The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-22
From the Nashville Banner.
Stokes CoTnered.

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the following note from that valiant warrior
brilliant orator, and shining Brownlow light
General the Honorable William B. Stokes
On THE Cars, June ,, 1867
EDS BANNER: / see in your issue of to-
day charge that I called on a MIR. HAYNES
of Nashville, in December 1862 having in
my possession a cOlored boy who had been
captured and that | called on Mr. HAYNES
to get him to sell him for good price. The
above is simply lalse-not one word of truth
in it.
w B. Stokes.
In reply to the above we submit the fol
lowing:
NASHVILLE June, ., 1867
EDS. Banner: On the 18th dav of De-
cember, 1862, a man called at my house. hav-
| ing in charge a negro man, in irons and
stated-that he had been employed by Col w.
B. Stokes to bring the man from Bowling
Green Jail to Nashville lie left the negro
in my possession. -Four day afterwards
(the 22d) Col Stokes himself called and
asked me It there was any chance to sell the
negro. told him that there was not He
then settled his BILL whieh amounted to 8,
and took the negro away, saying that he
would send him home in charge of a neigh
Dor, and admonishing the boy to 90 and be-
have himself-that it would be useless for
him to attempt to escape, as he would be
caught
The negro in question was the last that
saw in irons. The charge made for the bows
board is to be found distinctly recorded in
my books.
H IT, HAYNES.
On the foregoing, little commitment is
needed. Col. Haynes Is we'll known in
Middle Tennessee to be a plain, straight for
~rFAf fr47Fl ,4l,I T..
stated by US Sunday and corroborated in his
note, came to Us through others, and not
through him. He only consented to furnish
US his statement 60 which be will make q fl
davit, and is able to give abundant proof
after we showed him Stokes denial. He is
also willing to exhibit his books to any anx-
ious Brow nlowites that may want to sec
them; and, if Gen. Stokes continues to deny.
we viii produce some additional proof that
may open his eyes.
SERIOUS CHARGE.-The Memphis Ava
lanche, of the I3Jh thus speaks OF Aldridge,
the radical candidate for State Senator from
this district:
We learn from our correspondent that
the radicals have nominated one John Il
dridge for Senator. The promotion Of this
infamous scamp to q position of honor in
t+4G CoLHuldHltJ lS one Oh TIE SLfdil4tS6 events
OF these strange times. The truth Is, his
proper place is IL felons cell instead Of the
Senate chamber. More than a year since
the grand jury of Madison county returned
into court an Indictment against Aldrjdge
for murder, and yet he has passed freely
through the country-sat in Brownlow S
Legislature assumed the responsibility Of
setting on the trial of Judge-makes laws
,feetng the life and liberty Of our people,
and is now q candidate for re election to the
Senate, and we suppose will canvass the
counties of the senatorial District, instead
of atoniug for his ofense on the gallows, or
in the penitentiary. Why he has not been
arrested IS ii mystery to US. Is it the fault
Of the Sheriff, the Attorney General, or
whom? Can such things be, and over
come US like "A summers cloud, without our
especial wonder"
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