Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-12-25
IRON RRICKS.
NASHVILLE. DEC. I'D. 1860.

NASHVILLE, Dec. 22d. 1860.
Ii The R9itors Of the Daily Patriot:
GkxrLExES Il fad in the Republican Ban
nT daily journal of this date. communion
tion addressed TO me by my distinguished
friend, the Hon. JoHS HAPPY, the Pioneer OF
Plsyed-out Politics ageF-brer Literature
in the Southwest. With more than the
amount Of difference to his enlightened opin-
ion that is guaranteed to hiin By the COnsti
tuition as interpreted BY the Supreme Court
of the late but unlamenied SOuih Carolina,
lam inclined to think that his communication
had been more appropriately addressed bad
it been address 10 you, since l was not at
all instrumental in producing she causes
which called tt forth. Nothing is more re
pugnant to my naturally high--trung and
sensitive feelings than to see my me in the
public journals of the day. and my antec-
dents will fully and faithfully sustain me la
the declaration that have rarely, if ever,
Voluntarily and uhmuI muringly permitted
that outrage upon my sensibilities have
sometimes been dragged into the newspapers,
as 1t were, but my name has never appeared
in print with either my knowledge or con-
sent.
In g recent issue Of your valuable daily.
you remai ked that you had received two
communications for my illustrEious friend
your Military Editor, asking his opinion on
the right Of Secession. &c. !; and that one of
them was signed by the DAMON and PYrHIAs
of modern times, Messrs. JOHN HAPPY and
KwART KEG. This announcement Of yours
called forth the communication which Col.
HAPPY, overlooking entirely your agency in
the matter, has addressed to me- Since /
have been inVoluntarily mixed up with the
affair, ! will not shrink from the responsible
ty imposed upon me, but will take the matter
into my own hands. and, with your permits
sion. will proceed TO do my gifted friend that
justice which he, as an American citizen, has
an unalienable right to demand. can best
accomplish that object by lesing him speak
for himself, which be can do much better than
il can De done for him. After observing that
your statement above referred 10 may lead
the public to infer that be had address, me
9 communication for the purpose of getting
his name into the public priuts, he proceeds
TO says:
lose no time in unhesitaiingly affirming
that you, SIR, have been egregiOusiy dupeu.
and If you received such cOmmun cation. the
signatures were fcticiOUE as my autograph
IL never written save by ny most intimate
friends With respect to the resp etabI- Mr.
K1g, have nothing To- say. having ceased to
associate with that iudividual since The other
day, when in an unguaTd d nom nj h. gave
vent to an expression Of devotion To hiS coun- |
try, and especially to tbe Union So far
frpm dabbling IN the politics of the day. l |
never even rad anything political la the pa |
pers save the patent rdicine adv, rIisements. |
You should know, sir, that since my lamruted /
defeat for the Presidency. I have been very |
sore upon the suij CT, aud am endeaEoring, /
daily. TO heal that soreness 10y taking WIZ /
ard-oil hath, three hours preceding each meal. |
ffou will not understand from this that Tam /
living upon the fet of the laBd-l /. think, |
however. that hrn the oil hus u fi GENTLY |
saturated my person, / will, myself. he "a /
prime article to -'pour upon til troubled wd-
ters." and thereby save your cOniound, |
eouatry.