FACTS 
 
 REBUTTING ASSAULTS 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 FIVE POINTS 
 
 HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, 
 
 THROUGH THE CHARACTER OF 
 
 REV. L. M. PEASE. 
 
Five Points House of Industry, ) 
 New York, Feb., 1854. j" 
 For the information of numerous inquirers in respect to gross acccusa- 
 tious from time to time heaped upon the Superintendent of this Institution, 
 desiring to know what answer has been made to them, and requiring too 
 much time to be personally and separately answered ; the voluntary replies 
 of disinterested and competent witnesses, are copied from the public papers 
 and compiled in this form, together with the bitterest and most compre- 
 hensive of the assaults yet published, for convenient and full comparison. 
 
 TRUSTEES OF THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
 [Incorporated March 3rd 1854. 
 
 HENRY Ft. REMSEN, 18 Park Place, (Dutch Ref. Ch.) 
 CHARLES ELY, 104 Broadway, (Episcopalian.) 
 GEO. M. BIRD, 20 Broad-street, do. 
 EDW. G. BRADBURY, 423 Broadway, (Baptist.) 
 WM. W. CORNELL, 143 Centre-street, (Methodist.) 
 ARCHIBALD RUSSELL, 45 Tenth-street, (Episcopalian.) 
 GEO. G. WATERS, 18 Park Place, (Congregationalist.) 
 THOS. EELLS, 23 Hicks-street, Brooklyn, do. 
 CHAS. B. TATHAM, 247 Water-street, N. Y., (Unitarian.) 
 
 ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DIRECTED TO 
 
 The Assault, page 26, 
 
 The Answers by Mr. Stephenson and Mr. Eells, - " 3, 9, 
 The Further Answer in Courier and Enquirer, - - " 16, 
 
 The Testimony of the Directors, " 
 
 ■ Wild Maggie," "39. 
 
LETTER OF JOHN STEPHENSON, ESQ. 
 
 From the New York Courier and Enquirer, Jan. 21, 1854. 
 
 A communication of a very gross character, assailing the re- 
 putation of the Rev. L. M. Pease, appeared in a corner of 
 the Express a few days since, but passed without notice from 
 the press generally, and, so far as we had observed, from the 
 parties immediately concerned. We deemed that a demonstra- 
 tion of the nature of the one alluded to, must be considered as 
 out of the pale of discussion, and to be treated in only one way, 
 no less than a violent assault upon the person. We observe, 
 however, that yesterday's Express contained a thorough reply, 
 from personal knowledge, to all the charges, seriatim, under 
 the signature of Mr. Eells, of Brooklyn, who is introduced 
 by the Editor as a person of known respectability. We are 
 well' acquainted with Mr. Eells, and his unimpeachable charac- 
 ter renders his passionless and searching exposure of facts, 
 overwhelmingly severe upon the unlucky assailant. 
 
 We have since received from Mr. John Stephenson, a busi- 
 ness man well known to this community, and perhaps one of 
 the ablest and most influential laymen of the Methodist Church, 
 a very temperate and candid statement of the general history 
 of Mr. Pease's relations to the Methodist Missionary operations 
 at the Five Points, which will doubtless prove highly instruct- 
 ive to those who are desirous of understanding the truth of these 
 questions. So far, with the exception of timid insinuations, and 
 the hearsay babble of irresponsible and palpably malignant per- 
 sons, the public has not been pained with the slightest evidence 
 against the character of the devoted philanthropist who has won 
 so largely of its confidence ; and the statements of Mr. Eells 
 and Mr. Stephenson, both for intrinsic probability, temper, and 
 weight of character, would only be insulted by a comparison 
 
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 with what has been said on the other part. The following is 
 Mr. Stephenson's communication : 
 
 To the Editors of the Courier and Enquirer : 
 
 Much misapprehension exists of the Mission at the Five 
 Points belonging to the " New York Ladies' Home Missionary 
 Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church" and the Industrial 
 Home under the superintendence of the Rev. L. M. Pease. 
 
 A deal has been said and written tending to mislead. An 
 article in the Evening Post of 15th November last, by the 
 publishing Committee of the Ladies' Home Missionary Society, 
 needed correction. The Evening Express of 13th instant gives 
 an article by " James Redpath," which seems to demand the 
 following narrative : 
 
 " The New York Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church" was formed about the year 1844 
 as a religious organization, and with the object and purposes of 
 a " Missionary Society," according to the common acceptation 
 of that term among Christian Churches. The following extracts 
 from the constitution explain its objects : 
 
 Art. 1st. The Association shall be called the "New York 
 Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church." 
 
 Art. 2d. The object of this Society is to raise funds to sup- 
 port one or more Missionaries for the city, who shall be ap- 
 pointed in accordance with the discipline of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and for such other purposes as shall best 
 subserve the Great Missionary Work in the city of New York. 
 
 This Society has been active, and accomplished much good. 
 Many flourishing churches are indebted to it for their early 
 support, and their efforts among the German population have 
 been abundant and fruitful. The last Annual Report shows 
 some five missions receiving support from this Society during 
 the past year. Among these is the Mission at the " Five 
 Points." This Mission was commenced between three and 
 four years since, and the Rev. L. M. Pease, one of the minis- 
 ters of the New York Conference, was regularly appointed to 
 that field of labor, the Ladies' Home Missionary Society being 
 responsible for his salary. This, as they officially state, was 
 the Ninth Mission they entered upon in this city. 
 
 After Mr. Pease had commenced his work, and examined 
 his field, he found ordinary ministerial labors and services were 
 
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 not available to that population, in their necessitous, suffering 
 and degraded condition ; and, like the man who, travelling from 
 Jerusalem to Jericho, had fallen among thieves, they needed 
 some good Samaritan to bind up their wounds, nourish them, 
 provide lodgings, and when clothed and in their right mind, 
 teach them to work, provide employment, and lead them in 
 the way of gaining an honest livelihood. This was necessarily, 
 to some extent, a pre-requisite, or, at least, co-existent with re- 
 ligious services and teaching. Here was work not designed in 
 the organization of the " New York Ladies' Home Missionary 
 Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,'' nor had their 
 moneys been appropriated for such purposes. They say in 
 reply to the assertion, that their organization was not a charitable 
 but a religious association, ' ; A religious association denying the 
 claims of charity is certainly a novel idea." 
 
 Our holy religion enjoins the duty of feeding the hungry and 
 clothing the naked as absolutely as it does prayer or any other 
 religious exercise. Every Church is supposed to admit this, 
 both in theory and practice. Many Churches have among their 
 members Sewing Societies who clothe the naked, and others 
 who provide for various wants of the poor ; and Pastors are 
 often applied to for directions in obtaining employment. But, 
 is every Church performing the work done by the Rev. L. M. 
 Pease at the House of Industry at the Five Points 1 Is there 
 now in this city any Church or religious Society, whether Mis- 
 sionary or otherwise, who can conceive it their duty or privi- 
 lege, by their existing organization^ to perform such work 1 
 No. Neither did the New York Ladies' Home Missionary 
 Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church conceive it to be 
 their legitimate work. vYhat could Mr. Pease do ? The 
 Ladies of the Home Mission placed no money at his disposal 
 for such purposes. Why just what he did, which was, to tell 
 of such cases of suffering, and destitution, and want, as came 
 under his observation, and contributions were put in his hands 
 for their relief. This the Ladies well knew, and their own hearts 
 induced them as individuals to help in the work. This kind of 
 unofficial business increased, so that it became evident some 
 system should be adopted to bring it under official control. 
 Some eight or nine months had thus passed away, when appli- 
 cation was made on behalf of the Ladies of the Mission, to the 
 National Temperance Society, desiring said Society to take the 
 control, supervision and responsibilities of this " Physical" 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 work, employing Mr. Pease as their agent, and the Ladies of 
 the Home Mission would ask for the appointment of another 
 Missionary to attend the " Spiritual" part, and perform the re- 
 ligious services as originally designed. This arrangement was 
 made, and the chattels consisting of bedsteads, bedding, furni- 
 ture, clothing, bake house, &c, (the title of which was at this 
 time in Mr*. Pease personally,) were all transferred to the 
 National Temperance Society, and Mr. Pease became their 
 agent. The Ladies of the Mission succeeded in obtaining the 
 appointment of the Rev. John Luckey as their Missionary at 
 the Five Points for the purposes before named. 
 
 This plan was gratifying to all parties, and seemed to promise 
 much good, but subsequently, difficulties developed. Although 
 these two operations were dissimilar, each was expected to har- 
 monize with and be promotive of the other. The financial in- 
 terests were distinct, and here difficulty arose. 
 
 It was the duty of Mr. Pease, as the agent of the National 
 Temperance Society, to collect funds for the enterprise at the 
 Five Points, in which he was engaged, and the ladies and their 
 agent were also engaged in collecting funds. These agencies 
 were frequently found on the same track, and collisions occurred. 
 The lines or peculiarities of the two enterprises were never 
 marked with sufficient distinctness before the public. Indeed 
 few understood there were thus two interests, and contribu- 
 tions were generally made under the impression that it was all 
 one concern. It was soon found that feeding the hungry and 
 clothing the naked, with efforts to induce habits of industry, &c, 
 was the more popular part of the work, and the most effectual 
 plea for "material aid." It is not strange therefore, that the 
 "Home Mission" should be found inclining towards this 
 " Physical " work. — Jealousies and bickerings followed. This 
 was the state of affairs at the first of February, 1852, (some ten 
 months after Mr. Pease became the agent of the National 
 Temperance Society). At this time it was necessary to deter- 
 mine about the lease of premises for the ensuing year. The 
 difficulties above named, caused by the change of operations 
 on the part of the Ladies' Home Mission, and their entering 
 upon that part of the work by agreement assigned to the Na- 
 tional Temperance Society, induced said Society to appoint a 
 Committee, consisting of John Oliver and myself, to confer with 
 the Ladies of the Home Mission, and if possible, procure them 
 to define their position and contemplated course. The Com- 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 mittee waited on a number of gentlemen of the advisory Com- 
 mittee, but was referred to the Board of Directors, whom the 
 Committee met at one of the meetings of said Board ; after 
 sufficient relation of circumstances, difficulties, &c, the Com- 
 mittee desired to know whether the Missionary Society would 
 in future pursue the course originally understood, (i. e.) that 
 their operations and the labors of their Missionary would be 
 of the " spiritual and pastoral character," or whether experi- 
 ence and circumstances had caused them to change their origi- 
 nal plan, and they designed to embrace both the " physical and 
 spiritual," in their operations'? To this no official response 
 could be had, but the Committee returned with the conviction 
 .that the latter course would be pursued, and so reported to the 
 Board of Managers of the National Temperance Society. The 
 majority of the active members of the Board of Managers of 
 this Society were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 who, foreseeing that collisions and damage would necessarily 
 occur, determined to get out of the way, Wherefore, they re- 
 solved to relinquish all control and responsibility of the " Tem- 
 perance Home" at the Five Points, and discontinued Mr. Pease 
 as their agent, transferring to him, upon the payment of certain 
 outstanding liabilities, all properties and interests belonging to 
 said Society, at that place. A Committee was appointed, of 
 which the subscriber was one, to execute that resolution, and it 
 was done. Previous to this, a Committee had been appointed 
 to examine the accounts, receipts, expenditures, &c. of the Rev. 
 L. M. Pease, from the time he became agent of the Temperance 
 Society, — of this Committee Mr. W. H. Dikeman, accountant 
 in the Comptroller's office, was the chairman. The Committee 
 spent much time and labor, and made a thorough examination 
 of the books and accounts, followed by an able report in detail, 
 certifying to the correctness of them. This report ought to 
 have been published, but the Temperance Society ceasing ope- 
 rations about that time, no further action was taken. 
 
 Immediately upon the relinquishment of the Temperance 
 Society, Mr. Pease, by counsel of friends of the enterprise, 
 again leased the buildings, and several gentlemen were associ- 
 ated as an advising Committee, who met monthly, or oftener, 
 to supervise the affairs of the Institution. Steps were recently 
 taken for obtaining an Act of Incorporation to give the Institu- 
 tion greater permanency and stability. 
 
 The foregoing narrative shows how the separation between 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 Mr. Pease and the Ladies' Home Missionary Society occurred. 
 Hence it is not true " that the Ladies having lost confidence in 
 him, asked to have him removed and the Rev. Mr. Luckey 
 appointed." 
 
 Mr. Luckey had already been one year at the mission, and 
 Mr. Pease had passed from the ladies' control and the enterprise 
 had been surrendered by the Temperance Society upon the devel- 
 opment of this antagonism, when the ladies doubtless exerted 
 their influence for his removal, at the annual Conference of May, 
 1852, because any other man at that point on the Five Points, 
 would have been less objectionable to them. 
 
 So also is seen with what integrity the charge is made or 
 sustained, that while Mr. Pease was engaged primarily at the 
 Home Mission, he received various moneys which were not 
 paid into the Treasury of said Missionary Society. It will be 
 seen, that during the year (almost) in which he was so laboring, 
 a great amount of this " Physical " work was done. Beside 
 the out door aid, several buildings had been hired, cleaned, 
 altered ; work rooms, furniture, bedsteads, bedding, bake house 
 and fixtures, all cost money, which was collected specially for 
 such purposes. 
 
