Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-11-29

article, of "A personal nature. purporting to
be from the pen Of John Koontz, and .evi-
1tly designd to protraet the controversy
Scween Us. not only blythe subtle article
Of sophistry. but tile more fragrant viola
ton Of truth-and while indulging vir-
tuous contempt for the author of so mean
a cuminglas he has striven in vain to
adopt thescause which ted me 10 a pubic
vindication of mys .lf--claims not so much
a notice of what his has, cunning has
sought to express, as more clearly to- es-
ttblish any own homer anl ssshalner
s sMr. Koantz in slaS artielea sets but with
the declaration. THAT it is his purpose to
vindicate good intentions .taward myself"
This purpose OF Mr. Koontz alftf~hfs adj
herence to the same, is more than mani
fest in the lines of his article that proclaim
the fact-the simple wording of which III
dictate the writings Of an outraged con-
science and pride, that could find no relief
from the obstinate worth Of facts already
produced against him and no paliaton
from the further evidences he now knows
to exist
As Mr.. Koontz has endeavorrd to screen
himself behind the action Of Il Committee
or arbitratQrs, as he calls them | will
simply remark that it was at my own so
licitation the{matttr was submitted to that
Committee, and to this step was Induced
by various statements, emlnatlng, as was
informed, from Mr.. Koontz and one in
particular, that the CASH Book SHOW
ED deficit of between Fifteen hundred
and Two thousand collars, FROM the
time Mr.. Fetzer left the concern. until he,
Mr. Koontz, represented his own interest
personally in the same. In other words,
that between the 18th Of VI .rch. 1915, and
the 18th of August, 1915. IA deficit to the
above amount, was SHOWN by the. Cash
Book. All sought to establish before the
Committee was. that we kept no Cash
Book, or even regular Caslt account, and
that money had been pail out for merchat-
disc and otherwise--but as four or five
years had elapsed, and as the Balls and
Receipts were npther hrnls, | believed it
impossible to account for the disbursements.
Subsequent developments. however, have
proved otherwise, but too late to avail my
own, or the interest Of truth before the
Committee. whose minis. however dispos-
ed to farm ,ss were Oh that OCCASION at
least-innoccntly GA their part, conclude
deceived into the belief that a deficit eX-
listed between the pariu..s claimed by Mr.
.Koontz before the Committee, and also Ill
his prayer to the Court, which was from
the 18th of March 1913 to the 25th of
August 1915 Mr. Koontz on his part,
however, before the Committee, placed the
Sules Book, bat called 1t Cush Book, and
before this Committee asserted. most posi-
lively, that NO GOODS had been pur-
chased AMI that NOT ONE DOLLAR
OR EVEN ONE GENT had been paid
out during that period. The Committee
say: 1T is ascertaiaed by reference to
bills THAT money WAS paid out for the
Concern of which NO CHARGE was
made AG AINST the cash account, to the
amount of from one to f,cohuntred dollars"
This, TRANSFERRED March the 18th 1S52-
About one year after this time, when Mr..
Ko ntz instituted suit against Dingcs
Admir- for the recovery of this pretended
dc6cit--he. stated in his prayer to- the
Court, that 81, $40 56a cents had becn'rt
ceived during that PERIOD. And after, the
Books hal passed through the hanlS of
the Commissioner and it became necas-
sary for Mr.. K}ontz to render a statement
of the receipts and disbursements, of that
period, he ADMITTED that 1882 80
had been paid out Why this difference
on the part Of the Committee in 1852. as.
to the amount paid out, and that of John
Koontz during the progress of his suit
against Dibges Administrator if there were
a Cash Book, and THAT Cash Book fur
nished the evidence set forth by Mr. Koontz
and the Committee on the 18th OF March,
1852. TO the virtuous mind this exhibit
ton offarts, Sustained by igus.s. viii be
sufficient not only TO support my own
claim, before that Committee. But to cx-
pose the partiality, by which sympathy
with wrong, will sometimes mislead those
whom We suppose honest. when that hon
esty is assailed by the cunning of an arch
practitioner upon those susceptible chords
of our nature, which respond to the touches
of a master hand, though that hand be
the hand of Evil l
Mr.. Koontz. in his prayer to the Judge
of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah County
it is reasonable to suppose, fully and truly
sets forth his claim, not only to the Glenn
ency and justice of the Court, but the vim
dica;ion of his omn truth. and desire to do
me no uroag. IN THIS PRAYER, Mr..
Koontz distinctly asserts, THAT James a.
Fetzer, clerk in the store. was entitled
to ! of the profits" --from the time Dinges
bought Sibert's half of the goods, on the
18th of January lS45--'.up to the 18th of
March, 1915" Mr. Koontz CATER allud-
ing to the terms of Copartnership between
himself and Mr.. Dinges) adds but
sometime after the partnership was enter
ed into, your orator discovered, that in