The Evansville journal., 1868-02-05

a.-,i, all he has to do Is to try me once,
and | will give him ten dollars and
good thrashing to say or hint il my
sence what he does i'll his card.
Every word of +" Filp'sp 1communica-
tion is true. Holcomb made the
statement about the banker. He did
say Lincoln was traitor and
any one who would vote for
him was the same, and the
boys in blue who made him = git up
and cluchc" live here, and can make
him git up again. Z Lean prove the
contents Of FiIo's" letter BY fifty good
men. Holcomb says he don't want
to waste time on dead ducks or hue
skcunks." The first phrase he learned
from his great leader, Andy Moses,
and the second, about the skunks, he
learned by obeying the ancient in
junction, !" olofkySeJpt IF / owed
the devil the most contemplate, low
flung, black hearted, NANCY. dirty
traitor, scoundrel and villain in the
world, and he wouldn't take Hol-
comb for the debt on first sight of his
/ Oh. .'s) countenance, | would repudiate,
and say, Mr.. D. you are poor judge
of human nature. for [ will leave it
to o. S. Fowler, Of New York, if ii. s
hang dog, sheepish. squint- eyed
countenance don't denote villaiDy of
the deepest dye, and of the most de-
graded type.
I will say, Mr.. Holcomb, that I
have the most bitter hatred for you
and your treason; that you have pub
lished thing you can't face nae in:
that you was instigated BY your
father, the devil, in writing your
lie on me, and that the devil
will never get his due until
he has you, pitching you up and down
\ in the very hottest portions of the re-
| gions of the damned, among better
traitors than you ever was. With the
most utmost contempt for you and all
other traitors like you, | shall still
battle for the right, and shall only be
deferred from this great and noble
work by few moments lost time
spent in seeing if a gentleman's boot
will fit the rear of your pantaloons.
and of impressing upon the seat of
your understanding that no dirty Son
of Liberty, with his lips blistered by
the reasonable oaths he has taken in
the midnight caucus while ON his
knees until the caps stuck fast in the
mud, and whose heart il as black as
the ace of spades, can talk about me
as you have and ever repeat it to my
face. LEVI FERGUSON.
The following article from the
Princeton Democrat is enclosed in
Mr.. FERGUsoN's letter, with request
for its publication, as part of his de-
fense:
TAdvertisementl
Reply to an Article OF SiIas M. HOl-
comb, Published in the Union Dem.
Ocrat July 22d, 1865.
My attention has been called to an
article in the Democrat, of last Satur-
day, written by Silas Nj. Holcomb, In
which he seeks to defend himself
from the charges of fraud and COR
ruption. in the settlement of the es-
tate of my father, Joshua Duncan,
deceased, preferred and proved
against him in the Common Pleas
Court. Holcomb's article is specially
directed against my attorney, Mr..
Donald; and he labors hard to in
volve my mother, Sarah Duncan, in
his rascality and swindling, and to
Get personal and political quarrel
out Of Mr.. Donald AS Donald de-
clines taking any notice of Holcomb,
+ / deem it due to my mother and to
the cause of truth, as Holcomb has
chosen to drag the matter before the
public, that it should be made ac-
duainted with the real facts in the
case.
With myself Mr.. Holcomb can have
no political quarrel. We both belong
to the same Democratic party. I
voted for, and supported him while
he stood upon the Platform" and
voted NOT another man, nor another
dollar" to put down the rebellion
We both belonged to the Secret
Lodges of the party. In addition to
this. we both belong to the same Reg
-uIar Baptist Church. So there can
be no difference of opinion political
) or religious between Mr.. Helcomb
and myself.
Mr. HoIcomb's attempt to drag my
mothers name into this controversy,
is of like character with his other
conduct in the management of this
estate. Mrs. Duncan took no part
Z, whatever in the settlement of the
, estate. 1t is we'll known that she has
> been incapable of attending to any
p. business for years past. And this
> fact was SICOrn to, in court, by Hol-
> comb himself. In addition to this
= Holcomb admitted In his written
! pleadings, verified by his oath, now
= on file in the court, that the appraise.
: EmentI aud sale of the property, the
y collection of debts and demands due
: the estate, and the accounting for and
; disbursing the assets of the same de-
9 volved severally upon himself, Hol
y ! cnmh A fer snch statements o.