 Now it may be asked, would it have been honest in Mr. 
 Pease to have put this money in the Missionary Treasury to 
 spread the Gospel, when he could not get one dollar of it back 
 again to answer the purpose for which it was contributed 1 
 
 Mr. Pease is thus charged with having received the proceeds 
 of a temperance lecture, given by Mr. John B. Gough, of which 
 the ladies " never received one cent of the money." 
 
 A few weeks since, Mr. C. C. Leigh, now member of 
 Assembly from this city, told me that he was present, at that 
 " Gough " meeting — that the appeal was then and there made 
 to the people in behalf of the bake house — work shop, &c, of 
 the Five Points Mission. That he (Mr. Leigh) was Treasurer, 
 received the money and paid it over to Mr. Pease for the pur- 
 poses named. Mr. Leigh further stated, that he so testified 
 before a Quarterly Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, held in Greene-street, where this and other charges of 
 like character had been preferred against the Rev. L. M. Pease, 
 and said Conference after having heard all the testimony in the 
 case, acquitted him of all such charges. 
 
 It is insinuated that the " reports " of the results made by Mr. 
 Pease are sheer fabrications, that names have been sought, and 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 though hundreds have been reported, not fifty — twenty — ten 
 — five — no ! not even " one temperance convert, reclaimed by 
 Mr. Pease, could be discovered in the Sodom of New York." 
 If this is so there is but one of two inferences — either that all 
 " the virtue and efficiency" is with the New York Ladies' Home 
 Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church — which 
 is a very modest conclusion — or the public have been most 
 egregiously gulled. 
 
 It is to be regretted that either of these enterprises engaged 
 in accomplishing a great moral work, permit such exhibitions 
 of perverse human nature, yet an overruling Providence will 
 doubtless guide this for good, because the watchful jealousy 
 thus evinced will quickly sound the alarm, and advise the 
 public of any misconduct in their servants. But it is not well 
 to wait for this, let our citizens make frequent visits to these 
 institutions, they are accessible at all proper times, and the 
 managers will cheerfully yield all desirable information. Try 
 Mr. Pease and see if he will not show his books and accounts, 
 look into the bake-house, school, workshops, sick rooms, see 
 the inmates, their number, character, prospects and wants, and 
 then act as duty and humanity prompt. 
 
 JOHN STEPHENSON. 
 
 New York, Jan. 19, 1852. 
 
 LETTER OF THOMAS EELLS. 
 
 To the Editors of the N. Y. Express. 
 
 My attention has been called to an article in your paper of 
 Friday evening last, containing ten or twelve specific charges 
 against the moral character of the Rev. L. M. Pease. 1 deem 
 it a duty to the public, and to the cause of the poor outcast, as 
 well as to the more immediate object of that flagrant assault, 
 to state a few facts from my personal knowledge, in answer to 
 the charges of which it consists. 
 
 For the last four years, I have spent when in the city and 
 not sick, every Sunday and some two or three evenings of each 
 week, at the Five Points ; and I venture to f ssert that there is 
 no man living who knows more of the history, both of the 
 Ladies' Methodist Mission, and of the House of" Industry, than 
 myself. I have kept a journal of facts, from the first Sabbath 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 — the commencement of the Mission — up to this hour, and am 
 not compelled to resort to memory, but have the facts and 
 dates on record before me. It is proper to add, that without 
 any official connection, responsibility, or interest of any kind, 
 other than that of every well-wisher to the cause of humanity, 
 1 have labored personally and contributed according to my 
 means, for both of the institutions at the Five Points, in perfect 
 harmony and good understanding with both, from the very 
 first ; and have never to my knowledge, cherished or become 
 the object of an unkind feeling, in connection with either, from 
 that day to this. I understand that the book forthcoming from 
 the Ladies' Mission, contains evidence of this fact. The article 
 says : — 
 
 1. Mr. Pease received from a Southern gentleman, and from the Sands 
 street Church in Brooklyn, fifty dollars each. Of this money he gave no 
 account to the ladies." 
 
 The facts are these. Mr. Pease had started his " Home " 
 for the poor and destitute, on his own responsibility, daily re- 
 ceiving, feeding, and clothing large numbers ; and I know of 
 his having been frequently obliged to borrow large sums of 
 money to sustain them. I have known him with a hundred 
 people depending on him for support and not one dollar in his 
 pocket ; and it is notorious that the Ladies' Society never pre- 
 tended to assume the slightest degree of responsibility for that 
 undertaking. They paid his salary as a minister, and there the 
 relation terminated. 
 
 In this state of affairs the Sands street Sabbath School re- 
 quested me to visit them and present the claims of the work at 
 the Five Points. I did so, directing their sympathies as my 
 own were directed, to the all-important and arduous task with 
 which Mr. Pease was thus struggling alone and on his own re- 
 sponsibility. The result w T as a contribution of fifty dollars, 
 which w r as tendered to me to be applied to the cause I had ad- 
 vocated. At my request, however, the money was paid directly 
 to Mr. Pease, who gave his receipt for it on the next day in 
 my presence to the Secretary of the School, Mr. Ira Perego. 
 It was expended for the maintenance of the " Home," and has 
 stood credited to The donors on the books of the Institution, 
 open to universal inspection, from that day to this. So with 
 fifty dollars presented by the " Southern Gentleman." It was 
 given to Mr. Pease for the same purpose — applied to the same 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 purpose, and credited in the same manner — all with my imme- 
 diate cognizance. 
 
 2. " He received from Jenny Lind — as the agent of the Ladies' Mission — 
 the sum of $250," without accounting for it. 
 
 The facts are : — While Mr. Pease was sustaining the House 
 of Industry, in the midst of the difficulties to which I have 
 alluded — I, myself, wrote a letter to Jenny Lind, pleading the 
 wants of the " Home." She nobly responded by a donation of 
 $200. It was credited on the books — (where it may now be seen 
 by the curious) — announced in the public journals — and used 
 to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. The following letter 
 from John Jay, Esq., who was Miss Lind's organ in this benev- 
 olent act, will explain both the manner and the purpose of the 
 gift ; showing that it was not bestowed upon " the agent of the 
 Ladies' Mission," nor designed for its benefit. 
 
 New York, Dec. 11th, 1850. 
 To Rev. Mr. Pease, President of Ike Temperance Association, : 
 
 Rev. Sir. — I have the pleasure of transmitting to you the sum of two 
 hundred dollars, (in a check to your order upon the Bank of New York,) 
 as a donation from Miss Lind, for the relief of the poor at the Five Points, by 
 the Temperance Association, this money being a part of the proceeds of the 
 morning concert recently given by that lady in this city for charitable 
 purposes, and being thus appropriated by the committee whom Miss Lind 
 appointed to determine its distribution. I have the honor to be, with 
 great respect your most obedient servant. JOHN JAY. 
 
 It is needless to add, that this was the only donation ever 
 made to Mr. Pease by Jenny Lind. 
 
 3. " He received several hundred dollars from a lecture by Mr. Gough, 
 by acting as the agent of the Ladies' Mission. This amount he never 
 surrendered." 
 
 The facts. At one of our Friday evening Temperance 
 meetings at the " Home," Mr. Gough was present, in company 
 with the Rev. Mr. Dikeman. Mr. Gough was so delighted 
 with the inmates of house, that he said to Mr. Pease : "Sir, if 
 you will get up a meeting in the Tabernacle, I will come and 
 speak for you." He had never seen, and did not not know one 
 of the ladies of the Mission. 
 
 The meeting was held, several hundred dollars were raised, 
 and Mr. Gough was complimented by the audience with an en- 
 thusiastic vote of thanks on the spot. The money was placed, 
 by vote, in the hands of Rev. C. C. Leigh, of the Methodist 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 Church, (now a member of the New York Legislature,) as Trea- 
 surer for the meeting, for the "benefit of the " Home," and was 
 paid out from time to time, to Mr. Pease's order, as the wants 
 of the " Home " required. Mr. Leigh can be referred to by 
 those who desire further assurance of the correctness of this 
 statement. If Mr. Gougii was dissatisfied, as alleged, with the 
 acknowledgment made to him, and afterwards mixed up the 
 supposed affront with the ladies of the Methodist Mission, with 
 whom he had never had anything to do, directly or indirectly, 
 — the public will perceive how little this has to do with the 
 nature of Mr. Pease's conduct in the transaction. 
 
 4. " He has never yet yielded bis books or accounts, although a commit- 
 tee of gentlemen was appointed, after the Ladies failed to get them." 
 
 More facts. I was present at an examination of Mr. Pease's 
 books and accounts, made in consequence of certain imputations, 
 in the basement of the Green street Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 after the establishment had passed under the control of the 
 National Temperance Society. Five Methodist Clergymen 
 and the Presiding Elder, Rev. Benjamin Griffin, examined 
 them there, closely and critically, and the result w r as, that each 
 of them exclaimed, " These books are correct ; we cannot see 
 anything wrong in them." At this investigation the Gough 
 atfair was one of the particular subjects inquired into, and it 
 was decided that the accounts and conduct of Mr. Pease in the 
 matter were correct. 
 
 5. " The ladies did not apply for his re-appointment, because they had 
 lost all confidence in his assertions and financial statements." 
 
 Let " the ladies " answer for themselves this point, and in- 
 form the public how and why Mr. Pease came to be transferred 
 from their employment. The following is an extract from an 
 official communication on the subject, published in the papers 
 of this city, soon after the separation, under the signature of 
 Imogen Mercein, as Corresponding Secretary of the Ladies' 
 Home Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, " by order of 
 the Board.'''' After relating the circumstances of Mr. Pease's 
 original appointment, they say : — 
 
 " With his success the public have already "been informed, and the result 
 of his energetic efforts can be witnessed at any time by those interested in 
 this mission. Mr. Pease immediately found that the fearful prevalence of 
 intemperance was a complete barrier to the success of all efforts for their 
 Spiritual good — that the temperance cause must be the basis of all im- 
 
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 provement. He, therefore, turned his attention to this point, and soon 
 realized that all efforts must prove abortive unless the miserable victims, 
 when rescued, could be furnished with employment. This led to the estab- 
 lishment of the work-room, <fcc, so enlarging Mr. Pease's respmisibilities 
 a)id eludes, that it became impossible for him ever to supervise the 7>iission 
 in all its aspects. At this point, the National Temperance Society, who 
 had been deeply interested in the movement, came forward and offered to 
 take the whole temporal part of the establishment under their care ; and 
 judging that Mr. Pease's qualifications for that work had been fully tested, 
 desired him to become their agent. Application was made to the Xew York 
 Conference, then in session, and the Bishop consented that Mr. Pease should 
 take that appoiyitment. 
 
 Such was the termination of Mr. Pease's connection with the 
 Ladies' 3Iission, and it was never afterwards renewed. 
 
 6. " The National Temperance Society were not satisfied with Mr. Pease's 
 financial statements, and from this cause and his unveracity, they dissolved 
 their connexion with him, before the time for which he was engaged expired." 
 
 I understand that the records of the National Temperance 
 Society will show the reverse of the above statements. In con- 
 sequence of rumors affecting the integrity of Mr. Pease, (simi- 
 lar to some, the character of which I have exposed.) a committee 
 of investigation was appointed, of which the Rev. Mr. Dikeman 
 of the Methodist Church, (who may now be seen daily at the 
 Comptroller's office, City Hall,) was chairman. Mr. Dikeman 
 will sustain the assertion that their report, after a searching in- 
 vestigation, was unanimously in favor of Mr. Pease, in every 
 particular, and recommended the continuance of the Society's 
 relation with him. Also, that the report was approved by the 
 Executive Committee, and that this was the last of all imputa- 
 tions against Mr. Pease, during his connection with the Society. 
 Mr. W. H. Cornell and Mr. John Stephenson, of the M. E. 
 Church — (the first, at this very day, and the latter until recently, 
 a Director of the Five Points House of Industry) — and others, 
 who may easily be referred to, were members of the Executive 
 Committee, and will fully sustain these statements, and can 
 further testify, of their own knowledge, that the separation be- 
 tween Mr. Pease and the Society was brought about solely by 
 the financial inability of the latter, and took place without any 
 abatement of mutual confidence and cordiality between them. 
 
 7. " Not one convert reclaimed by Mr. Pease could be discovered." 
 
 The writer of this charge forgot that two of the most promi- 
 nent opposers of Mr. Pease, who have persecuted him with 
 unaccountable bitterness, owe their reformation to Mr. Pease 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 and his House of Industry, and are still connected with the 
 Ladies' Mission — monuments, so far as they possess respect a- 
 bility, of his success as a Methodist Missionary. The curious 
 can be referred to a multitude of these living monuments, by 
 calling at the House of Industry, or upon me. 
 
 8. " He has received larger contributions, but distributed less for the 
 benefit of the poor, than the Ladies' Mission." 
 
 The books of the House of Industry will show to any one 
 who wishes to examine them, that every dollar received or 
 earned at the House of Industry, has been frugally applied to 
 the support of its destitute inmates, and the relief of sufferers 
 outside, or invested for the permanent benefit of the poor of the 
 city. 
 
 9. " He has been known to sell boxes of clothes to second hand Jew 
 stores." 
 
