Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-08-24
(voL. 7.No. 40:
our account, from Flack & Andefsons and


RICH'D ASHHURST & SONS.
On this order were endorsed thesc
words:
Pay B. n. Alexander or order.
JESSE NJ. TATE.
Upon which order Mr.. Alexander gave
me the following receipt:
Reed OFF. L Acee for Rich'd Ash
hurst d sons $4,000 in Alabama monet
this Sd Nov. 164O.
BENZ. n. ALEXANDER,
1t viii thus be seen that / paid over ID
aessrs Ashhurst Il. sons s., 900 of the
money had received from Messrs Tucker
q Bniterworth: retaining the balance for
my fees in that and se4eral other cases
where large amounts we're involved.
The reason why this cunt was not ere.
dlted on the execution Messrs Asbburst
y sons was that portion oFthe defendants
lived and the others had removed to places
unknown to me, aud had left no property
subject to the same As hey could,
therefore, suffer no injury from my delay,
| did not deem it necessary 70 visit Ok
tlbbeha County where the judgement was
obtained for the sole purpose of endorsing
on theexecution the amount received. /
will here add in Justice TO Messrs Flack
d Andersons that have no reason to be.
lleye that they had any participation in
the propagation of this atrocious calumnr
against my character.
So soon as saw in the" Vicksburq Sent.
incl and Expositer," the letter containing
the infamous libel to which | have lust
alluded, and which furthermore charged
me with having taken out $40, 900, in the
notes ofthe company, and purchased up
property with the same, with other sland-
ers equally false. | issued the following
card, and posted it up throughout the
town.
ACARD.
have just seen in the '.Vicksburs
Sentinel & Expositor," of the 18th
inst, letter purporting to have been
written from this place, over the sig
nature of "Cato" in which my private
and professional reputation is basely
assailed; and take this occasion pub
licly to pronounce every sentence and
assertion in that communication infa-
.mously FALSE. The author of the
letter in question, knew when he wrote
the same, that he was uttering vile,
wilful, and MALICIOUS FALSE
HOODS, for which, I pronounce him
"a DASTARDLY and UNPRINCIl
Piled LIBELLER, and CHAL-
LENGE him TO come from his secret
hiding place aud unmask himself to
the public gaze.
E. L. ACEEs
Columbus June 25th 1871.
But the libeller neither answered or ap.
peared. The miscreant who would steal
my purse, if he could do it secretly, as
he has attempted to rifle me Of my iepu.
tation, expecting never to be discovered,
co1cardly shrunk back to his foul den.
there to concoct other calnmnies which
none but his own back heart could con-
ceiYe.
Indignant as honorable men must feel
at these wanton cruel and LDprovoked as.
saults upon my character, they must be.
come still more incensed when they learn
as they now shall, that the whole proceed
ing was the result of a wicked conspiracy
to effect the yilest purposes by the bascsi
of means.
Mr.. A. L. Campbell from the many
misrepresentation that be had made willis
cashier respecting the solvency Of thc
Columbus & Tombigby Transportation
Company; and the many frauds he had
practised upon the community by the cir
! culation of their notes had become an oh,
| iect of universal odium: be was respected
trusted, believed by no one, and was iustly
regarded by the public as knaye of the
darkest die. 1t was at this juncture thai
a little.Inalevolent clique ia this place who
wished 10 destroy my reputation and al
the same time to preUent the reelection oil
| General p. IL. Grant TO the Office oil
Sheriff took Mr.. Campbell whom they
| knew was but ''cldy IN the hands Of tbG
potter" into their especial confidence and
keeping, AMI soon ccaverted him into 4
aOiiling instrument of their fend-like de-
signs. The sudden and unexpected with
drawal of my deposite on the refusal o
| the directory to allow me at the rate o
! 40 per cent for its use prevented its em
6exzEenenf BY Campbell, who, | have nc
doubt, intended 10 appropriate it to has opn
purposes, on the first fdUorabIe opportunity
| for he actually admits himself in his first
publication, that he gave it up with til,
Utmost reluctance. The teUerish Gnriet
he manifested to regain possession of i
as shown in the affidavits Of Messrs Hick,
q Vaughan fully contirms me in thii
opinion. His failure in this silainous un
dertaking chafed his spirit and made hin
mn enemy. This circumstance gave hin
additional claims upon the cOAspirators
and qualified him the better for the hard
unscrupulous service be was to perform
Knowing that this poor aHtonsaioH was dri
ven to desperation by conciousness o
| his degraded condition and tnat he woul,
sIadIy adopt any measure that promises
| the slightest relief, the consPiraiors f.xb
ricatcd story essentially false in all Q
its particulars which whilst it apparent
tronerated him (Campbelll from q
blame as arsfsslly aimed fatal blow at tn
reputation Of others. 1t was this: MI
4 Campbell was TO go before the Grand il
r. and swear .'that the money upon whic
! the report Of the examining committee wa
founded had been brought into the Institl
ton BY Judge Vaughan; that he (Camt
| benz believed at the time that it belonge
| TO the company and had been colIectc
bv me as attorney; that Immediately aft,
the examination had called for the moi
az and had been refused; that Mr.. j.
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