HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
['To Tan EDITOR 07 TR. SPECTATOR."] Sne,—For the first time, I am compelled to withhold from the Spectator the liking and respect due to a loyal and honourable antagonist. You challenged me, in your review of " Sanguelac," to make good my charges against Lincoln and the Northern Generals in an historical account of the Civil War. (See last Page of my History, VoL I., "Remarks on other Works.") I have accepted your challenge. I have made good every charge pre- ferred in " Sangnelac." Does it become the Spectator, instead of taking up its own glove, and meeting me foot to foot and sword to sword on its own chosen ground, to throw away its blade and bespatter me with mud ?
When you call me a defender of slavery—after I tell you that the South thinks its removal worth all it has cost—when you say I think everything Northern bad—I, who drew a thoroughly sympathetic portrait of Hamilton of New York, the ultra- Federalist, and the reverse of Jefferson, the Democratic idol— when you untruly accuse me of imputing cowardice to the Northern soldiery, and so forth, you can hardly help feeling, on reflection, that you have been fighting with a poisoned blade._ Had the Northern—and especially North-Eastern—troops been equal to the South, the war could not have lasted two years.— [We have not the smallest objection to Mr. Greg's airing his opinion of our review in our own columns. But as we know the solid knowledge and absolute impartiality of his reviewer, who- of course was not the reviewer of " Sanguelac," and are well assured that he understands the United States and the great war far more thoroughly than Mr. Greg, we are not at all shaken. as to the sobriety and truthfulness of the judgment pronounced..
—En. Spectator.]
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