Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-06

blackening lies into the dark do
minion of the grave 1t is not at
all strange that the daughter Of
Adkins should come to her fathers
defense; indeed, it is quite natu-
raj that she should. Nor is it
strange that the daughter should
assert the innocence of the
father for she may have known
nothing to, the contrary. Bot
there is almost indubitable eF-
idence of Adkins bad character
in the respectcharged. The Geor-
gia correspondent of the New
York Times, (Republican,l who
boasts that he has never yet made
a statement in regard to affairs in
Georgia which has been erroneous,
distinctly asserts that politics had
nothing whatever to do with the
murder Of Adkins, any more than
with, that of Ashburn and Aver,
and that his reputation was notd-
riously bad, and that the taking Of
his'life was chargeable to this score
alone. The Atlanta -Ne,o Era sus-
tains this theory of the case, for il
says, 49,, -, 4, l,,,,s
The Augusta papers learn from letters
from Warren county, that while the
Legislature was in session, Adkins wrote
an insulting letter to q lady in that
county. When he got off the train on
Monday he was approached by . one
legged man, brother of the above
mentioned lady, whose name is Adams,
who informed Adkins that he had that
letter, and demanded satisfaction for it.
Adkins was about to draw his pistol
when the other, being unarmsd, retired.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adkins then left the de-
pot for their home, on foot. Mrs. A. SUBJ
sequently returned for buggy. When
she overlook her husband she found
that he had been shot. Mr.. Adkins
said the shooting was done by a brother
of Miss Adams, whom he is alleged To
have insulted. Whoever fired the shot
was concealed behind q tree, and the only
trace we found there was apparently
made by a No. 10 brogan. II, is
alleged that he wrote the insulting letter
to Miss Adams, while he was in Atlanta
attending the late session of the begisla'
ture. Miss Adams is young lady o
responsibility, and was indignant at the
liberty he took in writing to her, and
showed the letter to her brothers. Thi:
aroused the suspicion that he fell by thu
hands of one Of them" $40 %. .'' -a
We have thus shown very clear
ly that the charges of ''infamou'
acts of debauchery" were not made
by Democrats alone, but by thu
leading Radical paper in the State
and by the correspondent of the
New York Times, who shows thai
not only Ashburn and Aver bul
Adkins were, notorious profigatei
| and eYil-livers, the associates OF thu
lowest and most abandoned; and
that they iseyerally met their end il
circumstances as damaging to theil
character as to the cause with which
for partisan reasons, their deaths
are improperly connected. Thus
Ashburn was killed in a Negro
house of i'll fame, of which he wai
a frequenter Aver came to hi
death at the hands of a negro, or
whom he desired to force his com
pany. And Adkins, whom we are
asked to regard as an immaculate
Republican, turns out to be "a very
disreputable hypocrite," zone ad
dicted to the lowest profgaey,
whose murder need excite no sur
prise. The Press and Times shoulf
seek to post itself better than t
attempt to make a political mar
tyr" out of such character az
Adkins. tg -.-f, .