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JOH.Y A'. .)/ ( ,'IURLTOJY.
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ADVERTISEMENT, .
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Mr. Charlton,
Please to in*
fert in your paper this comment,
and the following documents in
support of >t, in part at the preient,
in order to latisfy the honed part
ot my fellow citizens ; the balance
belongs to 8. Brooks, of his faife
and malicious allhrtions in your
paper of the i4th of jane, as a re- j
ply to mine of the 3 1 tl of Vlay. I
fhali take notice ot them as they :
come to my recohe£lion. I am
heartily forty to be compelled to i
put myfelf on a footing with Sam ;
Brooks, but my character compels |
me, in order to digest fai i Brook’s |
character, i/i part at - the prefenr, by !
certificates, as convenience will ad- i
mit, being a very busy leafon of
the year. After being an old ve
teran fix and a half years in the
revolution that gave us our incle
pe .Jence, l mud acknowledge that
I fall (hurt of my duty towards my j
G id. for permitting me to live in
this Republic, the best of all in the :
world, and a number of other fa
vers I have received ; the difficul
ties he protect'd me through in laid j
war ; being (hot through tire body ;
the 1 i,th ot Augud, her the lad
siege cf augulta, and that day two
weeks mounted my horde, fifteen
and a half hands high, rode over to
Cos! L Gardner’s, about two miles*
-get v - fwc t Cjdsr, It being in |
V.oiu nbia county, uljoining this, <
now in my 60th year, and at pa j
per-war with Sam Brooks! My j
God knows my heart, he knows
that I despise a tory, a rogue, a li
ar ; and citing laid Brook’s de
fence, he acknowledges receivng
5,670 weight of feed-cotton ; the
firfl load was 1,902, second 1,773,
delivered myfelf, third 1,339, de
iivere by William 8. Houghton,
fourth load 756, delivered myfelf,
added up by laid Brooks, and di
vi led by 4 which hemade 1,442 1 2 j
due me of gin cotton the docu j
men's from firft to fail are in my j
polTeffion. When Brooks swore to :
his account, 5,6/0 is one hundred |
w: io-ht less than the firft settlement. i
D !
taking from the load delivered by (
H ugh ton a boy in Augusta, the j
above cotton, bagging and rope, j
1,751, take 32 weight off for bag- J
giiig and tope, leaves 1,329, a loss j
to me of 1 13 (-2 weight ot cotton j
—the fir ft bale Brooke packed loft j
9 weight, the fourth loft 28, it be- j
ing the lighted and last, 8 weight j
to be added to each bale for bag
j ing and rope, makes 17, and 36 |
loft in thetn two bales. Brooks
complained of his steelyard’s not |
bein 1 good—the fivft court h* put :
it off, second court ‘Squire Wtlfon
laid it over. I notified Brooks in
t e pre-fence cf the court each term
to bring his fteeiyard, tnat I did
not want one pound of cotton
more than my due. I provided
ights to try them ; but the court .
would nor have them brought —
when the law authorifed them to
} ave the belt evidence the nature j
cf the case would admit, ’Squire j
V illborn wa.- in favor of a nonfuit;!
I begin to th : k he meant to (ewe
n-.f as he did Murphey’s admirfis
trai- r about sh- hogs., net to give
me the privilege ot an appeal j but
T H E N E W S.
WASHINGTON, (ceorgia) TUIDAY, .l UN Ii 2R, is ip.
’Squire A ill more made the follow
ing entry : “ W-* find for the de
fendant, with colt of fun.” I made
my remarks, in lifted on Brooks’
Iwearing to his account, which was
done in part. I paid two dollars,
and appealed to a jury for justice.
The ftrife that is, or was in the
church, Brooks muff blame him
ielt for—l would not turn round
to have him turned out , as he
Hands atpprese t, he serves as a
j matter of convenience lor them,
| and if he was turned out, he might
j follow his old calling—gambling,
horse-racing, &c ; as he did alter
he was turned out of lociety in the
State of Maryland. Now he is in
ibciety, he has taken up the trade
cf lying and ft under, which is worie
—look at his faife insinuations in
his piece of June I4; take a view
ot thole certificates inserted below.
