Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-10-31
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uits dll uulllDlc ClllLcu III AHC pr
vate walks of life, quietly attend
ing to ny own business without
molesting or disturbing am one
in attending to his, is SO utterly
false, that | deem it proper to
notice il, lest my silence should
be taken Is an admission OF the
truth of the statements contained
In it.
That ! swore worse than an
Algerine Pirate, or swore at all
or used profane language, is false.
That said that Sbanks and all
(or any Of his supporters were
traitors and niggerltes, is false;
but said that all the nIggerite.
had voted for him-which al
know Is true. | did not speak
about soldiers, nor use tile word
soldier, in either of the CONVEX,
sations hereinafter menti oned;
and, of course, did not call then
tories, traitors, or seceSSlOniSt>
and | did not say a word about
MumfordsviIle, nor hanging sol
dIers, nor hanging ANYBODY else.
All this was manufactured out oil
the whole cloth at the time, by
those whose object it was to raise
Il mob.
| went to Portland on the 18th
day of October, the day after the
election, to attend to some pro-
fessional business in court.
When | arrived there, knowing
that Mr.. Black, the landlord, was
democrat, and of course, an
anti Shank man, | jocularly re-
marked as | drove up, as | have
heard remarked perhaps a hun
dred times in my life, SIS this a
Shank tavern? If it is, | guess
I'll go farther" Mr.. Black,
coming up to my buggy, remark
ed, 81 guess it's all right, Judge,
get outs | again jocularly re-
marked that | did not want to
patronIze an abolition house.
Some of the persons around
(none oil whom | knew angrily
began to denounre me as seces-
SIoniSt, &c, and denounced abb
olitlon:sts, back again, and with
III a minute of the time | stopped
my buggy, Mr.. Underwood came
up to my buggy. and said that he
WAS the Marshal of the countv
and warned ne how | talked.
This fired me up, and | said ex-
citedly, "Well you had better ar
rest me and take me to Fort La
fayette: | dare you to do it." He
mildly replied, that we dare TO do
things that we do not want to do:
and to get out and put UP. His
manner and language, at once
Gained my excitement, and |,
remarking, "Le: these scoundrels
not bother me them" or "keep
away from me, or "let me
alone DO not remember which
way | said it-got out of my bug
~, and went into the sitting groom
OF the hotel.
Having sat there some twenty
minutes, | went TO the Court
house, and remained till the
court adjourned. Mr.. Hawkins.
the clerk, came and saluted me,
and chatted with him till all
had left the Courthouse, when |
returned to the hotel.
After supper, lnthe dusk of ihe
evening. started out to the stable
to see to my morse, as is my Gus
tom. Mr.. Joseph Maddox met
me on the way and commenced
talking with me about politics,
he urging republican views, and
| sustaining democratic views.
The conversation was mild and
respectful by both OF us, and con-
tinued some live or ten minutes.
perhaps longer. In the mean
tihe, considerable crowd had
gathered around us, when a yonng
man at my LEFT hand, said, "oid
man you must hush up An.
other Immediately, at my right
hand, said with al oath, You
must leave" Maddox immedi
ately crouched down and slid
away from between them. |
was surprised. bet was immedi-
ately convinced that there was
concert among them, to do me
personal violence. The two men