Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-06-09
TO THE PuRIJC

The following editorial appeared in the STAR Tuesday
9th of May:
OFFICER AssAULTED.-We understand that Mr. Tim.
berlake, deputy sheriff in Hanover County, dreadful.
ely beaten by the Attorney for the Commonwealth in that
" county, whose at this moment forget appears
that the sheriff went to levy execution upon the
property, Saturday last, when he knocked him down
with gun, then called his negroes beat him. and after
" they had beaboured him sufficiently, he was taken and
" thrown into ditch Such understand is Undertakes
account, who terribly beaten. The aggressor has
been imprisoned once before for outrage of this kind
but allowed finally go 1t said he has dis.
appeared since the transastonbut do know the
truth Of the IL Is time that these things were stop.
ped by sharp justice OF some They becoming
" altogether too frequent"
This extraordinary libel caused me to appear in the Wing
with article giving and the al
fair with Mr.. Archibald Burnett Timberlake d. = II. c.
MIR. Sceer, Corporal Strceter, pronounced my reply
very good-naturod To TIM reply Mr. Undertake has
reoned in the Wing OF May 3Oh, which received on sa.
urday. There "good-naturo" the ejondcr as all
will admit, who may chance read it, "Oh that mine
enemy would write book" OF my Of the affair
between Mr. r. and myself he pronounccs the greaterpor
ton basey taise Some portion Of my VI the d
Guilty." he calls IT, IS conceded then be true and as in
duty bound should be thankful to him for that even
have wondered, indeed that he had not charged me with
roJbing him IL would have rounded out 20 nice an an
Incidence To the climax she has disappeared the trans
action" He might have done with much justice
and truth than IN his other charges for did appropn
ate his collar my use, by mistake. My first asser
ton in regard to the publication in the Star, con-
tanned aocous libel upon mo-and did itno But to he
fair | have doubt Mr. Tmberlake did not know what
was meant by h5e there having been prosecution for
that offence in Hanover since he has been d. he
My next remark Is in relation the Editor, and
his publishing such serious and malicious falsehoods-
And was 1t not serious aud malicious fasehood Mr.
Seeter soys, the he published was that gyen BY
Mr. Tmberlake; and not derived Immediately from him
was mediatey from biz friends, doubt Mr. sueeter
had no motive ~ % injury asd NJ doubt vas great
y imposed upon and bsih "gsis ss he WIN ssy, h.
D., only gave fFPsr a. be- hfsf1 D. ss not men Ggit
the Corporal about ie nafsf. 1ltss gffd be- will s1fns
o. the "sefatch" near ms nosss NJ baek n1d who're I
think could mako um "lHy white" Jsfyfs Boz fDud say
Jack Robinson. The Published aseolnl II he affair io
the Star is aubuied o. Mr. IIrbsraks uhS DID not die
claim n, hss be- he oun publication YET fs,e h. d
dccfcmcnt IN regard ~ ~ which Will give the reader ~ 10.
dcfsand that tie story will out Ike thst II de len
thousand cats in the Rafden which va NJ sst reduced 10
our od to-" cat and anofheyi 10 fny bnef II
nc "diihcuV.-whch in plain language, / coll Gght.
between Mr.. Iimberake and myself, gay; HMf T. IRE.
tending 10 have sgainst me- which be would moi
Their show or explain, undertook serve IT, was resisted
ne lawfully mgha fight onsuod. in which be- was well
whipped Ia mode old Virginia" Did he not pretend ~
have ca. sat Why certainly be did by hs owl she w.
ing And u turns out that fact II was only pfetepd
ing" Tor he had nOnc-whch would have been made ma.
niiest on the spot II he had shewn or explained IT, We
were In six Or eight feet Of each other Tor some me-we
had met, and not escapngs demanded 10 know at
process suedi-and when returnabol-land might now
add, but that. would be uncandid 10 tshOm dfysefsB
thought the ue matter which had been mentioned 10 fne
some months before was out Of daio-and really desired
20 know whether any such process had issued from Hano
yer ohcel IL upon the ground Of non.nlormaon aa
10 whose suit and under what pecept was 10 he s,rce
ed, hat regarded my resistance o. legal Indeed IL l. mo
offence known % the laws keep the officer Of II you do
not commit breach Of the peace. And maintain thai
no free white citizen be deprived Of hs liberty for
without the cause Of his arrest being made know
10 him Hos the public forgotten the arrest and abduction
Capt Morgan IN New York, fifteen or twenty year
ngo w SherV, and that he has been heard Of &,
this day.
proof that he DID not explain the process 10 me or L.
me know AZ whose suit he about 10 arrest me- Civ,
the following circumstances conclusive let Had HI
read the process me- he had Il in his power to do
would have seen hat II directed the Sheriff Of Hen
rico, snd not TO the Sheriff Of Hanovor he would hav
seen too, Imagine that the day he'd passed and th
writ unctus ofcio Bot what Il that not the writ pu
into his hands by Mr.. VIM T. H. Pollard, and would no
! that be authority enough for him, though directed q