Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-07
THE JULY INTEREST.
Letter from COmptrORler Black burn :
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Toths Editors Of the onion and Dispatch,
NASHVILLE, July 4th, 1861 have read
the extract from the New York Times Of
the Both ult purporting to have been
| written by the financial editor of that pa.
per, and published in your paper of this
| morning aud have read your comments
| thereon, and, sirs, as the office of Comptroll-
er of the Treasury of the State of Ten.
nessee Is a very responsible position, and
one in which the people of the State are
greatly interested, and as am not person.
ally known to all the taxpayers of the
State, wish your readers to have an op-
portunity Of reading, in the columns Of
your paper, what | have to say 10 relation
to both.
With regard-tot the statement of the Times.
l have this to say that every statement in
it in relation to myself, either by word or
insinuation, is wholly a lie, sIanderous and
base, all of which must certainly have been
prepared and furnished the financial editor
by some one from our own State, for slam
derOus, selfish, dishonest purposes.
From the day took charge ofthis Office,
April 20, 1867, to the present hour, am
fully prepared to say, god and the age in
which live being witness, that the good Of
Tie State has been the God-secuIarIy sneak
lng-to whose shrine | have brought all
my offerings, and at whose altar have in
cessantly served with all the power /
possessed, both mental and physical. These
are the tacfs
Those who state differently, lie. There
are those who have stated differently, IRev
are liars, all d; aud will 30 go down to his.
tory, having damned themselves TO eyer
lasting contempt among all men worthy of
the name of man and dying, will beqHeath
to their country and their posterity
heritage of infamy.
30 far was | from favOring the non.pay-
ment of our interest, or knowing, or even
inspecting the existence of a combination
railroad officials, or anybody else desiring of
Its non-payment, that actually perfected
arrangements-all- Insufficient and in good
tlme-ior It's prompt payment not know
ing at the time or even suspeCting the ex-
lstence in this State, of man base enough
to prevent Its payment, by having our
funds attached, or otherWise--a thing how
ever, which | now fully believe.
This much for the slime spewed forth by
the cowardly lying thief that prompted the
Times.
As 70 your comments, will only say
now, for l do not wish, nor have time to
write long communication, that they are
very ungrateful, coming as they do from
Tennessee editor-ungenerOus, wholly
gratuitous, uncalled for, and uniustifable,
and by innuendo, at least, false and Sian,
derous, so far as Secretary Fletcher and /
am concerned, at least, as y0ts are certdinh
nell aCdre, for you know too much about
the course, etc, that have pursued here.
not to as good as knOtC, that / was foully
slandered by the Times. Then what GOOD
purpose to the State did you expect to sub
serve by 80 speaking Of these lies as to have
your readers infer that you believed them
to be truths?
Calling your attention to my remarks in
relation to those who have slandered me,
and requesting you no more TO use my
name with others whose characters You
seem willing for political purposes to
asperse, ] close this communication.
Respectfully, etc,
q. w. BLACKBURN, Compt.