James BUTLER.
"18th September, 1813."
Anderson and Butler apparently had a hand to hand scrimmage at Plattsburgh, for in the Albany Gazette of September 30, 1813, was printed a communication in part as follows (p. 3-3):
"Albany, 28th, Sept. 1813.
"Messrs. Websters and Skinners,
"A publication having appeared in your paper, during the absence of the Contractor, signed 'James Butler,' a friend to the former gentleman, who was an eye witness to the fracas at Plattsburgh, requests you to publish the following statement from the Plattsburgh Republican, of the 18th inst. . . .
"A rash man has applied to the Contractor for the Army, epithets of a libellous and scurrilous nature. . . .
"Plattsburgh, Sept. 15, 1813."
So far as I have noted, the incident closed with the publication in the Albany Gazette of October 4, 1813, of a card from Butler dated Lansingburgh, September 29, stating that the writer of the above letter was "an infamous liar" (p. 3-2).
[48] See New Hampshire Gazette, September 14, 21, 1813; New York Herald, August 25, 28, 1813; Columbian Centinel, December 25, 1813.