The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-02-21
Let Jnstice he Dona.
The following correspondence appeared
in the Nashville Bonner of the 10th inst:

AN INNOCENT MAN INDICATED.
To the Editor Of the Banner.
There appeared in the Union and Dis
patch and Banner. of yesterday, an article
copied from the Pulaski Citizen, rejecting
very severely on Maj. Alex Gregg as an
absconder. Those who know Maj Gregg,
as the writer does, are fully convinced
that while he, like many others. may be f.
nancially embarrassed, is yet incapable of
committing the alleged crime. though it is
but proper to say that the writer does not
deny the validity of the claims as set forth
in the Citizen. In this view I am sustain
ed by Messrs. Thos. Parkes & Co., of this
city, who say in a note that they regard
Maj. G. as a worthy gentleman, and that
injustice was done him in the publication
in the Citizen He was duly authorized
agent for our house The gist of the Cit
izsss's article may be well understood by the
| following extract:
Major Gregg came to US we'll recon-
mended for verscity and as having made
distinguished Confederate soldier and Off
Ger during the war, and up to the time he
/ left here we proved that our confidence in
his integrity had not abated, by lending
him the money to pay his expenses to
Nashville, whittier he said he bad been
called unexpectedly on business, but would
return in few days and liquidate. That's
the last we have seen OF him
To presume that man of his reputation
would abscond for the paltry sum of a few
hundred dollars, at most, is improbable. I
learn upon good authority that Mai. Gregg
left here few days ago to take position
in prominent ST. Louis house, and until
he is aware of these damaging reports,
respectfully ask, as a friend, a suspension
of public opinion, confident, as am, that
he will prove himself innocent
''In connection with the above vindica
tiou, !" remarks the Banner. ''Messrs. ThOs.
Parkes & Co. request us to say, on the par
OF their house. of which Maj Gregg was &
duly accredited representative. that. SO fai
as they have been able to Judge, from long
f acquaintance, he has always conducted
! himself as highminded. honorable gentle
man, in his dealings with them and will
Others"
t Having been an intimate friend of Major
Gregg's. there is no one more gratifed t.
g see his character and conduct thus vindi
Gated than ourself, and in order that h
j. may have full justice done him, we give tn
" above correspondence in full, and that VI
+ may clear our skirts of any desire or inten
ton of doing Maj. Gregg injustice and t
= show that we were justified in making tn
+ statements in regard to him that appears
. in the Citizen Of last week, and as W
! think it due him, ourself and the public
Of we propose to show that those who no
e pretend to be Lis warmest friends and viz
Of dicators, that is, his employers, Messr
,e Thos. Parkes & Co., are responsible for tt
i injustice done Maj. Gregg" and not th
writer. In making this statement, we q
Al not desire to shirk any responsibility TIL
A. attaches to the author of an article rehec
D. ing upon the character of gentleman
'e We didn't indite the paragraph quoted
le the Banner without reflection. We kne
g. exactly what we were doing, and hold on
self personally responsible for what W
J. then said as well as what may be said
X this article
g. Maj. Gregg was introduced to US VIII
q he first came to Pulaski, by a mutual friel
Mt of his and ours, and recommended as
u worthy gentleman, and one who had ma
is gallant soldier in the late war, and
such we received him and cultivated
acquaintance and had DO cause to dou
l. his honor and veracity until last week, VIII
u we were informed by the same gentlem
D. of his reported fraud and flight. This !
lis port being freely circulated about tow
We Mr.. F. G. Tiguor, who, being an old pt
90 sonal friend of Maj Gregg's, had loan
him thirty Eve dollars, (Which amount
EEK lacked to finish paying for lot of colt
of which he said he had bought for his hous
d addressed a letter of inquiry to TbOn
lc- Parkes & Co., the answer to which \
wo Tignor showed US, and which contained
me substance, the following statements a
OF insinuations
he That he had loungsd around there
it'll three or four days and left for St. Lou
he as they had heard, but he had not told tn
is anything about it that he had sent tn
Jus only ten bales of cotton, and be had dra
on them for the money to pay for it.
al Another gentleman from this place,
ted whom Maj. Gregg was indebted in
it sum of twenty odd dollars, being in MAJ
ter Vile about this time, went to the house
ed Parkes d Co.. to inquire of the MajO
av- whereabouts, and, as to the possibility
ar. ! ooIlactiDU his account from his emDIove