Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-01

Justice the Peace Davidson county, Tennessee SAMUEL
EASTMAN who makes oath The fOlio~ing report Of The evil
taken down BY him Photographic Reporter and IS correct
sEorp to and su5seiS before ne this s0 November 1859
W. D: RoBERTsOE, J. 2.
I'm the course of the examination of this case,
the counsel for the defence proposed to introduce
the paragraphs from the Daily Nelos and UNIoS AND
AMERICAN out of which the difficulty between Messrs
Hall and PoxDExTER originated, which being agreed
to were considered as read and before the Court
For the better understanding of the public we viii
introduce them here instead of inserting them in
the body of the proof The UNION AND AMERICAN OF
of Nov 18TH in an article replying to interroga-
tory Of the Ae'Os, contained this paragraph
We do not believe that the statesmen of the South
have ever held it immoral to hold slaves notwith-
standing the senior editor of the Nelcs does maintain
that his newspaper-the ablicaR-"most truly
reflected the sentiment of the State of Tennessee in
1884" when it asserted that the nature Of things
the march Of public Opinon-the uOice Of religOa-AIL
HAVE SAID THAT SLAVERY MUST HAVE AN END
The Daily Ne,cs four days afterwards, Nov. 10th
copied the foregoing paragraph, and replied to it
in article of two columns, containing among
other things, the following offensive paragraphs
The UNION AND American is al its old trick of
garbling-of suppFessng part, and very materi-
al part of the truth for the unworthy purpose of
perverting the words and meaning of political op-
ponent' O. The three last lines have
been cut short of, and unscrupuously suppressed
by the UNION AND AMERICAN
A" With the obvious intent of pervertng our
words and meaning the UNION AND AMERICAN gar
bles the paragraph and suppresses the factthe ex-
preston by the Convention of the identical senti-
ments contained in the paragraph-upOn which we
expressly based statement that it truly reflect
ed the public sentiment of the State at The time it
was written! The fact every way justifes the
ment To leave wholly out of view the fact-to
conceal from its readers all knowledge of it-and
TO assai the statement based upon it, is entirely
characteristic OF the disreputable tactics upon
which the UNION AND AMERICAN is conducted
To which the UNION AND AMERICAN on the following
day replied as follows:
a. The charges and insinuations against this paper
contained in the leading editorial article in the Nash
vile AsloS Of yesterday. utterly destitute of
truth. We cannot consent to carry a newspaper
controversy with editor who utters caumnies
against contemporary trusting to the supposed
privileges of age to shield him from responsibility.
The Nelos of the next day contained the following:
A CARD yesterday morning there appeared in
the UNION AND AMERICAN the following paragraph
"The charges and insinuatons against this paper
contained in the leading editorial article in the Nash
vile AelcS of yesterday, utterly destitute OF
truth. We cannot consent TO carry on a newspaper
controversy with an editor who utters calumnies
against contemporary trusting to the supposed
privileges of age to shield him from responsibility"
The charges" l made against the UNION AND
AMERICAN in the article of the Ne1os above referred
to. established by undenable facts then and there
adduced. l made no destinations"
TIE assertion that il trust TO the privileges of age
to shield myself from responsibility for any state
mentS | make, is false and calumnous He who
made the assertion trusts to the pistol to shield from
exposure the Misrepresentation and fasehOods OF
fbn with K1rbio oh he &c Vvb,t =
the PLAIN english of the matter The shield he has
selected will prove insufficient for his purpose.
shall go as l have begun with thorough expo
sure of all the misstatements, misrepresentation
and falsehoods which may appear liz the UNION AND
fully able and prepared to protect my person
against assault and punish the assailant.
ALLEN A. HALL