 If this is supposed to be of any consequence, I can say that i 
 I happen to know of some worn out clothes being sold, on one 
 occasion, for carpet rags, when past any other use, and the pro- 
 ceeds applied to the support of the Home. The enemies of the 
 House of Industry might perhaps have been allowed the full 
 benefit of this momentous circumstance without comment. 
 
 10. " Mr. Pease once informed the public that there had been for five 
 weeks past, an average attendance of one hundred at his workshop;" 
 whereas, " this workshop would not hold one hundred." 
 
 The Ladies' Missionary Society are good authority in these 
 premises, and they will excuse the liberty I take of quoting once 
 more from their official reports, on a subject of which it is not 
 supposable that they would have spoken either ignorantly or 
 deceitfully. 
 
 The Seventh Annual Report (1851,) says, in Miss Mereehrs 
 own language and person : — 
 
 " The women who desired work, were invited to the Mission room, and 
 there sewed under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Pease, during the entire 
 day. For five weeks the daily attendance averaged one hundred." 
 
 I will only add that on Sunday last I counted in the identical 
 room, then used as a workshop, (without the enlargement.) two 
 hundred and forty children, eighty women and twenty men : — 
 total, three hundred and forty, all comfortably seated. 
 
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 11. The charge of profane and indecent language. 
 
 There is a class of accusations to which no man entitled to 
 entertain a decent respect for himself can be expected to descend. 
 The circumstances and the language of Mr. Pease on the occa- 
 sion referred to in the charge of profane arid abusive language, 
 are well known to me ; and if I could think it right to lower 
 myself or the subject of my communication so far as to explore 
 the calumny, it would appear that the real sentiments and ex- 
 pressions of Mr. Pease were as unlike those attributed to him, 
 as the solemn warning of a Christian Minister against a future 
 judgment, are to the blasphemous ribaldry concocted and 
 gloated over by the authors of that article. 
 
 12. " In whose name has Mr. Pease's far-famed philanthropic farm been 
 purchased." , 
 
 The " House of Industry " is not yet a chartered institution, 
 but soon will be. Mr. and Mrs. Pease have jointly signed a 
 bond to make over the farm to the Board of Directors, as soon 
 as a charter can be obtained. 
 
 I have only to add, in conclusion, that Mr. Pease has, to my 
 knowledge, kept a strict account of the moneys and goods re- 
 ceived by him or earned in the institution, since the day he first 
 opened its doors. Those accounts are, and always have been, 
 open to inspection by any who wish to see them, and each of 
 your readers has it in his power to verify personally the facts I 
 have stated from the the testimony of those accounts. 
 
 The inference that he must receive " perquisites " to enable 
 him to make such large donations of money, to the cause in 
 which he labors day and night, may pass. But as to his own 
 emoluments,, I can say, for I know it, that they have not been 
 sufficient to require any " perquisites" to make them up, beyond 
 the slender salary of practically much less than " $900," per 
 annum, which Mr. and Mrs. Pease draw for the incessant and un- 
 divided labors, and continual perilous exposure, which has reduced 
 each of them to the appearance of a meagre shadow, wan, attenu- 
 ated and sickly, but energetic, untiring and uncomplaining as ever. 
 
 A man's word is usually as good as his oath ; but both of 
 these are ready, if necessary, to substantiate all that I have 
 asserted. THOMAS EELLS, 
 
 No. 23 Hicks street, Brooklyn. 
 
1C 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO TUB 
 
 THE PERSECUTION OF MR. PEASE. 
 
 From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, Feb. 9th. 
 
 The N. Y. Express has a second time suffered itself to be 
 used, as a vent for the vulgar animosity, individual and represent- 
 ative, of an irresponsible assailant of the Rev. L. M. Pease. 
 The Express astonished its friends sufficiently by the first 
 offence. A communication so scandalous never before appear- 
 ed within our observation, in a respectable newspaper ; and the 
 coarse violence which disarmed the attack of all plausibility, it 
 would seem might have warned even the Express against the 
 dangerous responsibility of publishing it. But that any editor 
 or man, in his senses, and without a personal motive, could 
 have become the vehicle of a second cart-load of billingsgate 
 from the same quarter, after the scorching and unanswerable ex- 
 posures by Mr. Stephenson and Mr. Eells, which had followed 
 and consumed the first — is a wonder greater than the most 
 generous public can be made to believe. Especially so, since 
 the second communication served only to give aggravated and 
 explanatory evidence of the personal rancor in which both origi- 
 nated, and to remove by its utter failure in proof, any appre- 
 hension that might otherwise have remained of the existence of 
 two sides to the argument — the futile struggles of the writer to 
 re-erect the fragments of his demolished accusations, amounting 
 to the most humiliating confession of falsehood which could well 
 be framed. 
 
 But a third wonder has come to light. Certain Ladies of 
 the Methodist Home Mission, it seems, have chosen such an in- 
 strument and such an 'associate, as that by which* they choose 
 to come forward openly at last, as the patrons and supporters 
 of a religious crusade against a man with whom they have had 
 no manner of relation for years. The delicacy with which Mr. 
 Pease and his friends have studiously suppressed every avoid- 
 able allusion to them, even in self-defence, — the veil of charita- 
 ble silence which, to preserve religion itself from scandal, has 
 been constantly thrown over them, by the benevolent institu- 
 tion which they began to oppose from the moment that they 
 lost ecclesiastical control over it — all this is thrown away. 
 Their own hands have rent the veil, and their vindictive agency 
 in this persecution stands confessed and undisguised before the 
 public. They have not harmed the object of their animosity, 
 
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 by the pointless and evasive testimony which testifies only of 
 the unchristian spirit which actuated it ; — for what christian 
 motive could induce them, unassailed and unprovoked, to vilify 
 obtrusively before the public, a man for whose conduct they 
 have long ceased to have any responsibility, and from whom, 
 with all their dislike, they had been unable to part, as to eccle- 
 siastical relations, otherwise than in peace and fellowship 1 — 
 but they have fixed upon the name of religion and of christian 
 charity, a stain which all the piety of their lives will be insuf- 
 ficient to efface. They claim, indeed, to have been assailed, 
 ridiculed and misrepresented by Mr. Pease,— as if this were a 
 christian apology for retorting instead of repelling, the alleged 
 assault — but the public know of no such thing. With the excep- 
 tion of the offences which their champion now confesses to, without 
 the shame appropriate to such a confession, we have seen nothing 
 claiming connection with the House of Industry, in which an 
 unkind or disparaging allusion was made to the Methodist 
 Mission or its friends. Their plea, miserable in itself, is miser- 
 ably untrue. 
 
 Let not the respectable denomination to which these persons 
 belong, be held responsible indiscriminately for their conduct. 
 It is known that many of its best members regard their course 
 with sorrow and mortification, and give their warm and open 
 support to Mr. Pease, nobly regardless of sectarian motives 
 and influences. The Methodist Church will probably never 
 lack an able and influential representation in the directorate of 
 the Five Points House of Industry. 
 
 We do not purpose to notice the pitiable instrument and 
 embodiment of all this malice. "The worm will do his kind." 
 No other witness could expose the antecedents, personal quali- 
 ties, and immediate motives of this assailant, with the revolting 
 distinctness in which he has himself displayed them. But the 
 exertions of the auxiliary ladies and ex-members of the Tem- 
 perance Society, to give a color of proof, a painted prop, to the 
 accusations in which they have gratuitously interested them- 
 selves, will repay a passing glance, for the benefit of your 
 readers generally, whose tastes will not lead them to trace the 
 intricacies of a production like that in question, — before we in- 
 troduce a piece of conclusive official evidence on the only point 
 not fully disposed of by the letter of Mr. Eells. 
 
 The whole series of charges relating to monies received by 
 Mr. Pease as an agent of the Ladies' Mission, but not account- 
 
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 ed for to them, was destroyed by proving that none of these 
 moneys were received by him as their agent, or in any capacity 
 or for any purpose, as to which he was accountable to them. 
 The Ladies and their friends have attempted to set up these 
 charges again, by means of a wretched equivocation on the 
 term " Five Points Mission ;" introducing testimonies to show 
 that the funds in question were given (as they certainly were) 
 to the Five Points Mission ; a term by which it is notorious 
 that Mr. Pease's enterprise has been designated from the first, 
 by nine-tenths of those who have spoken of it, written about it, 
 or addressed it ; but which is dishonestly implied to have had 
 intentional application only to the work of the Methodist Ladies. 
 A confession at once so full and so dishonorable in itself, we 
 have rarely seen. It is a melancholy confirmation, that these 
 Ladies in the same connection, admit that " Mr. Pease compelled 
 the Board to pay over to him " that portion of the Gough funds 
 which had got into their hands, on the ground that it was intended 
 for his use in aiding the destitute. - 
 
 Again, the unanswerable fact that Mr. Pease's accounts 
 (contrary to the charge made against him) were submitted for 
 examination, and found correct by a Methodist Committee, is 
 evaded by a certificate that certain persons had failed in an ap- 
 plication to get possession of the books of Mr. Pease's private 
 enterprise / It was certainly judicious to keep them, especially 
 when they had been so well examined, endorsed and certified, 
 and to keep them, as they always have been kept, open to all 
 proper investigation. Further, a member of the National 
 Temperance Society certifies to his failure in an attempt to get 
 Mr. Pease's accounts out of his own custody — an attempt 
 which he is strangely not ashamed to confess — but it is not so 
 much as pretended, that the accounts were ever withheld from 
 investigation for one moment, on any occasion. The stress laid 
 upon the absence of vouchers for the earlier accounts, is wholly 
 misplaced of course, in a case like the present, where no evidence 
 impugning the correctness of the accounts, has been obtained by 
 years of vindictive research. 
 
 The stubborn fact that the Ladies' Society, so far from having 
 uttered a word of complaint against Mr. Pease while in connec- 
 tion with him, did emphatically recommend him in their annual 
 and occasional reports to the public, is now evaded by them 
 with the discreditable averment that they were — to use plain 
 terms — insincere and disingenuous at the time, in order to 
 
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 escape "the pain of any public difficulty with Mr. Pease." 
 Whither has this exquisite delicacy of charitable feeling fled, at 
 the present time, when without a tolerable pretext founded in 
 truth, they obtrude themselves upon the public to proclaim — 
 what ? Not that they have a solitary fact to disclose which 
 would have enabled them then or now, to make " a public diffi- 
 culty with Mr. Pease," without covering themselves with con- 
 fusion, but simply that they had had difficulties with him, and 
 that their good will and confidence (prodigious fact!) had been 
 withdrawn ; although by their own avowal they never ventured 
 till long after the subject could in any way be Drought to an im- 
 partial tribunal, to give the public even an indirect intimation 
 of that tact. 
 
 The striking confutation of the workroom slander is not met 
 or even evaded. Only the ladies again come forward to grace 
 themselves with an avowal that their own positive testimony 
 quoted on this point was merely supposititious and unreliable. 
 The avowal is highly pertinent to the general case, indeed, but 
 seems to bear strongly on the wrong side of it. 
 
 We now come to the National Temperance Society. On 
 this topic alone, conclusive direct evidence has not been made 
 public, and having personally referred to the only proper evi- 
 dence — that of the official records — we feel called upon to give 
 it in sufficient detail to demonstrate the reckless corruption 
 which pervades the attacks published by the Express. Ex uno 
 disce omnes. It is fit to premise, however, that the ex-members 
 who sign the certificate in support of this charge, do not dare to 
 sustain the essential part of it, which was that the National 
 Temperance Society dissolved their connection with Mr. Pease 
 before the expiration of the engagement, on account of his 
 "unveracity" and financial imfuthtulness. In support (!) of 
 this statement, five or six of the twenty-five directors have signed 
 a certificate that the Society were not satisfied with Mr. Pease 
 in these respects. The opinion of these well known sectarian 
 enemies of Mr. Pease, will now be compared with the official 
 record of facts. 
 
 It appears by a thorough examination of all the records, that 
 from first to last neither the Society, its Directors, or its Execu- 
 tive Committee, ever took notice of the complaints of Mr Pease's 
 enemies, even so far as to appoint a committee of investigation. 
 It is apparent that hostility to Mr. Pease existed among the 
 members ; but it is certain that in their official capacity they 
 
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 never ventured to manifest it, and still less, to state the grounds 
 of it. 
 
 One or two complaints appear on the records early in the 
 connection of the Society with Mr. Pease, growing out of an 
 alleged want of promptness in rendering statistical returns ; and 
 one of Mr. Pease's financial reports was referred back to him 
 for further details. It was evident that Mr. Pease had too 
 much to do, and the assistance of a clerk was asked for by 
 motions which appear on the minutes, but was repeatedly re- 
 fused, until the 5th of November, 1851, when a clerk was ap- 
 pointed for one month, by a resolution of the Executive com- 
 mittee, to assist in getting the accounts in order. December 
 3rd, it appears by a report from the Committee having that 
 matter in charge, that the clerk appointed, and also another 
 whom they had engaged as a substitute, were objectionable to 
 Mr. Pease, and had been successively refused by him. There- 
 upon, the Executive Committee instructed their committee forth- 
 with to appoint another. This was done, and Mr. R. C. Bull 
 served to the close of the connection, as Book-keeper and Cashier 
 of the Home, responsible solely and directly to the Society. 
 All the accounts were posted and balanced by him, for the year, 
 and on his report was based in part the report of the committee 
 alluded to in Mr. Eells' letter, and the action of the Society 
 which followed, and which we are about to quote. No ex- 
 pression by act or opinion, inculpatory of Mr. Pease, can be 
 found in the records. The committee alluded to is found not 
 to have been appointed with reference to any imputations upon 
 Mr. Pease, but simply for the purpose of ascertaining how far 
 the Society was in a condition to continue its operations. 
 
