Excerpt from Reply of Colonel Orne: To the Attacks of Mr. Nathaniel Greene, and David Henshaw, and Others, in the Boston Statesman The Sta'tesman party of Boston, as it is generally termed, is com posed ofa small body of low, unprincipled intriguers, 'who, by some means or other, with the aid Of Duff Green, have contrived to obtain from the president appointments to office of the first importance, much to the astonishment of themselves, from their unsuitableness to fill them, to the deep chagrin and disgust of the community, at the de gradation of public trusts, and to the great and almost irreparable in jury Ofthe national administration. This intriguing body, having so far deceived the government as to Obtain important and lucrative trusts, at their hands, have found it necessary to support one imposition, by the practice of another and after causing the government to neglect their true friends, they at tempted to vilify and slander them. The first attacks were made by Duff Green, which was overlooked for many months - the Boston Statesman followed up the game by the vilest insinuations; and, fi nally, the whole Duff Green presses Opened upon them with the more polished but envenomed shafts of anti-janus. This drew forth the letters of Columbus, about which so much has been said, and to which the Statesman party have attempted a reply, under the name of Nath'i Green, the Boston printer post master. This reply, however, consists, not in defence of themselves; for that seems even in their own Opinion, a hopeless project; but in an attack on Col. Orne. This appeared in September in the Boston Statesman; was afterwards re-pub lished in the Washington Telegraph, and has more recently been printed in a pamphlet form, and been silently transmitted to Washing ton, to endeavor to keep up the deception among the members of Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.