To the Editor of the Quincy Herald:

Sir:—On the 22d instant, I made a communication to the editor of the Quincy Whig of which the following is a copy, and I will be obliged to you, sir, if you will do me the favor to insert the same in the Herald.

I am, sir, most respectfully,

 

Dear Sir:—In your paper (the Quincy Whig,) of the 21st inst., you have done me manifest injustice, in ascribing to me a prediction of the demise of , ex-Governor of , by violent hands. was a candidate for the State Senate, and I presume, fell by the hand of a political opponent, with his “hands and face yet dripping with the blood of murder,” but he died not through my instrumentality. My hands are clean, and my heart is pure from the blood of all men. I amtired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction heaped upon me by wicked men, and desire and claim only that privilege guarantied to all men by the constitution and laws of the and of . Will you do me the justice to publish this communication, and oblige,