Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-29


press. It's expense for printing Is the
same whether its columns are filed with
| filings at Rev. J. Dix Mills or matter
more interesting to its readers. have
not the means at my command to pay
for the publication Of my replies to its
assaults. This has been the cause Of my
Significant silence" alluded to by it. /
think am not afraid Of the Avalanche
not that 1 am its equal in the use OF
language; nor that can state fact so
well that does not erist T; nor that 1 am
| free from defective sctiOn-nO man is /;
but because I know it can not sustain
against me a charge even Of immoral
conduct. AS it has said much, I
challenge it to q trial of its pow
er before the church - the proper
tribunal. It has said, unfortunately
for the Methodist church, Mills is
a preacher" OF this the Church is the
better judge. Yet if the author of this
Language is as deeply interested in the
Church as his words would indicate, it
is his duty land privilege) to confront
me with his charges, and to diyest me,
If guilty, of the title he writes with
such bad grace. At sn early period Of
this worlds history, a certain individual.
in disguise, appeared to q certain wo-
man, who, affecting great interest in her
welfare, induced her to eat the fruit CT a
certain tree with her. Adam partOok,
when both learned to their great sorrow
that the interest was but assumed, and
that their ruin was accomplished. So
I think in regard to the interest man
ifested in the church by this editor, and
that it but too truly reveals the de-
prsvity of human heart in its efforts to
degrade an office of the church by hold
ing up to contempt, If possible, the man
upon whom the church bestows it. Not
long since the Avalanche came out in a
long editorial, with q heading in biz,
black capitals, ga few words about Rev.
J. Dix Mills" in which it charges me
with having made various assaults upon
it, when in truth had only repelled the
ISLANDERS uttered against me through its
columns. Fearing its ''pets" would not
fare so well in my hands, it "saw fit TO
spare" it's "readers further infection"
and " declined to accept any more COM
muniestions from me, but admitted
those from the other side free of cost
and thinking that three was not enough
against one, It reinforced the other side,
and came down on me like an avalanche,
and has been following me up since, and
this last, long chapter, this "conglom-
Grated" mass Of stuff" this mixture
of Methodist church." "Mike Ne
Coole," minister of the gospel" and
" dish-water," it says, is but mild re-
Spouse, )" gentle reproof for my temerfty,
and if 1 do not seek shelter in retreat, il
intimates that this is but the muttering
Of distant thunder, which will develop
itself in the AUo!aHchian storm of thun-
der and lightning, OF hail-stOnes and
Goals of fire, which, if pass through
with reason unimpsired, I twill re-
member" for, say they, ave have the
documents to make you remember.
Such insinuatiOns are mean and con-
temptible, coming from the Avalanche,
or any other source, while they who
descend so low as to adopt this mode Of
attack, upon the reputation Of a man,
give unmistaksble evidence Of their
want of capacity to establish charges.
If the AUaldnche, which began the
controversy, desires (Which the number
of its editorials do not indicated "to
spare " its "resders further infiction -
of q matter that cannot interest them,
1t can do it, and any charges it may
have I will meet before the church, the
crsft or a court OF law. My time can be
more prOfitsbly and pleasantly employed
than in newspaper controversy, Ket,
If the AUdlGHcke is determined to pur-
sue me with its avenging wrath, think
1t in honor bound to give place in its col
umns free Of cost to what may have to
say. Why sentence OF death should not
be pronounced against me, and if it does.
1 viii obligate myself in the use Of
language, though 1 may become "deci-
dedly warm" in a denunciation of SLAM
der and its author, to keep as far remote
from such language as would come
with appropriateness from Joe Coburn or
Mike McCOole," rs that frequently found
in the vocabulary Of the AUestanche.
}. DIX MILLS.