Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-22
Memphis Eagles reply.
From the Mississippi Palladium, Agu. IL |
Memphis and Charleston Rau.Road and
The Memphis Eagle

Mr.. EDIToR:-In the Memphis Eagle
of the 3Oth ult., there is an offensive arti-
Gle on the above named Road, dated at
La Grange and signed "Georgia," which
is referred to by the Editor of the Eagle as
san admirable and Instructive letter." The
writer of this article, thus endorsed and
commended by the Eagle, indirectly char
ges those of our citizens who have been
most active in guarding our interests and
vindicating our claims to the location of
this Road, as being stand spectators,
largely interested in lands lying onthe Hol-
iy Springs route"
Now sir, undertake to say, there is
not citizen of Holly Springs, or of Mar
shall county, who owns foot of land up
on that route for sale, nor is there | be-
lieve, an acre of vacant land upon the
route, at least am sure there is not,
within the limits of Marshall county.
The writer of the article referred to, and
the Editor of the Eagle knew, or ought
to have known, that the charge was gra-
tuitously false.
The writer of this "admirabe and in
structive letter." also throws the charge
of "Tepudidtion" in our teeth, following,
presume, in the wake of Gov. Jones at
Memphis-or repeating what he is repor-
ted TO have said at that place.
With the anonymous scribbler who
penned the article referred to, have no.
thing to do, but is it not time for our citi-
zens to ''repudiate" a newspaper SO Off
cious and so hostile to our interests as the
Eagle! Have we not borne with the mat
ter already too long? And is it not the
duty of every subscriber to this paper in
our county to, discontinue it at once!
A RAIL-RoAD MAN AND MrssrssIPPIAN.
From the Eagle Aug. g.
The Misrepresentation of the above
communication are SO gross and So palpa-
bly, malicious that, at first, we deemed
them unworthy of notice; but lest our ST.
lence be misconstrued, we respectfully in
vite the attention of candid and intelligent
readers at Holly Springs, among whom
we have lived, ahd who know us to be
incapable of any "hostility" to their true
interests, to the following statement:
| To cali a communication admirable and
instructive" is no endorsement of the
views of the writer, either in general or
in detail.-We have applied equally as
complimentary language to communica-
/ tons from the other side. The Editor of
/ the Eagle is, however, free to confess, that
if he had not been absent in Mississippi at
the time the communication of Georgia"
appeared, the editorial notice to which
exception is taken should not have been
published mot because it is an endorse
ment, but because of its liability to mis-
construction by over sensitive persons.
"Georgia's'' communication is, as we
think, decorous and respectful. He makes
no "charge" against sland SPECTATORS" at
Holly Springs; he only mentions a ire
port which he says is in circulation at
Holly Springs, but for whose truth he
does not vouch. He plainly avoids ma
king any acharge," either by insinuation,
implication cor otherwise, of the nature
attributed to him by ga Railroad Man
and A Mssissippian." If he had done so,
his communication would not have ap-
peared in this paper.
The Eagle has ever preserved, and will
continue to preserve, its neutrality on the
subject at issue between tie people of
North Mississippi and the Board of Di-
rectors, however much ssRailroad Man"
may desire to drive us from that position,
and, however strenuously be may exhort
our subscribers in his part of the wcrld to
"repudiate" our paper on account of a
fancied wrong. Our columns have ever
been open to correspondents ON both
sides, and we have published as much from
the one as the other. We venture to say,
that all of the best arguments on both
sides OF the vexed question, from their a.
blest advocates respectively, have appear
ed in these columns.
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