter 1t Will do not the least good, but
would elevate tho wretch In his own eonceit
The Brenton business has put me under 1901 mere
and shall require time 10 recover. Rusps attack
on me yesterday was emboldercd, think, by that
When a mans friends are SGT against him, he STANDS
a hard chance with his enemies. There ARC o'heE
assaults 10 follow this. DrunlDn Bowie. OF MARY
land was threatening me IN the barrooms last night
and several others but we arc making up hghtine
party Of Northern men that Will ultimately q" sOOo
Several pistols will be bought to-day.
Your remarks Of yesterday on Brcnton are Very
veil and now THAI you arc In that fight, you may
A. well 20 through with IL; but think would say
little more about H. Tie article on Lew CampbeI
was In excellent tasto, though hear no complains
NJ a. Since he required IT. could not well have been
better But an attack upon him would have oeep
very different thing wish you wouh A''ScA TIC
man or project hero without consulting me- PM
the facts, and Jet the comments walt TIL you car
telegraph me- l enclose you piece OF an aruei'
from an Indiana paper showing what 500 disclaimer
will never stop tina, I responsible for Nhai"ve'
NAV app~ar in Tho Tribune affecting Tho House. The
article rctcrrod TO in this extract was ono OF th'
most foolish and lmpolIuc, because obviously fSSe
that ever appeared in The Tabupe. It tends m eN
Aspers,s our enemies, M encourage our friends.
Ifyou hsd printed my dispatches Respecting hr"ntot
=, all IN. papers II would have hoIpod me. Away
lndorse private all that Is not for PuollcAneh
-. HORACE GREELEY.
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~ IL,
Washington, Sunday, March ..

Washington, sunday, March ..
Fellow Citizen: II you received on Friday night my
letter on Haln's and Toombs's KRnsaS speeches, vat
allowed II to be crowded our by the immortal scandal
Of Tho Grswold Divorce case, why then you failed to
consider fairly what ami what Is not pertshable My
o,ter would have been mIddAng Saturday, while II
viii DO sour as whey and fat as cold dishwater on
Monday whilo tho GT4swoid business would have been
rolled q sweet noFSe undAr ths ot all
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XIV.
Washington, D. c., March 81. I5s.

Washington, D. c., March 81, p5s
Friend Dana: Thank you for your note 70 Ben
Smith, She is sick abed for some days past and mar
not be able to write very But this letter mans
all right between u.s. think Of her letters nun
have missed, but am not sure OF IT, called via
your letter this morning, but she was too sick 10 sc
anybody
We must have this Supplement matter settled ee1n,
itely and soon, IN favor Of the hight Of the editorial
charge to put on a Supplement whenever he has MAJ
ter which, in his Judgment cannot be otherwise d.
posed of. Mac is an excellent business man IN esr
tain style, but, II he had his way The Tribune woun
have been Just halfway between . The CommersaF
and The Mirror in circulation character and proah
We really cannot afford 10 be ruled by his spirit
So you are beaten on RObnson's message. hsu
boon tearing that for some time but could deviss 4
remedy. You should have sent another so 500
as Phillips came away, or. better, perhaps, hsy
written TO THE Herald Of Freedom" TO engage one "A
us. Don't let this rest another hour. What did ~
say 10 Redpath7 ! guess he might have been .
gagged, If that was desirable. Remember that 4
Commission Is soon to 20 out and that We must han
a good attending its sittings, who knows hov b
give the material points OF the evidence In full and
cOndense suppress the rost.
To be beaten In the morning I suppose destry;
but how could you fail to have It in the evening ed
toni That Will sadly lower our prestige hero aai
elsewhere.
No, my friend, am opposed TO The Tribune Pcturt
Book Let US succeed in what we have undertakes
before Try anything more.
mean TO let you OF pretty easily for day or two
and see II you cannot bring up some ieeway We mEsi
suppress our Reviews. II We do, we shah lose
publishers Advertisements, which about the most
interesting feature Of paper They are almost The
| only literary luxury now indulge IL Yours,
H.G.
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XAsh,n. sat, Feb. 10.

