der is that of your
workman, or mine in the haste of transcribing. One or two
other errors, which are mine, I made the subject of two notes,
which I addressed you through the Post-office. My absence from
town, and my intended absence to-morrow, prevent my preparing
another article for Saturday. Possibly, I will have it ready
for Monday, and certainly for Tuesday. Acknowledge its
receipt, and that it will appear on Monday or Tuesday. I have
not yet come to the _real gems_ of my budget. Reed shall have
a surfeit.
Respectfully, &c.,
VALLEY FORGE
Sept. 30, 1842.
R. M. WHITNEY, Esq: Dear Sir--Nothing could have afforded me
more pleasure than the publication which has been made by the
Reeds. It has given me the opportunity, which I have from the
first been seeking, of bringing the question of General Reed's
revolutionary exploits to a _crisis_. I pledge myself to you,
that I will overwhelm them with confusion and shame.
I have not called for your letter at the Post-office, because
_I know that I am watched_; and I do not desire to be known
till the adoption of my proposition to the Reeds, of which I
speak in the accompanying communication, and which I will
furnish for publication in Monday's Journal. They have fallen
completely into the snare.
Yours, &c., very truly,
VALLEY FORGE.
October 14, 1842.
In his explanatory communication of yesterday's date, Valley Forge speaks
of many more papers "which are yet to come:" we suppose he means yet to be
published. If so, we feel constrained to say now, that we cannot publish
any thing more relating to the matter until he announces to us, at least,
his real name.
From the Evening Journal.
R. M. WHITNEY, Esq: Dear Sir,--I am pained beyond measure, at the situation
in which I have been so unfortunately instrumental in placing you. But for
circumstances _which I cannot possibly control_, I would promptly
communicate to you my name and residence. A pledge, rigidly exacted by my
venerable relative, Col. ----, and solemnly given by me at the time he
consented that I should communicate to you the letters of the late General
Smith, and the other papers with which he furnished me, that I sho
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