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GEO. M. NAPIER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW j
Lafayette, - • Ueargla.
Wilt practice tu Ml thefourta and at
tend with promptness and care to le
gal business of eyery kind.
Wm. E. MANN.
Lawyer,
Ringgold, Georgia.
Will piaetice in ail the Courts
State and Federal. Legal business o’
every kihd attended to. Office In front
ot Court House.
MONEY LOANED
On Farms; 5 Years lime,
AT REASONABLE RAi S,
Mil WALKER AND CHATTOQBA
COUNTIES.
By-Loans for less than $300.00 can
not be negotiated.
Send stamp lor terms or apply In
person to
GEO. M. NAPIER,
LsEayette, Ga.
JOHX W. MADDOX.
A't rue ai L.w,
SUBMEBVILLE, - -1 Eoß.tr! A.
Will practice in the Superior, Coun
ty, and District Courts.
F. W. Copeland,
Attorney at Law,
I Fayette, - * - Georgia.
U* practice In lit* Superior Court*. •» Ro»a
ffrcuU. Klaewhare byapecial agreement. Col
laetiag a specialty.
H. P. Lumpkin
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, - - Georgia.
iv ii.L five prompt attention to all bnnlneta
ff entmated to Him. _ „
other In the M fcJSttNtJER Building.
Robert M. W. flleim,
Attorney at Law,
LaKayktib, - - - - Georgia.
Will practice in the Superior Courts
«f the Rome and adjoining circuits snd
in rhe Supreme Court of Georgia Of
fle® on east hi'Jc of stjujirc irl building
with Dr. J. Hill Hammond.
2% .tin.
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(‘Riseellansous Adventißementß.
DR.'J. HILL HAMMOND,
Phymician and Sureeon,
Office in LsFayette on the east ride
of the square, immediately »outh of the
brick store, where he can be found at al!
hours, dav and night when not profes
sionally engaged.
Dft-J.S. KIJRA,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
IliKNoaoLD, - - Georgia.
Offer* services in all branch-
of his profession to tl •
tiZcns of Walker and Ctoosa Coun
ties. Vt rk promptly done at moderates
prices.
All w .k warranted. Office on Nash
ville street, first buiTding west of W L
Whitman's store.
GEORGIA HOUSE
ANI) RESTAURANT.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN..
Co». M A MELT AKD IflKlH >*T«.,
Kept by CO .IS. FETTER.
Board $1.25 per day,
I ’ali and see Fetter and get a square
meal arid a gend think. The coolest
beer snd the best lid nor in our city.
SOLID SILVER STEM WINDING
FULL JEWELED 6ENTB’ BIZE
WATCH FOR 5 12 50.
f 1M.1.V til'AH * VrtiEU. Tbi* f.ff rmitd* for
60 da%» only th«>4* v.s.t *.y K* r-a* C. (J. IK,
»fj jiH t ta In* metfn !«c3*ro p«rrh;i«»tif.
J. P. srEVXMa A CO., Jewelers,
A ri.a«ra, Ga.
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Walker County Messenger.
VOL. VIT.
THE MESSENGER.
LA FAYKTTE, - • - GEORGIA
HI'HSOIIIPTION :
One Yesr - - - * 00
Six Mon ilia - - - *0 Ceuta.
Tht ec Months - - - « OviM.
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COM MUNICA TED.
E. D. CBAHAM’S Rim T# J. W. CU
11ET0.VS LETTER.
C»btkrsvii.i.e, Ga., Feb, 19, ISB4.
j hditor Utssenger.
Your issue of the 31st ofJsnua
ry contained an article signed
J. VY. Careton. n rnly intended
to assail me. Its author did not
have the coarageto send me a copy
end I knew nothing of it until a
friend called my attention to it on
the 16th iiist.
Having yielded so much space
to him, I know you wjU cheerfully
give soy reply. I anon lawyer de
pendent on myfricbßiapon for sup
port. My cheats,.d* net etapley
me to try thiir cases in the news
papers. The court room is the
appointed forum for the adminis
tration of justice, and having gain*
ed their cases there, they do not
need my services to protect them
against the vain ravings of a de
feated adversary. My reply must
therefore be confined to so entice ol
his article as is personal to myself
and I promise i.i advance it shall
be couop'ete, now and forever. I
ask leave to address him directly-
He will be more interested than
any other reader.
