Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-23
A CARD.
Col. MitCheIrs Reply 10 tIle SUN.

AdAtCAS NNE 8EFN
After three days. Writhing under bis
disgraee, Mr.. L. J. Dupre, editor Of the
Su9, has attempted q reply to nay recent
"card.u You will find, on reading it,
that he admits every charge l made in
regard to the motive OF his base personal
attacks on me, to-wit: That he was try
ing to drive me out of the Mississippi
| River Railroad, in order to put that work
under the control Of Col. Sam Tate and
the lessees of the Mississippi Central.
| So much is settled.
In regard to the personal aspects OF
this controversy, Dupre replies as fol-
lows:
GAS for friendship for Mitchell, we
never imagined the sentiment to exist or
that of personal enmity. He charges US
with ingratitude upon q state Of facts, Of
mixed truth and falsehood ingeniously
interviewer. We paid him fees, defined
in amount by his superior officer, in in
stallments, and the whole within three
or four days. He never loaned the writer
a dollar il his life, and was only asked
to wait q day or two. 1t WAS his palpa-
bic interest 10 wait. His fees might be
enlarged, and could not be lesseneG. II
Hhe intends to soy that the writer ever
borrowed q dollar from him, be speaks
falsely.
"For bankruptcy the writer was
greatly indebted to the peculiar human
itariRnism and political philosophy of
which Mitchell is 3 perfect exponent.
Countless thousands in the South were
ruined by the same cause. 1t so hap
pened that ninety per cent. Of our
creditors were Of MiLchelPs sort, dwell
Ing beyond the Ohio. They can still af-
ford to be pleased by the losses they be-
gat. As for the ten per cent. of creditors
in this vicinity, they will be paid sooner
or later"
In my former card 1 stated the facts
correctly as to the filing of DUpre's Pc
tition in bankruptcy. He now alleges
that he paid me fees, " defined in amount
by my superior officer" He did no such
thing. My superior officer defined"
one hundred dollars ss the amount of
fees to be paid on fling a petition in
bankruptcy. Every lawyer in town
knows this. Dupre begged me to file his
petition on payment OF ten dollars, and
trust him for the rest, and l did go thus
making myself personally liable for his
fees. When he subse quently increased
his deposit to fifty dollars, L intereeded
with the Register IN his behalf, and pro-
cured q special order limiting his entire
ices W lily AuA1h1Gg H1ACA IL lEb9 LhAA
one-half the usual fees in bankruptcy.
Ifany one wishes to verify my statement,
let him ask T. J. Latham, Register, or j..
M. Heating, OF the APPEAL, TO the latter
Of whom Dupre stated at the time that
he was getting his discharge cheaply
through Dy kindness! Dupre now ssys,
"as to friendship for Mitchell he d.
never imagined the sentiment to exist"
He need not have published this. His
acts have sufficiently established the dis
graceful fact.
But again, Dupre (be it remembered
he ia publisher and editor Of the. Sum,
tries to justify himself in swearing off
his debts on the plea that " ninety per
cent" Of them were owing to men
dwelling beyond the Ohio" So, Du-
pre-, the editor Of the Sun, thinks it per-
fectly Legitimate to swindle q creditor If
he only lives beyond the Ohio ~ IL
the very article in which Dupre thus
writes himself down q willful repudiator
Of Northern debts, he declares that his
purpose in trying to get Las out Of the
Mississippi River RAilread is to get
:" Northern mems wealth " in Memphis.
Why Northern" meas wealth ? Does
he hope again to get q share of such, and
then sWindle its owners because Of their
" dwelling beyond the OHIO ?' God help
the shameless man
But Will the public believe it, that
Dupre (be it remembered that he is pub
Usher and editor Of thu SIN ne Yapaparl
in claiming thst "ninety per cent? OF
his debts are owing::to men dwelling be-
You'd the Ohio" is u~ttering sn unbiushing
acknowledging, no doubt, by showing
he has cheated more Northern than
Southern men out Of their debts, to ez.
cite g little &oqtAerg sympathy and thus
break his fall in this community A.?
Here ia the list OF Dupre's creditors, as
filed by him, under oath, Ia my Office:
D. O.. Z. and George Hiuman, Nashville,