The Carson Daily Appeal

BLACK'S LETTER.—The Chicago Evening Post has the annexed in regard to this letter:
Black is out in a letter in which he tells some truth of Secretary Seward, whom, for his action in the Alta Vela case, he denounces as a perpetrator of a scurvy trick, as a falsifier who should be kicked out of office for his deceptions, and as an ignorant blunderer or a designing trickster. This is plain language; and inasmuch as the President, after getting both Seward's version and that of Black, decided in favor of the former, it is hard to say what epithets belong to Seward that will not fit with equal grace his Executive indorser. Viewed in this light, it is not strange that Black should decline to undertake the President's defense. Seward, he says, is a disreputable falsifier anyhow, and either a trickster or a fool besides; "in either case," he tells the President to his face, "you should send him headlong from his office without the delay of an instant."
So far from doing this, however, the President retains Seward and lets Black withdraw—and the country gets the benefit of the exposures which ensue. It is a healthy thing for rogues to fall out once in a while.