Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-12-01

the tickets. and the use OF them were justlfia.
hls he fMr. Hale) would cheerfully admit it |!
Wonderful condescension) What can Mr..
4 che show more than he has sai, and shoacn :
Ne has done all, and said all, on the subject,
that he can say or do. And again, Mr. Hale
says that Mr.. Ashe has assailed him wanton-
". 1t is not so. Mr.. Hale chooses to call
Mr. Ashes denunciations of the wings an as
sault upon hin! Takes personally to himself
what Mr.. Ashe said in general way, deslg-
mating no person in particular. IL he e.
J. Haley prepared to take upon himself all
the attacks made upon the wings, and resent
them personality Before he undertakes that,
he had better find eourGge-aye, courGge-to
resent 10 the only manner in which they should
have been resented, the attacks which he well
knows have been made upon him personally.
touching his character in some tender points.
He is pretty fellow to pretend 10 take up all
the attacks that are made upon the wing par
ty, and justify his cowardly attacks upon 9TH
ers, by saying that others have attacked him
personally, when they only denounced the
tChig party generally.
But enough of Mr.. Hales card. Just look
at the cowardly denouement of this affair."
Mr.. Hale not only refused Mr. Ashe any rep
aration, but fearful that he would receive a
challenge to mortal combst, which he knew
he richly de served, but at the thought of which
his cowardly soul trembled. he announced in
advance 10 Mr.. Reid, that if Mr.. Ashe sent
him challenge. he would prosecute him as
well as the beaIer of il This fact is disclo-
sed in handful which Mr. Ashe had pub.
lished at the Carolinian Office on Saturday
Last. which, as it is short, we publish, as fol-
lows:
TO THE PUBLIC.
1t il truly distressing TO my feelings again to
appear before the public. 1t is we'll known that
my character has been most wsntonly assailed by
E. J. Hale, the Editor of the Fayetteville Obser-
yer. I demanded from him in a manner most
courteous and polite such rcParation justice en-
titled me TO. This he positively refused to give.
and threatened me with criminal prosecution if
proceeded further in my demand. This threat
leaves other alternative but to declare to the
public that the statements contained in his card
are sanderou>y false. And with this declaration.
close all communication with an individual who,
viii e protesting friendship, plots most vile and
malicious detraction of my character.
! shall remain in town until 10 O'Clock to-
night. w. s. ASHE.
Nov. ls, 1913.
lust ponder on that Indict Mr. Ashe if
he dared to challenge him Was there ever
such course known 10 political or honorable
warfare of any kind'
The character of VIM S. Ashe stands as
fair as any mains in the State. How is I" E. J..
HaIe's"! We know that few of our cItI
zens think he is every thing that is honorable {;
but 4ve kno1C him from our experience nj eight
years observance of his course, to be the very
reverse. 1--WE suppose we should be indicted
if We were TO denounce his contemplate con-
duct as it deserves.) And in denounclng MIR
Ashe as committing "a base act of vIIlainy"
for 40 trifling cause, Mr.. Hale has shown
himself to be all that we assert.