Nebraska advertiser., 1867-03-28
l Gard rom o. q. DOrsey.
BaowNv1LLE, NEB.,
March 25th, 1867.

BRowKvILLE, NEB.,
March 25th, 1867. &
En-. ADyrRr1sER-Sir In your pa
pefof the 2lstinsL4 ] am scurrll0usly
and abusiEely attacked in two commune
cations, one over the name Of S. R. Jam
ison, The other over that of r w. Bed
ford. Notwithstanding the source from
which these attacks come, it IS not i'm
possible that they might do harm, your
paper=rea1hing many 10 whom these men,
Bedford and Jamison. are unknown. l
cannon therefore, suffer them to pass al.
together without reply, though what l
have to say shall be brief and final.
The simple facts in regard 10 the max
ing out Of the affidavit Of George Meier
are these Mr.. Meier came to me and
employed me as his attorney TO secure
for him the tract of land spoken Of in
affidavit, and his affidavit was drawn up
by me for the purpose of founding there
on an application to the General Land
Office to cancel the entry of S. R. Jami-
son, and allow Meier to enter the tract
as a Homestead. i wrote out the affifs
dayH patiently and eaFefuag endeavor
ing 10 make it conform exactly to bis
statement of The facts. During the 1me
l was taking down his statement a good
many persons came into my office, and
there was no time that some third per-
son was not present., and doubtless IeouId
show by different witnesses that every
part of~the affidavit is exactly as Meier
gave tito me. After the affidavit was
written out I requested Mr.. Hoover 20.
read 1t to Meier, and if it should be cor
rect, TO swear Meier 10 il, which was
done by MIR. Hoover. am credibly in
formed that, before they sent their com
munications to your paper, JamisOn and
Bedford had been told by Mr. Hoover Of
the fact that be had carefully read the
affidavit to Meier before swearing him
to it. Messrs. Jamison and Bedford
were therefore guilty of The basest cal
jimmy in making the charge they did
against me.
l am willing that my character for IN
tegrily and veFacity should be compared
with that of S, r. JamisOn and T. w.
Bedford. and that the public should de-
eide whether my statement Of @theirs are
entitled to the most credit.
Whether the affidavit of Meier is true
or not, |, of course, do not know. At
the time it was made / believed it to be
true and since that lime the public have
been favored with Jamison and Bedford's
side of the story, and will probably be
able to form an opinion on the subject.
l would say, however, that the tone in
which the letters of these men are couch
ed is not calculated to help them with
thinking people. The language of abuse
is generally employed where argument
fails. l; is much easier to say "you are
q lier'' than to ehnu tho falsiiv of a
statement by a calm denial, or a sound
reason. Ii is, therefore, usually the case
that this kind of language is used by
persons of feeble intellect and bad in
stincts, by little vulgar boys, drunken In
dams and idiots. We have lately seen
in this city a case in point, that Of the
Wild Australian boy Tom, who could say
''you lie" almost as welIas Messrs. jam
ison and Bedford.
In This low and scurrilous field lido not
propose TO enter into a contest with these
men, but shall cheerfulIy leave to them
the bad pre-eminence of excelIency in
blackguardism.
Respectfully Yours,
CHARLS G. DORSEY.