Now, Mr.Cure ton just whatsoitof
mental ailment afflicted you when
you vfrote this letter is hard to till.
What sort of maniac you are don’t
appear. Tbi symptoms *re con
tradictory. You were not drunk
for “in wine th«re is tru’h.” You
were probanly suffering from ape
eu'iar sort of hydrophobia. In
your impotent rage you bad proba
bly bitter yourself ani had that
kind of rabies when you wrote. It
might work that way on a mao in
hia dotage who is sufficiently mean
f might say much. I will condense.
It weaxens cauetio 'o spread it. I
want to rvich your back bone if
you have any. 8o far as you jo
you state correctly the hstory ot
the affairs of the Rising Fawn Iron
Company. The circumstances cf
the Sheriff's sale, the failure to re
deem, the meeting of the creditors,
the making and execution by you
of the contract dated Dec 28th,
1876, and the lease to the Tennes
see Coal and R R Company; but
you do uot state that the oidcompa
ny wai a New Ycik concern with
which you were specially friendly,
that you had exempted them from
taxation while in the Legis'ature;
and you do not slate that at the
Sheriff’s Bale I represented but
four execution creditors, neither of
whom were present and I publicly
announced that I bad ro authority
from them to taxe any interest in
the property fer their fifas; and you
do not state that none of the others
present were my clients in any
shape or form. You also omit to
state that in Augus' 1877 you made
an affidavit that the contract dated
Dec 28'.b 1876, which you now
admit and invoke, was a torgery,
and more yon never signed it; and
you do not tell that it was proven
by other sworn statements of yours
and by half a dozen other witness
es that that contract wse genuine
and you did sign it; and you do
not mention that before the court,
the bar. parties,-witnesses, and spec
tators in the court house at D.dton,
I denounced you, to your faoe, as
having willfully and lino singly
sworn falsely. Y»u also omit lostate
that before the SbenfTt sale, I
tiled a bill for first mortgage bond
holders to restrain the removal of
the property from the State and
had Col. AY.dls appointed Riceiver,
who took possession and held it
until after the old company had
failed to redeem it, and the ciedi
toi* had met on the 9th Dee., 1876
a.*! organized. I then went wjth
the consent of my clients, the
■ bondholders*, and a sworn applica
! tion from you and the other trus
-1 tees to Judge McOutehen, aad ob
! '.aired an order ior Col "Wells to j
! tarn ovtr the properly to you.
; wh.eh he dr*. The hill and pa-]
LAFAYETTE* GEORGIA. THURSDAY* MARCH 13, 1884.
(>■ re n e all on file, at Trenton in
'my hand writing.
80, then, possees’on of the fur
nace was first had from the Receiv
er *f tic bondholders, my clients
as yon well know always Knew,
and kuow now, and your charge
that I deserted the creditors for
the bondholders wis born of your
malice. None of the creditors
were ever my clients, save those for
whom lam after you still. D
you m t wish I had descried them
as you s.v?
The furnace was leased to ‘he
Tennessee Coal Co., who repaired
it furnished running expenses, and
yon dispossessed them before they
had made iron enough, at the
agreed price to re-imborso them
You refused their bond, to arrest
your process, with G>v. B own for
eocurity and yon had tlie impu
dence then to ask Uov. Brown to
credit you for coKe. Nobody got
anv tiling out of that lasso except
the employees their wages. These
the Tennessee Coal Co. paid, and
lost some two thousand dollars by
doing so. This you Knew and a ma
jority of the trusteer refused to de
mand a s.tliemant of them for this
reason. They never owed a cent.
It is astonishing how little truth
you Jan. tell and how much you
oau suppress. I and five other trus
tees made the agreement with Mes
srs. Morrow A Warner you mention.
They owned the bonds on which I
filed the first bill and everybody
knew it. This was the largest
batch of bonds collectively held.
The contrast was Vo organize tire
Dade Iron Company under the
charter obtained by you from the
Legislature to the trustees under
the express provisions of the con
tract of Dece i>bsi 28th, 1876, with
a capital Block of $50,000. Half to
be issued to tie creditors in
extinguishment of their debts,
whi h was more than enough for
that purpose. Tfce other half to
be issued to Morrow A Warner for
which they were to pay in cash
sl2 500, to be used to meet the
January and July interest on the
bonds- We thought fifty cents in
money worth a dollar in claims.
