The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-06-23
GARRETT.
What He Says About the "Press
and Times."-A Union Soldier
Upon the Radical Skulkers.
CARTHAGE. Tenn June 10th.

CARTHAGE, Tenn, June 10th,
Editors Nashville Banner:
/ had hoped that ] would not feel
called upon again to defend myself be-
fore the public, through the columns
of the newspapers; but, seeing that
there is no end to the SANDERS and
talshoods profusely put forth through
the columns Of that infamous, lying
sheet, the Press and Times, ! beg leave
to have published in your paper the
following statement of facts, Of which
/ challenge investigation.
THE PRESS AND TIMES.
First, the Prrss and Times charges
that ex-senator Bowen, who was elect
cd as Il Union man to the Senate from
the Carthage District, ON the general
ticket, and Representative Carrot, who
gained temporary notariety by his
association with the Boilers, and who
afterwards went over TO the Copper
heads, have both been promised the
office of Assessor of Internal Revenue
in their respective districts, by the
President, on account of their warm
support of my policy The Press
and Times further says: There arc
plenty Of competent and consis ent
Union men in those districts who GER
tainly should have the preference over
men who have llagrantly deserted eve
ry principle of Union party which
elected them to office. 1t further says:
We hope that Col. Stokes will look in
to this matter, as neither of the men
whom we have named could gel a sin
gle Union vote for any Office in their
districts.
A LITTLE POINTED.
Twill say at the outset, and ] am per.
sonally responsible in what | state,
that the whole statement rs published
in the Press and Times, except that
part which says that We were elected on
the general ticket, is a wilfll and dolib-
crate ialsehood. and its author is q
sianderouS Lar. Mercer knew when he
penned the above statement that he
penned a falsehood which he is too
cowardly to defeNl in person. He
knew that | had been reelected to that
disgraceful body of eX-traitors styled q
'Legislaturc,' by u majority Of eight
to one over the radical candidate in
the 10th senatorial district, and he fur
Their knows that almost the entire vote
of the discharged Federal soldiers
were cast for me, and he, Mercer, fur
ther knows that | had been always n
Union man; that ! fought for it in six
t. one and all through the war, and that
| was now fighting for the Union and
the Constitution, and suffering from
wounds received in the service Of the
United States to such an extent that |
could not walk without the assistance
Ola stick, while he with almost the en-
tire RGdicM party in this State merc
traitors in 1861, and are traitors in 1865
and | want Mercer to let the country
know what he ever did for the support
of the cause of the Union, and what he
is doing now for the restoration of the
Union.
SOMEBODY A DEsERTER.
His answer must be that he deserted
the State and the cause in 1861 and
1863, and ran off some two hundred
miles in rear Of the army. He sworc
himselfinto Office, and in violation of
his oath ofolilce and the laws Of his
country, used the seal of his Office to
smuggle medicines through the Fed
eral lines to the Confederate army; that
he was u traitor then, i, plainly shown;
that he is Il traitor now is also shown
by his acts. lie is like the little bull
who attacked the steam car, when he
makes charges against Andrew John
son, and with about the same results
that the little bull met. Mr.. Mercer
should remember that Andrew John
son picked him up out Of the dirt and
ashes, and made him all that he is, and
that ain't much and he ought to re-
mcmbcrthat supported Andrew John
son in 1861, and that | supported An
drew Johnson in 1866, and that An
drew Johnson supported the Union
and the Constitution in 1861, and that
Andrew Johnson is laboring to save
the Union and Constitution in 1866,
and when he charges treachcry to the
Union party on the part Of Andrew
johnson, he lies. and every soldier and
citizon knows that he lies.
Why CALL on SWEET WILLIAM?
Now, Mr.. Mercer, you call upon Bill
Stokes to look after the appointments
to be made in my district. Why call
upon him while there are other men at
Washington who were elected to Con
grcss from this State, and who have
clear records as Union men, and WHO
supported the President while yon
know that those of us who know Bill
Stokes and who served in the army
under Bill Stokes, know that, in 1861,
Bill Stokes wrote letters %denOuncing
President Lincoln and the Government
and made speeches to the Confederate
soldiers and gave them money to en-
courage them to 90 into the Confedc-
rate army, and you know that Bill
Stokes had published n letter denounc-
ing as false the charges that he was a
Union man and that he commended
Gov. Harris in the course he took in
arming the State.
WHEN BILL STOKES TCRNED LOYAL.
And if you don't know, / can tell
You, and have the testimony to prove
it, that it was not until the Federal ar
my came TO Nashville, in 1852, that
Bill Stokes commenced his fight for
the Union. After the speeches he
made against separation in 1861, he
said in his letter that he had done all
he could to heal our troubles, and that
his name was then enrolled as q volun-