Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-09-05
TO THE PUBLIC.
4 BASE ISLANDER EXPOSED.

BASE ISLANDER EAPOSEDs f"
The last number o! the f" True lssue,' pub
aaed in Jackson contains Card" prelernng
sundy CHARGES against myself signed IL. q.
RuoneIs, Whoever was the author Of this pro-
tacdon, it must be admitted, be has persodated
with some skill the ferocity, coarse yulgariiy, low
abuse and infamous fAlsehood which distinguish
lha renowned bully. A better imitation could
not well have been gotten up.
Ruunels supposes that he has received injuries
almy hands III certain publications., and without
hkng means 10 ascertain the facts. or appealing
10 tie laws Ct chiyaryLesofls 10 the blackguards
mejI1m, controversy IN the newspapers. A.
MOns honorable men, there is but one sense IN
p,uon 10 such conduct, and that is disgrace. 1t
neither redresscs the injured patty, nor reaches
The one assaed.
hhatetes may be my contempt for The eharac-
lsy and standing ri Runnels, and however low and
crgnded ne may be m public estimation, prop
aisSpect for the opinions Of men prompts me 10
I answer MS charges. His card is tissue d false
HOOD rom beginning to end. His FIST statement
s--
"The public are aware Of the. systematic
course df Islander which has been urged against
me IN the Mississippian for the last Twelve or
eighteen months. Il is as well known, also, that
'oIney E. Howard has been and is nov the real
owner OF that press,aud that he has the env9 con-
Fo Of lis editorial department."
Inns statement is false. ain not the owner
@@e Ml:sIssPpan, having disposed Of my entire
property therein more than year since, as canbe
established by the evidence In DR.. OWNS pos
session al this time II is equally false tina, |
nave !" the entire control ofthe editorial dcpar,
meiF Of thai paper. And, so far as know,
ven Ptlce IS the sole Editor, and The sple author
W US editorials, and exercises absolute control o.
Vv rs sentiments Within the last eight monI S
written but two articles for the Mssssip.
1'--one IN relation to general politics and the
leJmrelation to The Union Bank in The absence
HeheEal Price, which Runnels made the pre-
'sN to as'en quarrel upon ne, and which led 70
% meeting.
te-a'szt assertion Of Runnels il, that an edi-
'''a a'.Icic which appeared IN lhe. Columbus De-
"ocTai shortly after the dle, based upon The cor
4 .'FSRdeRco =. tween him and myssh, was de
l'vdr -, written" by Inc. This statement i
@S,e' as DR.. Wilson Of this place. and others oil
q &. ''Hoas, ~al testify. Several gronEdess ru-
mos we're '-"niaiing in Columbus ia relation t.
M r, c''> -rnong others, that had
sNAss u 'ae auei 49, T. nnon Run
III AZ Outrageous peas .'.''' "'''c !. !. and hao
~ sscerse Is had changed his p3iIlcs
r ..sse hun TO challenge. vas urged BY my
'%Il' 10 give up the correspondence add zoe
t'Sle which led to il fR publication, in crder tha
-''f I',se reports might be couutetaceed. dlC
r. had nothing to dowi,h editorial remarks
.11ey we've such as the sense Of the Editor dIcta
~, ~ neither did, nor had any tight tolnteriet'
'Ia aem. The correspondence between Kun
s,A and mysel(is before The pubic. Solar as
S's concerned il was coiciliptory, and 50 'aien
~ @ ee Nothing was further from my inleen
~, W. @an Persola reflection, when Penoed th'
e."'s 70 which he took exceptions. and slate
~ Al' N reply to him il is for tho pubic !
.ss whether this was Insulting. Ills sauH'ln
''''' 'ha he whipped" me in the meetings. ID