The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-09-13
The following personal communication

ment, ana IS PAID TOT Dy the author:
PULASKI, Tenn, Sept. 2nd, 1867.
Mr.. EDITOR The following commu-
nioations appeared in the Press and Times
of the 3Oth ult., and as I am personally
named therein and at the same time ma
liciousy misrepresented, deem it duty,
in justice to myself, to reply to them
Here the reader is referred to two let
tiers published in our local columns last
week-one dated Lynnville, Aug. 22d, and
the other at Pulaski, Aug. 19th,-as the
letters referred to by the writer.-ED
CITIZEN.
These communications being without
signature of course, it would be difficult to
know absolutely who wrote them But
from the heading style of the first, I sup
pose it to be from man (if he can be
called man) who goes by the name OF
| Brink, and who is known to be one of the
most infamous wretches, unreasonable
liars. aud vilest towards in all this section
of the country. At least, in the absense of
positive information, ( shall take it for
granted that he is it's author.
He says that Capt. Judd (God save the
mark y has informed him "that there are
very severe threats made against as, and
that they expect to be attacked on next Sat
urday night" HJudd gave this informa-
| ton, he lied basely and he knows it. and
! so does Brink. Who is it that threatens
And who are threatened? Who is expect
ed to attack And who is that expects to
be attacked? Simply, "they." And who
are 'tAeys 90 Why do not these informers,
liars and villains, specialize and say who
are threatened and by whom threatened,
who expect to be attacked and by whom &?
The fact is, they lie UNANIMOUSLY. They
know very we'll that they have no just fears
of an attack. 1t is only a pTetext to get
more forces here, that they may exercise
more cruel and relentless control over a
quiet, law-abiding and well disposed peo-
pie.
Further on he particularizes enough to
say, that ''htey tried to get up riot on last
Saturday night and the leader was one of
the Deputy SherifIs," I suppose alluding
to me- This is an unqualified and viii
famous lie. There was no attempt to get
up a riot, nor have I ever dreamed of such
a thing. or heard of such. Nor has any
! one else until this announcement in the
Press and Times, It is wholly fabrica-
! ton and was doubtless prompted by the
alarms of guilty and a bloody conscience.
Saturday night has. passed and no one has
| heard of the attack.
He further says, capt. Judd is no COW
! ard. but as brave as hons God help
such lions ! This is the lion that had his
jaws boxed and his fangs loosened, short
time ago by gentleman, when he pre-
! sumed to give the lie. And when he had
thus been snoacked, he looked as brave as
a sheep killing dog, and afterwards said
that he was'not aware that to call man a
liar was cause of offense or a ground of
! assault Bah
AS to these fears and expectations of be-
ing attacked they are affected and not real,
or if SO, they can only be accounted for in
one way, and that is on the ground that
when men have committed crime, wrong
and outrage, dread that retribution may
follow, fills them with alarms, apprehen-
s. ons and horrors. Then they will fly from
the falling of leaf, or run from the new.
ing of cat, and perhaps even from the
growing ola lion.
AS for Brink and some of his associates,
1 did give them verbal castigation some
time ago, and they needed it too. But
what 1 said was not confined to them, and
not more of personal than a political mat
ter. There is not a respectable man in
the county, who knows Brink, but despi-
ses him personally, to say nothing of his
political connections. There is not man
in the county Of Giles. whose status is
lower or more degraded than his. He is
practical miscogenatonist, as shown by
the results, which is a mulatto child,
mothered by one of the flthiest negro
wenchos in the county and when the doc
tor called on her to pay his fee for deliUer-
ing her. she could not pay it. He then
asked who had miscegenated it, when he
was informed by the mother that this Ioyal
patriotic and virtuous Mr.. Brink was its
noble and devoted father. Whereupou the
doctor presented his bill (ten dollars) to
Brink, who at first declined to pay it, but
an expose being threatened, he came for
ward and paid the money. And this is
the monster, this invader of negro chastity
and usurper ofthe privileges of the Freed
mems Bureau, who calls loudly and alarm
inrly uDoD General Conner for nrotactioD
when there is no danger to the peace or
morals of the county except from such
wretches as be is. I would suggest that