 December 12th, 1851, the Directors passed the following 
 resolution : 
 
 Resolved — That a Committee be appointed to examine into the whole 
 state of the financial concerns of the Society, and to report at the adjourned 
 meeting ; and that the said Committee report their opinion as to the prac- 
 ticability of continuing the present operations of the Society. 
 
 W. H. Dikeman, Benj. Mason, Isaac J. Oliver, and John 
 Falconer, were appointed this committee. 
 
 They reported, January 26, 1852. Under the head of " The 
 Home " they gave first a condensed statement of all the finan- 
 cial concerns, receipts, and expenditures of the Home from the 
 beginning, correctly balanced, and without comment. Next a 
 statement of its assets and liabilities. Then a statement of 
 
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 the number and condition of the inmates, followed by warmly 
 congratulatory remarks upon the successful results of the work, 
 which close with this paragraph : 
 
 " In relation to the question, Shall the Home be continued % 
 your Committee would say that in their opinion the Society are 
 so committed to this object before the public, that they cannot 
 with propriety withdraw from the enterprise, but on the con- 
 trary they will be compelled by circumstances and success to 
 enlarge their operations, and build up an Institution that will 
 long remain as a monument of their foresight and benevolence. 
 The Committee however will confine themselves in their recom- 
 mendations at the 'present time, to the Home as it is now conducted." 
 [Excepting this sentence, the italics are the Committee's own.] 
 
 The Committee proceed to recommend securing the buildings 
 of the Home for another year ; the employment of a business 
 agent, so as to leave Mr. Pease " to attend to the more im- 
 portant work of counselling and instructing ; and to the col- 
 lection of subscriptions, &c, for its maintenance ;" and finally 
 an application to the Legislature for further aid to the Home. 
 Thereupon it was 
 
 Resolved — That the Committee be requested to prepare their report for 
 publication and for presentation to the Legislature, and that the Secretary 
 be directed to prepare an appeal to the Legislature for another appropria- 
 tion ; and that the subject of leasing the buildings for another year, be re- 
 ferred to the Executive Committee, with power. 
 
 The Executive Committee resolved to lease the buildings for 
 another year. But at a meeting of the Directors, held March 
 3rd, 1852, present, Messrs. Falconer, Sands, Dikeman, I. J. 
 Oliver, Godine, Pease, North, Stephenson, J. W. Oliver, 
 Mason, Bird and Warren, the following resolutions were 
 passed : 
 
 Resolved — Tn view of the limited resources of the Society, that it is not 
 expedient to continue the Industrial Temperance Home, after the 1st of 
 May next. » 
 
 Resolved — That a Committee be appointed to take charge of this matter, 
 and see how it can be disposed of, and that the Committee have power to 
 settle in full the relations of the Industrial Temperance Home to the National 
 Temperance Society. 
 
 Resolved — That it is expedient to reduce the expenses of the Society to 
 the smallest practicable limits, for the current year, and that it is inexpe- 
 dient to renew engagements, after the 1st of May next, either with our 
 Agent,* or for the present office. 
 
 * Rev. C. J. Warren. 
 
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 At the next meetiDg the committee reported arrangements 
 agreed upon with Mr. Pease, which were approved : Mr. Pease 
 taking the Home, both assets and liabilities', off the hands off the 
 Society, and the Society paying the balance due him. Thus 
 the connection terminated and thus the whole subject of the 
 financial relations and the motives of the separation is authori- 
 tatively and fully explained. It appears in connection with the 
 passage of the resolutions last quoted, that some proposition in 
 relation to the Home, with reasons therefor, (the nature of 
 which does not even appear on the Journal) was introduced 
 and failed. This may possibly be intelligible when taken in 
 connection with the unfavorable feelings towards Mr. Pease, by 
 which some of the then directors now avow themselves to have 
 been actuated. It is rendered certain by the above extracts, 
 that the discontinuance of the Home, of their agent, Mr. Warren, 
 and their office, was done at the same time, and from the same 
 motive, viz : pecuniary difficulty. The Society ceased opera- 
 tions finally, in a short time after this. 
 
 The above facts are submitted to the public, without suggestion 
 or assistance from Mr. Pease or any of his friends. The writer 
 offers no apology for his gratuitous interference. The cause 
 aimed at through the person of the Rev. L. M. Pease, is that 
 of humanity in its broadest sense, and of Christianity in its 
 essential elements ; and no specific enterprise on foot in the 
 name of either, can compete in importance or obligation, with 
 that of introducing the Gospel element of reformation among 
 the helpless outcasts of society, through avenues opened by 
 honorable employment, and well directed aid to moral or 
 physical infirmity. 
 
 From the New York Courier and Enquirer February 9th. 
 [editorial.] 
 
 We publish this morning an extended communication .in 
 reply to the attacks, which have been made through the medium 
 of the Express, upon the character of the Five Points Missionary, 
 Rev. Mr. Pease. It comes from a gentleman who has taken 
 particular pains to investigate the whole subject, and whose 
 truthfulness and love of justice are worthy of the most implicit 
 confidence. In view of the clearness and method with which 
 he presents his disproofs, and in view also of the aggravated 
 nature of the provocation, we can forgive the indignant spirit 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 with which he writes. There is a vileness in these unprovoked 
 and unremitting attacks upon the most self-denying and most 
 useful missionary on the American continent, which ought to 
 fill every honest breast with indignation. 
 
 This is a matter of public concern. It has long been said 
 that no man can go among the degraded population of this city 
 and honestly labor, during any length of time, for their reform, 
 without bringing upon himself calumnies that will inevitably end 
 in ruining his good name. The man who goes into battle no 
 more literally takes his life in his hand, than the man takes his 
 character in his hand who ventures into such a field of benevo- 
 lence. It is at the mercy of every hater of good, and of every 
 profiter by iniquity. It matters not though the philanthropic 
 wor&er be animated with the soul of an Apostle, he is not secure, 
 for his vulgar enemies full well understand the truth of the 
 vulgar adage, " Throw mud enough, and some of it will be sure 
 to stick." But the question has at last come to this : Will 
 this intelligent community longer tolerate this systematic 
 detraction of its greatest benefactor % There is no man amongst 
 us who is doing so much towards drying up the sources of 
 vice and' crime as Mr. Pease. He is not only rescuing im- 
 mortal souls from otherwise inevitable ruin, but he is, in a 
 most important degree, lightening the material burdens of the 
 city and the State. By a system of prevention which will tell 
 in the speedy future, he is doing the work of a hundred police- 
 men and a court of criminal law. We know whereof we affirm, 
 for we have long been in the habit of visiting his Institution, 
 and thoroughly understand its mode of working and its effects. 
 If any one doubts, let him personally examine, for the visitor 
 is always welcome. In view of this visible, palpable, undenia- 
 ble good, what are we to think of that specimen of human 
 nature which seeks to destroy it all, by destroying him by 
 whose instrumentality it is effected'? Must it not be more 
 than ordinarily depraved % If indeed it acts with reflection at 
 all, must it not be absolutely diabolical % Even meeting it on 
 its own ground, even supposing that the Missionary is not a 
 good man, is that any reason for hostility to his enterprise, 
 which it dffrst not deny is good % The atheist, who, not content 
 with disbelieving himself, labors to destroy the faith which 
 works such good in others and yet harms him not, is deemed a 
 wretch ; — and yet wherein does his disposition differ from that 
 of the man who would crush a good thing because he is not 
 
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 satisfied with its author • who would prevent devils from being 
 cast out because he has some doubt about the personal merits 
 of the exorcist ? Mr. Pease's account books are open for 
 universal inspection ; he sends a list of his weekly receipts and 
 contributions to all of the principal newspapers of the city ; his 
 accounts are regularly audited by a board of directors above 
 suspicion, and are published in a periodical report to the public. 
 But if all this does not afford the Missionary's accusers sufficient 
 satisfaction, let them, in view of the incontestible good that is 
 accomplished, for very shame's sake keep silence. 
 
 We do not mean that these remarks shall be applied to any 
 of the persons directly connected with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Mission of the Five Points, for we would not willingly impair 
 their usefulness. The spirit of many of their communications 
 to the public we cannot but deeply regret ; and are especially 
 Borry to see it as exhibited in a certain Methodist Episcopal 
 newspaper friendly to their enterprise, and also in an other- 
 wise excellent book just issued under their auspices. Yet we 
 do not attribute it to positive malignity, but to that illiberality 
 of feeling which successful competition in even good works too 
 often produces. Each of the institutions at the Five Points is 
 worthy of public confidence and support, and both together are 
 inadequate to the immensity of the great moral work which is 
 to be accomplished. They differ somewhat in character and in 
 their mode of operation. The one was established by. and is 
 under the direction o£ a particular religious denomination ; the 
 other is managed by a board made up of various denominations 
 and is planned on the very broadest principles of benevolence. 
 The one makes moral and religious instruction its principal 
 feature ; the other, while attaching perhaps quite as much 
 absolute consequence to this, yet gives material well-being a 
 larger proportionate importance, and makes the workshop an 
 indispensable adjunct of the chapel. The one believes it the 
 wiser policy to accomplish the whole work of reform on its 
 subjects, at the Five Points, and to keep them there after 
 reformation, to exert a favorable influence upon the rest ; the 
 other believes that reformation would be greatly facilitated, 
 and when once effected, would be made much mora secure De- 
 colonization in the country, and accordingly attaches particular 
 importance to its country department, which it is now laboring 
 to establish on a permanent basis. Now. surely, these are not 
 differences to be regretted, far less to be quarrelled about. 
 
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 They are great enough to afford benevolent men of diverse 
 judgments an opportunity to do good in this field, each in their 
 own way, and yet are not great enough to justify the least 
 possible degree of mutual jealousy and ill-will. Applications 
 for the incorporation of both are now before the Legislature, 
 and every true philanthropist, instead of desiring the failure of 
 either, will rejoice at the passage of acts, which will perpetuate 
 the local habitation and name of both. We do most sincerely 
 trust that these bickerings about the past will cease. If there 
 have been misapprehensions, let them drop ; if there have been 
 errors, let them be forgotten. The work which is now going 
 on among the wretched children of penury and wretchedness at 
 the Five Points is a true work ; and let all true men stand by 
 it. Let the man or the woman who publicly speaks evil of 
 either branch of it without the most irrefragable proof, be an 
 object of public scorn ; and let the same measure of scorn be 
 dealt out to the public journalist who gives currency to the 
 obloquy. Justice to the missionaries, who are toiling on in 
 the most repulsive and difficult and abandoned of all fields — 
 with a violence to every natural sensibility and at the cost of 
 every earthly pleasure but the satisfaction of doing good — 
 requires this. The public interests, which can only be protected 
 from the increasing inroads of pauperism, vice and crime by 
 such barriers as are erected at the very starting place by these 
 self-denying workers — require it. And it is required by a 
 regard for those wretched children who, at the very beginning 
 of existence, have been thrown without fault of theirs into that 
 path which conducts through darkness and wickedness all the 
 way through life, and terminates in ruin. There are four 
 bidders for these children already : 
 
 " We bid," say Pest and Famine, 
 
 " We bid for life and limb ; 
 Fever and pain and squalor 
 
 Their bright young eyes shall dim. 
 When children grow too many 
 
 We'll nurse them as our own, 
 And hide them in secret places 
 
 Where none may hear them moan." 
 
 " I bid" said Beggary howling ; 
 
 " I'll buy them, one and all, 
 I'll teach them a thousand lessons — 
 
 To lie, to skulk, to crawl ; 
 
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 They shall sleep iu my lair like maggots, 
 
 They shall rot iu the fair sunslrine ; 
 And if they serve my purpose 
 
 I hope they'll answer thine." 
 
 " And I'll bid higher and higher ;'' 
 
 Said Crime with a wolfish grin, 
 " For I love to lead the children 
 
 Through the pleasant paths of sin. 
 They shall swarm in the streets to pilfer ; 
 
 They shall plague the broad highway, 
 Till they grow too old for pity, 
 
 And ripe for the law to slay." 
 
 As if these four claimants were not enough, a fifth " whose 
 edge is sharper than the sword — whose tongue out- venoms all 
 the worms of Nile" has made its appearance. Its name is 
 Slander. Shall this new harpy prevail, even just as the public 
 purpose is set to foil the others ? 
 
 THE ASSAULT. 
 