1 did tell two of the circuif-riJers j
I blamed Brooks for not getting j
my note up ; I never blamed him j
for letting Murphey have it—and
about t.is killing and eating the
widow’s hogs, and putting between
20 aid 40 flips of leather as the
iecond loie of one double-soled
fttoe, and several other mean tricks
too te.ious to mention. Refund
ing Covington’s after;ions, he told j
others the lame, which can be j
proved in a courtjuftice—and a !
number of your mean tricks—fee
B!ackboro*s certificate—did not
you come* or (tart, from the 3 ate
ot Maty’land between two lights, or
in other words, in the night ? and
brought three reg roes, with you,
which would have been Iree if re
malned i that State Since you
have been a profeflor, but I am
fearful, never was a pofleflor of
Christianity You know your vil
lainous actions refpeding that
youth vou raised him, and after
he left you he began to tell of all j
your tricks, in fait, he told fome i
before in confidence until he left .
you. On the 7UI of August, 1812, j
you had him liken with a peace j
warrant, and your colleague was j
one of his lecurities ; you could j
not get ftrtt of him by them means. 1
You paid his passage, or agreed to j
do it, to Baltimore ; fee IV!r Mur- !
phey’s certificate. Do you let your j
domestics keep up the old trade in 1
killing dogs, and skinning them ?
Did or did not you tan. or have it
done, the hide that was taken off
in your old smoke-house, be
longing to Mr Milligan ? I have
loft rhree, and I understand Mr
Triplet has ioft eight dogs, since
your tan yard has been operation.
r Covington was but 0 or 9 years |
old, he appears to recoiled things !
very corredly. Pray be so heneft j
as to fell the gentleman’s name
that waited on you from the Jaii 1
to fte your wife, and returned be
fore day with you i Respecting the j
cotton, since court l got Mr James j
| Merman to go to Brooks’ for the ,
lean of his fteeiyard, requesting 1
| him to fend them, and l would get ;
: a man to weigh one co, then 2,!
and 3, and 4, and as many as the ;
fteeiyard would raise, and make a
calculation on the different drafts ;
was denied the loan. A couple of
my neighbors, one he alludes to,
is < tie of my blacksmiths, his cer
tificate is inserted, who l never had ‘
any dispute with. I.aft December
at Brook? ’ jirn Brooks laid to me
l aur gkol that you are one of
, the Grand Jury, ) have hired ne-
every thing they lay
their hands on, they carry to that
ihop and trade ; Jack Hammond
kept it for Girtrell, as l understood;
he furth r said that Jofepli Girtrell
had been there and attacked him,
that Brooks bad offered 20 dollars
to break it up ; Brooks* reply was
that he had offered 40 to break
their ways up. 1 informed Brooks
I could not attend, was obliged to
attend court in Savannah, and had
promised Cos! Wootten at the elec
tion if I got back in time 1 would
attend. 1 had a severe attack of
the gout, and went no further than
Auguifa ; on my return home 1
wrote to Brooks, requesting him to
make my <xcufe to Wootten, and
further, reminded him of the con
versation thar past ar his gin be
tween us. His answer was, “ dear
fir, if you had not wrote to me, I
should have informed tire court
that 1 understood that you was con
fined and not able to attend court
the present feflion, but as to the
orher business, 1 know nothing of
my own knowledge, though I be
lieve all you have (fated is correct.
I am, dear fir, yours with refpeft.
Samuel Brooks. 14 January, 1816
Mr F.zekiel Harris.” It is well
known that the e was no court in
January, and 1 had no ground for
blaming Brooks for not doing his
duty, of course his aflertions ref
pedUng a couple of his neighbors
are faife. I did send two bags of
cotton to his gin, in order to fry his
fteeiyard; the firft bag was JO3, by
his fteeiyard 105; I gav< him cre
dit in my account for 29 lb. be
cord bag.. I lent 86 weight ; he
took 8 for toll ; I got half a p und !
more than 1 for 4- Ihe balance |
of my {pinning cotton William ;
Amet ginned, alter Brooks adver
tis'd his property to pay his just
creditors. How did he adl ? not
like an hont-ft man. He fold and
morgaged ail that was in his pow- i
1u • ‘
er; and sold to men that he could
not caculate on receiving the pro
ceeds of in rime to meet his just
demands. But a few days before
his fraudulent sale, in his advtr
tifement he dated that it was to
prevent A. Simons from breaking !
