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moments of that resolution for reasons to jus.
,ify myself in bringing forward and voting
for said resolution. have been invited and
even challenged, by the editor of the Vcr-
mont Telegraph, to give my reasons TO the
public through the medium Of his paper, for
my conduct in the case under consideration
and after | had complied with his request,
and furnished him with my reasons for pub
location, he now refuses TO publish them.
| am now, therefore, under the necessity of
asking that as a favor from you, which |
considered myself entitled to as right from
the editor of tho Telegraph. If you will
publish my reply TO J. Holcomb and others
with this communication, and furnish me
with thirty extra papers, you will obligo
friend. ELIJAH DEE.
Georgia, May Is. 1883.
MIR. ORsoN s. MUeRAY.-Sr: Herein in
closed I send YOU for publication reply to Mr.
Hocombs right hand compliment, addressed to
me and published in the Vermont Telegraph OF
January the 3D. aud also a reply to the remarks OF
some other persons on the same subject, together
with a statement of my reasons Tor carving for
ward and supporting in the Legislature OF Vermont
that Resolution, which appear 10 be so obecilona.
bic TO Mr. Holcomb and others. You INFORM me,
in the Telegraph Of December the 2Hh, u hcre-
after wish to occupy the columns OF the Telegraph
in defence OF The resolution alluded to, that must
conGne myself within the bounds OF common decency
and good manners. am not conscious ct any
breach of decorum in my reply to MIR. j Holcomb's
left handed compliment, but If have IN tina, reply
transgressed any rules OF decencV ana good man.
ners lei the odium rest on me and not on the editor
oc the Teecraph | therefore hope that alter sui.
c,rnr nv name TO be brought so unceremonously
beCore he public. through the medium Of the Tel
egr,nb von will not nov refuse to publish my de.
fence, although my manners should not appear so
refined as Mr.. Hplconb and some others. But II
YOU should conclude not to publish what have
written on the subject in question, wish you to
do me the favor TO return the papers to me again
with YOUR reasons for dong. Yours with
esteem. CLl'hii DHC'
Georgia, March 5, 1888.
Mn. HoLccMB, S,R:-I have received
the Telegraph Of December the Sd, in
which was published your right hand com
pliment addressed to me, to which | have
endeavored to give all that consideration
that its importance demands, and have
come to the conclusion that after few
remaks on your right hand address justice
to myself will compel me to state explicitly
through the medium of the Telegraph, the
reasons that induced me to bring forward
and sustain that resolution that appears to
be so offensive to you and some others, in
order that the readers of the Telegraph
NAV have correct view of the subiec
| which otherwise they could not have, from
the incorrect statements which you have
made relative to my views on that subject ;
do not accuse you of wiIfully mlsrepre-
senting my views on that subject, but do
say. had you possessed that prudence and
temperance which you 50 strongly recon
mend to others, you never woult have
undertaken to refute any mans reasons for
any opinion which he might have formed,
until you had known what his reasons were,
and contend as you have done in the present
case, on assumed and false premises, as
shall hereafter make it appear. now
proceed to make few remarks on your
right hand compliment. In that you say II
| is an old, and you believe generally, true
adare shat ,ooundeG birds ,futter )" that
YOU have seen the truth Of it verified among
the different species of the feathered race,
but never did ''in all yo,r born dnys" see
anv one take on so bitterly as did when
proclalmnp to the world that the left hand
compliment Lad hi, me. | shall not stop
here to enquire how many born days' OF
birth days il required to bring into exist
ence genius of your size aud dimensions
neither shq, contend with you whether
fdttered much or little under the lnflu'
ence otsyour " hand compliment, neither
shall Tattem, proveh hat which appears
, to be self-evl a.. namely, that all which
you have written both in your left and right
hand compliments appears to be but l'tIe
else than gatherings ; but shall leave that
for others to read and Judge for themselves
1 You say that | virtually accuse you o
t beginning with me abruptly. But have
accused you of no such thing; but, | dc
accuse You of making the most ungenerou'
and uncharltabe Suggestions respecting
the characters of those who voted in the
affirmative Of the resolution heretofore
alluded to, in the absence of all truth tC
Justify you in such suggestions. You say
d also, that ! seem to think that you Intended
g to scandalze the sixty three that voted il
, the affirmative Of the resolution in question
. but you say you did not design to us,
scandalous language towards any of them
nor did you wish to injure any of them bu
( what will the candid readers of the Tee
, graph think of you after offering to max,
, a bet that those who voted for the resou
ton at the time Of its passage, were unde
/. the influence of rum sellers or run drink
ers, and yet you say, you did not mean II
, use scandalous language towards any O
" them; will they not think that your mora
y sense was at n very low ebb when yo
!, penned your left hand compliment or tina
- vnur declarnlinn TINT Won did not mean [