Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-04-26
From the Statesman.
Fayette Banner.

we sent MN the following card, but, being |
afraid ofthe truth, he refused it place in
his columns, and we, therefore, give it here.
We shall attend 10 him on other points in
our next. Read:
COLUMBIA Mo-, April ID, 1855.
Mn. X. e. HANcocK-The extraordina- |
ry character Of the editorial in the Banner
OF the 18th instant renders it proper that
should put TO the test your loud professions
of truth and fair dealing. You profess not
to be afraid OF the truth, and to render JUS
tce TO your cotemporares. Your publica-
ton Of this card in the Banner, or refusal to
publish, will subject these professions to a
practical ordeal, and will demonstrate, either
that party assiled in your columns can
have defence, by asking it, through the same
medium, or that your fear of Just exposure
and popular contempt, will induce you 10
deny him reply.
But for the extraordinary character of the
article alluded to-so full of personal cpl
tibet and blackglardism-s unprovoked and
atrncious in its misrepresentation of me-
| should not ask TO be heard in columns re-
Gently defiled by scurrility so base, and
falsehoods so glaring. should content my
self with response through my own paper;
but 1t is not my purpose to allow you with
Impunity to misrepresent my opinions and
conduct before the people Of H oward, and
to connect with my name, in utter contempt
Of all professional etiquette and personal de-
cency, the most willIul perversions of truth
and disrepuable billingsgate. propose,
therefore, TO set myself right and TO correct
you touching few points in your article,
leaving the balance TO work their way to
merited contempt without reply here.
LIST. In the Banner of the 18th YOU say,
or somebody says for you:
But the Colonel busters, and charges the bank
officers, the land officers. the lawyers, and Salt
Creek nan, with managing the affairs Of the Ban
ner.
If this is true, the lawyers and the land
and bank officers must think, il they think
at all on the subject, that regard them as
having precious little 10 do, either Jointly or
severaly to assume the management Of "the
affairs Of The Banner" But is it true?--
Whatever the writer Of the paragraph may
or may not know, Mr.. Hancock we'll knows
if he is not a "Know Nothing" that it is
such perverson Of what wrote as to a.
mount, in ethics if not in fact, to falsehood.
This is what wrote. Referring 10 your
charge that had a "master," / said:
= Be it known unto the Banner from this hence.
forward, and to all whom il may concern, that
unlike it, we have no master; that, unlike it, we
announce our positions with deiheration and then
stand by them; that, unlike it, we think for our
selves, and write our own editorials; no man know
ing or having any business TO know what they are
till they appear in print. We neither 20 TO the
bank, 10 the law offices, nor 10 Salt Creek Bottom
for our editorials.
f Not word here, sir, about the Land of.
fccrS, thus proving that that was n coinage
r of your own. Yet the Banner is yer,
, truthful paper! The confert shows, like
/ wise, (but | will not trouble you to rcpub
fish it) what meant, and all that meant
f by referring to the Bank and Law Officers
my meaning being as you well know, thai
a q certain editorial, specifically mentioned
= committing youth 1854 TO opposition to "!h
0 pouer test" was not written by you, but by
e q most respectable lawyer and ex-bank at
torney, if not in fact the incumbent of til,
office at the time. Yet, the impression i.
b made upon your readers, and made wilfull,
that | charged the present officers of thu
Bank with managing the affairs of Banner
= the truth being that | made no such charge
for well knew that some of those now con
nected with the institution would not toucl
. the Banner with pair Of tongs.
And is it not true, sir, that the antilles
editorial alluded to, which YOU palmed upo,
the country as a production of yours, wa
,, written by lawyer who was then, or hat
recently been bank officer? Dare YOU de
ny it? If you do, IwW prore ii upon you
) and gibbit your denial my our own paper be
; fore the people of Howard county.
And furthermore, sir, is it not true-is
not matter Of public notoriety in the tow,
: of Fayette and vicinity--that other peopl
write many of your editorials; and that ON
of several columns in regard 10 your prede
cessor, Mr.. Twombly) which appeared il
the Banner as if written by you, was il
fact written by Whig--a gentleman hav
ing ten ideas to your one on any subiect?-.
0 Dare you assert this is not true? Suppos
: you try the experiment.!
I'd. After commital, the most positive
= and undeniable, 10 opposition to ''the powe
test" and this too by an editorial lawye
d and a bank officer wrote for You, your mas
/: tiers made you take waier, and stultify ycur
self, by practical reputation Of your owl
policy and convictions ortruth; for, in q re
markedly short time, as will prove if vol
n dare deny it, you advocated the election +
i the Legislature Of two gentlemen, and on
a of them recuSdnt from the Wig ranks, VIII
a were on the "power test" platform. Thes
{ facts show that if an editor can have "mas
5 ter" or a multiplicity of them, as Nathan
J, said to David--"thou art the man."
, Sd. You also say:
You, (the editor of the Statesman) now roioic
D that the pro-slavery ticket succeeded in Kansa,
$ and at the same time affirm that Boone county wa
right in taking no interest in the matter.
1t is true, Irejoice at the success of tn
: pro-slavery ticket IN Kansas, for believ
y that the interest of Missouri would have bee,
greatly prejudiced had Kansas become fire.
State. Therefore, opposed the views an,
: policy of your immediate predecessor in thu
!, editorial chair of the Banner; a man who
when IN the chair, you now fill, was as utr