Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-13

broken open, instead OF 4, O00 10 -o,OUU.
As Senator Abbott claims that he gave |
Gov. Holden correct copy of the letter,
perhaps the Governor will now tell US |
who garbled it before he gave it to our
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The Raleigh standard, Gov. HOlden's
organ, replies to the Tribune as follows;
owe observe card in the New York
Tribune, signed by Jos. c. Abbott, Sen /
ator, which by implication lays the garb-
ling of letter written by Judge Tourgee
at The door of Gov. Holden. We have
given the lie to this statement before and
we repeat it. The letter, OF certified copy
given Gov. Holden by Senator Abbott
was handed to Mr.. Beecher, the Tribune
for information and not
for publication. However, it appeared in
the Tribune, it seems, in mangled form.
Judge Tourgee saw it and wrote denial.
Where is the Tri6une'S copy9 Has it
been preserYed9 We should like
TO see the manuscript and have
it identified. Where is . the
original letter? Senator Abbott
says that ne has it, and yet many days
ago Gov. Holden wrote to him and he 4
said he would send certified copy, which
has never been received. There is mean 4
ness about this thing somewhere. We
desire to see it exploded. For the parties
to this garbling have evidently thus far
combined against the Governor. He can
afford to meet them here or elsewhere,
for though they are birds of a feather,
the flock can be scattered altogether. ".'.
This is all very good as far as it goes,
but giving the lie to Abbot and insinuat-
ing that the garbling may have been done
in the Tribune office, does not give the
truth to the public. The author of this
infamy is still covered up.
There is one notable feature about this
matter. 1t is clear that the people of
North Carolina were grossly and villain
ously slandered in the letter published in
the New York Tribune A part of that
SANDER is traced to Judge Tourgee him
self. When he saw his letter in the
Tribune he wrote to that paper that his
letter had been tempered with, as he had
stated originally that there were but four
arsons and that he had put the number of
houses broken open at 400 or 500. He
thus convicted himself of gross exagger-
alton in regard to the arsons, and he
is Just as likely to have done the same
thing in regard to the house breaking.
According to his own letter, he has beena
swift witness against the people among
whom he had taken up his residence. He
has shown a surprising readiness to bring
trouble upon them, and has not sclupled as
to the means by which this was TO be
done. But there are others equally GRIM
inal with himself, and they all deserve to
be branded with the infamy of falsifers
of the truth. The Tribune has shown
some zeal in its efforts to discover the
person who "garbled" Judge Tourgee's
letter But this is done simply to expose
the person who palmed off upon that pa
per forgery. 1t is not done that the
vilifer of the people of North Carolina
may be held up the scorn and Indignation
of honest men every where. If the
Tribune would turn Its batteries upon the
carpet baggers and scalawags who concoct
these villainous stories about outIages
that have never been committed, and mag
nifying such as have been, it would
accomplish something, perhaps much,
toward restoring the quiet and harmony
which should prevail in the Southern
States. The correspondence the Tribune
has already published in regard to this
matter, shows conclusiyely that the pur-
pose was to misinterpret the state Of feel
| ing in North Carolina, and to show that
there was little regard paid TO law in that
State. The letter was written to infiu-
ence the action of Congress and the Pres
ident, and TO justify Gov. Holden's disre-
gard of the law and the rights of citi-
zens of North Carolina, and it was almost
accidental that it was given to the public.
1t was made public after it had been
garbled, so as to exert greater influence
in behalf of Holden. 1t was a crime in
its inception, and the person who garbled
it only added to its infamy, and the Tri-
bune cannot well preserve its character
as an honest journal without denouncing
the whole proceeding. We cite the case
as an interesting specimen showing how
''outrages" in the Southern States are
manufactured in order to affect the
Northern mind-to fire the Northern heart
in behalf of carpet baggers and scala
ways and against the white men, the tax
payers and the men of social position in
the South.