Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Volume !•] i*l_ JJi.IsHKU W t*.K4.f, HY JOH.Y A'. .)/ ( ,'IURLTOJY. PfilCH TallKib i>OL.I.A US i’KH A.N .M'M, IUIJ PAID IV Aii\ A.VCK. ADVERTISEMENT, . •* * 1 1 I ‘■ 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. [No. 24