Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-11
w. n. HIGGINS REPLY TO THOS II.
WATTERSON.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 9, 1867 .--IbOs. III.
W'atiasOH-SIR Your communication in
the Banner of yesterday, begins with a
falsehood, when YOU date it as being writ
ten at Manchester--it was begotten in
Nashville-and it ends with one, when you
sign your name for they are synonymous
terms.
But one truth that / remember in the
whole Of IT. that is when You say, swore
TO the bill against Y. X. Stevenson. | did
ii, and erpect TO suedq 10 one pery soon Of more
udlue, against M Burns d Co.
The letter you publish, as having been
written by me to Burns, without denying or
acknowledging one word of it, l will say
YOU and Burns shall produce the original
with my signature, or bear the odium which
attaches 70 this class of crimes Admitting
that I did write every word of it as pub
lished, and the reply of Mr.. Burns is as
yoG publish it, there is not an honest man
ia the land so stupid as to fail to see, in the
reply Of Burns, the deep laid design of a
man conscious Of arrong and fearful Of er-
posare; otherwise it is entirely too nom
sensical to come from Oaeof the first men
Of the nation, for in that letter / do not
propose TO sell him my stock at all, neither
do | propose to sell myself TO him.
Two months age yen were cursing and
abusing Bnrns and INNS as the meanestof
the mean, and did commence getting prox-
les to vote against them. But Burns & Co.
give You a free ticket, as they have to
hundreds of Others promised you the
depot agency at Wartraee, land rumorsays
furnished you. money to pay expenses and
treat with, etc. Thus, sir, you sold YOUR
self, body and soul to the Burns party
you took bride partly paid down with
free ticket which did not belong to them,
and the agency part was bride on a credit,
payable when Burns is reelected, which
will never occur, without a mirical, and
the devil, his daddy, don't perform miri-
Gals now, 50 OF all men you will be most
miserable.
/ will now prove you falsifer by the
frat men of the land, and remark that l
will not stop 70 notice communications
coming from such source any more,
further than to publish the certificates | am
getting to prove that bribery on you, for /
have Ire and larger game to bag from this
until the election, after that is over, / will
attend to picking dead ducks in detail
w. S. HIGGINS.
MANcHERTER, TENN, August 9, 1867
There is being controversy between w.
s. Higgins and Thos. H. Watterson as to
what was said by the former in a speech
made by him on the first Monday in July.
Watterson having charged that Higgins in
that speech said shat j. w. Thomas,
Auditor, and K. c. Bransford, Book keeper
of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
had both told him they were required to
make false entries in their books, and that
they were going to resign" and Mr.. Hug
gins having called upon us for our recol-
lection Of what was said by him ia the
speech referred TO, we would say, that while
We do not pretend to remember the precise
words used, yet we feel quite confident we
remember the substance which, to our best
recollection, was about as follows: Mr..
Higgins asserted that there had been made
a statement which Mr.. Burns required
Messrs. Thomas and Bransford to certify to
the correctness Of, which they declined
doing, saying they would resign first.
X. +. LAsETER,
E. A. SHEAFE,
w. p. HICKERsoN,
JAS. PRICE,
K. r. TERRELL,
f. Nj. MARCEL.
j. A. Garden,