Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-04-20
Melt' advertisements.
To the Public.

To the Public.
n will be rccolIected that in our first publ cation
signed BY one hundred and twenty, We were re-
spectfu to all-gyng short statement OF facts con-
pected with the meeting OF the Board, &C. and stat
ing that notwithstanding the great financial panic and
the low price of labor repair the road, some
year and during the last few years $50 or eco per
cent 1t also stated that it was thought the COM
munity would complain TO pay % per cent more
than average charge of other roads, which 1t was
hoped, would satisfy the Board, not T. b. johnson,
giving the vote of the Board thereby releasing T. b.
johnson, and placing the responsibility where it right
fully belonged.
But Thos. B. johnson comes out in sianderous
card, saying OF them claim responsibility, and
charges an attempt to commit foul SANDER on his
character and in his next makes low vile attack
upon me individually, evidently showing he has
more brass than brains. and that he wanted to show
of, or divert the public from the object had in view,
which was to get, by the influence of freee Expression
OF public sentiment. the rates Of travel on this road
within % or so cent. of other roads But finding
he had assumed more responsibility than he could
stand, he calls the Board to his aid. shame shame
Col Thos B. johnson, stand your ground, for intend
TO show. by your own words and other proof (and
should seem severe, hope the public will excuse
me- as every one who has read The correspondence
knows he forced it upon mel that you dr6itrd
ny eortiORer an utterer of fdlsehOOds, and unjust al
though you say you ensconced in an impenetrable
fortress OF truth and justice but when untruths
proven upon you, i'll last you say that's
the Kind of munitions of war TO penetrate. Well, |
don't suppose they DID penetrate your feelings,
the public know they penetrated your fortress.
You complain of being called arbitrary extortion
er Now for the proof. In the first place, we asked
YOU If you would take SO per cent. more than
erage charge of other roads, which you declined Now
give the highest prices charged by the best roads
in the county, which are for family travel on the
Franklin road Sc for market CARTS So MurfreesborO
road for family, 81 market carts, cents trip both
ways Iebsnan road for family, So; market carts &c.
Now compare these prices with those published by
you, which are So for family travel, and you said
market carryalls would gladly pay you $40. Now It
will be that this road charges about $50 cent
more than an average of other roads regulated by the
same charters Is not this extortionf
You also state the highest price charge is sl2 so
for five gates, and you make pay S12 Tor gate
And again. asked you if it just 10 charge per
going from town to Mill Creek Valley Pike and
only one way and those living between that point and
town both ways, which you did not answer, for the
obvious reason every one will believe, that it
unjust and arbitrary. because you have us IN your
power. And you dare not say have not told some
that you would not charge them as much as others ;
for if you did, they would could another road
We will now ask you if it is just to make pay (as
you do) the whole year in advance and not Iay the
State her part until the next year. shown in the
Conptrolers Office and not allow interest on it, as is
shown by your reports in the Secretary Of States OF
lice, and also by reports TO the BOARD of Direct
ors although the State dividend is from about 81 400
near $1,000 a year Is this Just Is he lit agent
for the The public will recollect the lame eff
fort TO answer few plain questions, after taking Just
one month to do and all the facts in his own
sion, Does any think he had acted justly he
would not at once have answered them2 His effort
to blend the card with one hundred and twenty odd
SignerS, and petition Win IOrly SIX, 10 try anc
prove inconsistency, is too absurd to notice.
And while am small matters, will notice his
great ado about my Offering the gatekeeper $40 in
gold. will state facts which can prove, and then
the public will know who is mean and penurlous.
called TO pay toll for the year, and found the re-
ceipt included a twO-horse carriage which did not
wish to USE and the gatekeeper said there ought TO
be 50 difference between two horse and onehorse
carriage told him 10 get johnson to alter it, When
called again, he said johnson would not do it, Then
rendered him $40 in gold, expecting he would sue
me, and wished 10 make him pay the cost, by prov
ing legal tender And just here will state another
case characteristics of johnson. gentleman rid
ing with me in my buggy and the gate keeper said
Johnson had directed to charge him toll He handed
him twenty-five cents, and asked what he ought TO
pay He 81 id he supposed dime But told him |
had paid for myself horse and buggy, and asked him
make the calculation and take of the twenty
tive cents but he did not know how to do it, although
johnson says he is systematic gate-keeper-don't
laugh-and actually refused TO take anything, saying
it was not right anyhow.
