Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-08-05
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II is scarcely necessary 10 attempt seriously 70
re!u,e The ridiculous story circulating through the
Wing press, thai rresponience has passed
between Col r. NJ. Johnson and one Ma. Lew
is Ficp. H. which The former is made ioR employ
language, sufficient in itself 10 samp The whole
transaction with fraud According 70 lie Wing
fabrication Gin these manufactures the Wings
need no protection competition can't touch
them i afai Fiee announca>, tina, lie Is 4 candi-
date Tor Office and stands in heed Of "al The cxtcr-
nal ala the) can get. He, therefore, asks per-
mission Of Col j. 10 make public "thc tue Sc
ere, Of The death Of Tecumseh and the slayer
thereof" In The same "reTito6te history" The Col.
is made 10 say, in reply, from The Cheat Cross
ings
"Nuw, tia, am no longer candidate Tor
public Office ana having retired la The shades oil
private lie | have NJ cause 10 regret your max
in. known "a The public the real Tecumseh killer.
| surely ought 10 rest satisfied with what The re-
.asta.inn Of il has done for me, and am now vii
ling that sou should reap all the advantages IRON
il You can"
Upon lis face, j, i one .! The most absurd and
puerile fables ever conceived b Whggery and
yet we see il gravely paraded By respectable
WING journals, as 4 genuine element o The ms
tory OF an American war.
The following from The Kentucky leoman, I:
Justly severe ca.iigaiion upos he propaSa'ot'
OF The story Ii kills this Stiles; Of The Roor
back family as dead as 'recumsch himself The
Wings will have stll longer 10 pursue their ark.
ious enquiry, "Who killed Tecumseh?' We
had thought hat Tecunsrh had already injured
them enough. aud that they would mol again rash.
ly disturb his ashes:
"WnaT Dors II MrAx ?-I~ il possible the
Bards,own Wing Sentinel slend;ng ilselflo the
propagation of wicked and scnseless hoax, OF
a bare-faced falsebood, published under The sigma
lure Of Lewis Fisg, about Colonel Johnson All
The names 10 this curious publication must either
be ficlitious-lhe whole affair is a broad hoax-
and we should 50 consider il, hut Tor The endorse
ment Of The Senlnel-or The netsons interested
have been grossly imposed nrpn by some praci
cal Joker, or il Is a wicked fraud and forgery
To expose the whole affair, il is only necessary &c
saw, that Colonel Johnson does rot live al the
Great Crossings; that nj The date IL the frs, leel
from him, he was on his way 10 Washington
CITY; that General McAfee has not been in Scott
county this year and that two days after The date
ol the las, letter, purporlins 10 DC from Colone
Johnson then at the Grea, Crossings, he dined
with The Editor Of this paper in Frankfort, on his
way home from below, and authorized US then te
say, he did not know such 4 manas Major Lewis
Fisg-had never written such letter as thai
published over his name in Figg's handful ant
ihatt was all hoax or forgery. We hope The
Sentinel, in Justice 10 Colonel johnson will say
whether the publication Of Lewis Figg' is real
" hoax, or whether the matters therein con
,aued, are attempted 10 be pslmcd of upon The
people oil Nelson county as facts. II The latter
we will take cffeclual measures 10 undccciv,
them, and il The parties are worth The trouble, We
doubt no, Colonel Johnson will take effec,ua
measures 10 expose and punish The perpetrators 0
SO miserable fraud and forgery"