The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-08
Hon. Jefferson Davis and his Slandere rs
Infamous FaIsehOods Exposed.

Infamous FaIsehOods Exposed.
MEADOW Nook, DEkALB County, Ga.
July 81, 1865.
To the Editor of the Metropolitan Rec.
ord:
DEAR SIR. / have been convinced
by the teachings of history and man, and
more particularly by the events which
have come under my .own personal
knowledge during tue past five years,
"that lie well stuck to answers as well
as the truth" to. serve the purpose of
hate and envy, and wo ! be unto the in.
dividual and peop!e who are forced to
permit systematic and persistent Sian.
der to go uurefuted. Victor Hugo says
somewhere that mans destiny depends
as much upon what is said of him as on
what he actually does. The fanatics of
the North have acted on this fact for
thirty years, and the digni6ed contempt
with which we have regarded their mis-.
representations has eslded in our ruin and
dissolution.
These reflections have been called to
mind by reading the report Of the com.
mittee appointed by Congress to inves.
tigate the charges against President Da.
Wis of completely with the assassination
of the late President lincoln. r"
1t appears to me that sense of shame
would prevent any SGT of men who had
8 particle of feeling ofhonour from the
attempt to link the nape of such char
acter as Jefferson Davis with murder and
crime.
After the most diligsnt investigation,
running through period of more than
twelve months, and sul,orning witnesses
who for the, honor of humanity, be it
said, recanted at the last moment and
confessed their 2ssrk css.l.a, rsEhat does
the whole testimony amount to2
First. that Mr., Davis, during the pro.
gress of long and terrible war, con-
Quoted on the part OF our enemies, with
a barbarous cruelty unknown to modern
times, received few letters from a, few
individuals requesting permission to Of:
fer themselves as instruments to rid
cheir country Of the men who were re
garded as the wicked authors of our suf.
ferings. These letters are Paraded be-
fore the public:--one from O. l.. 0. De.
Kalb, another from j. s. Partamere,
and another from. Lieutenant Waldemar
Aston, requesting his permission. The
two first are unknown to me but Lieu.
tenant Alston was an officer under my
command at one time--au unassuming
and intelligent youth, about nineteen
years of age, who had witnessed enough
cruelty at the hands of the enemy to
turn his heart into bitterness and gall.
In none Of these cases was the permission
sought granted; and the Com mittee
were careful to suppress those cases
where it was not only refused, but re-
jected with indignant scorn, as was al.
ways the case when these kind of letters
was brought to the personal knowledge
of Mr.. Davis. I can testify to'one case
which happened in my own regiment
where it was not only refused, bust the
party who made the request was placed
apder arrest, and ordered to be tri ed by
eourt.martial. A gallant young lawyer
from Memphis, Tennessee, who was
Captain of Co.., 9th Tennessee Regi
ment, Morgan's Brigade, smarting under
the sense of recent. injuries, wrote to- Mr..
Davis to request permission to go to
Washington'and assassinate Mr.. I'M icoln
and his Cabinet, blow up the capitol SO.
Mr.. Davis endorsed on tho back of the
letter, "Atrocious, Respectfully efer-
red to the Secretary Of War who will
order the arrest and trial by court. mar
tial of the writer. j. D."
This letter, with this endoraer nent.
wac returned to General Morgan, while
his Brigade was at Blacks Shop near
Murfreesboro,, by Mr.. Randolph then
Secretary of War. Capsaiis-4- was ar
rested and was so mortified atNhis arrest
that he shouldered musket, anaim arch.
ing headbng into the 6fst batsles was
killed at Milton, Tennessee. .i 3,
These facts can be establishedby Gen.
Basil Duke, Col. N, O..P. BFe,sken-