WAShn rat, feO ~
Nv Friend Dana; Please don't SAY Suoh n'nSs
- tho above without consulting me. They preIuuoo
-. And cannot do any good. know niS House ~
,or r.nnot. and | tell you We have not e'ShV me"
,h, ,Youl1 vote a. this article suggests We cannot
= tar, admit Rccder: cGnnot admt Kansas As
state. We can only make issues 90 "h"u W eo
70 tho people at tho PRESIDENTIAL oecuon' NO" '"o
,.,,e Of admitting Kansas As a free STATE II SEeH'
5cal better than that OF stopping the supplies or
anything Of the sort. Please 40 nohnS "Ao'! W
distract attention from the main question And don't
-, ~, IN suob An import ant tack without consulting
mo Won ,oo what A handle 4" Tho Union makos OF
this 30 prejudice nc.
wrote last night letter on Kansas which you
will have TO suppress or modify or Incorporate VITA
ono shall write send herewith on future elections
IN Kansas "The Union to-day says our Kansas
news Aro spurious. on which poln. am about To
vrIt Tho differences not essential, yet thny
,,o nrorscaIly serious Chutb, who made up III.
kansas article in the Almanac, ought TO 30 blown
M. I shall wrto him about H.
70 vou see ------ In Now-YOrk soon, make him give
Won a private account OF the Banks olectlon-nsdc
view. may be as Crcat rascal ss he Is repro-
scpted: II So begin to tho utility Of rasosls In
the general economy OF things. Banks would never
have been elected without him. lie can tell you a
story as interesting as the Arabian Nights, and Q
great deal rrucr. lie has done moro aud incurred
more odum 20 elect Banks thAa would have been in
volved In beating ten speakers
shall try tn ind some one TO write and telegraph
while | an Como to PttSburg noxt weok-prObably
Schuyler Cofax Harvey is good for nothing at our
ond Of tho Avenue his uso is at the other Yours,
II.
p s-You understand that the letter Brentons
new certificates, Of which have proof this morning.
IS not to be published only pointed at them and
they came down.
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Washington. Mach lo, so

Dana: don't ENold about the printing Of Indiana
Cumbsck.' etc. II only bothcrS me because II my
dispatches are not carefully rcsI and written out
shall havo to wrIto them more fully which costs
MONEY.
think you ought to havo tho reports Of meetings
Of Commissioners Of Emigration, school Commission.
ers etc, set In snlan type 10 room.
We shah 10 beaten to 10 Il think al power
to send for persons and papers. II. &.
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XXu.
Mn<lnesdaY. March Il.


opposed 10 anything that may BE- deemed
personal warfare upon Fillmore He Is not particu-
larry candidate at least In the Free States, but suoh
q aght might make him Let the dead rest
should like TO have nobody aSsailed personally or
generally. I think you mistake in giving Lew camp
bell dig and then. Never waste ammunition
on those who have already committed suicide
We might make Fillmore = candidate and resuscitate
Lew Campbell But It weD bettor to leave them 10
their long repose. H. u.
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XIV.

Washington, FeO ", 90
Friend Dana: Although this is to mo tho most
detachable spot on earth, want 10 stay hero through
the Reeder nght II you will Jet me. will stand my
chances 10 be horsewhippoi or pstoled, II you Will
hcep me clear Of being knocked down by The Tribune
hut bear gently tho X. Ms while have to opera"
with tem here and pray be cacful OF letting IN Snon
another remark a, that who voted for BANKS e~
10 be X Ms except Edlol such remark destroy All
our reputation for accuracy sagaciy. since II Is
generally known that tho majority Of the BANKS mon
AFRO now members Of Know Nothing Councils ano some
,u.p,v or thirty OF them actually beiieve In tbs
,~t,dl. Half The Massachusetts delegation. tWohrus
that OF Ohio and nearly all that Of Pennsylvania arc
Know. Nothing this day. We shan get them HrAh-
ually detached II you Will let ~. but some OF your
.,,ers on Gardpor etc. tend TO keep them Who're neY
ought not TO be. DO DO oIrcumspccI and draw no
lln.s Of discrimination 10 our own d"Hment An
not .snx you 20 do anything only TO toroear dohs
what can only work harm. II you have nooody
who knows how 10 classify members OF Congress eo'er
than the scandinavian bard, please leave thon u'-
classified BAT, In fact my dispatch 81 lSA' ou"aS'
night stating who present and ala hot Noe' "h"
threw away their etc Wa suppressed anu ia
II, s,nad Otarrou'S budget OF bluDders inserted a.
Tr,,,,, ,,ous,ics Now / don't pretend 10 know
much hut II dont better understand what Is passing
,,dor nv own eyes than any ono can who is zoo mics
away l ought to be recalled and dismissed bu'
hAy, been treated nhe this throughout Inc Inouno
Almanac affords cOuntenance Tor tho oiuutoI W
calling Percy walker Anu-ScbrHSRa Bowie ana Al
kin. X ~ etc. etc. / cannot seo bow su'h o'uiue''
we're m abe But remember that don't expect you
| ., a, .yrryhlns or TO oversee everything All
,,r I, ,h. when thlns cannot be done HGht. do NOS
| have Il dono 81 all. 49,.
| Houses telegraph Is very near me, and Whe" you
| ~, in doubt "a to Washington matter ptoSS con
.uIt me- Just that In Brcntons and IN Bay'ru O'RAp
| ,a,o would have saved me great moruh' aHoh ~
| injury. You think It snt hard to say OF . ""Sn
| man like CLARKE that, not knowing ehousH H.,
| -, b. ,n.trtb,i,cs tho speeches OF others bu'
| Lo tcsls very soro Of II. beside. Il Is DOT luS'
rrmarh since tho House Is not organized snu has NJ,
vet afforded no chance to mako speech io' u''
| n,,, 90 but sparo me hcnccforth yrs H. u
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IL.
Washington, Jan. 7, 1886.
c. A. Dana, Esq,

