Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-19
Aei5 advertisements.
NO. 2.
To the Friends of 0ptH-Handed Justice.

that a fair examination By any intelligent and Impair
tia gentleman, of their card, under the head of New
Advertisements in the paper OF 23rd of Febru-
airy, and my response on the 9th, will show tri-
umphant and successful yindcation OF my course and
that the facts and principles set forth unanswered
and nanswerable and Greenfield his latter
card, has not attempted conirovert
ed to cover his retreat by resort TO peroaiics and
Naturalization which, in the language of the Hon. An
drew Johnson 1.-THE resort Of the lowest order of
minds.''
Yet pray your kind indulgence while say few
words about this last tile Note am asked 10 partc
ularze; well for your accommodation Will do so,
dismissng every other person from the controversy
and taking the bull by the horns. Wesley Greenfield
believe the irstigator of this attack upon me-
and has sought to screen himself and involve others
by wheeling around old Methodist preacher and
young man who is my friend and relation, and trying
to involve them by placing their before his in the
former card and then TO have hmselfendorsed by the
orer one hundred others they also had signed
and endorsed his attack upon me- Why, Mr. Green
field did you, after getting every man you could in
duce to do so, to sign your rst charge me, say
'sand over loo othersz Did you need eRd0rseTs, and
did you know If you published proper names without
authority from Them that handed justice would
evertake your 10 yonr lits note say he chooses
to class US guardians Sir, you can't pervert my ian
guage to any such meaning said you assumed The
guardianship and alike in your little note
sBae the guardianship of the State, whilst Tennessee
has lately spoken in thunder that she needed
guardian. But sir, in your first advertisement of
eztotioier you say the Board in
person. Since your request to particularize say
you were the person, and in your impudent attempt
in speech before the Board to induce them 10 repri
mand for dong their lawful, Just and honorable
bidding, you said after exbapsting every argument
your ingenuity could devise, to show my demands
were unjust. and after stating in your petition TO the
Board that you believed them unauthorized by then
that if they sustained me in the demand made you
would submit, it only small matter, and that
it was only unauthorized power you were seeking TO
| threw off. Had these been your feelings and true
motives, could not have uttered word ef complaint,
you certainly had right to investigate my official
conduct, far as you interested in it. But SIR,
when the Board sustained me- very srIal spark Of
honor could have prompted you 10 have acquitted me-
| and Acknowledged belief founded error
and when my attention was called by friend to your
new advertisement and read the words In order to
place ourselves and others right before the communi
ty," began to look for something magnanmors, but
alas, beheld the veriflcation of the old proverb.
that pure water can't spring from corrupt fountain
But about the tolls under the direction given me,
compelled to have little more money from Yves
ley Greenfield, and very little tug at his purse
strings aroused his venom, and 10 in his little note OF
| 18th inst, he says, ''we will now ask Col johnson if
he will take so per cent. more than ether Roads? IL
not let him be stigHdzed arbitrary ertoTttner''
profess ignorance of what other Roads charge,
but this their business and mine. The charter
| of this Road says the Company may demand and
ceive from each four wheel carriage at the time of Of
fering 10 pass the Gate, 25 cents The Gatekeeper
Wesley Greenfield of his family pass daily
| to twice daily with few exceptions and that he
| two bugeies and a two horse family carriage. The
Directory don't allow me to transcend the chartered
| limits and have kept within its bounds, but Ar.
Greenfield in his little note says, sit is not the
dollars and cents but the princpe and damages done
| 90 neighborhood and our property that COM
plain off,. Well let see what it is that does this
damage. He will have it that it is my ertortiOn And
what is extortion Just simply TO demand and receive
that which is unjust; and if it be unjust TO demand
and receive from W. Greenfield, acho reports himself
one of the Deputy Marshals of this county beng
the of osae hundred aud thirty thousand three
hundred and thirty dollars worth of real and personal
estate and travels the road daily having bugges
and two horse carriage; So for his yearly family
travel, when if to charge what the Charter al
lows his travel for the same time would amount TO
over 800, then am guilty, and then, and not until
then let be stigmatiZed arbitrary extortion-
err But Mr. Greenfield paid for his family travel IS per
| annum for three of the last few years; this year
l raiSa tn hpC
the price for yearly travel to the amount of travel
| done and for the same cause reduced the
travel of A j. Baker DR.. W. G. Blackman and others
IS per cent without their asking 10 do il, and yet
| Mr.. Greenfield will have itthat my us0pdtt0R of pow
er must be checked the value of property in the
| neghborhood will be impaired, take it as perhaps
he would rather You should, that must take what
| Well let us see how that would work. Everybody
knows that to these internal Improvements IS attrb
utabe the great in the value of property and that
stability OF that increased value depends on the
perpetuify OF these improvements and the encourage
ment offered capitalists to keep them up and con
struct more. Some of these other roads, whose
mple Mr.. G. would have me follow, have gone down
they paw no dividend the State stockholders and
the tolls them wont pay the repairs, and State and
individual stock in them is worth nothing, and the
people who them becoming alarmed for Gear
the value of their property on and near them wialso
go and they will have again free road and have
10 work with their hands after the old fashion,
a much higher cost, than to pay for their trave,
| whilst the Nolensvllle Road is paying dividends not
only the stockholders Zone of which you can be if
you wish) but to the State also and thus lesseninS
the Taxes that you Mr. g. have topay your Sl3l
$50 worth of property besides giving you nice road
from your door to the city which you and your fam
iy can fly back and forth with Morgan Roadster speed
once to twice daily for dollar per month Now sir
indebted this road not its and
managers to some extent the beacdctoTs of your eiq
borhood whilst the Road stands the head of the list
the official report of the State Treasurer to the Leg
sature of the State. But it is not the dollars ana
cents you complain Of Oh no. the principle, raised
| your toll IS to S12, and that's extorton. You
| complained when you paid only IS, and now you COM
| road 90 down think you would still complain. You
say IN your little note she dare not say he did not
and Smith expected to travel the Road daily You
| must think very timd, that could not dare, in
the face of stawart Greenfield TO say that did not
kpo all these mems intentions. Smith, like bold.
