Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-06
Personal.
ADVERTISEMENT

g. ADVERTISEMENT.
Knox County Chancery Court.
By permission of Chancellor Temple, tht
following is published:
John BaEter Vs. Jos d. MG5Ty, ct a.
In this case Gen. Mabry rose and spoke,
as reported to us, substantially as follows:
MGyit please the Court;
wish to say few words with reference
to personal attack upon my character, by
John Batter, few days ago, in what he
terms ''perSO1lGl and professional pTiUi-
Lege." hold in my hands the Knoxville
Chronicle, of the 2Sth ult. 1t contains
what purports to be certain proceeding, OF
the Chancery Court published, ostensibly,
by request of Chancellor Temple, as
rules to be spread of record for the
guidance of future practice of the Court. "
No rules are published, but instead, bitter,
vituperative, infammatory speech of John
BGrter against myself. At a subsequent
date, the Chronicle explained, that the
omission to print the rules, was mistake
of the printer, and on the LIST inst. your
Honor published card disclaiming that
the abusive article in the Chronicle of the
28th ult. was written at your request or by
your desire. 1 knew very well, your Hon
or, before your card appeared, that the
statement as to your requesting this publ
cation of so scurrillous an attack, was
false. Yet, as the publication is mischiev-
Gus in its effect as well as malicious in its
purpose, ask leave to submit few re-
marks which may serve as a reply to JlO.
Bdgter's onslaught, and as a vindication of
my own character.
1 called upon MIR. Kicks, the editor of the
Chronicle, to learn to whom 1 should look
as being responsible for the SANDER He
said Baxter furnished the speech and that
must look to Baxter; that it was no fight
of his replied to him that I had whipped
Baxter out of the street for his ISLANDERS;
that 1 did not feel called upon to whip him
every time he repeated his ISLANDERS.
Baxter's bill in this court is c0aoarCly
and malicious effort to SANDER and ''6Eack-
mali me, because of remarks made by
me in the Circuit Court of this county, in
which said to him, that his brother, An
drew Baxter, had been in the Penitentiary
for DEMONSTRATING, and that Andrew
Baxter was better man than JnO.
Batter. l shall take the liberty,
with your Honor's permission, to
call attention to some OF the malignant and
unscrupulous allegations of this miscreant
Baxter. Is not Baxter q beautiful pink of
consistency, to arrsign me formy conduct?
He talks of my being bankrupted, pecu-
niarily, as well as In point Of replLtG ton.
This will certainly be news to the people
among whom 1 have lived and acted.
Who cries ''stop thief SO loudly as the
pursued felon? When he can pay what he
uajustly and frG1tduLeHtLy withholds from
the State, on the account of the Mineral
Home Railroad when he accounts for the
bonds of that road, frGHduIeRtly obtained
and re-Obtdined, to bolster up an insolvent
bank, and to keep it from breaking,
when he is ready to divide the spoils with
his confederates in the huge Mineral Home
S1c6Rdle, it will be time then for him
to wipe his mouth and talk of nv
responsibility. Baxter coolly speaks of
myself and others as trying to drag our
selves down to his own degraded level!
When myself and others descend to the
level of horse thieves and miscegenators
then we will have Appropriated the plane
upon which he moves. Baxter laws stress
upon the fact which he parades in his
speech, that ''Mr Henderson was present
and said nothing" This proves nothing.
1t is well known that do my own fighting.
and no one knows this better than Batter,
manage my own quarrels; 1 do not en-
ploy Mr. Henderson cor any other man" to
answer personal attacks upon me.
have whipped this fellow, Baxter, and
run him off the street, for his base ISLANDERS
and cowsrdly assaults upon ne. In this
must admit feel that | have somewhat de-
graded myself. My friends advise me not
to notice further the rawlings of an in
famous and de1nented creature. II have
not proved him a brute, and devoid of de-
cency, in the fact that on the day on which
one of his wives was corpse, he was
found with negress, and his own slave,
under suspicious circumstances; that he
caused me to be indicted and then skulked
out of the case that his own father was
shipped to this country for alleged
actually sold to the highest
bidder to pay his passage money-then tes-
timony is very unreliable thing. This
man Baxter talks with affected virtuous in
dignation about my maliciously pursuing
him! but for more than six years he has
been covertly and meanly assailing nv
character and my conduct More recently
be was foiled In some of his fell schemes
and as the results of investigations which he
institutes against myself and
others, he is himself shown to be crimi.
nally regardless of the rights and interests
Of others, especially in the matter of the
Mineral Home Railroad He knew that I |
to make this speech, or to deliver |
remarks to this effect. In accordance with |
MS well known character, he skulked from |
The court room and left me to make nv |
speech alone. Baxter turns his little SQUIRT |
gun artillery upon the Governor and Legis- |
AZURE of the State. Dreadful Terriblei |
Isn't it? Why, your Honor, this reminds |
one of ''the devil rebuking SIM" |
Does he suppose that the public have |
orgotten the Morrow swindle and the Har |
non swindle? If Baxter is SO pure, 80 |
honest, such a paragon of integrity, why
loes he not pay off the Mineral Home |
Rdjlr0dd debt to the State2 Why did he
lot, in his Memorial to the Legislature, in
orm them that he himself had one hum
lred thousand dollars of the State bonds
ssued to that road, and that this cool one
hundred thousand dollars should be forth
coming when demanded.
Is is not a well settled principal in Grim
nal tGeo that the C0nCeGler of stolen goods
s equally guilty with the thief?
/ could say much more, your Honor.
we're it necessary; but 7 desire simply to
Expose the GRimuS of this lecherous.
kulking, cowsrdly assassin, who, reekine
With all manner of corruption, seeks to
urn away public scrutiny from his own
normous wrongs by using the spotless
anctity of high Court of Chancery as the
'ehicle of his indecent, vile spawn upon
lis fellow-citizsns.