Wrote a letter to
Paul S. Forbes in relation to his engine and the trial of the Algonquin. The
letter is an answer to one from him, written evidently by his lawyer and
prompter, Dickerson, designedly insolent and intended to provoke retort.
But I have contrived
to keep cool and, I think, to place them in the wrong, although they have
control of the New York press and correspondents, who make aggravated assaults
without any knowledge of the facts. Here and there silly editors, wholly
ignorant of the subject, also assume to speak oracularly, and doubtless the
public become in some degree prejudiced. In due time there will be correction,
the truth will come out, but to some extent the slander will long remain to
taint the minds of many.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 361-2
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