Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-25
MuLy1HILL,s DENIAL.

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MULvIHILL's DENIAL.
EpIroRs Sun: In your issue of yester
day YOU affirm that I am ineligible to thu
Office of Attorney General of the Grin;
inal Court. In reply 1 beg 70 deny m.
ineligibility, and say that ! am eligible
and if elected nothing can prevent mt
from holding and executing the duties o
said office. | have resided here ever
longer than the law or new Constitution
requires. Hoping you will insert thu
foregoing i am, respectfully, tk
May "a, 1870. P.J. MuLviHILL.
The above card which makes its ap
pearance in this morning Sun is beyond
comparison the most unblushing piece
of impudence ever before known. Null
vihill denies the affidavit Of seven highly
respectable gentlemen of Mississippi
who could have no object in swearing
falsely as to his residence and time Of
leaving the State That the public may
fully and clearly understand this ques
ton in dispute, we publish again the aft
davit of these gentlemen, which may be
read in the following words and figures
to-wit:
The State Of Mississippi,
Monroe county, set.
Before me, George w Pennington,
Clerk ofthe Circuit Court of said county,
this day personally appears Samuel j.
Gholson, Samuel Word, James W. Lee,
w. L. G. Bailey, Lamon Shell, G. |.
Buchanan and E. H. Bristow, citizens Of
said county, who made oath that they
are acquainted with Patrick Mulvihill,
now residing at Memphis, Tennessee;
that he resided in Monroe county, Mis-
sissippi, during the year 1865 and part
of 1866, and that he left said county
with an express intention of going to
Memphis, Tennessee, not earlier than
the first day of February, 1866, to the
best of our knowledge and belief.
s. J. GHoLsoS,
SAMUEL WORD,
W. l.. C. BAILEY,
LAMoS SHE'LL,
G. /. BUCHANAN,
Z. II. BRIsTow,
JAMES w. LEE.
Sworn TO and subscribed before me
this 9Th day Of May, AID. 1870, as wit
ness my hand and seal of said court.
GEO, W. PENNINGTON, Clerk.
By WIN. G. ELKIE, Deputy Clerk.
In this plainly written document there
is not the least uncertainty expressed,
but it states emphatically that Patrick
MulvihiIl, now residing at Memphis, Ten
nessee, did reside in Monroe county,
Miss, during the year 1865 and part of
1866, and that he left said county with
the expressed intention of going to Mem
phis. Tennessee. This was not earlier
than the lst. of February, 1866. How
any one can presume to set up his single
word against the evidence Of seven men,
supposed to be equally as honest,
can only be accounted for on the ground
that the single individual is an anEioas
office-seeker of the Radical persuasion.
There is, however, charge against
which Mr.. Mulyihill can set no defense,
and that is his own sworn application TO
become citizen Of this country in May,
1867. Even after this Il will require the
lapse of two years before he can take
out his naturalization papers to become
a bona tide citizen Of the United
States. Then suppose he has com
piled with this law, he still has
not resided in Tennessee five years,
in the spirit and meaning of the Constr
tuition. The word resident means
that one shall have resided here as q oiti-
zen, and not as an abider of foreign
country. If the contrary, and what Is
stated be true, then Mqlvihill could NOT
hold the Office of Attorney General
without having been naturalized, which
is too absurd to think Of The
word resident in this instance,
means citizen, and nothing else. and as
the Radical nominee has been residing
in this State only since 1867, he is incl
igible to the Office of Attorney General.