The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

FOR THE REPUBLICAN.

MR. EDITOR:-I did not intend to trouble you or the public again; but your editorial of this morning induces me to speak once more. Mr. TATEM may rest assured that, as I have no personal acquaintance with him, nothing personal whatever was intended; neither was any thing personal intended towards either of the other gentlemen named, who addressed the note to Mr. Storer: it is only in the political aspect in which they present themselves that I have to do with them. "A man is known by the company he keeps," is an old adage, too true to be forgotten, or lost sight of, in these days of moneyed influence and political necromancy. I was informed that Mr. Tatem attended the "Tadpole Meeting" as one of the actors, and that he had signed the celebrated memorial originating in that meeting. I am glad, heartily glad, he was not there, and that he adheres to his first love in politics. I rejoice to find, as to him, that I was mistaken: and sincerely ask his forgiveness; which I have no doubt he will grant, when he reflects upon the attitude in which he had placed himself towards his old friends.

In my first note to you, I stated that I had been told that the "Committee" of five "intended merely to quiz the counsellor." To this exposition of their conduct in addressing a letter to a great man on an important subject, I gave much heed; for I could not imagine that political opponents would be so impolite as to call publicly, upon a candidate they intended to oppose, to give them his opinions and views upon a great national question, Yet it seems that this exposition is not the true one. You inform me and the public: this morning, that the "committee" of five were no committee at all, or rather were a committee appointed by Mr. Storer to address himself that their "note of inquiry originated with Mr. Storer himself, and was intended as an introduction to the statement of his sentiments, which he, (Mr. Storer,) was then prepared to submit to the public!" "So, it appears, that Mr. Storer called upon five professed Jacksonians to call him out on the subject of the Bank !- This was very shrewd on the part of Mr. Storer: but how stands it with the Jacksonians who lent themselves to such a cause and for such a purpose?

Mr. Tatem's explanation is perfectly satisfactory as to him. Will the rest of this poached Committee stand forth in like frankness and candour?

I know men who carry water on both shoulders; who take, in reference to party, a friendly, a belligerent or a neutral attitude, as self-interest predominates in the scale of chances. Some of these are often candidates before the people, and then are all things unto all men-"good lord, and good devil," not knowing into whose hands they may fall-who are unwilling to submit their claims to be decided by any party, lest they should not get a little of both. Such men I see arm and arm with another class of men, standing in a higher rank, who are alarmed about the future, and dare not advance a step beyond what "rascally prudence" dictates. They counsel and advise together, and no man knows where they will either of them be found the day after election. A word to the wise is sufficient "A man is known by the company he keeps," mind that!

Mr. Tatem says he signed the note of inquiry to Mr. Storer, "at the request of Mr. Storer and his friends." And I understand you to say, Mr. Editor, that he neither supports Storer nor Findlay, but is still "proud to act" with the Democratic party. I hail him as a brother in a righteous cause. Would that I could salute the other four of "Mr. Storer's Committee" on the same terms!

A MARKET MAN.

August 27, 1834.