Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-09-30

Wavue Countv;n 1 discover he has handed my
.ame 10 Won as one Of those, who, he says @1od
or concealed themselves to avoid appearing BE-
fore the Commissioner Court At its late special
session. The Circular reads ~ follows:
"a great MANY went secresed themselves % that
,t.v enid NM BE- sumrnosed-many that sum-
refused attend, and when the Beard ordered ar
tachmenss fos them they fed OF concealed themselves
ios,anee-H L. Akin, who had large number of DDS at
work National Road, ncs: Richmond. and many OF
voted illegally summoned to testify TO that tact
and ~ 70 his knowledge Of illegal given He a'sen
ed on Friday Board being engaged in hearing ar
gunner. Of Counsel, examined On Saturday he
called and il publicly announced ;ha ne was gone
Cincinnati business On the nsxr day, Sunday ne
CenirsviIle. at Camp Meeting Oh Tuesday ne was
again Called and again publicly announced that ne
gone Cincinnati. When attachment was orde,.
ed by the Board him and great Others who had
failed TO as,.nd When the officer went to NJ Akn,s
with the attachment and found him under the hands
of physician, and as hs stated, ssek!''
From this paragraph any one would INFER that
had secreted myself on Saturday, after getting
some of my friends to declare that ] had gone to
Cincinnati--that on Sunday attended the Camp
Meeting, and that then fegned myself sick to
avoid an attachment Now if these are the i'm
pressions Mr.. Hannah wishes to convey in the
article quoted (and who can misunderstood it) he
has certainly placed his veracity in a situation
very far from envable. For he who attempts to
draw erroneous conclusions from few facts with
a view to injare his neighbor, and this too by
suppressing some Of the facts connected with the
case, is no less guilty than he who fabrcates.
Now, fellow citizens, hear the ''wholc truth"
and then Judge between Mr.. Hannah and myself
you may think right. The circumstances are
simply these THAT | was summoned to appear
Before the Commissioners Court on Friday, and,
with very great disadv antage to myself, l atten-
ded on that day. The next day ] intended to
start to Dayton to procure Stone Cutters, and If
they could not be procured there to proceed to
Cincinnati; the stage at that time generally left
Richmond late in the evenng,-durng the fore
noon, and until the latter part of the afternoon,
I was engaged with my hands on the road or at
the stone quarries, and when I returned to town
the stage had left. I then determined to wait
until Monday. On Sunday l did visit the camp
ground, and the next day started to Dayton; the
road was taken sick and thought it most prudent
to return Immediately home. and when the west
ern stage met US got into it and returned
we'll to be forced TO keep my bed for or days.
This plain statement Of the facts they
occurred, and any one who can in them de-
sign to avoid appearing before the Court Is GER
tsinly gifted with uncommon penetration.
If had appeared do not see that i could have
done his cause much service. I might, indeed,
have said something about one Kersey Baker, who
voted for him. ticket which he, Mr. Hannah)
no doubt, rcco!lects filing himself, after he had
been informed by the youth that he was a minor;
profitable to him. But have said enough, you
but the truth" and you can draw your own con-
illusions H. L. AKIN.
Richmond, Sept. ~, 1887.