Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-20
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DuLLoCH COUNTY, (tEeo.)
2IM august, 1925.
Sir: The circumstances which require the pub
iration oil the following corresp@.a.iAnce max fu;e
explanatory obset9eaaRqyy.iih the publication WIN
My residence, during the present sumner, Is
in retired situation, al the distance oil eight or
ten mics from The nearest post ofice, TO when
The mail is brought but oace in fortnight DC
carfenees W hch i, is unnecessary 10 detail here,
pre- ened me from having any communication
with Savannah, for nearly three wees. ! have,
consequently, not been aware, uatil within very
few days how much lie subject 10 which this cor
respondence refers had engaged the public atten-
ton, and that it had been presented in such
view as 70 render this communication Indispensable
No one could have felt more surprise than my
self on seeing the COMMUNICATION OF the Governor
oil Georgia, which is referred TO in the following
letters. l saw it with pain, as well as surprise,
but at the time, with full conviction oil the
purity of the motives IN which 1t had originated
and Of the entire msconception which must have
produced it, A long ard Intimate acquaintance
had given me the most perfect confidence IN the
capdor and ingenuousness of this gentleman. |
could not therefore, hesitate concerning the course
which ii was proper for me TO pursue. deer
mined TO address syself directly to him, TO stale
the error, and 10 ask its correction. The CORES
pondence which follows was thus produced:
Letter from John Macpherson Be,yien to Con.
Iroup.
SAvANNAH, 2sth June, 1926.
| NV Dear Sir: have seen, III the Georgia Pat
riot OF the l4th inst. an article purpor;ng 10 be a
statement made by you to the Legislature, oil a
COW ersaiion between you and myself, which oc-
Cured during my last visit TO Medgevile, and
cannot avoid expressing 10 you the surprise and
regret which it has excited. When saw, IN your
first communication, the manner in which you had
noticed the subject Of interference oil other States
I aet,t xyIth hf
singularity of your having transferred (what pre-
sumed you believed to beg the substance OF a prI
vate unofficial conversation, to public, oiicia
document without consulting me TO know whether
your recollection of that conversation was accurate
l--whetheT | would consent TO be brought before
the Legislature in that manner-or, IN TACT, glvint
me the slightest inlimation oil your intention thu
TO present me 10 The public. When, subsequently,
call for information was made on me by the Chair
man of a Committee Of the House of Representa-
tves, was forced 10 the conclusion that you ha'
given nv name to that Committee, and, in my re-
ply, written at the iDstaLt, after mentioning thu
impressions proceeded to make brief Statement
of what had said IL that letter was shown L
you, as, from reference TO some circumstances, |
seems, may have been the fact, before your state
ment of the 9Th OF June was made, have, then, e
Z complain that you should have persevered In tina
7 statement, after my explanation TO MIR. Lompkin
= and with the disposition in relation to me, who
s such measure would manifest on your part,
: should of course be relieved from the feeling 10
z wards you, which now embarrasses rue. prefer {
e adopt Che contrary conclusion. am unwilling
perhaps unable, at the moment, 10 shake oil lh
feelings springing from friendship of more tina
: twenty years; and | cannot forget, that under ti
: operation Of these and from belief that the publ
o. interest would be promoted by your success, Q
" mitted no honorable exeriion to aid your eieciio
4 Il Tnle hp mr.
e bIned influence of these considerations, / am eS
I, rernely unwilling to do any thing Of which YOU
enemies might avail themselves 10 your injury =
" But the situation in which am placed before u
3 public, by your communication and subsequer
I'd statement, is one in which cannot consent TO r
!" main. / have made no such assertions as may
inferred from that statement, On the coDtrar.