1t will be recoected that johnson, his card Of the
18th of March, said was impudent, and exhausted
every argument my ingenuity could devise, &c---re-
erring TO my speech before the board last January
which pronounced false his statement about
Mr. Patterson and here is the proof of seven highly
respectable gentlemen entirely dsinterested =
We present at the meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors OF the Noiensyile Turnpike Company, last
January and did not consider W. Greenfield impudent
in his speech, or that he exhausted every argument
his ingenuity could DEVISE &c. as stated by T. B.
johnson, in his card of the 18th of March last.
DAVID HUGHES, J. II. ANDERSON,
F. HAGAN, j. NJ. SMITH
n. Z. C0RBITT, ANDREW GREGORY,
]. JOINER.
Now hear Mr. Criswell:
N. d. Criswell said in presence, to-day, that W.
Greenfield did not induce him to sign the card refer
Instant and also that he never wrote Johnson an
apology for signing it and that he has not Mr. c.
since he went to Williamson county March 1lth, until
to-day, April 10, 1861.
L. P. HAGANS
Now for the proof that much the largest portion of
whilst in the hands Of others, as stated in my card
of the 22d of March. And now say that whoever
got one signer to the petition 70 the Board or
the object of the publication TO any
person will be seen below that Mr. Patterson
says he got large portion of the signers to bsth.
Now hear Mr.. Rains
Thirty-one of the hundred and twenty
odd were signed while the paper was in my hadds,
April 10, 1861. \. b. RAINS
1t was also in the hands of others who got number
Of signers to it. Now for the alsehoo1s, You, say
again in your last card after had denounced il lie,
that got upa petition and had it presented to the
board, viii CHI will now prove did not do, and al
though is exceedingly unpleasant to Mr. Patterson
and also to me to connect his name with this NATTER
still facts must appear, he says, authorised W. Green
ied say his card of the 22nd of March, that did
cot tell T. B. johnson, Mr.. G. insisted on my signing
my card But to the contrary Mr.. G. suggested
IN account Of the relationship in the family not 10
sign the last one, and in justice to Mr.. G. will say that
he petition to the board gotten up my house,
md believe without Mr.. Gs knowledge assistance,
md got large port of the sgners it, and also TO
he first publication The above statement was read
,y Mr. Patterson in presence, and admitted to be
rue. VIM. SHAW,
W. Fl. PIERCE.
Now hear Mr.. Shaw The assertion of T. p. johnson,
hat W. Greenfield caused my 10 be placed before
his not true and his insinuation that W. Greenfield
uses to let out is false, and his assertion that W.
Greenfield tries get behind the old preacher false
sO, but hope be may the error of his ways, and
Don get done washing his hands with soap, and hasten
get his soul washed with the blood of Christ il is
90 late. WM. SHAW.
Now for your words, YOU say in your last card
hat you have statement from several persons that
ay Greenfield procured their endorsement to his SIAN
ferrous card without their consent and by false repre-
and then go to give their statement and
ames and actually give two names that not the
ard ut all, wonder you did not get more, and 10, and
behold not one OF them even mentioned my name.
vii be seen by reference 10 your publication Was
here such iBplde,lce and recIeSSes manifested
wen by convict in the Penitentiary to escape, but
can't escape sir You brought il yourself
essary and you must take the consequences il will be
cen don't deal in mere assertions T. B. johnson
oes but stubborn facts; where is your fortress Of
ruth and justice and T. B. Johnson knowing tine
ublic will you have utterly failed in your silly at
eDpto SANDER me- and after the proof here given of
arbitrary eztOTtion injustice and numerous false
GODS that thing you will not nure and that
he public will know you are entirely beneath my
urther notice, dismiss you. W. GREENFIELD.
ENoIE-Mr. p. and Mr.. C. said they had promised rot
o sign any more cards, hence their acknowledgement
a presence OF Others April 20 1t