 [The following article is the second of the two attacks made 
 through the N. Y. Express, under the same signature. The 
 substance of the first is quoted in the answer made by Mr. 
 Eells, in the former part of this pamphlet. This second article 
 also contains the substance of the first, with the addition of an 
 elaborate and combined effort by all its friends to sustain its 
 charges with proof. The total outcome of their enterprise will 
 therefore be seen in this article. According to the statement 
 of the editor of the Express, (Hon. James Brooks,) on the con- 
 tradiction of the charges made in the first article, he required 
 from the ' respectable ' parties who had endorsed it to him, and 
 thereby induced him to publish it, the fullest proof of the 
 charges made. They assured him that it should be furnished ; 
 and after about two weeks of preparation, they appeared before 
 the public by the same instrument as before, with the follow- 
 ing production. If it is supposed by the reader to require any 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 stronger confutation than it carries on its face, the article on 
 page 1G, from the Courier and Enquirer, headed "The Persecu- 
 tion of Mr. Pease," may be referred to.] 
 
 LIFE AT THE FIVE POINTS. 
 
 THE MISSIONARY'S ANSWER. 
 To Mr. Pease of the Five Points House of Industry : 
 
 Sie : — I have read, with great attention, the letter of Mr. Eells, in 
 reply to my recent article on Life at the Five Points. I do not doubt his 
 sincerity. I decline, however, to address my reply to him, or to regard 
 him as the author of the article to which, unhappily for his reputation, he 
 has affixed his name, I will tell you why. 
 
 One Sunday afternoon, in the autumn of 1850, you invited certain 
 individuals, (whose affidavits I can procure) into your parlor. Mr. Eells 
 at that moment was addressing the children. " Mr. Pease," said one of 
 your guests, "why do you not get a more interesting speaker to talk 
 to the children ? Mr. E. is very tedious." " I know he is," you answered, 
 " But he is good-hearted. He does not know much ; but he likes to talk ; 
 and I can use him — so I let him talk." 
 
 Mr. Eells refers to his Diary. An editor (whose affidavit I can procure) 
 once asked you to obtain it for him in order that he might publish some 
 extracts from it. " Oh ! " you answered with a laugh, " you can't tell 
 much from that. He is a very visionary man." You frequently made 
 the same remark to Councilman North. 
 
 I would not have published these, your harsh criticisms, Mr. Pease, if you 
 had denied my charges in your own name ; or if you had never attempted 
 to deceive — to " use" — me, as perhaps you are using Mr. Eells. I will spare 
 a gentleman of whose character I know nothing derogatory. You have 
 endorsed his letter by denying before witnesses the truth of my assertions. 
 You must have furnished him with several of the statements he so humor- 
 ously designates facts. You must have seen his letter in manuscript 
 — just as you saw the manuscript of that article in which I slandered a 
 philanthropic society by advancing as a fact a falsehood that I received 
 from the lips of Lewis M. Pease. Permit me, publicly, to recall to your 
 recollection your conduct toward me at that time. 
 
 In company with " the Emigrant " of the Tribune I first visited your 
 " House." For several weeks afterwards I was a constant contributor to 
 the crowd of visitors by whom you are always surrounded. I told you 
 the object of my visits. I was desirous of obtaining facts on the condition 
 of the outcast poor. You gave me a history of your life and labors. You 
 spoke of another society — a sermon and tract affair — at the Five Points. 
 I published an appeal in behalf of the poor ; I ridiculed the ladies whom 
 you represented as benevolent bigots ; I eulogized you because I regarded 
 you as the Heaven-missioned prophet of the friend-forsaken. I continued 
 my visits daily, and daily did I feel my admiration going out of me. 
 
 You contradicted yourself in trifling matters so very frequently that a 
 doubt of your veracity was rapidly developed. Shortly after the publica- 
 
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 tion of the appeal alluded to in the Journal of Commerce, I "was informed 
 that one, at least, of its statements was a falsehood. I was referred by the 
 gentleman who told me so to the ladies of the Five Points Mission. A 
 repuguance to have any dealings with bigots of any description, and 
 especially with people who pretend to be religious, give bibles instead of 
 bread to the hungry, prevented me from makiug any inquiry as to the 
 truth of my first statements for some time after they were contradicted. 
 Meauwhile, from personal observation, I had lost all confidence in your 
 Institution. 
 
 In the course of a professional engagement I made the acquaintance of 
 numbers of good men who had labored with you, but who from causes, 
 had no longer any confidence in the Superintendent of the House of 
 Industry. Then, and not till then, did I determine to visit the members 
 of the Ladies' Home Mission. I found, not tract-distributing bigots, but 
 true philanthropists, who gave of their abundance to the needy, whose 
 time was the portion of the poor, who had spent not three years only, but 
 their whole life in ameliorating the condition of the indigent. Yet of these 
 ladies I had said, and many other writers had said, that, when asked for 
 bread, they gave a tract. Lewis M. Pease ! from your own lips these 
 untruths originally proceeded. You have never had the manliness to 
 make such charges under your own signature. Your dupes assail others ; 
 your friends defend yourself. This subterfuge must now be denied to you. 
 The cause of truth, of justice, and of the " Outcast Poor" demands it. 
 
 As soon as I discovered your duplicity, I determined to expose it — to 
 compel you to fall into the pit you had dug for others. I collected from 
 various sources evidences of your philanthropy ! I ceased visiting philan- 
 thropic institutions. The greatest benefit I thought, that could be rendered 
 to the poor, was to destroy their pretended friend. The most acceptable 
 sacrifice, I thought, that could be offered up to the Genius of Benevolence, 
 would be a pseudo-philanthropist. 
 
 You tried to prevent me from being heard. You succeeded for a time. 
 Conscious that an opportunity would offer ere long, I employed my leisure 
 time in gathering additional evidence of the real object of your " plan for 
 elevating the down-trodden." I thank you for enabling me to complete my 
 evidence before opening the case. 
 
 Your parasites have charged me with having been hired by the ladies 
 of the Five Points Mission to ruin the House of Industry. Is that your 
 answer to my charges ? Listen, then, to mine. I have not received one 
 cent, nor the promise of money, nor of any other recompense from the 
 ladies of the Five Points Mission, nor from any other society, nor from any 
 person, for any such purpose. I have obtained facts from the ladies as 
 from others ; tut they neither asked me to begin the assault, nor desired 
 me to continue it. They disapprove my spirit — but they endorse my 
 statements. I have spared neither trouble nor time to teach you the 
 impolicy of trifling with a man who was earnest in his endeavors to aid 
 the indigent by assisting you. I have thoroughly investigated your 
 history ; and be assured that no fear of your fame, and that none of the 
 foolish legal threats of your friends will intimidate me from publishing 
 and publicly proving whatever I have ascertained about your conduct 
 both towards philanthropists and towards the inmates of your institution. 
 
 Enough of personalities. Let U9 p"oceed to analyze your answer 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY". 
 
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 I. THE SAND STREET CHURCH DONATION. 
 
 Your friend says that this donation (of about £50) was given to Mr. 
 Pease for ''the Home;" and not, as I stated, for the Ladies' Mission. He 
 advances this assertion very boldly. For his especial benefit I will copy 
 two lines from an extract from the books of the Sand-street Juvenile Mis- 
 sionary Society, which was furnished by Mr. W. Saudford, its treasurer : 
 
 March 1551, paid to the Five Points .Missionary Society, S50 
 
 May 11, 1S51, do. do. do. 5 
 
 Tou are aware, Mr. Pease, that neither of these sums were ever received 
 by the Ladies' Board. 
 
 II. The donation from the Southern gentleman, you say. was not given 
 to the " Ladies' Mission," but to the " Home." The donation alluded to, 
 was presented in July, 1850* within two months after your appoiutmeut 
 by the ladies, and long before you had ever mentioned your plan for the 
 establishment of a Home. By consulting the books of the secretary of 
 the Ladies' Mission, which are open to the inspection of the friends of the 
 Superintendent of the House of Industry, under the date of March 4, 1S51, 
 you will find the first record of your plan for a Home, which was not 
 established for several months afterwards. 
 
 III. The Jenny Lind Donation of $200, I stated was given to Mr. 
 Pease as the agent of the Laches' Mission. Your friend denies, with 
 rather egotistic emphasis, that this money was given to you as an agent of 
 their society, and says that it, too, was intended as a homeward-bound 
 donation. He quotes a letter from Mr. Jay, whom he designates Jenny 
 Linds organ, which was addressed. I observed with some surprise, to Rev. 
 L. M. Pease, not as the superintendent of the Home, but as the " President 
 of the Temperance Association." On asking for an explanation of this 
 circumstance from an individual who at that time was a co-laborer in the 
 cause of the outcast poor at the Five Points, I was furnished with 
 the following statement from the second directress of the Ladies' Home 
 Mission, to which, especially to the sentences I have italicised, I request 
 the attention of every reader to Mr. Eells' reply : 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE SECOND DIRECTRESS. 
 t; After Jenny Lind's first philanthropic distribution of her money, it •was suggested 
 in the Board of the Ladies ; Home Mission that something might be obtained for this 
 Mission. Mr. Pease, who -was their agent, expressed his willingness to wait upon her 
 and make the request. The Board, however*, passed no resolution on the subject. 
 Some time afterwards, the Board saw in the public prints the announcement 
 of an appropriation of $200 from Jenny Lind to the ; Five Points Temperance 
 Association. L. M. Pease, President!" They spoke to Mr. Pease at the next meet- 
 ing of the Board, when he told them 'it teas given for his ovn personal distribution? 
 that he proposed to take three or four girls and appropriate this money towards 
 their education. 1 ' No account of the expenditure of that appropriation has ever been 
 rendered. One person spoke to him about it. he replied. u / received it in my own name 
 and have a right to dispose of it as I like." There was no Temperance .Association at 
 the Five Points at that time, but that of the .Mission, of which he was. ex-omcio. the 
 President. This society had been founded by him in pursuance of directions from 
 the Board. It is the duty of all our missionaries to promote the temperance cause, it 
 being an important part of mission work. Notwithstanding this Temperance Society 
 required but a small amount of funds to carry on its work. yet. if Mr. Pease had 
 accounted for the money, or shown the recipients of the donation, the Board would 
 have been satisfied. But the Board never received one written statement during the 
 entire year he was the agent and missionary of the L. H. Mission. He had been published 
 in all the public prints as the accredited agent, and all moneys and donations directed 
 to be sent to him — yet the only moneyed transaction between Mr. Pease and the Board 
 was the monthly payment of his salary, and the only money he ever paid into the Ejird 
 cas the sum of two dollars!" 
 
go 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 [The statements in the last sentence, may or may not have 
 
 a sort of literal truth : — but in the connection in which they are 
 
 placed, they convey a falsehood. Mr. Pease was required by 
 
 the Society to collect and disburse the funds for the Mission 
 
 expenses, and of course, to keep the accounts himself. He kept 
 
 them, always open to inspection, and to the full satisfaction of 
 
 auditing officers and committees, as shown by Mr. Eells. lie 
 
 never paid the Society any money, for the sufficient reason that 
 
 enough M as never paid him for the support of their mission 
 
 (the spiritual work — the only thing they acknowledged any 
 
 responsibility for) to defray its expenses, — much less, to leave 
 
 a balance in their favor. This* the accounts, about to be 
 
 published in full, will clearly show. The $2 mentioned, were 
 
 paid over of course, being sent to the Society, by Mrs. Drew 
 
 of Brooklyn, as her fee for membership. — Ed.] 
 
 IV. The Benefit Lecture ok Mr. Gough. — "You received several 
 hundred dollars from a lecture by Mr. Gough, by acting as the agent of the 
 Ladies' Mission. That amount you never surrendered." This charge, also, 
 your friend denies, by stating that the orator lectured for the Home, and 
 not for the Mission, by whom you were at that time employed, and by 
 advancing a few assertions that he most erroneously supposed to be " the 
 facts" of the case. I have in my possession, and have exhibited to 
 the editor of the Express, a ticket endorsed by the written signaUire of " L. 
 M. Pease," of which the following is an exact transcript : 
 
 "John B. Gough's Farewell Lecture for the Benefit of the Five Points Mission, at 
 the Broadway Tabernacle, on Friday evening, Jan. 17th, 1S51. Admittance, 25c 
 Doors open, 5cc. " L. M. Pease/' 
 
 Is it not cruel, Mr. Pease, to refute the statements of your friend, by the 
 written signature of " the subject of his communication ? " Is this the 
 mode in which you do unto others as ye would that others should do 
 unto you ? 
 
 For the private perusal of Mr. Eells, I will publish yet another answer 
 to his reply to this charge : 
 
 Mr. Eells states that the money collected at the lecture by Gough, was 
 placed in the hands of C. C. Leigh, for the benefit of the "House" and then 
 he refers the reader to that gentleman to corroborate his assertion. In 
 the books kept by C. C. Leigh, among other entries, is one which announces 
 that $100 had been paid to Mr. Pease for ihe Five Points Jfission ! The 
 Five Points Mission, however, never received even one dollar of that 
 amount. For his own sake, Mr. Pease, you ought to advise your friend to 
 be more cautious in giving references. 
 
