The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-19
The Caroline Meetzng-Agasn.

BOWLING GREEN. ApTlA LIN, 1coS'
Editors of the Dispatch:
The following is clipped from the Erode
ricksburg NeDs Of the 18th
"THE CAROLINE REs0LUTIoNs.-The Dis
patch correspondent says: o.@ .as y
"'The crowd dispersed before 8 vote
could be taken upon the resolutions; but l
am certain, from the manifestations of sent
iment exhibited, they would have been en-
dorsed by nine-tenths of the people, not
only of those composing the meeting, but
OF the whole county,
"The crowd dispersed from want of inter
est in an approval Of the whole affair. The
mover withdrew the resolutions, apparently
convinced that they were wrong. He asked
US to give them up, and claimed the paper
as his private property. We told him we
intended to print them, and jestingly added
that we had three big men at Bowling
Green who did the fighting for the Nea0s,
and he had better look out
can old citizen informed us that he made
inquiry, and that nearly the whole county
was opposed to this newest movement"
The paragraph quoted from the Dispatch,
I reiterate, is correct in the main, and the
comments upon it wrong in every parti-
cular. .Sa
"The crowd dispersed from want Of in
terest in and approval of the whole affair.""
An old gentleman, once no inconsideTable
politician himself, who has lived in the
county since 1927, remarked, upon reading
the above paragraph, that ne " did not re-
member to have ever seen larger crowd
in the courthouse" and the interest In
the proceedings was manifest from the fact
that request WAS made by the court tloice
for the courthouse before the meeting ed
iourned to the yard and further, when the
opposition moved an indefinite postpone
ment of the resolutions, it was Uoted doaon
almost unanimously; and instead thereof,
loud and boisterous calls for Marye, one OF
the leaders Of the movement. 1t was whilst
this gentleman was speaking that the court
demanded the second time the use OF the
court house.
And here, now, is the true reason why
the &C mover withdrew the resolutions" mot
apparently convinced that they were
wrong. ito wit, Mr.. William S. Barton, of
Fredericksburg, took the stand in the yard
in the presence of most Of the crowd who
were in the courthouse, but just as soon
as it saw the drift Of his remarks, which
were against the resolutions, it faded away
like the morning dew before a summers
sun, and the Neaos was left sitting on the
courtyard wall, with a few of his follow
ers in the mud beneath; hence good res
son for not submitting the resolutions. /
think that he was not jesting when he said
| in his report of the meeting that whilst sit
| ting on the courtyard wall some one "took
pity on him and gave him turpentine
toddy," or that the "mud was fathomless
indeed" HE being "a. Little" man, it
ia more than probable that he learned this
| fact when he dismounted from his Sun
com fortable reporters seat."l At any rate,
something rendered him obliyieus of the
facts concerning the following 4" He asked
US to give them (the resolutions) up, and
claimed the paper as his private property
Just to the contrary. When asked for a
COPY (Which was all + did ask for) of the
resolutions, he refused that even, but kind-
| ly consented to let me make report OF their
Substance. az n7asss" aags las ~ G
He had the resolutions I do know, but
how he obtained them do not know !; and
have understood that " hen the author de-
manded them he refused, claiming them as
Il
his private property.
He is evidently unacquainted with the
etiquette Of reporters and the regulations
governing papers Of this kind. 'sWe jest
ingly added that ne had three big men to do
our fighting, &c." I will seriously say that
fol, four long years helped to do the fight
ing for our whole State, and 1t acGSat on
paper, either. And, lastly, that can ofs
citizen informed him that nearly the whole
county was opposed to this newest move
ment." (Turpentine teddy, again y & re-
port in the Whig says that Jfue-siaths Of the
people are in favor Of it, the fredericksburg
Rerald has report which confirms it, and
/ have no reason as yet to withdraw my as
sertion in my report that mine. tenths Of the
people are in favor Of it.
do not ask the publication of this to
cause controversy or to offend Little Sandy,
for he is ia broth of a boy" but think
that it is due the people Of the county that
their views should be correctly reflected
and my report substantiated. Quill.