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u The Piebe,dn publishes the following ex-
tract from private letter said to have been writ
tento a leading friend Of Gen Harri,onin Feb. $50
either by Col. U'ebS the Editor Of this paper.
/; is only Just to the former, (who at the time re-
terrcd to va. candidate for office ne tie Editor
of i ne Tribune was) to say that tins extract
must bc from letter written u.s. though il seems to
have been sarbed and its purpose is utterly per-
verted and kept out of sight in the extract given
in The PleJeian. Whoever cook d it up for that
paper knows right well tia, it to commend
the course and explain the position of another that
the letter in question written. The extracts
as follows:


81 am OF the or gina ,nd den, friend, o' Mr. Clay
who, after the result OF the Virgin April Election. IA 1885,
the conclusion that Mr. Clay riusf We our
candidate IN 1910, unless bent pushing L.
Jane and Juy, ls's uaye;ed throo6h tn sat- North
ing this doctrine. found portion tie CLAY open
reasoR Every where though Cleveland Pittsburgh and
cnea to reasoR Here the general idoAry Of NJ
Clay once blind and furious. md 50 cOuluged until
alter The nomination


| Unfair and carbed this extract from pri-
v,te letter (Which can oHly have been obtained b,


arccny) must be, the knayery OF it. publication /,
exceeded by the impotence of the untru,h based
upon it by The Plebean that the writer rrof-.sed
at the time indicated in it to be a r-arnq friend
| of NJ. clay that is Of his nomination for Pres.
ident in 1850. VIII The Plebeian afteup D, to vim
dicate this assertion. tactly plead guilty to the
charge of fasehood and calumny


p. s. We keep no copies of or letters, and
have written several on Political tonic, throughout,
the last FIVE years that would gladly refer to.
As The Plebeisn appears 20 do wholesale busi-
ness in the stclen-leter line perhaps it could ac-
conmodae Us with copies What is the asking
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