 Before the lecture was delivered Mr. Pease stated to the Board — and 
 the tickets told the same story — that it was for the benefit of the Ladies' 
 Home Mission. After its delivery, it appeared that a mistake had been 
 
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 made, and the ladies who had sold tickets were obliged to give the money 
 they had received for them to Mr. Pease. They were dissatisfied with 
 this philanthropic conduct ; but it was not until Mr. Gough declined to be 
 introduced to several of them, that they discovered that he, too, was 
 dissatisfied with them. He said he had lectured for their benefit ; they 
 said they had not received one shilling of the proceeds of his lecture. Mr. 
 Eells says that Mr. Gough had lectured for the house of Mr. Pease ; 
 Mr. Pease, on the other baud, shows that Mr. Gough lectured " for the bene- 
 fit of the Five Points Mission." Mr. Eells, although his friend acknowl- 
 edges that the Gough money was intended for the F. P. Mission, asserts 
 that he spent it for the benefit of the Industrial House. 
 
 mr. Randall's statement. 
 A few days before Mr. Gough's lecture (in Jan. 1, 1851,) I went with one of the 
 directresses of the L. H. Mission to the Five Points. She remarked to me that as she had 
 reason to doubt Mr. Pease's integrity, she would ask him, in my presence, about the 
 lecture. She said to Mr. Pease : •' Is this lecture for the benefit of the Five Points 
 Mission, Mr. Pease ? " He replied that it was. After some further conversation the 
 question was repeated, and Mr. Pease replied, pointing at the same time to the admis- 
 sion tickets and reading from it, " Don't ye see — For the Benefit of the Five Points 
 Mission ? " Thus placing beyond all doubt the object which the lecture was intended 
 to benefit. D. RANDALL, Mercantile Bank. 
 
 Mr. Eells states that Rev. Mr. Dikeman was present on the evening when 
 Mr. Gough offered to lecture for the benefit of the Home, and not for the 
 benefit of the Ladies' Missiou. Mr. Dikeman, however, informed me that Mr. 
 Gough lectured for the Five Points Mission, and knew Mr. Pease only as the 
 agent of the ladies. He states, further, that he explained to the lecturer the 
 operations of the Ladies' Mission ; that on the evening referred to he went 
 down to the Five Points expressly for the purpose of enabling Mr. Gough 
 to see evidences of their success; and that neither he nor the orator were 
 aware of the existence of the Home. Yet Mr. Eells says, that " Mr. 
 Gough was so delighted with the inmates of the institution, that he said to 
 Mr. Pease, Sir, if you will get up a meeting in the Tabernacle, I will come 
 and speak." 
 
 Again, I am informed by Mrs. W. B. Skidmore, (135 Hudson-street, St. 
 John's park,) the recording secretary of the Ladies' Board, at that time, 
 that " after the meeting at the Tabernacle, at which Mr. Gough lectured 
 for the Five Points Mission, Mr. Pease eame to the Board and stated that 
 Mr. Gough was a temperance lecturer and would not lecture for any other 
 purpose ; that he (Mr. Pease) was personally responsible for the appro- 
 priation of the money for that purpose ; and in this way compelled the 
 Board to pay the amount which had been paid to them from the sale 
 of tickets over to him. The ladies felt indignant at this treatment ; but it 
 was not until Mr. Gough returned to the city, and made the remarks which 
 have been published that the ladies were made aware of all the deceptions 
 that had been practised." 
 
 V. He has never yielded up his books or accounts, although a com- 
 mittee of gentlemen was appointed to receive them after the ladies failed 
 to get them. 
 
 This charge had reference to the books you kept, or professed to keep, 
 while in the service of the Ladies Mission. Your friend, whose audacity 
 in replying is really admirable, denies this charge also. Let him read the 
 statement of the committee referred to and learn the value of silence : 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 "We. the undersigned, -were appointed by the Ladies' Home Mission to obtain the 
 cash books and accounts which Rev. Lewis M. Pease professed to keep : but. although 
 we visited Mr. Pease, for that purpose, we never could obtain them. 
 
 Xoaji Woreal, 
 Orlando D. McLaix." 
 
 1 had no reference in that charge to the cash books he kept while in the 
 service of the National Temperance Society ; but as Mr. Eells insists on its ex- 
 tension to that institution, instead of objecting I shall copy a statement from 
 one of its officers — one of the most respected and influential of our citizens : 
 
 MR. MASONS STATEMENT. 
 
 I have read the article. " Life at the Five Points," published in the semi-weekly 
 Express of January 17. 1 -.34. and so fat as I am acquainted with the facts mentioned in 
 that article, they are correctly stated. During Mr. L. M. Pease's connection with the 
 National Temperance Society. I applied to him. in my capacity as chairman of 
 the • Asylum Committee." to submit his accounts for inspection. He positively 
 reiused to do so : knowing that it was the chief duty of that committee to inspect and 
 report upon his accounts. Benjamin Mason. 
 
 January 20. 1;54. 
 
 Mr. Eells refers to an investigation of Mr. Pease's books and accounts in 
 the Green-strtct church. I am informed by gentlemen "who were p: -srnt, 
 that wheu Mr. Pease was charged with immoral conduct on that occasion, 
 his financial accounts were also examined. Of course, they were correct. 
 But what did that prove * Exactly nothing. When vouchers are not pro- 
 duced, it is a mere farce to exarniue cash books and pronounce them 
 to be satisfactory. IVo vouchers were given on that occasion. Neither 
 you, Mr. Pease, nor your friend will be permitted to elude the charges I 
 have published in this manner. You are aware that your books have 
 never been yielded up to or examined by the Ladies of the Five Points 
 Mission, or the committees they appointed to receive them. The Green- 
 street investigation was a private church affair ; and. knowing this fact I 
 confess that 1 cannot understand what Eells intends to prove, or what he 
 means, in this, the last sentence in his reply to — or. rather, remarks on 
 — the fourth charge that he culled from my first communication : 
 
 " At this investigation the Gough affair was one of the particular subjects inquired 
 into, and it was decided that the accounts and conduct of Mr. Pease, in the matter, 
 were correct .' " 
 
 VI. I sa ; d. "The ladies did not apply for your re-appointment because 
 they bad lost all confidence in your assertions and financial accounts." 
 This statement you well know. Mr. Pease, was strictly true. " Let the 
 ladit-s answer for themselves on ihi? point" exclaims brother Eells. "and 
 inform the public how and why Mr. Pease came to be transferred from 
 their employment." Certainly I will. Mr. Eells : I shall publish them. I 
 have only to say of it in the words of the English Diogenes to the youth 
 who asked him for his autograph : ■ Here it is. much good may it do you : * 
 statement of the lady officers of the home arrssiox. 
 
 January 25 ? 185-i. 
 
 The writer quotes from the Secretary's Report to prove that the separation between Mr. 
 re-i* ::.e Eur: an;.;-- :lr. 3u: sr.cws the surer:: ml view tiken. and 
 
 his entire ignorance of the movements of the Board. About ten months had passed 
 away since the mission was founded. Conference was drawing nigh, and the 
 arrangements for the coming year were to be debated and resolved upon. The ladies 
 felt that they could not retain their connection with Mr. Pease. The confidence of 
 the officers was utterly destroyed, and that of the Board greatly shaken. These senti- 
 ments were fully made known to the authorities of the church, and it was clearly 
 understood bv the Board that Mr. Pease was not to be returned to them. Just at 
 . feriae, while the Board felt their painful situation with regard to Mr. Pease, the 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 National Temperance Society desired him to become their agent. The Board gladly 
 consented, but the question -was discussed, whether they had a moral right to allow 
 another society to engage Mr. Pease, without stating their difficulties wiih him during 
 the past year. The ladies fuliy expressed their feelings to some of the officers of the 
 National Temperance Society. They said in reply, " Mr. Pease can attend to the work 
 for which we want him. As lor financial matters, it is quite evident that he has taken 
 advantage of ihe La he*' Beard, tut he will not dare to do thus with gentlemen. We 
 will hold a tight rein and see to that/' 
 
 With this understanding, the ladies rejoiced that they were spared the pain of any 
 public difficulty wiih Mr. Pease : and. so far from indulging in any unkind feelings 
 towards one who had trifled with them in every -xay. gave their testimony to his 
 enrrtrp, the only point to which they could yield unqualified praises. And it was not 
 till after he had ceased to be our missionaiy that we had so many complaints as to the 
 funds which we had not credited in our Repcrt : — no account of what he received or 
 disbursed during the it holt year was given us. or was given to the public. (Signed) 
 BT THE OFFICERS OF THE LADIES' HOME MISSION. 
 
 [The names can be seen on reference to the organization of the society, which 
 is public] 
 
 VII. I said. " I am assured by the members of the National Temper- 
 ance Societv that they were not satisfied with Mr. Peases financial 
 statements ; that from this cause and from his unveracitv they dissolved 
 their connection with him before the time for which he was engaged 
 expired. 7 * 
 
 - I understand,"' says your friend, " that the records of the National 
 Temperance Society will show the reverse of the above statements."' I 
 know, however, that the secretary says that they do not u show the reverse 
 of the above statements." 
 
 Mr. Eells refers to Mr. Dikeman (who may now be seen daily at the 
 Comptroller's office.) to corroborate his statement that a committee of 
 investigations, of whieh Mr. Dikeman was a member, after " a searching 
 investigation." was ■ unanimously in favor of Mr. Pease in every par- 
 ticular." Mr. Pease waited "on Mr. Dikeman to sign such a statement, bat 
 he firmly refused to do so. Mr. Pease, on the examination referred to, 
 produced no vouchers. 
 
 Mr. Eells further states that your books and accounts were examined by 
 three members, and found correct, (vouchers included i) and then adds: 
 
 u Others, who may easily be referred to. were members of the Executive Committee, 
 and will fully sustain these statements, and can further testify of their own knowledge 
 that the separation between Mr. Pease and the society was brought about solely by 
 the financial inability of the latter, and took place without any abatement of mutual 
 conr.ience ar.i cordiality tetweea — . ' 
 
 A very explicit denial of this charge — but hardly sustained. I think, by 
 the other officers, a who may easily be referred to ! " 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 
 
 To the Editors of the Xew Tori: Express: 
 
 Gentlemen : — In a communication in your paper of Friday evenine. relating to the 
 Rev. Mr. Pea-=e. signed by James Redpath. allusion is made to Mr. Pease's connection 
 " :r.e National Temperance Society as being unsatisfactory, both as to his manage- 
 ment of finances and his exaggerations of the result of his labors. 
 
 As the officers of the society are called upon by Mr. Redpath to substantiate his 
 declarations, as above stated, we feel it incumbent on us to say they are essentially 
 true. JOHN FALCONER. President. 
 
 ISAAC J. OLIVER, Vice President. 
 
 C. C. NORTH. Chairman Exec. Com. 
 
 J. W. OLIVER. 
 
 JAMES MACKEAN, 
 
 LOUIS B. LODER. 
 New Tork, Jan. 14. ALBERT GILBERT. 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 Add to this corroborative testimony the statement of Mr. Mason, already 
 quoted, and the reply of Rev. Mr. Warren : 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 
 " I have seen an article in the N. Y. Express, signed by James Redpath, referring 
 to the Secretary of the National Temperance Society. To the best of my recollection, 
 that statement is strictly true. C. J. WARREN, late secretary." 
 
 VIII. The member referred to in my first article was Mr. J. W. Oliver, 
 to whom Mr. Pease could not exhibit a single convert, even after he had 
 reported six hundred cases and stated that he could point out ninety. Mr. 
 Eells tries to elude this charge by referring to Mr. Pease's subsequent con- 
 verts, to whom, at present, I do not allude. When the proper time comes, 
 Mr. Eells will find that I did not "forget that, &c" I have not yet 
 exhibited the entertaining panorama of " persecution " at the Five Points. 
 Wait a little longer, Mr. Eells. 
 
 IX. Your friend's answer to my eighth charge is merely an affirmation 
 of the subject in dispute ; and like the Green-street church investigation 
 (without vouchers) amounts to — nothing. 
 
 X. Your admission and palliation of the ninth charge I shall afterwards 
 examine. 
 
 THE WORKSHOP. 
 
 Do you or do you not, Mr. Pease, affirm that the workhouse, as it existed 
 at the period J alluded to, could have held more than one hundred seam- 
 stresses ? You know how it was seated at that time ; you know, too, that 
 seamstresses, when engaged at their work, cannot sit so closely as when 
 listening to a sermon. You know that the altar has been replaced by a 
 gallery. You know that your friends reply to this charge is clever, 
 indeed, but rather lacking in frankness. Your method of denying what I 
 advanced by quoting reports whose writers you furnish with assertions, 
 resembles the Green-street church investigation of your accounts (without 
 vouchers ;) it amounts to — nothing. For Mr. Eells' consolation I asked of 
 the secretary a statement of the case, of which the following is a copy : 
 
 THE STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE LADIES' MISSION. 
 
 January 5tk, 1854. 
 
 The writer quotes from the Secretary, reports respecting- the -work-room. &c. Mr. 
 Pease says that the Society opposed the work-room entirely — would have nothing to do 
 with it, ice,, yet Mr Pease came to the Board every month, and reported its progress, 
 relating stories and incidents, which deeply interested the Board, who did not generally 
 visit the work-room in person, and therefore received all their impressions from Mr. 
 Pease's own reports. In these statements truths were greatly exaggerated, causing 
 those Ladies who did visit the Mission sometimes to smile, and sometimes to be indig- 
 nant at the high coloring with which simple facts were invested. Yet, as they could 
 not then foresee the difficulties of the future, they did not feel called upon publicly to 
 contradict a missionary who must be connected with them for some time, and thus 
 destroy all his influence, and injure their infant mission. '' It is but a little while" 
 was the constant remark, and as no personal feelings influenced them, fur the good of 
 the mission, they were silent. 
 
