Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-10-15
vol. yIV.....VO. 81.

field. lie vas told that they would DESTROY Mr..
Carrinrton's oats, and At that time no hand could
bc spared TO mind the stock. lie got very angry,
and raid il wa, pretty business that his own stock
should be kept from grazing his own fields, in orr
der 10 protect Mr.. Canington's oats and he or.
dercd the stock 10 he turned in. Mr.. e. came to
Mr.. RS. and instead of mentioning the subject to
Mr.. r., he came to me and asked me to give orr
ders for the removal flhc stock. told him that
Nj. RS situation was such could give no orders
about II. advised him TO have his oats watched
until he could haul them together and enclose
them. Afterwards, when Mr. Darlington was a.
bout settling the law suits which were depending
between him and Mr.. r., told him Mr.. II. was
not himself, or these suits would not have been
commenced
BY Mr. Sanard--Did not Mr.. r. carry his re.
sentiments very far 7 Answer-Yes and did not
easily rclinquish them.
Qnestion--Do you not think that when he had
\ difference with man, and had been reconcicd,
he would revert TO the same cause on any new Of
fence Answcr-llc did in tho caso.of Judge
Bonldln and Beverly Tucker. lie disliked their
conduct in relation to tho Charlotte resolutions Of
1912, or about that time, as they called; but
he lived on good terms with them afterwards. Al.
ter ms return from Russia, he poke ofbo,l them
harshly, a. have always understood, ON account
oil these same resolutions.
BN Mr. Johnson--Dd hc like English socic.
~ better than tina, OF this country, and had he not
a diStrnsi oi our institutions Answer--Ile had
great horror OF the solitude OF a country lilo in
tins country and | believe he had dslrllst of our
institutions. liz wrote to when he was in Lon
don, To announce HIM candidate for Congress.
judge Beuldin Thought he was ill-ireatcd and took
offence, and Mr.. II. wrote nae several letters, de-
srin. assure Boullin thai he had no wish 10
treat him with disrcSpcct. informed Bouldin of
these letters and he was rcconclled believe I
understood that IN MI RS first speech at Charlotte
Court House, ho cndca,urcd to do away any un-
favorable impression Bouldin might have taken M
IN REGARD 10 his having been declared a candidate
for Congress. Two weeks afterwards, in his
speech NJ Prince Edward Court, he made ychc-
men attack upon Bouldin, in regard to this very
matter, as he informed me. lie also attacked DR..
Crump then. lie told me he did this. Two zen
tlemcn bad brcn at his house to buy horse, and
while there Mr. X. spoke diSrcspcctuly Of Crun,p,
and he desired these gentlemen not 10 tell him, for
he intended speak OF him TO his face in the same
way, the first time he saw him. He said he met
with him II, Prince Edward Court, and determine
ed TO be as good as his word, and therefore hc
made the attack upon him in the speech. And
he did not cchsuro himself for speaking disrcspect-
fully of Crump TO the Ccntcmcn but he blamed
the gentlemen for STAYING at his house which rave
10 Mr. durise the winter Of 3 and 32 there were
times when he couvcr>cd with me for short pcri-
DDS, cooy and nationally. Nv opinion is that
from the time he recovered at Cardwcll's he was
sane, but occasionally insane. That
previous 10 his going to CardwclI' he was insane
This opinion was formed as well ultn his conduct,
Of which have given evidence, upon his APP
pearance and general conduct, OF much of which
cannot now give detailed account.
T..
toned by Mr. Patton-In 1918, Mr.. II. told mo
that he had seen vision, and that il had caused
his sudden conversion. He said hc was living in
the new house, where very be mlnl vision APP
pearcd To him. lie never described it particularly,
but he said II most brilliant one. have an
lndstinc mprc sslon that he mentioned this vision
to me after his return from Russia bur | am NOT
certain. think he related it to me first in 1918,
when considered him laboring under a religious
frenzy.
BY the Cour-Can you say that he ever told
you oil this vision when he was sane Answer
i cannot. have no recollection thai he ever
did.
BY Mr. Ia, lor--Will YOU state what opinion
Mr.. X. expressed 10 YOU at any time of Judge
Tucker tho elder, since 1871 Answer--The
first time | ever beard him speak unexpectedly
Of Judge Fucker, was think in December 1910.
He had given MI Beverly Tucker some land and
slaves, and Mr. Beverly Tucker on his marriage
settled them ON his wife and Children without, as
Mr. k. told me, consulting him. or making him a
trustee in tho decd. Mr. X. believed that this was
done at the instance Of the elder Judge Tucker,
and was very much offended. AT this time do not
think he made any specific charges against Judge
Tucker but some little time afterwards, he did,
and continued 10 make them frequently from that
time until he TO Russia
Questionable he say any thing to Won of Mr.
fuckers having taken to himself The slaves which
had bocn given to his mother by her father, on her
marriage with his father q! Answcr--IIe did fire.
qucnhy. lie spoke Of it very much in the way it
is mentioned in the will of 1921.
Qucstlon-Did he say this when he was perfect
ly rational Answer--Yes perfectly, as it appear
ed to me. His remarks on this subject were not
confined to me. imagine he has made the same
to fifty or an hundred persons.
by the Court-Dd. he mention this subject to-
you before your intimacy commenced with him
Answer had been in the habit ofgoing frequent-
ly to his house, when he always treated with
great kindness Our intimacy became much clo-
ser afterwards.
BY Mr.. Robertson--IIavc you any recollection
that MIR. r. wrote bill in Chancerv, to be exhib-
tied against Judge Tucker 7 Answor-He told
me had written such bill ; and l think he Showed
il TO me, and told me he was prevented from fling
it by my brothers opinion. l think he consulted
nv brother in 1910.
by Mr.. Jones-Do YOU remember that he re-
peated the same Charocs AGAINST Iudge Tnclor