But few of the creditors have ever
got that much. The contract was
to be submitted to the creditors for
ratification. They were called to
gether and I ixplained it to them,
in all its details, and showed them
bow unless the interest on the first
mortgage bonds was paid, in a
month from that t me the whoie
principal of $125,000 would be
come due, and this was the only
offer we had upon which the mon
ey could be raised. You objected
and said we were letting a big thing
go. It was a big thing. But it was
going anyhow. You had no plan
to suggest in its place and ma
jority of the creditors ratified the
oontractorganized thecompnnv and
elected Mr. Warner President, and
the certificates of stock were pre
pared for issue- But we soon saw
that harmony was essential to suc
cess, and when you and a respect*
able body of the creditors refused
to accept tfce stock, we canceled
'.hat contract, abandoned the or
ganization and you had your way,
and have quarreled about it ever
siuce.
If that tontract had been carried
out there is no reason for saying
that Mr Warner would not have
managed it as well lor us and him
self, as he did for himself and oth
ers afterward. The interest would
have been met, the mortgage
could not have been foreclosed, the
iron boom would have been reach
ed and the creditors, who held
their sloc-K, would have shared in
the enormous profits you say he
end Gov Brown afterward made.
Your folly and your al iance
with the »econd mortgage bond
holders prevented you from seeing
the wisdom of this contract, but
you defeated it ami lost some mon
ey by so doing. You got more,
howevir, by your course, but the
court* and juris • regard it a*
ten gains and h t»e condemned you
to disgorge it.
If you tsd assented to the con
tract, y out subsequent frauds, false
hoeds and deceit would have been
unnecessary and you might have
p eseivrd tome,virtue, upon which
you cootd have risen in another
world to a rs.im where the brim
stone was milder. You and the
creditor* did then meat, or such of
them as were not my olirnts, an i
by resolution,** yon suy, dismissed
me from my tiuetve ship. I sect pl
ed tout dismissal and ohi-e.-ful'y
rvlapejd into a mete lawyer, and
ever afterward* wn* neither more
nor It vs, and how faithfully I
have aerved my clients i* n matter
b< tween me and them. They have
never lotnplained and the only
complaint I have evur heard of
comes from yon, upon whose ion
duotaod lraud* I h ive ever since
made open war.
You say that you then made ar
langements to pay the inleiest in
time to pievent a aacnliee of the
property. If yi.o roAde the ar
rangements you did not pay it in
tinis. Tte U. 8. Circuit (Colli l de
cided that you did not do ao and
the whole moitgug* was due
Those who wisli will find the case
reported in 3rd WooJs U. S. Re
ports.
You did demand possession ol
the furnance before the lease of the
Tvnneueee Company expired. And
when possession was refused y< u
trijd at Rising Fawn to get a
mob to go with you and take it by
force. But those good people, al
ways law-abidiug, r. fused to go
with you. Trie laborers at the fur
nace itt-Ked my adyice as to what to
do, if the mob cumo. They were
poor men, working to Iced their
families, and 1 told them to quietly
yield to the officers and pioceseof
Dry. but if a mob sought to drive
tiir-m from t'ueir honest labor to re
sist. lam now ready to repeat,
with emphasis, that advice to nil
laboring men under like circum
stances. You failed to get the mob
and came yourself to the furnace
and I went with you, as you state,
through the furnace. I had so
conducted myself as to have no
fears, either ol violence or insult,
from any one of either party, and
while going through the furnace
you got into a quarrel with two ne
groes, as you say, disgraced your
self by bandying epithets with
them, until I got ashamed for you
and Insisted that you go away. A
few days afterward* you sued out a
warrant und alter refusing the so nd
I have mentioned, obtained peace
ful possession of the foresee, but
as you bad neither money nor
credit, you lud to blow it out for
want of coko. 1 suppose, as you
say, you afterwards made arrange
ments for a supply and got money
through Pearce to repair the fur
nance and blow in, But you do
not bring Mr. I’aarce on the stage
quite scon enough. Ho was there
from the beginning of the trouble,
acting in open alliance wi h you,
sgent of the Now York bond hold
ers (second mortgage bondholders)
the stock holders of the old broken
concern. He soon developed into
your purtner in the firm ofCuretcn
A Pearce and you and he and the
New York conoern have, all the
way through this litigation, united
in the employment of the same
counsel. Conrad M Shafer with
whom you made tbe later con
tracts you deacribe, was the trustee
of the second mortgage You pre
ferred dealing with the Northern
tnen, woo had foisted this rotten
concern upon Georgia, to Southern
men of such financial standing as
Morrow & Warner aud G>v.