 The time arrived for their Annual Report. The Secretary who wrote it, being in de- 
 licate health, only visited the Mission on the Sabbath, had never seen the work-room, 
 and had, therefore, no personal knowledge of its arrangements and numbers. 
 
 From Mr. Pease's own reports to the Board, the Secretary had written an account of 
 the work-room, which was published in the " Christian Advocate." But, having heard 
 the doubts and contradictions of those who were in the habit of visiting the Mission, 
 the Report was prepared with a single and guarded reference to the work-room. It was 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 • submitted to the Board and objected to on the ground that it was not a full report. The 
 
 work-room the Board claimed as part of the Mission, and insisted that the account should 
 be inserted. It was argued that a true report was founded on the monthly report ; that 
 the present opinion of Mr. Tease, which was nearly unanimous, could not influence the 
 part which had been accepted ; and, therefore, the accounts must be inserted. 
 
 Those who knew the true facts objected, but were overruled by those who thought it 
 best to act on the side of charity, and to say all the good of Mr. Pease thatcould be said. 
 (The most careful reader of the Seventh Annual Report will see how studiously every 
 word of praise is worded, except that bestowed on Mr. Pease's energy, — not a word of 
 his spiritual duties, not a reference to aught else ; but how in the spirit of that ''charity 
 which beareth all things and hopeth all things/' they praised where they could, and 
 were silent where they might have condemned). The Secretary in that meeting wrote 
 on the margin " insert the account of the work-room," which was done to the deep and 
 lasting regret of those who knew the number and statements to be greatly exaggerated. 
 
 XII. " The charge of profane and indecent language." You accuse me 
 publicly of having concocted that portion of my letter. Now, sir, you ought 
 to beware of permitting your inexperienced friend to advance statements 
 or to use words in an important controversy without first having carefully 
 weighed them. 
 
 A lady whose name I enclose and the daughter of Mr. Noah Worral, 
 Mr. 0. McClean, Councilman North, Mr. B. Howe, of Kingsbridge, and one 
 other — all of them well-known citizens and respected, heard you utter or 
 acknowledge that you used the language, whether it be profane or indecent, 
 or both, or neither, that I attributed to you. 
 
 And yet, notwithstanding this array of names unimpeachable, Mr. Eells, 
 who was not present when you used the words — at least at that time, — 
 and without producing a solitary witness, has the audacity to affirm that — 
 u The circumstances and the language of Mr. Pease on the occasion referred to in the 
 charge of profane and abusive language, are well known to me ; and if I could think 
 it right to lower myself on the subject of communication so far as to explore the calumny, 
 it would appear that the real sentiments and expressions of Mr. Pease, were as unlike 
 those attributed to him as the solemn warnings of a Christian minister are to the blas- 
 phemous ribaldry concocted and gloated over by the authors of that article." 
 
 XIII. You state that Mr. and Mi s. Pease have jointly signed a bond to 
 make over the philanthropic farm to a Board of Directors as soon as a 
 charter can be obtained. 
 
 Mr. Pease's real character is at present a subject of dispute. Until the 
 opponents of Mr. Pease have been overcome, will he place that bond in the 
 possession of persons whose character is unimpeachable — in Henry Ward 
 Beecher's, for example ? Paper, perhaps you are aware, Mr. Eells, is an in- 
 flammable substance, and farms, on the contrary, are fire-proof. 
 
 NO PERQUISITES ! 
 
 The last paragraph of Eells's letter refers to my insinuation relative to 
 perquisites. He says, (in small capitals,) that he knows that Mr. Pease re- 
 ceives none ; and then reiterates the Hot Corn cant about " perilous expo- 
 sure," et ccetcra, " which has reduced each of them to the appearance of a 
 meagre shadow, wan, attenuated and sickly, but uncomplaining." Now, 
 Mr. Eells, if you will go among the authors, editors, actors, or artists of 
 New York — if you will associate with studious men of any profession, you 
 will find that Mr. Pease looks, and is healthier and more vigorous than nine- 
 tenths of them. 
 
 Mr. Pease, previous to his engagement by the Ladies, was so poor that 
 a 6Utn of money to pay his travelling expenses to the city, had to be ad- 
 vanced to him by a member of the Mission. It is necessary to record this 
 
FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 circumstance in order to demonstrate that he had no pecuniary resources 
 when he arrived in New York. He received a salary of $900, which I 
 know that himself and friends have very often called a " scanty salary." 
 
 In the Summer or the Autumn of 1S50 ; after he had been an inhabitant 
 of our Island City for six or eight mouths at most ; when he could not have 
 received more than £500 from his employers; and having, of course, re- 
 ceived no perquisites, but instead of appropriating the donations of philan- 
 thropists for his private purposes, had put his hand into his own benevolent 
 pocket — at this period did Lewis M. Pease, whom Little Katy, who " never 
 was born," loved; "the Heaven-missioned" regenerator of the Five Points; 
 the Eminently Endeared to the friends of the poor of our metropolis — held 
 a conversation with a clergyman, of which a record fa given in the first of 
 the two following statements. How any man out of £500 could pay his 
 own and wife's expenses, give money to the poor, and save $1000 is to me 
 a mystery. I freely confess that I cannot do so myself — and my friends 
 cannot ; 
 
 STATEMENT OK REV. MR. WARREN. 
 
 Sometime in the Fall or "Winter of 1850, in a conversation with Mr. Pease about the 
 general work of reform at the Five Points, he remarked that he thought of taking the 
 whole matter out of the hands of the Ladies, and making it a personal concern. He 
 suggested that I should connect myself with him in the enterprise, saying that he had 
 one thousand dollars he could put in, and it could be made to pay. 
 
 C. J. WARREN. 
 
 STATEMENT OF REV. MR. II0WLAND. 
 
 Sometime in the Summer of 1S52 [Mr. Pease ceased to be the Agent of the Ladies' 
 Mission in May, 1852.] I had a conversation with the Rev. L. M. Pease, who stated that 
 he had cleared, above all expenses, the preceding year, J\'ine Hundred Dollars. 
 
 S. HOWL AND. 
 
 The names of these gentlemen are well known to the religious classes 
 of our citizens, and to Mr. Pease himself. He dares not deny their veracity 
 or the veracity of any one of the witnesses who has given testimony as to the 
 truth of every assertion I have advanced. Unless, Mr. Pease, you can prove 
 that these gentlemen and ladies are unworthy of credence, that, in fact, their 
 evidence is utterly untrue, and these articles are compilations of falsehoods, 
 then, do you stand convicted of fraud at the very tribunal ; that of the 
 public press ; to which, when announcing your plan for a Home, you said 
 that those persons who were dissatisfied with your conduct could appeal. 
 
 Every reader of Mr. Eells' letter is aware that I have met every 
 " fact" and argument that he advanced. Perfectly convinced that I am in 
 the right, I am prepared to reply to a thousand such letters. Mr. Pease 
 will surely, then, excuse my anxiety to know for what reason his friend 
 left two of my charges unnoticed and unanswered. 
 
 I said, firstly, that whenever Mr. Pease was asked by the ladies, of 
 whom he was the agent, for an account of his expenditures, his invariable 
 answer always was — "Expended for the good of the Mission" — and no 
 more. Secondly, That Mr. Pease never raised the catch-word of Secta- 
 rianism until he found that he had lost the confidence not of the Ladies 
 only, but of the majority of the Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, by his exaggerated statements and immoral conduct. 
 
 Could not Mr. Eells explain away these charges ? and will he take his 
 oath now ? I remain, Mr. Pease, vours never. 
 
 JAMES REDPATH. 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
 37 
 
 THE FIVE POINTS MISSION. 
 
 THE ATTACKS ON MR. PEASE. 
 
 From the New York Daily Times, February 2nd. 
 A journalist, like every one whose duties require him to 
 watch the movements of the day and the developments of 
 character, must see many things discreditable to human nature, 
 and discouraging to those who labor for its improvement. He 
 will see the basest passions waging war upon the most holy 
 causes ; he will see malice, cloaked in hypocrisy, seeking to 
 murder charity ; he will see envy hawking at benevolence, and 
 laboring to prevent the good of which the merit and applause 
 are to fall upon others. We have seen nothing of this kind, 
 within our experience, worse than the crusade which is now 
 carried, mainly through the columns of the Express, against the 
 character and the labors of Rev. Mr. Pease. If anything on 
 earth could escape the assaults of malignity, it would seem that 
 such a work as his might be exempt. He has gone into the 
 worst and most degraded portion of our City — among the most 
 friendless and hopeless of its inhabitants — into an atmosphere 
 reeking with physical and moral pollution, for the purpose of 
 planting the seeds of better influences, and of organizing an 
 effort which may steadily, even if slowly, elevate those now 
 deserted creatures to the level of humanity. With great 
 sagacity, and still greater courage and energy, he places him- 
 self at once in personal relations with these destitute and de- 
 graded objects of his care, from the conviction that it is only 
 thus that they can be rendered sensible to proper influences and 
 brought to feel their connection with society, and the advantages 
 and duties which it involves. He lives among them — talks 
 with them — provides them with work and with food — treats 
 them as members of his family, and thus endeavors to inspire 
 them with confidence — to awaken in their hearts a response to 
 sympathy, and thus to start them in a career of industry and 
 of respectability. Is there anything in such labors to excite 
 jealousy or envy ? One would suppose that every man of 
 ordinary sensibility would look with admiration on the heroism 
 which could undertake such labors, and give at least his hearty 
 prayers for their success. And yet Mr. Pease and his work 
 are made the object of as fierce and relentless a warfare, as if 
 they sought the destruction of society instead of its advantage. 
 This of itself is not a little strange : — but it is still stranger, 
 
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 that we should be compelled to seek the origin of this hostility 
 in professed religious motives, — in the rivalry of another benev- 
 olent association. The articles in the Express assailing Mr. 
 Pease, are signed by James Redpath, — who is, however, 
 simply the tool of others in this crusade. He seems to have 
 exercised a good deal of diligence in scouring the City in search 
 of facts and slanders for the accomplishment of their ends. It 
 is fair, perhaps, to award him also the credit of the malignity 
 by which they are made cohesive. But beyond this he is merely 
 used by parties in better position and of greater prudence, and 
 who have something to lose in public esteem by appearing as 
 the open assailants of such a cause. * * * * 
 
 Intimations are thrown out that Mr. Pease has engaged in 
 this enterprise, not from motives of benevolence, but for his own 
 emolument Mysterious stress is laid upon the fact that he did 
 not submit to the ladies of the Mission the accounts of his ex- 
 penditures. Testimony has been hunted up to show that he 
 once said he had a thousand dollars, which he would be glad to 
 use, in connection with others, in a scheme of reform, and 
 that he had saved $900 in one year. And hints are thrown out 
 that he appropriates to his own use the donations given in aid 
 of his enterprise. All this is too paltry and contemptible for 
 anybody but Mr. Redpath to put before the public. Mr. 
 Pease is a man of energy, tact, and great business ability ; — 
 one who would not be likely to abandon all the usual means 
 of acquiring wealth, and devote himself to such a work as that 
 in which he is now engaged, if his motives were selfish and 
 sordid. But his slanderers are careful to conceal the fact that 
 all his operations are carried on under the supervision of a 
 Board of Directors, — that all his accounts are examined by 
 them, and that they have repeatedly certified to their correct- 
 ness as well as to his integrity, and to the immense utility of 
 the work in which he is engaged. This must satisfy any reason- 
 able man, — not governed by sectarian prejudices, or determined 
 always to believe the worst that can be said of his fellow-men. 
 
 In another column will be found a plain, dispassionate state- 
 ment, by Mr. John Stephenson, one of our most respectable 
 citizens, who has taken pains to inform himself of the precise 
 truth in regard to this matter, and who places it in what we 
 have no doubt is its true light before the public. He is a 
 prominent member of the Methodist Church, and not likely to be 
 prejudiced against the Ladies' Mission, or in favor of Mr. Pease. 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
 39 
 
 [The same, February Wth.] 
 And now we should be glad to see the parties engaged in tins 
 Ladies' Mission, and their friends, reserve the energies they 
 have expended in quarreling with Mr. Pease for a more vigorous 
 prosecution of their own plans of Christian benevolence. The 
 Ladies of the Board think proper to sneer at our expressed ap- 
 probation of their labors ; they speak of us as " condescending" 
 to commend them. We are not aware of any such feeling in 
 regard to them. They apparently desire to be especially ex- 
 clusive, and to have no support or favor from anybody who is 
 not prepared to join them in their belligerent, as well as their 
 benevolent, crusades. They wish no connection of any sort 
 with anybody, who has anything to do with, or for, the " con- 
 cern over the way." We are not sure that we can sacrifice our 
 own convictions of justice so far as to gratify them in this par- 
 ticular. We are inclined to urge their enterprise upon public 
 favor, — to commend them to public confidence, and to ask on 
 their behalf the contributions of the benevolent, because we be- 
 lieve they deserve them. We are not only willing, but deter- 
 mined, to aid them in all their enterprises, except their crusade 
 against Mr. Pease. If they are resolved to repel any such 
 '■ half-faced fellowship" — to decline all alliances not offensive, 
 as well as defensive, we cannot help it. They must seek such 
 elsewhere. We shall continue to aid all those objects which 
 seem to us worthy of public confidence and sympathy, and no 
 others. 
 
