The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-21
TUE WHIPPING-POST AGAIN.

DObb Takes up the Cudgel in Behalf OF DObbs-
He Resents n DastRrdly and Fiendish Attack
Upon his Good Name, and Wants to Bring our
Correspondent to Justice.
Delaware appears to be thoroughly aroused at last.
We give in full, verbatim, another communication
which has been elected by the letter OF our New
Castle correspondent, published on Monday last, de-
scrptye OF the great 1ogging scene in the jail yard
which transpired on the previous Saturday.
New Castle, May goth, go.
Gents
My attention has been called to article in your
Paper Of May nth in which the writer after abusing
our State, our town, our Judges, Juries &c makes
most dastardly nendish attack upon my good
name, here, where have lived 35 years the only
effect has been to produce feeling of intense indig-
nation but Ihaye large circle Of relations friends
i'm all parts OF the country, and respectable paper
like YOURS no doubt reaches almost every locality in
the u S. what their different feelings may be is not
for me TO say but what have to request is, that YOU
will send me Immediately the name h address of
your veracious correspondent so that proper steps
NAV be taken to bring the slanderer to Justice
l Am
Editors Euening Telegraph. Very Respectfully
VIM. II DObb
On turning this epistle over to our correspondent,
we are presented with the following response:-
PHILADELPHIA, May 81, 1869.
Wm II. Dobb ESQ.,
My Dear Sir:-I must respectfully, yet firmly, de-
cline to furnish you with my name and address
"Justce," according to the fashion in which it is
meted out in the virtuous State of Delaware, is Of
such peculiar character that am not at all anx
ious to subject myself to the ordeal On persona
grounds, | would much prefer to fall into the
clutches OF Fisk, Jr., and be locked up over
night in Ludlow Street Jail, with million
dollar libel suit hanging over my pocket than to
stand before New Castle jury and run the risk of
conviction OF sander which would doubtless con-
sign me the pillory for hour so and the in
fiction of thirty odd lashes upon my bare back, to
say nothing of three or four years residence in the
Jail and the ornamentaton of convict's jacket for
six months or more after my release. No. Mr.. Dobb,
your Delaware "ustlce" is altogether too severe to
be palatable, even to conscious innocence, and the
invitation conveyed in your very polite note of yes
terday is therefore ''declined, with thanks"
But really Mr. Dobb. cannot close without eX-
pressing my intense surprise at the mere fact OF
your existence and my still greater astonshment
that such model citizen Of Delaware by the name
OF DObb should have confused himself with the eXu-
berant and entirely imaginary Dobbs. This Confu-
sion is quite neXplicable and unaccountable to
me, inasmuch as am not aware that you have ever
been known by the name OF James G. Dobbs, Sr.
The eXuberant individual whom l selected as q
counterpart to "the Democratic ngger" was known
to me by name, but for the reasons stated in THE
EVENING TELEGRAPH OF yesterday thought it best to
suppress his true cOgnomen. II this were to be done
why should not have styled him Dobbs? was not
aware that there was residing in New Castle man
by the name of Dobbs, and your letter still permits
me to indulge in that belief. Suppose 1 had styled
him Smith, or Brown or Jones, or Tompkins, or any
other name which, by its extreme redundancy, has
become public property to be played upon at will Oh
whim, what would have been the result? Don't,
pray you, attempt to encroach upon the copyrighted
role OF Fisk, Jr., for you will surely come to grief il
you should attemptit.
In conclusion, permit me to subscribe myself, with
expressions of the highest consideration and
simply
Your obedent servant, WAsHTENAw.