Brown.
In tbe meantime the first mort
gage bond holders uw that noth •
ing could be done b»t foreclose
their mortgage, and tiled their bill,
and you were amused with the
ides that the question in the case
was the economy of your manage
rnent, and you proved that fully.
You bad nothing to spend on it
except rnus'y meal end were* flour
from what is now claimed as
your wife’s mills. Counsel for Hi*
bond holders knew that the u ies
tiou was whether you hid pain tin
interest on l*t July, and you lost
the ease.
I suppose you made the con
tracts and git money, as you say,
fr- rn Bhofer. We have your prin
ted statement for it. But on the
trial of this case before Col. McCa
mv.as Auditor, after trie dates yon
mention, you swore that you bad
never received tny money, from any '
source, to be applied to these
judgment* ; end again, on tbe trial
of the case before ill* jury, yon
swore during one wliule foietioon
that you hud neur received any
itnih moneys. Tim question was
put to you repeatedly and in every
shape tlio ingenuity of couusil
could devise and you agaiu and
sgaiu swore that you had not. Un
dtrthe burden of this falsehood
you staggered and broke down.
You appeared to be threatened
with the tiro of Annsnias, and tbe
Court grew eorry for you and sus
pended tlio rxnuiinntion until yon
sould recover aud you again denied
it. In the afternoon, ite examina
tion was resume i und, finally, to the
euiprise of everybody, you reluc
tantly Swallowed this falsehood, ad
mi ted that you had reoeivud from
$lO IKK) (XI to $15,000.00. This ex
amination was t ken down aud
written out by the lteportcr and
certified to by him ; was agreed to
by your counsel us coirect aud cer
tified to lie true by tns Court; and
is i.o* on file, both in Trenton
and Atlanta, subject to public in
spection.
Alter this testimony of yours
you were confirmed with this
dilemmu: You had bought tbe
property at Sheriff's sale for your
»tlf, had t-iken a deed to it and
owed the bid of SIB,OOO to the oze
co‘ioo creditors: or: You had
bought the property at tit* Sheriff s
sale for the mention creditors, held
it In trust lor thi-aa under the con
tniotof2Bth Dfc.,1876, had sold
out your trust to Shafer and got ills
m ,n» y, and owed the moiuy to the
execut.ou cr--di ora Hither way
the verdict was right. I his is
logic, irresistible logic.
Yousav you paid $12,000 00 to
the credl era. There was never so
milch claimed outside those noto
riously unpaid, aad you paid none
of thorn more than 50 per cent.-
und shaied up some as low ns 10
per «»nt.
I (undated Mr. Ifnle, attorney for
the lien creditor*, what I could,
arranged for them to come in and
abaru in the property under the
contract with Morrow A Warner,
and they all agreed to it.
i'bey were poer laborers shorn
the furnace, interested more in its
continuous operation than their
debts. You tonk possession of ihe
turnace, blew it oat, threw litem
out of employment, shaved up
tlisir claims, while they were hun
gry, for a song and then sought to
use them for their full amount to
defeat ether creditors. When the
laborers bad no fu tber interest iu
them, J successfully altacced the
fraud you sought to psrpatrat* for
the benefit of your Northern allitß
in tke name of these laborers.
I was ilie attorney in noshnpe
of the Justice Court Plaintiff's.
You and they were the purty that
dismissed me as Trustee, and I did
attack many of their judgments,
notably some of your own, and
set tlrm aside for fraud and col
lusion.
You ssv lha' my foot prints an
to be found all through this holi
ness. You aro right. I have aban
doned no trust but labored with
diligence for my clients and my
foot prints have been made where
they were needed and will be chief
ly found along the path of youi
villainy,
For my services I have been
paid more than $500.00 for my
labors and expect to get more, but
no such sum as SSOOO 00.
I agreed in the contract of Dec. 28,
76, to take my lees in cock in the
property, and the creditors, who
disired it, were to have stock fir
there debts. But when five #f the
seven trustees tried to stock it, you
broke it up, bud us dismissed,
kicked us out of the concern and
swore that that contract was a fo
<?• ry.
lard Mr. Hale did swear that
you took possession of the proper
tv and claimed It ua your own.