 "WILD MAGGIE." 
 
 The agents of the Institution which has unhappily been led 
 to place itself in an attitude of rivalry and opposition to the 
 House of Industry, having failed in a system of extraordinary 
 measures to entice away one of the most interesting and popu- 
 lar trophies of the success of Mr. Pease's system of benevolence. 
 — the child sometimes called " Wild Maggie " — next resorted 
 
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 to the plan of persuading the public that the pathetic story of 
 '• Wild Maggie " was sheer fiction, that the girl introduced as 
 the original of its heroine, had no such history, and that Mr. 
 Pease and his friends were thus swindling the public of their 
 
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 generous sympathies, by a gross and deliberate imposture. 
 The subjoined affidavits (from the New York Tribune) will 
 extinguish another of the numerous frauds attempted by these 
 bold and industrious maligners. 
 
 City and County of New York, ss. — Margaret Ryan, beiug duly sworn, 
 deposes and says : I am the daughter of James Ryan ; I was fifteen years of 
 age on the 25th of last November ; I live at Mr. "Pease's House of Industry 
 at the Five Points, and have sung at the Concerts of the Five Points' chil- 
 dren, where I was introduced as the "Wild Maggie" of Mr. Robinson's 
 book " Hot Corn." When I was between eleven and twelve years old, in 
 the summer, I lived with my parents for a short time, in Cross-street, two 
 doors from Orange, in sight of the Five Points' Mission Room. At that time 
 I remember teasing Mr. Pease, by talking saucily to him and calling him 
 names, before the house ; there was a young man sent to catch me, to have 
 me taken somewhere, but I got away from him, and he fell over me into a 
 cellar. Finally, Mr. Pease coaxed me into the house, to help him lay out 
 work for the women, and after that was done, he set me to keep school, 
 with a lot of little girls for scholars. Then I came every day to Mr. Pease's 
 work-room, but did not tell my father. After a few weeks I went to live 
 at Mrs. Howe's, corner of Broadway and Howard-street, aud in the fall my 
 mother aud I went to live with a man in T arry to wa She came back in a 
 little while aud lived at Mr. Pease's. I followed her as soon as they would 
 let me, aud the day after I got back she died ; I staid there with Mr. Pease 
 until I went to live with a Mr. Eells in Hudson-street. I lived there until 
 my father married again, and theu went home to live with him aud staid 
 there until I came back this time to the House of Industry, to live, and go 
 to the school at the Mechanics' Institute. I went there until one day a. 
 man named McClaiu, belonging to the Methodist Five Points Mission, came 
 and talked to me a long time to make me leave Mr. Pease, and told me a 
 great many bad things against him, aud made me feel so badly that I beg- 
 ged Mr. Pease not to send me there any more, and have not been there 
 since. MARGARET RYAN. 
 
 Sworn to before me, this 25th day of February, 185-1. 
 
 Stephen M. Purdy, Commissioner of Deeds. 
 
 City and County of New York, ss. — James Ryan, being duly sworn, de- 
 poses aud says : I have listened to the above affidavit made by my daugh- 
 ter Margaret, and so far as my knowledge goes, it is entirely true, and if I 
 have ever been made to say anything to the contrary, I have been either 
 misunderstood or misrepresented. JAMES RYAN. 
 
 Sworn to before me, this 25th day of February, 1854. 
 
 Stephen M. Purdy, Commissioner of Deeds. 
 
 New York, Friday, Feb. 3, 1854. 
 Solon Robinson — Sir : In the summer of 1850, 1 was acquainted with the 
 girl sometimes called " Wild Maggie," whose name is Margaret Ryan, and I 
 was the individual placed by Mr. Pease at the door of the work-room to catch 
 her that she might be sent to the House of Refuge. She, by her rudeness 
 and saucy exclamations, had become so great an annoyance as to render it 
 rfeedful to remove her to some such place. This girl is the same who now 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 sings with Mr. Pease's school children at their concerts, and known as Mar- 
 garet Ryan, and who is now a very good, modest, well behaved, affection- 
 ate girl. RICHARD AUSTIN, No. 6, Orchard street. 
 
 Brooklyn, Friday, Feb. 3, 1 854. 
 To Solon Robinson — -Sir : I do solemnly declare that the person you 
 have introduced at public meetings as " Wild Maggie," is the original of the 
 record in my journal, which you had in your hands while writing the story, 
 and that I made the record of hers and many other cases, as they have 
 transpired at the Five Points, with which I have been intimate, having 
 been closely connected with the Sunday School there for several years. 
 And I declare that you have not " outraged truth," nor imposed upon the 
 public, as charged by Orlando D. McClain, in The Tribune of yesterday. 
 
 THOS. S. EELLS, No. 23 Hicks street. 
 
 TESTIMONY OF THE DIRECTORS. 
 
 The following correspondence with some of the prominent 
 members of the late provisional Board of Directors (now super- 
 seded by the Trustees of a regularly incorporated association) 
 is conclusive, on the question of fidelity in the accounts. Their 
 testimony is positive, unqualified, made from full personal 
 knowledge, and covers the whole period of Mr. Pease's 
 past connection with the Five Points, except a few weeks at 
 the outset, when the accounts were quite insignificant in amount. 
 
 The added testimony of the Niblo Committee, (Messrs. 
 Wetmore and Claflin) covers the whole period. 
 
 From Mr. Pease to Messrs. Donaldson, Ely and Remsen, severally. 
 
 Five Points House of Industry, ) 
 New-York, Monday, Feb. 6, 1854, ) 
 
 Dear Sir : — Anxious endeavors are made without ceasing, in certain 
 quarters, to create an impression that the accounts of tin's Institution have 
 been kept in a loose and even fraudulent manner. I am informed that it 
 would afford satisfaction to some of our friends, if gentlemen known to the 
 community, who have been connected with the House of Industry from its 
 origin, as Directors or otherwise, would strengthen our hands by a public 
 testimony as to the manner in which the pecuniary affairs of the Institution 
 have been managed under their supervision. Yours, L. M. PEASE. 
 
 FROM MR. DONALDSON. 
 
 New York, Friday, Feb. 10, 1854. 
 Rev. L. M. Pease. — Dear Sir : I have to acknowledge the receipt of your 
 note of the 6th instant, by which I perceive that you wish to procure from 
 your associates, with a view to publication, some written testimony of the 
 manner in which the pecuniary affairs of the House of Industry have been 
 conducted. 
 
 I feel very reluctant to be in any degree connected with the controversy 
 which has arisen between some of your former co-laborers and yourself, 
 
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 aud very much doubt the necessity of further protracting it, which thi'3 
 measure may have a tendency to do ; for I cannot believe that the public 'will 
 allow the benevolent objects in which you are engaged to languish for want 
 of support. 
 
 Lest, however, my silence should be misapprehended, I deem it due to 
 you to say that during a period of two and a half years, in which I had 
 charge of the Parochial School, and of one year, the direction "with others 
 of the House of Industry, to both of which I served as Treasurer, I never 
 entertained a doubt of the faithfulness of your administration, or of the 
 proper application of the funds entrusted to you. 
 
 I am, dear Sir, respectfully yours, JAMES DONALDSON. 
 
 FEOM MR. ELY. 
 
 New York, Wednesday, March 1, 1854. 
 Rev. L. M. Pease. Superintendent of the Five Points House of Industry : 
 
 Dear Sir ; — In answer to your favor of the 21st of February, I would 
 say it is now about three years since I first became acquainted with you at 
 the House of Industry, and since then I have been an occasional visitor 
 there. About a year since, I became a director in the Institution, and 
 since the first of last April have been the Treasurer. In regard to the 
 accuracy with which the accounts were kept before I was Treasurer, I can- 
 not say. But since then the books have always been kept open to me and 
 all the directors, and frequent examinations solicited I have never had 
 the least doubt but that they have been kept in a strict and correct manner ; 
 and I fully believe that all the charges to the contrary have arisen from a 
 spirit of envy and jealousy. 
 
 With my best wishes for your success in your arduous labors, I remain, 
 very sincerely yours, CHARLES ELY. 
 
 FROM MR. REMSEN. 
 
 New York, Monday, Feb. 20, 1854. 
 Rev. L. M. Pease. — Dear Sir : In reply to your note of Feb. 6, I have 
 to say that since I became a Trustee of the Five Points House of Industry 
 in May, 1852, your accounts as superintendent have from time to time been 
 examined by me, and appear to be correct and full, leaving no reason to 
 doubt that all your receipts have been properly accounted for. 
 I am, very respectfullv, your friend and servant. 
 
 HENRY R. REMSEN. 
 
 FROM THE COMMITTEE AT MBLO's. 
 
 At a large and respectable meeting of gentlemen and ladies, at Niblo's 
 Saloon, January 20, to witness the performance of the Juvenile Concert 
 given by the Children of the Five Points House of Industry, the undersigned 
 were appointed a Committee to examine and report upon the accounts of 
 Rev. L. M. Pease, having special reference to that portion of them com- 
 mencing May 19, 1850, and ending May 2, 1851. From a careful exami- 
 nation of them, we are able to say that they appear to have been kept 
 with great care and exactness, specifying with minuteness, both in receipts 
 aud disbursements, the smallest as w r ell as the largest amounts, and im- 
 pressing our minds fully with the honest and upright manner in which his 
 arduous duties have been performed. "We beg any one who may have any 
 doubt ou this subject, to make a personal examination for themselves of 
 this matter. L. WETMORE. 
 
 New Y,rk, Saturday, Feb. 25, 1S54. H. B. CLAFL1N. 
 
FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
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 FROM MR. PEASE. • 
 
 In the "whole catalogue of accusations against him, there is but one which 
 the Superintendent of the Five Points House of Industry is moved to 
 notice personally. It is perhaps the only one which a candid mind, looking 
 at the position of the Institution, its progress, and the character and 
 number of its supporters, could allow to be possibly or partially true. It 
 is the charge, loudly and incessantly proclaimed by the persons controlling 
 the Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 that Mr. Pease has assailed, reproached, and slandered them ; a charge put 
 forth as their apology to the public, for repaying him in kind. He challenges 
 the whole world to produce a line published by him, or by his suggestion, 
 or in the name of the House of Industry, containing an unkind or invidious 
 reflection upon the Methodist Mission, even in self-defence against their bit- 
 terest attacks. Such an expression they have never specified in support 
 of this indefinite and most injurious charge, and such an expression they 
 will search for in vain. If it can be produced, he will publicly confess to 
 the charge, and publicly exonerate those concerned in this warfare from a 
 portion at least, of the responsibility. He will then acknowledge that 
 they have not acted wholly without provocation, and will hasten to 
 make any possible reparation for his share of the wrong. Until then, he 
 washes his hands of the scandal and shame. If there is rivalry, he is no 
 one's rival ; if there is contention, he is no one's enemy. His time is 
 wholly occupied in the service of the poor, as it has been for the last three 
 years and three quarters. He has no leisure to make war, nor -even to 
 repel war ; and if he had leisure, yet a contention between Christians, and 
 especially between fellow-laborers in the same field, is too abhorrent to his 
 principles, to admit of his being forced into it by any conceivable circum- 
 stances. The public will never know all that he has borne in silence, and 
 all the means of a just and severe vindication which he has buried from the 
 light, to save Religion from the shame of a mutual contention. 
 
 He has only to add, that if any contributor to this mission, at any period, 
 desires further satisfaction as to the disposal of his donation, the accounts 
 are open to the most thorough examination, and every possible facility and 
 assistance will be afforded. If after such investigation, such contributor 
 be not satisfied that his donation was disposed of according to the purpose 
 for which it was given, his money will be promptly refunded. 
 
 L. M. P. 
 
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 FACTS RELATING TO THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. 
 
 The unforeseen and inconvenient size to which this pamphlet 
 has already been extended, leaves it necessary to omit all refer- 
 ence to mant other calumnies, no less false and atrocious than 
 the worst of the multitude exposed in the foregoing pages. 
 The copious specimens given, will probably suffice for a con- 
 siderable time to come, as well as for the large number now 
 extant and unnoticed. The evidences of public sentiment, as 
 expressed through the press of this city with a solitary excep- 
 tion, must be mostly omitted. It is sufficient to remark, that 
 importuned as they have been, not only by the wretched in- 
 strument of the attacks in the Express, but by his " respectable " 
 backers, every other paper in the city, so far as we can learn, 
 has positively refused to publish the charges or the articles 
 prepared in support of them. And this from no partiality, but 
 from the simple fact, that proof in support of them, although 
 confidently promised, to induce publication, has been in no case 
 forthcoming. The editors of the Courier and Enquirer have 
 testified, that they have repeatedly and freely proffered to the 
 " respectable n parties who have importuned them to publish 
 these attacks, any amount of time and pains on their part, 
 necessary to a thorough investigation, on equitable terms, of 
 the evidence in the case, promising not only to publish but to 
 maintain every charge which should be proved ; but that these 
 respectable accusers have invariably shrunk from the propo- 
 sition, and declined to assist in bringing their accusations to an 
 impartial scrutiny, or to produce the evidence which they pre- 
 tended to possess. 
 
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