Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-07-13
10 the Public.

| have had occasion, more than once :.
appeal from the decision of enemies !,
this high tribunal, the highest that on,
country knows--'the Public'-to who's.
decision am always willing to bow from
which truth has nothing to fear, and era,
nothing to expect.
was absent the greater part of la,,
week, and part Of this; on my return
found that handbills were issued again.
ME by one who signs himself p. m. whit,
akcr. Some days previous to nv LEAVING
town, this Whitaker came, in companS
with others, armed with clubs, pistols. &C.
and endeavored, Ito use his own language
to insult me; threw off his coat to fSbt
and declared "he was the best man ever
God Almighty made," and used tho low.
est, scurrilous language that could be
thought of, (poor fellow, he does not know
better, being superlatvely ignorant but
could not tempt me to degrade myself BY
lighting with him; | treated him with tbp
coolest contempt, while he was vowing
vengeance. | said, however, that there
was one way he could get fight out Of
me, and that was to jump on, or attacE
me, q would give dog the same offcrl
which he did not dare to do.
But the reader is saying, 10 doubt, thai
there is some powerful cause for all this
Well, indulge me little and will give
the alleged cause. In March last he and
| bet ten dollar hat on a horse race:
won the hat; now he denies that he made
the bet, and refuses to pay, which, had he
done in polite and not in bullying man.
ner, or before the affair was carried 50
far, would not have insisted on il, but
now, things have assumed another and We.
ry different bearing; he says have told an
untruth, for ten dollars; j say he states
what is not SO, but not for ten dollars
Could such paltry sum induce even Pink
Whitaker to act the part he has? There
are other deeper and darker causes which
VIII yet be developed. There are those
behind the curtain who hiss on the poor
dupe to the commission Of acts that they
would be ashamed to do-which they dare
not do. Indeed, in my hearing, man
stated that Whitaker would .ruin' me and
said he, 81 have the means, and will aid
him in it," (Ths can prove.)
Can any one that knows Whitaker and
me, believe, for a moment, that | would
have selected him out of all the men on the
ground, that day, to fleece "a man that
does not pay his debts until he is sued, and
then threatens to whip and drag out those
who collect by law; saw him jump ovcra
counter to whip a man in his own store
who had offended him by putting his ac-
count in the UiliUers hands, and that too
at time when it was said he had alb
seconded. Would not such man be bare
picking. He says have lied, and for
what? SOL! And only the chance Of
getting It from Pink Whitaker!!!! This
honorable, high-minded gentleman SAYS he
never bet with me; never lost, and never
authorized me to get hat or its equya-
lent, on his account. say he did. On
that point we stand even, if one savso is
only as good as another. But here is some
thing that sets the whole matter at rest
read and Jadge ye betwirt us:''
81 heard p. Whitaker tell J. Tothill TO
geta $40 hat on his account, that he won
ON the herse race, and told me to give To
thill the same.
SAMUEL TILLOTSON.
never told Mr.. Bramblet that P. M.
Whitaker TOLD me to get the amount of
ten dollars in his store, as stated by Whit
aker. That, too, is the offspring of his
learned head. As to Whtaker's boosted
morality, and disclaiming the use of pro-
fame language, we let that 90 for what it
IS worth. In this community he might
have saved himself the trouble of saving
anything on the subject. He may not
have fought, drank, gambled and used pro-
fame language in the last few days, but he
has done all of them and left his gambling
debts unpaid.
VIII not condesend to call him liar,
but have proved him one; will not cali
HIM scoundrel, but leave to every one to
Judge OF one who could act as he has done;
VIII not call him rascal, though think
an honest man would look mean in the DO
sltlon ne occupies; nor shall call him
debased villain. No, these terms cannot
reach HIM; but will call him the rooL--
the cdtS-pdw-the striker of those for
whom they would be proper epithets. |
would disdain to notice him, or aupht com
ing from such source, were it not for the
tact that he is used to carry out the black
designs Of others; ( pity him and dispiso
and defy them.
JOHN TOTHILL.
Louisiana, The Natch;toobos uar-