Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-10

government, viz, send at bdcEI Yes
Billy, you should send back the sixty
dollars placed at your disposal BY
paying horse hire, ETC., etc., during the
before mentioned trip Of nine days. The
/ bills were little high, but the truth is
| Billy's feet and breath smelled rather
rank, and when we stopped at hotels
took separate apartments, thus making
the bill a little larger, and that is the
reason did not 60 to his room the secs
ond time in Washington, as he says in
| his letter promised to. If he will just
send me that sixty dollars now, / have !
| splendid opportunity to spend it cleo
pioneering for gentleman.
Mr.. Stokes says that he sees from my
letter that Dan. Trewhitt was going
against Senter. q '-
| My letter to Stokes says no such thing,
the sentence reads "And Trewhitt
was indiscret enough to tell .Senter that
we were all opposed to him." Does that
say that Dan Trewhitt told Ssnter that
he was against him Dan Trewhitt has
always been for Senter, and when used
to talk to him upon the subject he gave
me very pungent reasons for being for
Sentor and against Stokes, and these
were his reasons: He believed Senter to
be an honest man, and gentleman, and
that he believed Stokes to be a rascal
and man who would sell out his best
friend for, a mess Of pottage. Time has
proven that Trewhitt was right !. the
fact is Trewhitt has known Stokes for
long time. Now Mr.. Stokes has seen fit
to open up newspaper controversy and
the first langs he makes he gets in some.
thing about diving and smelling in italics,
will promise that if he will keep it up
during this canvass, l will relate truths
about Bill Stokes that will convince the
people that he is the most rotten, corrupt,
unprincipled, Inscriptions, nauseOus
political huekster that ever polluted earth
with his foul presence, and honest men
will shy away from his political corpse
as a blind horse would lanyard. [
wish to interrogate Mr. Billy little and
the people am satisfied will be pleased
to hear the answers. ',ss 40 t-as<f
l. Did you not come to Tennessee in
February, 1866, to represent Andy
johnson and his policy, he, candy John
SOM paying your expenses, and did not
some Radicals in Washington whom you
had denounced up to that time in letters
to Hon. d. O.. Trewhitt and others ten
der you a bride in money or other emol
uments before you left Washington to
attend the convention to be held in
Nashville on the 22d of February 1869.
L. Did you not turn traitor to Andrew
johnson and his, policy at the time that
you had Andy's money in yOur pocket to
pay your expenses, to come to Tonnes
see to represent him? i
3. Did you not accept the proposition
of these gentlemen in Washington, and
then and there change your whole POI
litical course for consideration; and
have you not received the reward long
since (? -.aG lrt t-s AsH 9ae Il
l. Did you not 60 to Washington just
after the late convention to consult those
same men, who many believe own you as
much as any piece of merchandise they
ever bought.
5. Did you not have al eye single TO
that SIS, 600 when you turned traitor to
Andy johnson and his policy, which
policy you had pledged yourself to sup
port and wrote to many of your constitu
ents in the third district and urged them
to do the same, signing your w. B.
Stokes to the documents.
q. Tell US, Billy dear, what changed
you from a strong johnson man to such
a good Radical in the short space of two
dax,s Qlha Noodle ,,n,,Id much Eka 20
know. Come out, old Badly, and tell
what caused the change that came over
the spirit Of thy political dreams.
Z. Did you not sit in ALI Gates i
house on the night of the 9th of October
1865, and talk, and rant, and explain,
the constitution, and plot against Senter
until great drops Of sweat rolled from
the top of your old sacrilegious head, and
dropped from the point of that old buzz
zard bill of yours, and until you foamed
at the mouth with fire flying from your
eyes, until the very pipe stem which
you had forgotten you had in your
mouth, snapped and cracked as if beg
ging for mercy? Did you not swear that
it was outrageous that such a man as
Senter should hold the position he did,
and have the audacity too to, aspire to
be Governor, and did you not tell ALI
Cate that he was not doing his duty as
a Senator upon the floor ifhe did not
take action in the matter, and did you
not finally subside by saying that if the
action you proposed. Gate should take 4
did not remove Senter, that it would
drive him to the humiliating necessity
of having his disabilities removed by the
Congress Of the United States? r
s. Why were you and Mr.. Cate so
active in seeing that the constitution Of
the State was not violated in the case of
Mr.. Senter1was it not your hellish no.
ton to try to kill Senter off politically
for the benefit of Stokes and Cate?
8. Why was it that the negro whom
you acknowledged you had in irons in
Nashville, threatened to kill you? was it
because you tried to violate the person
of his wife?
10. Did not the wife Of guerilla se-
cure the release ofher husband from you
during the war by submitting to your
lustfuI desires
IL. And last when you took that
oath by which you got your disabitis
ties REMOVED, were you thinking of
God, the future, or the Duncan letter?
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, l ask your
pardon for the length Of this letter and
my only excuse is the magnitude of
the treachery, inlamy, deception and
rascality resorted to by Mr.. Stokes in
his attempt to impose upon the honest
people of the State of Tennessee.
Respectfully A G SHARP.