Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-07-22

your visits 20 Fayetteville to get the
SUI description is a mere one-sidfd affair
j leaving out of view the many as
lsur RANGES you gave while herep f your
de cided preference for Fayetteville
ov er all other places, which ypu seem
fully aware would badly contrb st with
your cond uct and statement IS else
where. Y bur effort to rebut the as
surances You gave US, that Elkton
was the place, and Saturday before
the organization on Tuesday was
the time, Of your last knowledge Of
the Elkton delegation is SO feqbly off
set in your last production, by say
ing you supposed we WE'LL under
stood that YOU was aware of their (the
Elkton delegates,) whereabouts, and
that YOU did not intend to make any
other impre ssion, is weak and pue-
rile; and I only mention it TO show
the extreme you evidently feel forced
I'd resort to palliate your indehnable
cd nduct on that occasion, short OF a
manly admission of what many re-
gard understandable conduct then and
there, considering former declh rations
made on your visits to this place as
agent, SC.
70 conclude my remarks On this
branch of the subject, permit me to
ask, are you silly enough to believe
for a moment, that the public will re /
gard the eyasive and choked answer,
answer I suppose you inter lded'itf
which you have couched in your last
appeal to the enquiry Mr.. Woods
makes as to the reasons why you
| did not stat the circumstances which
influenced the Fayetteville .delega-
ii on I'd believe, and SO to state it,
that y gu ha d "acted in bad faith to-
wards Fayetteville" as at all satisfac-
tory? l contend you have not done
the circumstances justice by any
m eans, indeed, may say you have
not more tn Ian indirectly alluded to
them, and l contend it would be fair
for me to dismiss this subject until
YOU shall have complied with Mr.
Woods Just demands upon you in
this matter. But since you have as.
isured him that he must consider him,
self an outsider in this affair I'd SCREEN
y yourself, as / conceive, from the keep
lashing you apprehended he would
give you for Sinking round and to-
tally falling to meet the issue be-
tween YOU and him like man, even
if it would amount to direct admis-
sions, Twill dismiss the subject byI
b rieAy adyerting to the poih is re-
ferred to as made in your last publ
cation, althd ugh they scarcely merit
even that m ch,
First, as to the discrepancy which
is made to appear from your P pblica-
ton and tha at of Mr.. Woods, as ex-
listing in the statements and Gonclu-
sion which THE Fayetteville delega7
ton come I'd and reported, you are the
last man VII should have attic mpted
to convict the Rev. A. G. CHS Jon and
|
myself of falsehood; you know wei
were as much dissatisfied wit b youf
conduct as Mr.. W. admitted b e was
And, after ii caring the explanation
you claim to have given as, . nd the
admission and promise you say you
received, tn at we were satisfied with
your conduct and would endeayor to-
disabuse the public mind upon our
return to Fly etteville of any g rcne-
Gus, impression which Mr.. Woods |
might have made, is, without admit
ting or de nying the truth Of the
same, ill-timed, far-fetched and un-
called-for. ALLOW that we did make
the admission, and promise WI lat y on
say we did; could we have done so
from any other consideration than
desire to re lieve you of the embar-
RAISING attitude in which you stood
before the public wherever the cir
cumstances were known, and hope
thereby to induce you to comply
with what VI as regarded your pledge
to thepeopleinand about Fayetteville,
to secure the location for that place,
upon the fin al action of the Locating
Committee, to be had at Athens,
which was, to take place in a short
time after their meeting at Col.
Robinson Would it have be en
worse for US to admit that we were
satisfied whe n we were not, than yo ur
whole conduct had been relative
TO getting UP the subscription and
coating the College? Would there
have been M ore duplicity and double
dealing than you had been guilty of
fni2m FIRST TO last in this matter?
Have yoI a right to construe our
, 4Lo, accasionIto mean