Washington, Jan. 7, 1856.
Fr,eno Dana: What would It cost to burn the Opera
Housei II the price is reasonable, have 1t done ana
send the bill.
thipk This last is tho most Lrlucky week The
rrbune ever saw-beaten IN the documents and beaten
every way beside.
II IS unaccountable 10 me that Hdreth did not re-
view the Pro-savery part OF the message IN three or
four crisp editorials of column each. II belonged 10
The Tribune 70 do that, and the whole country ex-
pected It Of It great mistake TO neglect our
proper work and undertake instead the unpopular and
unplausble defence of the British side OF the Mica
raeua question We have lost ground terribly BY this,
and must try TO regain It somehow. All Congress
is disappointed and greved at not seeing Pierce and
Cushing demolished in The Tribune. wrote my two
letters under the presumption there being paper on
Wednesday, that the solid work of exposing their per-
versions OF history had. Of course, been done by
Hldreth should have dealt with 1t even more gravely
but for that And now / see Uhe Saturdays paper
only got through last night that have crowded out
what little did send TO mako room for FryS eleven
columns Of arguments as to the feasibility OF sus-
tanning the opera in n. Y, they would only
PLAY his compositions don't believe throo hundred
people who take The Tribune care one chew Of To-
baceo for the matter am very sorry that We can't
discuss such a message somehow In the week OF It's
ssue.
Now as to documents Harvey went TO the Depart,
nent on Thursday for the Treasury report as no
,sd been advised beforehand that il would then be
ready for him, and was now told by Peter Washington
that he had let copies go of by that mornings
mail. OF course, being told that he was anticipated,
10 did not suppose that sending the great budget now
was OF any consequence. Was not this reasonable
sonclusionf l admit that he should have got two
copies and sent you but he got only ono and
left that at my room, and I only found It when
came down from the House. too late to send by that
evenings mail; did all could do-extracted some
Of the pregnant passages and sent them to you in
Al 0,d
even for these, infer that moro could hardly have
tared better.
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Dana: Bo surc TO print Robirsons message as carly
and emphatcay as anybody when received. It must
be pear az hand.
Is Phillips gone back 70 Kansas We must
some one there. Can't you have Al article on Dude
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/ began this letter to apologize for taking up
three four columns with controversy with Dick
Thompson, which shall send you to-day probably by
Adamss Express. Considering, however, those XIX
columns OF Coroner Fry's inquest on the putcSlng
opera, wont apologize. This controversy concerns
aot Dick Thompson only, but tho whole breed Of
Hhig Doughfaces, and the room is well spent. You
must give Il sOon-on the outside Of course. Yours,
sorehesdedly, HORACE GREELEY.
@. A. Dana, Esq, n. York.
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NV. ~
Dana: Let me thank you for your glorious issus =.
Yesterday, including Supplement- which have me-
vet found time to read In full but 10 this even
ing ] am obliged for these letters from the grox;ns
towns in the West, every one Of which Is worth n
us far moro than he space It costs, because It nah.
friends TO psper-communities interested In ~
success Pray talk this over with McElrath ana
mako him see that shall not be satisfied tn H.
editor in charge has authority to issue supplemsss
Whenever he has matter In type that he cannot otb.a
wise dispose OF. We can get along no other ssx,
and you must help insist on this.
supplement- Will not cost more than 1900, and q
t wore all devoted to such letters those from aoes
Island Dunleth etc. It would be worth Us at ea.s
$1,000 Who can fail to thisl
am glad, too, that you have printed McCoYnicrs
statement, because 1t seems to be simple Justice N
him. He has no right 10 complain ION the whole, A
The Tribune But these howry people humbpr,
who have done nothing emitting them TO one line /,
The Tribune. Their machine may be good-I know
nothing about that-but the reputation they won /.
Europe is naught Mac is a miSer and a bor. ana
has about as much chance IN get his patent exiendss
as 10 be struck by lightning, but am glad you hsss
done him Justice. hope IL win satisfy him.
Now, have Supplement every Saturday I'LL Hs
busy season is over You cannot otherwise do justss
to your advertisers. O. 3
will write 10 Fry to-day, and hope be WIN couAs
with you.
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you mean to print Sc IN the daiiyT Seems TO me -.
would be downright swndliug OF those who haye t<,
to read It,