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has desire to do, judging from his last. HI
says that if it was not that others than the citi
zens read newspapers, it should not be noticed
Why did you not say il it was not that facts are
stubborn things, you would not notice it. You
lived in a glass house, and should Rave been the
last to throw stones; and Eow because have
treated you as your attack on me deserved, you
say its vulgar, and not original. A. to the orig.
inality Of most of what have said, it is center
ed in you. do not even lay claim to any that
you figure the most prominently In. II my Ian
guage has been severe on you, all the apology
can give is, that an innocent man has the right
and can be saucy, in defending himself from the
assaults Of 80 dsstardly an attack ss you made in
your Common Sense article. One more and the
proof with it-'sthe dog scrape." Did you s. your
attorney not conduct suit Of that character, and
mulet the town in bill Of cost BY the higher
courts to the tune Of upwards Of $33. Massie's
docket will be sufficient proof in this case that
you were at the head Of it. Now, sir, you may
think that delight in setting you forth in the
light you must appear TO every unbiased mind,
but in that YOU are mistaken, a. you often have
been before. have no desire to hold up q fel-
low man (if you are entitled to the nancy be-
fore the public for his insolence, but you forced
" upOn uSS uUu OcIUIC ! CiUsG uliS ! bttoSI oiO"
that you have pursued me with malignant and
cowardly disposition for number Of years past,
and for what cause God only knows, for 70 the
best Of my knowledge / never give you any cause
for such conduct. Any Office that ] have been
placed in, or sought to be placed, was the work
Of friends, and unsolicited by me. desire tha,
the public may be the judge whether am NOT
justified in defending myself under the circum-
stances. and also that the community will not lay
any Of your sins 10 the charge of Draper b Bro,
for consider them gentlemen in every respect,
and would scorn to Be guilty Of such conduct as
you have been. You are the guilty culprit. In
the first place you owned, and with guilty coun-
tenance and quivering underjsw. that you wrote
to the P. o. Department against my appointment
a. Post Master at this place; you were g.
gainst my first appointment Of Town Trea.
Surer; you had ne arraigned before the au-
thorities for defending myself from being
assaulted in the street, and thereby mulcted
the town in . bill Of cost; you were strong
ly opposed to my election to the Office Inow
hold, and il you had the povsr would no,
now allow me the privilege Of exercising
my bounden duty; you denied me the right
of being heard in self defence, and be.
lisvs if myself or friends (if'they should
be but very few, as suggested BY you) were
to say that was bound for Heaven, yor,
would oppose me, and raise the cry Of usur.
patton. As to any howl you may raise about
my past usurpation, and your resolution to
back il, shall not be deferred from my duty
to my constituents and myself in the ca
pacity in which they have placed me. And
as you think yourself few on the turf. bsv-
ing beat in the last heat. it being quarter
race, over your own course, and only beat
some three or four inches-i. .. votss-I
leave you after this curIying to cut end
come at your leisure, and will give my
word that will not be desirous to stand in
plumsge that might be borrowed from you,
as ! would Just as soon put on the poisoned
shirt Of Nessus Is your feathers.
w. K KENNEDY.
Loui,ian.. Oct. ss.h. 1860.