The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-16

swer to which you informed ME las you state in
e.your letterl that she was shot IN has coTafeld--
which satisfied me at once, that an Indictment
based upon such state of facts would but accumu.
late cost upon the county, which was my duty to
prevent Besides, had heard of persons putting
their horses in neighbors' confelds; and that you
did not do IT in this instance, / have had no evil
dence to satisfy me yet (; and judging from the
malice in your composition, l should think you al
together capable of so doing
"a would not have you think had forgotten, that
about year ago, you kept the Grand Jury waiting
one whole day at the expense of your county, for
you to come and testify prosecutor against an
other Of your neighbors, Major Wyatt,) TOR COM
uniting, as you said, an assault upon your person,
and that YOU never came at all. If community was
rid of such men as you. expenses would be less,
taxes would be lighter, and public morals better
The spirit with which you gave your name 10 the
public is approyahle but your want of judgment is
70 be pitied rather than condemned-for in this you
have either been prompted by love OF notoriety
by hatred, because would not, at the public ex-
pense, prosecute your neighbor to crafty your
malice else, as think quite probable, you are the
mere lick spttle mot Of party-it would be above
it) OF partiZan neighborhood wiseacre, and that
he generally uses you as a filthy sewer, through
which the sluffed.of putridity of party feeling and
the drft-wood of personal malevolence NAV pour
itself at will
That you have sought or some one through you,
to iniure me, by vianous and contemplate pro-
ceeding, have no doubt, and by suppression and
peryersion of fact, you may have caused some hon.
Tst men to censure me, but that you have done so
to any extent, deny. aE
When you look at the Records of your court, Sir,
Snd find that as Attorney General have lost not
even, think case in your county, among the many
put to the uries since my term OF Office that should
satisfy you that your puny attack falls stiborn Nv
success in your county, where there the best of
lawyers, has been attributable to my getting Jurors
as unlike yoa as possible-hohest, intelligent and
truthful men.
postponed answ ering this Sir until now, for two
reasons-frst that might meet you on the Mon
day of your county court, for which purpose went
to Franklin and answer you in more Summary
and more tangible manner-but you were not pres
ent--and this is my recourse. Secondly that party
feeling might subside, and man be governed by
prejudice in forming his opinion.
/ dismiss yOu Sir, as l would those bugs which
hide in the bed in the day, but crawl and suck the
blood at night-"scald you and let you 60"
Yours, respectfully,
-.s.aF-r W. B. BATE.
P. 81 am sorry that your friend, Samuel Mc.
Cutchin, Esq, has allowed his name to minge in
your communication as he has. He had claimed
to be nv friend; but fear "there was a dagger
behind the SMILE" / hope am mistaken. Ii your
statement be true, he certainly played the unenvi
able part of a gobetween IN the matter, and ! must
say to him. that ''those who live in glass houses
should not throw stones" He must remember that
the Records of the court shsw that he out
of place certain day. when called take his seat
in the jury box and that DR.. Crouch put in as
q substitute, who served in his place juror five
or six days-at the end of which time the Esquire
Nc. claimed and receipted Tor his per diem each
day, though idle all the while. He had the legal
right TO do it, but certainly is the last man Who
should censure ne in public service for neglect of
public duty, or be the means of its being done.
| submit, notwithstanding the political prejudice
sought to be excited against me, to every candid
Democrat American, or Old Liner, if my course
not justi6able? W. B. B.
To ELISHA RHODES especially. and the citizens of
Williamson county generally.