honest frank gentleman told me he expected to trav
daily and he is the only one recoect of beng
frank. / inclined the opinion that of the
others claimed that they not constant travellers
and as Mr.. Anderson am not that know HIN
| when see him: but am sure he never spoke to me
on the subject of taking the gate by the year. saw
him at the meeting OF the Board alluded 10. under
stood him to be one of the petitioners and heard his
remarks the Board they respectful to all, and
promised myself then to try and make his acquan
lance; but if have HIM since then do not know
it, and althous Wesley Greenfield, in the ire of his
wrath dares say did not know the intentions of
John H. Anderson, still, under these circumstances,
will he allow to say don't think did Now,
Mr. Greenfield in your little note, you ask very
mpertinent little questions, and il were TO stop
answer them could not again ask generous and dis
eliminating public to give me hearing In exposing
the ridiculousness of your att Dpt to Islander You
can't reach me and wont come down the range of
your missiles. Now hat do you think of telling the
public in your little note that had two old negroes
worth 800 $780, is that setting yourself and others
right before thefommnniiy, Is this the principle you
set out discuss, and the assumption of unauthorized
pocer you trying to rop OFF, Does the public want
to you by your le insinuations discourse about
my duping such Jno. johnson, Jas c. Copeland,
| W. H. Hagans, Enoch Ensley, F. r. Rains and Others
of the Directory Of equal sagacity and known fidelity
ber there no between hem
and me; they don't thank you for nleddling with thd
business betsrcen them and myself, for attempting to
to Islander to whom their response is at every
nuaI and semi annual report, tswell done good
faithful servant" and who reechoed that response
your interview and remonstrance with them to
which you allude, by eeeting me TO their service
,cit0ut single dissenting roice Now sir respectful
y ask YOU to controvert the facts haze stated: an
s,ce nv former response which you have not attempted
to do; sustain your charge, don't try to shift off
Others bring up their Endorsement toioout their
consent as you have done. Do this, say, let
alone and let fellow in peace my domestic
cations ought TO be in the field now, and but for
your groundless attack upon my character should
but YOU have malciousy assailed my character and
defence of that my person. ensconsed as am in
impenetrable fortress Of truth and Justice will fight
How would you, like for to ask you few little
questions about matters that did not particularly nier
est me and print them in newspaper, like You have
dones Do you think they would set yourself and
| ers right before the community? To err is human,
and when get wrong let me be rghted- raised
your (Mr G.'s) toll from IS So, and freely ac-
knowledge did not raise II enough. raised others
who the keeper marked tdreiag daily to tlcice
| daily from S. to SO, and some from Sc to Sl2
and yet you pay less in proportion TO travel done than
any else and others whom raisedthe most pay
much less in proportion for travel done than those
whose tolls reduced % per cent and very greatly less
than those who pay as they go for every trip 1t is
very difficult, said in my first response to your
attack to get the tolls exactly equally proportional to
travel the Board have ordered 10 do; but think
if they would instruct require everybody topay
| as they 90 and then pay they come back could do
nearer right. The Board wont allow me TO let carry
aIs pass by the year, and acknowledge don't see
any justice discriminating in your favor. Some Of
them who drive light market carryalls with one horse
would just for that, gladly pay $50 year and then
not pass half as often your pleasure vehicles do.
What do you, Mr. Greenfield, the assumed guardian
of the State, think OF the idea? Would it be more
| egudl? And now must begin to wind up, and the
lawyer would say, will just remind the of open
| hand nd irrx of doar and