Excerpt from The Letters of Columbus: Originally Published in the Boston Bulletin; To Which Are Added Two Letters of Col. Orne to Gen. Duff Green A writer in the New Hampshire Patriot, under the signature of flan-janus, has commenced an attack against a portion of Gen. J ack son 's friends, in Boston, which presents some claims to their notice. I do not hazard a conjecture as to his name. The matter of the piece affords sufficient indications that it is a Boston production, and many circumstances satisfy me beyond a doubt that it may be deemed the act ofa Boston pa1ty. The piece is remarkable for a boldness of as sertion, for a rancorous spirit of hostility, and for a recklessness of truth, which have usually characterized the writers in the Boston Statesman, but the composition evinces a greater degree of taste than has usually been noticed In that 'virulent paper. The writer is not, . Probably, one of the master spirits of the party. People who have much at stake, do not like to commit themselves too openly in asser tions which cannot be maintained, and the falsehood of which must rea coil, with fearful energy, on themselves. They prefer to pour their slander through se'cret channels, and to leave nothing visible of the assassin but the blow that he strikes. 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.