The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1846-01-31


a. We bsve before stated. to see full end sccu.
rate seeoun, Of HI. confessions; and hence the
,vcoc,,,cns made 10 d,Gersn, indi' idusls 10 uo.
derske the execution Of the work
Bu, Mr.. r. should have made enquiries" and
rot himself in possession Of the fsc'e, quoih the
Editor Of tho Democrat. Now when q man
puts forth q publication which no endorses or
which he wishss The public TO regard a. true,
then il becomes both his in,erestand his duty
10 inquire beforehand himself into the truth Of
il, and to hunt up. IL necessary, evidence 10 SUE
tain il. Bur il m certsnly q very different mat.
ter 10 require any one to ransaek the country
and ascertain the truth or falsehood Of il, before
he can, without blame, give to the public, 10
answer TO express solicitations, the confession
of A condemned criminal for just what It is
worth, in the belief or disbelief Of which he has
no interest, and the very title page Of which sp
prses the reader that the the statements IN II
are those Of person executed for crime. When
the Editor "puts il" il 10 Us to know, therefore,
whether Mr.. F. is not as much to blame as NJ
Cannon, where any part OF the narration turns
out to be SANDER, we answer promptly no; nor
can we see how any man with three CRANE Of
sense" can think so. The latter being the o.
re,ua,or of the SANDER (if such il hey has ma
Iicious intention in view, in addition to being
the author of faIsehood. The former in lay
ing i, before the public as part Of narrative Of
other events, has no such malicious intention 10
crafty, in no wise endorses the Statements land
by giving the source whence it emeoated, ena.
bes every one who reads il to Judge as correct
" a. he himself can, respecting its credbty
or incredibiity. Every individual who has de
tailed to his neighbor what he gathered from
M'Cannon by'conversing with him, stands upon
the same platform with Mr.. Falkner. The doc
|,rne laid dvwu by the Democrat would involve
every man in the charge Of fasehood,w who should
lsimply state that he had been told certain
transaction had taken place, giving his authority
for the statement, in case it turned out that nt
such thing had occurred-a novel position in
deed. And whilst we do not admit that it wal
MIR. F.'s duty 10 hunt up circumstances for Of
against the truth Of the publication Ut not De-
ling his own) it may be proper to state the 'ac'
THAT he had, within his knowledge, corrooora
+ tive testimony that much il il was true,
al The much talked Of "slander upon Mr.. Hen
d ry Williams" which the Editor deemed i hi
!. place to contradict, since j, might obtain wit
n the pamphlet a"wide circulation" was no''
J. ing more than this M Cannon states in
narrative that. Mr.. Henry Williams" owe
Il him some nouey--did not pay him-and IN
:, Ithey ouarreled and thought about is,during VIII
!. 1.-The former used cowhide and the latter site
nv (Now, if j" M'Can was entirely unknown"t
e.. the editor says) to the Mr.. Henry Wilhams
ys, the vicinity Of Tuscumbia. why then the ia
ha, do not apply to him at all. And even 1t !
story s wholly, or in part true, it 10 not mat
RI. Of sufficient magnitude to attract the seri'
. IN attention Of persons away from the immedi
a. vicinity. The Democrat had done all that
I. necessary,,h en,f the facts warrented cont
dic,ion, when il pronounced the statemen,
~. correct.
luo- The next paragraph which claims onr al
,.ns ton, is as follows:
NC" ave can assure the Advertiser that nett
tive Mr.. F.'s being one Of the SHERIFF. posse,
,aen IN Disregard Of what editors say, shall dste
from fighting the wrongsd, and visiting
o. wong .doer with sschrebuke I'VE may bell
r6ai be merl,s."
NO, The editor has mistaken our purpcse.
What sought to deter him from nothing. He had
self thrown out menacing and offensive
,er,s mark, accompanying i.wi.h the information
.nds he did not know Mr.. FaIkner." Wheret
Ian. we felt il our duty to tell him who and '
,an. that gentleman wac, not emitting the fact o.
8 bis promp,ness to obey the cali Of the execu
blet. authority Of the county, whether made at
ouu. sonabe or an unseasonable hour-whefhs
auce involved toll and personal DANCE. or not
! 90 he was not made 81 thu right sort Of stun :
ined driven BY .menaces ftsm any course he q
ents choose to pursue, and that he wanted no o
d be shisId from personal violence. than that
icity1 man, Who thought any aet Of bic called for
'thsr notice, should facs % iaee Try the experin