The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-04
Marietta Paper Company.

and unexpected note OF the llth inst
was forwarded to me at this place by my
wife, at Cincinnati From your note
learn several things and infer others.
l learn that you are prisoner of war, at
Johnson's Island-that you were captur-
ed at Champion Hill, on the sacred soil
of the South-that you are out of funds
etc. infer that you are an officer in
the rebel army-thqt you have gone forth
like thousands of other deluded and in
furiated Southerners at the bidding of
your corrupt leaders, in search of your
qights-that you have in part found your
rights-not in the territories, but on
Johnson's Island and would be willing
to,retire from this uncalledsfor war and en-
gage in a more honorable, and certainly
more profitable, business Of fpaperma-
king
am not prepared to say what you
mean by "collaterals," furnished you
by Kinsloe & Rice, cf Knoxville, in my
favor You have certainly intended your
note for some one else Kinsloe & Rice
were a publishing firm-dealt largely
with you in the paper line, and failed
while they were the publishers of the
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Ae49ster. L was never the nartna---e
small bills in bank. hold the note of
that firm for about FIVE hundred dollars.
l would like to have the money, and |
really need it, but have not thought bf
calling on you to pay it, although could
do so with as good grace as you could
call upon me to pay you debt of theirs.
have no doubt these men could pay US
both, if we would receive the worthless
paper issues of the bogus Confederacy.
l would not give ten cents per bushel for
such money. You might pass it off
among your Vallandigham friends in the
vicinity of Sandusky. If | were you
would call upon my copperhead friends
at the North for loan. They are with
you in your war upon the Government and
ought to be willing to relieve your pres
ent necessities. They are not as honor
able, patriotic, or as brave as you are
You have shown your devotion to your
cause, and your infamous principles, by
shouldering your musket, going into the
field, and facing dangers and deatl -
These cowardly devils at the North, and
unmitigated traitors who sympathise
with you, have not enough of manly pride
and courage to go into Dixie and fight
for the party they say is in the right
They can sneak about in towns and in
neighborhoods of the loyal States, and
encourage desertion and subordination
among the officers and privates of the
Federal army, who may be at home on
furlough or leave of absence AS mean
as your Southern leaders are, and as low
flung as are many of the drunken black
guards in your ranks, they are gentlemen
patriots, and Christian Philantropists,
compared with those Northern villains
who are on the side of JEFF Davis.
But word as to your claim against
me. l had large dealings with you, in
the paper line, and our business relations
were pleasant. paid you thousands of
dollars, from first to last, and found your
firm correct in its accounts Ny last
payment to you, before the rebellion set
in, was through David A. Deadrick,
Clerk of the Knoxville Chancery Court !;
it was some six hundred dollars, and left
you, as my book and yours will show,
eighty cents in my debt. speak from
memory, but l am certain that am cor
rect.
l take this method of replying to your
note, that other rebel prisoners may meet
with my response. l have frequent calls
upon me for money and clothes, by rebel
prisoners at Camp Chase, Camp Morton,
Alton, St. Louis, and other points-some
placing their solicitations upon the
ground of former political and religious
associations, and some upon the score Of
the long standing friendship between
their families and myself
No man who has gone into this infinite,
ly Internal rebellion, Of his own accord
has any claims upon me OR my generos
ity. And if / even owed rebel money
and thank God l do mott do not feel
under the circumstances, that ought tc
pay him one cent And certainly, for q
rebel creditor of mine to demand pay
ment, would require a degree of impu
dence that the Devil, with all his effront
cry, cannot boast of. having. What are
the facts in my case? My paper, with g
large and profitable circulation, was
crushed out, after this rebellion was in
augurated, and my printing Office, the
most valuable in Eastern Tennessee
shamefully sacrificed Three houses anc
lots in Knoxville, worth ten Thousand
dollars, were taken from me. A large
and we'll furnished dwelling house wat
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