Show NIcolr Spanked and DlsmisseC PHILADELPHIA July 11The Times this morning publishes an editorial addressed to John G NicoJay under tho caption Spanked and Dismissed It is In part Had you known anything about inside political movements in the White House in LSG4 you wonld have known that my letter t Lincoln quoted in your dei nse was written because of the suddenly developed effort in this state to divide the lines drawn by the then biter Cameron and Curtain factional war for and against Lincoln Camerons followers claimed to be special supporters of Lincoln and attempted t drive Curtain and the state administration into hostility to the President My justly assumed devotion to Curtain was a pretext for declaring me as either restralnad in my support of Lincoln or likely to be in opposition The moment I saw the statement in print I wrote mae letter you quote to dismiss from Lincolns mind all apprehension about either open or passive opposition from Curtains friends Equally indeed even more flagrantly false is your statement of only minor truths about tho action of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania delegation at Baltimore in 1SG4 You say Cameron cast the solid vote of the delegation for Johnson before the close of the first ballot Had you sought truth a an honest biographer you could havo obtained it without offensive disputation not only from me a far a I knew it but from such living witnesses as Charles A Dana and Mural Halstead and from the recorded testimony tes-timony of General Cameron Colonel For ney and others who knew much of Lincoln and but little of you Instead of seeking truth you flung your ignorance and egotism with ostentatious indecency upon the bereaved household of the yet untomhed Hamlin and when brought to bay by those better informed than yourself you resent in the tone and terms of a ward wheeler in the wharfrat district battling for constabulary honors I think it safe to say the public judgment judg-ment will be that It would be well for both Lincolns memory and for the country had such a biographer been drowned a pup Dismissed A K M |