Year: 1859

sich cursed fools as to pay Tommy and you to make tour to break down the demo- cratic party, they ought to pay for it. 4 To return, you not only listened to Tom ! my's speeches but you talked to him and travelled with him. Did you eat at the same table? When hotels were crowded and bed rooms few, you slept in the same room with him. It would be too great stretch of fancy to suppose he let you sleep with him even at the foot. The world with its morbid fancies concerning great men imagines many things. They fancy that perhaps in some moment of relaxation the great man may have permitted you to scratch his back or wash his feet It Is al% most pity he had not been sick on the route-a little sick, mind you--that you might have had the honor of nursing him, of giving him his pills, of holding his head when he vomited and of carrying out uten- sils. This is an envious world, dear w.

 L., and some are weak enough to wish to supply your place. But it is futile, for of all men you were most deserving of the honors you enjoyed In the agitation of society, men are so shaken that each finds his appropriate sphere. You have found yours. Stay there and let not the envious crowd you from it.

 You and I, w. L.. have been behind the scenes. We know the ropes. We are up to snuff off write conGdentially to you, it is because we know how these things are done up. It was great dodge of Tom my's to tell the people, when he got to certain point he was going to denounce A or B, but when he got there to be as mild as mothers milk. But, when he got off, where he would not De contradicted, to tell that he shook his fist in the opponents face, who dared not resent it. Admirable plan. Ingenious, if not ingenious. So safe too By this means he got the repu- tation of bold man, without any of the risks. How the sovereigns gazed in won der at the man whom they thought possess ed so much pluck. Very we'll played Mar tin, but 1 am afraid you cut 1t rather too lat--overdid the thing little. Don't you think so? Perhaps, you will some day. And then those letters. To say nothing of Mountaineer, ""Prairie Man. and others cut from the same cloth, those "Viator'' letters. The gallant Colonel,' the "eagle orator. and those eloquent descriptions of Hlndman's eloquence, fearlessness, and perfect sockdoloser speeches. You wrote them you say. Oh, of course. I under stand. Capital dodge, that But allow me to suggest that you should not have said so. l know that the people smelt mouse and you nobly came in and took the responsibility, but even then 1t does not alter the case much. People are censorious, Martin-alasl the world is given to suspi- cion. They will put it up this way. Here was Martin travelling with Iindman and writing these letters praising him to the fullest extent and capabilities of language. They rode together, ate together and talked together. Was it possible, that Martin wrote these letters without consultation with Hindman. Were they not read to him before they were sent off? Did not Tommy make some suggestions, or hints, or corrections? Can it be possible that Maj tin would steal off to some obscure cor ner to dash off these Viator letters and mail them unknow to Tommy? These are ugly questions and 1 suggest that you come out again and say that Tommy never saw them, never read them, let alone dictated or penned them. But stop, that wont do. The devil of it is this. These Viator let ters are in Tommy's handwriting. You know, he writes peculiar little back hand. | Well, one of the original letters was sent off from the printing office as an envelope. It was found to be the original of Viator letter, and in Tommy's handwriting.- That's bad, isn't it? I'll tell you what to do. Say, that one day you had head ache, and after writing the letter you got Tommy to copy it. No, that wont do. because it was your business to copy and it would be making the master do the mans work On the whole do not know how you will fix it up. You might play it iercely and preserve dignifed silence, but that gives them the advantage Itisa mighty tight place you are in, and how you are to get out it I cannot see. Here is another thing These Batesvile folks aver and declare that Viator lied concerning Mr. Butler. That is nothing, if they were not able to prove it. And they will, "vou bet" So you see your glorious act of self abrogation in declaring yourself Viator, does not mend the matter so far as Hind- mans knowledge of the letter was concern ed, and only joins you in with him. It is a bad affair. Here, allow me to say that it is remarkable that Hindman ruins every man who ties to him. H. is eternally and forever getting his friends in hot water Street fights, duels, angry discussions in the papers, bad feelings and other evils fol- low him. He is always warning on some. body, somebody is always prosecuting him, and his friends are forced to occupy false or dangerous positins to sustain him. i Your claim of the authorship of the Viator letter does you credit. Damon would have died for Pythias and the story has been perpetrated. So shall you be. True, it does no good, but the spirit was a chivalric one. The prompting was that of a heroic l friend and while others are abusing you therefor, to solace you against these slings and arrows of your enemies, pray accept this humble tribute of praise from Tototot. | Politics is a strange game. Who would have thought that you and l, one Helena | lawverlinp with the ben feathers vet visible