him up, that he would give his j
creditors a liberal dis count. Now j
in his piece of the 14th of June,
he dates that A. Simons had him |
taken with a cafa, or cafas, tor 80 ;
dollars, a pitiful him for a man to
fell all his property to raiie ! No,
feliow citizen, he fold it in order \
to defraud Sutton and his hrother
Christopher, that was security for
him, a number of suits then de
pending in ’Squire Lnfley’s court,
Sutton vs the Brookses, at this
moment hung up in Wilkes court,
trying the right ol property —judg- ;
tnent obtained on Saturday alter J
his sale on Monday. In your pa- j
per of the t4th of June, he asserts
that his brother is no creditor. It j
is like all the rest ol his f<dle af- i
fertions—probably it may turn out j
vvoti’e; it is hard for his brother j
to pay fix or eight hundred dollar?
for him, and be certainly will, if j
the right of property is given in
favor of Bayly. What was honelt
Sam’s reply to his brother, when
Christopher said—brother, you will
r ot let me pay that money, l have
got a large family ? He wheeled on
his heal and said, you may do your
vverft! A? much as to fay, that I
‘have got all, or the greater part, of
j my property foe 11 red in my friend’s
j hands ! Too much, t uth, fellow
j citizens, for an honest man. The
! next falte* aflertion is, again, Mil's
j Houghton, and that I lea* her—-I
1 have a daughter by the name of
Mrs Elizabeth Houghton ; lire fays
that Brooks* alfirtions are incor
rect ; fire called on Mrs Brooks
with a lady that was then, and is
in lociety at prelent, a'd found
Mrs Brooks in great trouble—she
said, she had worked hard, and
every thing would be fold, and she
had a mind of packing up tile beffc
of the bed furniture, and lend it
over to Mr Murphey*s ; she advis
ed her nor, hut such ol her furni
ture that would answer, to cut it
up into garments, and clothe her
children. She took my daughter 1 *
advice—her daughters have been,
seen to wear a set of bed curtains,
and Mrs Brooks has since acknow
ledged fire took her adv.ee. I
leave the liars to get along in their
society as well as they can. Ihe
next faife afikrtion is, that they did
not (peak to me to purchase any
thing for them—why did I request
AbnerWillborn tobid.in fome cattle
for them? when the cattle were
felling, he called on me to know
which they were ; I referred him
to N. Bayiey ; before he found
him, the cows were bid in by Mer
man and Sherow ; they ulifted gi
ving their notes, and to leave them
with Brooks, in order to let his fa
mily have milk. 1 ffepped forward
and complied with his terms of sale.
The 11th of November 12 months
I wrote an ad vert, ft merit, for warn
ing any person from trading ffr my
note ; lent Brooks word by James
Bendy that 1 intended putting it
in tl;t next paper ; he flapped for
ward and gave me my 25 dollar
note, and offered me other notes
between and 60 dollars ; my
reply was. the notes ware 100 per
cent wetfe than nothing, as 1 ftiould
I have to pay mine, and get nothing
| for them—why, laid he, Hugh’s
note is good —(o it was, by 49 dol*
lars bad. 1 told him to let it Hand
as it was. After he defrauded me
out of my cotton, 1 thought it my
duty in jultice to my children, to
advertise my note, anu Hating those
grounds for the lame. His next
falfe afiertion i3,1 have b’ :i trying
to make drift in the church, and
that he had offered to give me up
the property. Now Hr, not to let
you tell at y more falfities, 1 will
| take the property, your making
the intcreft good on xrv note—lay,
two cows and their incrertfe, two
beds arid furniture, fix chairs, your
spinning machine, by delivering
them at Thomas Moiran’s in as
good order as they were at the day
;of sale. Next court, in order to
1 make myfelf whole, 1 will fell it at
; 1 2 months credit, having a plenty
lof uli those articles, thanks be to
God for them. In answer to the
glals house, where he boafls of his
nice feelings. I leave my fellow ci
! tizens to judge them, after reading
| his piece ana the tallowing certift
! cates. If Samuel Brooks had done
as I did, no honed man could
blame him. Alter paying between
nine and ten thuufand dollars as
security, including 2,500 for the
, free ferry, judgment, eofl and fees,
‘ for such characters as Bro< ks ; I
i was bound as security in a debt be
itween 4 and 5.000 dollar* ; I no
tified my creditors j had my pro.
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