(> ti'-r w tr)esses swore it, The
(sheriff who put you in possession
swore it. You swne it to get
your Warrant, and fr< qn- nt ( y swore
it in judicial proceedings in tbe
tJ. S , and eta'e < ourta. Wo did put
in this proof as you say (I quote
I from your letter) “to proves fraud
I that has do parallel U the annals
NO. 53.
of the ouurt records of tins coun
try.”
Yotl Hik ‘ II it is reasonable tlmt
yoa vnuld egree to bid off thi«
property, in the presence of 200
witnei-s-s, aad sign i bligations to
vest the title, you hold for them,
in whoever they said, nod acoept ft
truelreehip with six others, enoli
with n< much powrf ns yrurn-If
and lease and contract the piopsr
ty fur months at d then claim it ns
yours T" No; it is not msnnsblv.
Nevertheless, your mendacity mid
bat-miss were equal to thenconsion
and you did it. It whs necessary for
you to do»o to carry out your al
liance with Pearce,with the old con
cern end their counsel, With Shafsr
and second mortgage bondholders.
It is true you talKed all light to
your neighbors, who trusted you ;
but when the affidavit mill was
grinding or pleadings were to b«
made Up. you came to time, when
ever your Nort'. era allies asked it.
I did hid off four lots of land in
Ji-ne1877, lor the creditors. In
so doing'l made m H»lf liable to
Mr. Gilbert the plaintiff, for hie
money, lie wanted it and was
entitled to it. I did not
have it and no one would raise
or help me raiso it. To g t
out of the scrape, 1 got it from Mr.
Werner who was (o lik* the deed
a: d hold-i’: for the company we
wire trying lo oignnize. You
broke up that effort and afterwards
offered me the mouev and deman
ded a deed to yoiirstlf, You knew,
when you did it, you had no right
'o'he deed and I no right tu the
mouey, 1 got nothing out if that, 1
got out, of the scrape and Mr. Gd
tiert got his iiioiey. The execu
tions, that sold tbe property you
bought at Sheriff's sale, were satis
fied by it, and could claim money
at no other siTo To«y wrre the
essential foundation* of the Sher
iff's deed you had in your pocket.
You hml never paiJ them and
when s jj fy of your own neigh
bors condemns you to pay them,
you meet these creditors with a
scurillous about their luwyer
and ■ cfajai.Jtt J»ur wife to your
property, , )r ,f «,
You »n4„i blbsr* differntly at
Sheriff’s s*le rtu -r
I did stand by and see Mr. War
ner and Gov, Brown buy tbe fur
nace for $138,110000 I stood by,
last summer and saw other pro
p’es’bees gather ills entire 1 eney
crop. I bad no bees. Your N«w
York tricud Shuler, was st that
stle 11 outwinded me end Wes
'ey Blevi.iS, but lot Lis br»alh at
$137000.
You now admit you made
a bargain wi.lt Shafer, and got
money by it, to withdraw your
suit and let that sals take place to
perfect the title. 1 had been open
ly working for two years ns a law
yer to bring on thstsale, collect
the mortgage and perfect the title.
Qou and 1 were unanimous on that
sale.
Well it did perfect the title but
not iuHhpfer.
Your ia.t falsehood on this sub
ject, is that 1 offered to abandon
the case hit niy fee. You knew it
was untrue when you wrote it. In
seine shnpe or otlier this litigation
bus been before Judgis Krskine,
Weeds and Bradley and a Mastei
in Chancery in the U. B. courts
hr fore Judges MoCutchen and
Fain and an Auditor in til* Btatc
courts, arid also a jury of Dad*-
county. In every shape it has been
decided against you, and by this
time you are mad enough lo write
a letter, and to splice your lean in
vention, you filch from good au
thois well rounded paragraphs and
lug them into your letter by thr
earn. But you are so ignorant o
their meaning as unwittingly i«»
compliment me lor pons ss’tig pi
.influence so extraordinary in it
> harseter that lam forced to die
ilsiro it.
