Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-13
April, in;lhe year Of our Lord eighteen
hundred md forty-one.
JOHN C. NICOLL,
District Judge for The District Of Georgia.
AUGUsTA BRIDGE.

) AUGUSTA BRIDGE.
J. Messrs. Editors o the Chronicle & Ser
d tinel, dHgusta Gal ,hauk you, an
8 thank you again, for the kind Interest 70
: have taken inahe disclosure and laying be
n fore the world part of the proceedings of
long and mysterious controversy, abou
a this propertys#hich has enabled me t
{ bring out The truth, and the whole truth
;, whether il BE for or against me. hav
faults, and hayeeTed as we'll as OF her men
yet, / feel content, that my acts will sus
! tain me before God, and a fair hearing o
my acts andsdeings before mankind, is al
desire.
Mankind hafe failed 10 subduring my
spirit the frstSfwen,y years; they neec
not expect success the next. twenty to
come. Thersis;only Que wny 10 reconcile
me in this matter, and that is, 10 give me
my own. Twas your own people that
deluded, and spread a gloom over your
once happy City, andn I. Who could
have supposed, that two. men oc the first
standing in agreat City, would act the
part of lawlesssmen, in taking By violence
from poor p6orer, his fifteen years hard
earnings, Bntdor this act, there would
be no Hamburg;:aud Augusta would now
be enjoying hes former prosperity, Pic
,ure to yourselfthe feeling, to see mhn
put your moneyin his pocket every day,
before your. .face,and feasting upon it twenty
years, while You, part Of the time, was
forced to atyour bread and drink your
wafer in dungeon.
In your noticeof the 24lh inst, respect
ing the valldiiyof the title TO The Augusta
Bridge, you seefnto indicate relief on
the public MUD in reference to a decree,
by saying, ..ileannol fail 10 remove any
doubt rs 10 the validity of the title, which
the City Council has to the BRIDGE You
may find thesrssult;,o prove otherwise, and
that they have 1otitle at all. Ifyou will
read that instr1menl, with attention, you
will come to: o:ihe conclusion. that is pro-
duction of RicBad; Henry, Wilde himself,
and not decrss smade by the court; and
how the CircBt Court, sat, Savannah,
Georgia. could ounienances the case; in ]
aagss III tsaeRz alter the SMnrenaes
looked into. -!s..-s.
have sent, you. ascopy Of Mr.. Wilde's
ingenious letter TO me; also the original for
perusal, dated, Washington, Feb. 7th
1928, which youwill please give place in
your columns: in which he says: "You
will see by the newspapers, that the case
of Shultz s. Breithaupt vs.. The Bank Of
the State ofsGeorgia, has been dismissed
for want Of jurisdiction. This is what |
ALWAYS foresaw,. and | believe foretold to
you." He also, recommends a compro-
mise, and thinks that the Bank will agree
to but one proposition, and that is, that all
the Bridge Bills outstanding, 10 be placed
in their hands, and to be destroyed before
their ewes. If the Bridge be not bound
for The Bills, why should they be so par
ticular in their redemption and destruction!
| have likewise sent you MIR. McDuf-
fe's letter, whichyou will also give place
in your paper, in which, he disclaims auy
knowledge or acton in the case, either al
Washington or Savannah, and expresses a
surprise, how the court iu Savannah could
take the matter up again, after the Su.
preme Court at Washington, had dis.
claimed jurisdiction over the case. And
AZ it seems, the Court in Savannah, con-
frmed decree made by consent, and as
that consent is dInied it follows, as mat
Ter of course if mere is no consent, and
nrice there is no lecree.)
There has beena mysterious veil thrown
over The whole ese, invented by all the
ingenuity that ma, was capable Of to. con-
ceaI The truth. and pervert the facts, which
I shall enleavu TO- remove, and let the
whole case shor its true colors.
The true bisoy of The Bridge case is
o,,;,e short. 9hs Legislature Of South
Carolina authdized one Lewis Cooper
and myself to bid the Bridge across the
Savannah Riyt at. our own expense
The Lepislatui Of. Georgia authorized
johu McKinniand myself 10 complete it
nj our own expse. We built the Bridge
and Maid for. nd thereby it became our
property first, Cd This is that Bridge
And. if it now slongs to any one else
wan, 10 know thY it has become his, By
facts and not blawyers contrivance or
oniuions, andif fairly is his it cannot be
nine: and if hehnnot make fair show
;np how it has home his, it is niue still,
and if The .Bridg is mine, the income, as
n matter of coue is mine too.
HENRY SHULTZ.