The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1840-06-06
ROONEY, June 7th, 1910.

renee did not deserve even the limited pub
licity which your paper could give it; and
no man of common sense, who witnessed
the occurrence, could, for a moment, SUBJ
stantiate your perversions of the truth and
the very ungenerous colouring you have
thought proper to throw upon my conduct
As regards your allusion to my humanity, Il
feel confident that all who know me will be. |
lieve it unjust and false, and emanating
from sheer ignorance and an unfair misin-
deportation of the circumstances. The wa
ter being very high, twas impossible for me
to effect good landing-my planks were
not sufficiently long to reach the dry land,
and together with the clerk, went ashore
and landed the freight in the yawl Ia ia
king ii astern, twas necessary TO Green her
under the guard of the boat, when sudden
and unexpected revolution of the wheel
sunk it-one man getting on board, the 9TH
er swimming ashore. If you had reflected
moment when you penned that paragraph,
you would have seen the improperly of
sending a sunken boat ashore, and the little
ness of yourself in thus embellishing, at the
expense of truth, a very small affair.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES M. GRICE.
We confess ourselves totally dnnihildted
and blo'Dn sky high, not by the explosion of
steam boat boier-oh no! something more
tremendous still-by conclusion that has
shaken the firm earth to its centre-by a
tornado from the omnipotent pen of cdpting
james M grice! Commend us to the basti-
nado, and to the knout, and every other spe-
cies of mere corporeGl torture, hut deliver
us from the ercruciating and refined mental
anguish inflicted by the scorpion lash oil
\ the truly great and greatly renowned .jimmg
Vicksburgh
Who is this hhing-for we can find nc
epithet that sufficiently conveys our con.
tempt and loathing for this detestable crea
ture, with the cognomen of "James M
Grice2" By mysterious freak of the blind
, goddess, Fortune, he has been elevated tc
the command of first class steamboat
] and now, IN the hour of his prosperity, hi
base and craven spirit disdains subsection
to even the common feelings of humanity
J. and would idly sport with the life of those
/ he is bound to protect. Such a man is ,
:. disgrace to humanity in its most barbarou
: form-and the deep, abiding, and burnin.
i brand of INFAMY should be inscribed OF
his brow in capitals, that the virtuous ant
!, good might shun him as they would tn
J. breath of the pestilence, or the exhalation
e of the death-dealing Upas.
This contemplate thing was here thi
e morning on his return trip to Louisville. w
were on the bank of the river, within a fe,
: feet of Grice, when he came ashore. w
e had been previously pointed out to him
and it he had been a gentlemen he woul
o have spoken to US, and made or asked an
: S0fs1osAou uO AtSlAe nave tuOuSlt proper
But no-such an honorable course did M
j accord with the views of his cowardly. cor
& temptible, and lying soul; and he sent i
the above insulting letter-a mirror of hi
q own corrupt heart-and made his explani
{ tons and dealt his profuse curses to ever
i person except the right one.
ISL A word by way of explanation. The Al
n ticle in our last paper was inserted at ii
!, |, request Of several citizens of Rodney, som
i Of whom we're eyewitness of the disgrac,
& full scene referred to. The Captain doc
e not deny single allegation made againl
him-but tries to divert attention from b
: inhuman conduct, by abusing US for havin
: Independence enough to publish what v
! deemed an outrage. There are itizens
Q this place ready to testify to the correctne
9 Of our statements in regard to this mat tie
whenever Grice denies them, aDhich he HI
not done, and DAREs NOT DO.
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