You charge me with obtaining
your signature to art admit i-’tra
ti.n bond, upon n promise tba'
others would sign it. You knew
'hat was fiil-o before■ you' wrote ll
You made thst isme before a jury
and failed to sustain it. You SU'
I was sued and trait.rd ihac (, ''e for
want of a Revenue stsrrjf nn tl:<
nolo. It will be news lo lawyer
that tbe Supreme Court evei
affirmed any snch case. I wa*
'in a party to an old suit,
ss administrator and did gain it-
T..ty su;d it again. 1 could no*
help that, but I coed defend it,
uni the Supreme Court of Gofgia,
on the 9tli day of Ih’a month, afit.r
your tlnnderous tetter was printed,
lull t eluro I tv«r heard of It, deliv
er'd its opinion in that very csss,
and this Mead Note will faster
•t ti 1 upon Its records to prefect
you from that bond, and retake
y.mr false obarge
* 2. The smiths cn an adnrinls
t.ator’s bond, only bind themse’ves
for the faithful discli-i-geof thedu
tiis of the administrator ae rsqair
ed by law. They do not bind them
viivts that the administrator shall
pay a clnhn which has bseo adju
dicatid by a court of competant
jnrlediclion, to hrv« no sxistenee
against tliv estate represented by
the administrator. To pay such a
claim is not required by law, sad
hence is no part of the obligation
of the sureties.’’
Bid my malic# preserve end
furnieh you the proofs en whioft
this decision is based ?
I was in the Legislature in 1872,
and when the bond uommßlee re
ported the Alabama A Chattanooga
B. R. bonds binding on the State,
1 suicessfu’ly reacted that report
mid Hit) House rejected them, bat
the Senate tailed to concur. It
was thought if the paramount lien
of the State was removed the cred
it'rs could cod*ct th»ir money from
tins broken road.
Mr oourre on this q-fetlon pro
voked the hostility of the rallread
officials and they warmly support
ed you in t mo, and on the day
bet'iic the election they had me
end the Shor fY and aeveral other
friends arrested on the charge of
int< rruptlng the U. S. mails, be
cause we had levied on aims roll
ing stock. They carried ut to
Chattanooga anil from there to At
lanta, and dismissed the charge as
shod as the election was ovet. You
ben- me six yotss. and If you bad
nothing to do with my street you
“reaped where you had not sown.”
i did go to the legislature wbsn it
met to urgue before a committee
the validity of those bonds —it was
unnecessary to see the Governor.
II" always openly declared them
void. My clients paid my expen
ses and in nil our lives ooi one
ci nt ol money, byway of pay
ment, loan or gift, ever passed
(rom you to me, and at hat time
the unfriendly relations between
us,'and >onr well knewn selfish*
i.ess would have prevented say ask
ing it, Beside* with a pass eyes
the railroads from Atlanta to Tree
ton, and an office in (Jhettsaooga,
I could go and ooeco without mou
ev.
In 1874 I was elected over you
aid during ill* term these bunds
were r» jn. te I but It trie 100 late to
Ira. rfn my clients. They paid the
. xpei sos of that li igslion aad Just
their ci-tM. Tout charge against
mi you cun sustain. You will ba
able (o sustain it against your owu
lawyers, when this Rising fawn lit
igation is over, if yon ever pay
them.
I a’eo went to the Crawfish Con*
yentiun in 1M76, and when you ai>-
peared to have a majority in tb«
Convei lion I did, in a speech, orgw
them a’l to units oc you, and tried
my Lost to prevent Col. Tatum
from running hut When half tba
Dade delegation and the G.tooaa
delegation decided he mutt run
and he determined to do so, I stood
by my friend, He was a better
roan than yon. I shill never te
pmt of that aia.
You charge me with betraying
the can fidi-i.ee of others, outside
this litigation. It is enougis for
me lusty thst in Dade, Where I
have chiefly lived,,! never yet saked
aay person lo sign a paper or do
me a favor in hi* power wbu re
fused, and you can find ne oae
who will say heeyrr lost a cent by
it.
You al-m charge me with Making
lo poison the public mind by surrep
titiously circulating false report#
from dark comers. I have circa
lali d r.o reports, s«ve those that
wsi t abroad and grew out es pro
ven fan's at public trials. If tbe
TT. S C rc lit Court* at Atlanta and
tiic Court House ut Daltpn and
Trenton are held and 'icsci in
“ibrk corners,’’ I hope tbw issue
o! i lie Mto-seNOsiu will leach all tbe
‘dark corner#” and you will at least
k'»|i in the light Lite copy of this
rt.de 1 rend you by registered let
■r.
I have done with you—nothing
you -an do ur say will provoke a a
to r.otico yi u again. I dismiss
von to infamy. To al'sio ii you"
[Oerc'uded on Fotuth