The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-12
ACard From Capt. HargraTe.

A Card From Capt. HargraEe.
Editors JoarnaI:
hope you will exeAse me if I tres
pass on your valuable space, in reply
to three differenE articles, personal to
myself, IN Sundsys edition Of the
Courier.
In passing, l would say that the
editor in chief" Of the Courier has
hit upon a happy device for q full
supply of good Sunday reading. It
would pay him to assault one Of his
neighbors every Saturday afternoon,
taking care always to do it when q
number Of gentlemen are standing By
70 take him away before he gets his
head broke, even If he has TO pay q
fine, upon an affidavit procured TO be
fled By himself, in order to avoid
costs. Lest my friends should be
anxious about my safety, will state
that the bloa0, which the Courier states
Mr.. Whitflesey struck me iR the face,
is q mere pigment of the imagination.
as he stT1ck out wildly and merely
Rrazsd my hat rim. So when was
informed that he had caused an afi-
davit 10 be fled against himself,
went to Esquire Walker and informed
him that [ had received no injury for
which l wished to prosecute.
But, seriously, [ owe Mr.. Whittle-
sey Al explanation. l now, in this
public manner, disavow any intention
20 charge him with being unfaithful
TO his marriage VOWS; and as he has
positively stated that breaking the
Fourth Commandment Is not one Of
his besettiDg sins, am willing to
oOncede that he Is perfecs Joseph.
Indeed, at the time of the writing of
my card, did not know, and would
not have believed, that Mr.. Whittlc-
sey was the author Of the vilely SIAN
derous article in the Courier.
What l did mean to charge was,
that whoever wrote the Courier article
was q political prostitute, was prostl
tutinR his "ofice" of editor for low
and base uses, and the school boy OF
TEN years who would not have seen
the meaning OF the expression ought
TO Be soundly whipped; and had Mr..
Whittlesey been lees excited, and less
bent on making an ass of himself yes
I terday on che street, | could have ex-
Dlained It to him In three words. The
charge / bring against Mr.. Whlttlesey
is. l think, much moro serious, If
possible, than the one at which ne
fires up to such an extent. The
article he wrote was technically a
libel. It falsely charged me with
having received money, in my official
capacity, as consideration for con-
tinuiug d STATE ease; and hope the
dav is rot far distant when statute
of the State will make the act of libel
r high misdemeaEOr, punishable by
fns and Imprisonment, as it is already
in mos of the States of the Union.
Fortunately, for my reputation in this
community, everybody knows the
charge to be false, even If the chief
aditor of the Courier sW0re to 1t.
The article alluded TO also intimates
that the favOrs of a notorious cOurtesan
had something to do with my aetion
IN the case. So that / am slandered
both ID nv official and private charae
ter. bv wholly irresponsible party,
vaereIv because he happens to have
~ounted the editorial tripod-a rela-
ton "a which he appears to about as
mueh advantage as q bull In china
shop.
common blackboard, the editor 10
chief Of the Courier" indulges in q
maudlin editorial on "the proper rela.
4ions Of the press to the public and
DubIie ofieeis!" And then be empha
siaes tie performance By an article II
the next column, in which he attempt
20 throw odium upon me, IN Ily pr
g,qse character as q tGlcyer. For IN
stance. he volunteers the cheap lie
that ''he (meaning myself) has FeTl
littIa Ia do outside of his ottce, and
has to be supported in of6ee.
Again. this chief editor says thB
= abetter lawyers than / can evel
none 20 become, would have accepted
lie Office, for its regular pay, Withou
an increase of salary" This Is no
true, as the Office went begging 10 th'
nominating conventions OF both par
fi,s. and 1 only accepted the nomlna
4ion on our ticket with the under
standing that the salary would b
raised. Mr.. Richardson. If elected
would have had to apply for an I'D
difional allowance, or he must hav
starved. It il In this manner tbR
ebis model editor deals with q subjeC
Of general public interest, and wit
the private character otEA ma
chose only offense thl
he was fairly elected TO a judiei
oficel It would seem that the mol
decent and highly respectable part.
the Democratic party are aboWlI
themselves TO be grossly misrepresen
"a ~ their editor-in chief. Ii 10 eV
dent to all that man who cam
nereeive the distinction between fa
criticism of tie acts Of a public on
Ser- and the yilest libels upon him,
~, public and private capacities,
10y unit for the position Of edit
of q payty organ. .,.lu,
For myself, / viii say, that ell4o9l
during the late canvass, political g!
enssion was forced upOn m.e,ln tne u
cberas of my official duties, j .kn'
sviy w. z HARGaAVE-