The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-05-18
Respectfully,
l.l w. s. McDIARMID.
LuMRERroN N G Nav 4th 1870

LUMBERToN, N. c., May 4th, 1870.
REQ. W. s. McDaimid, Editor Ro5esonian
SIR: Your letter of the Goth ult., in re-
ply to mine of the 2Sth, has been duly re-
ceived. 8
Having heard that you started to travel
by rail to Wilmington last Sabbath and be.
lieving that your business must have been
very urgent to travel on such day and
might probably detain you from home for
sometime l deferred reply until your re-
turn.
You state that you decline to give your
authority for the SANDER you published in
last weeks Robesonian in relation to myself.
can only now refer you, therefore, to the
letter which l had the honor to write you on
the 2Sth as to the author of the falsehood.
Out OF your own mouth men will judge you
in this matter. You by your letter of
the goth ult., stand before the public self
conricted liar and slanderer. If it suits YOU
to decline giving your authority and occu-
plying in consequence such position, will
not offer the slightest objection. +
That an effort has been made to get the
county of Robson declared in state of in.
surrection, and that the natural result of
such state Of things in the county would
be to suspend, to the extent of holding an
election next August, the operation Of the
civil law, no one can doubt. As matter of
course, without any effort on their part, the
present delegation to the Legislature would.
OF necessity, hold over until the county was
restored to its normal condition, or the
county remain without representation. But
who would be responsible for this9 Would
1t not he the parties who urged such action
upon the attention of the Governors And
who are these parties? "1hou art the man.
Some few weeks back, the people of Robe
son will remember, an editorial which ap-
peared in your paper, urging the Governor
to send U. s. troops to this county, coupled
with the threat, that unless they were sent.
you and your friends would employ the
means "God and nature placed at your dis
posal" to carry out your purposes now
beg leave to refcr you to my letters to the
Governor, on file in the Executive Office in
Raleigh, in relation to this matter. wrote
his Excellency to pay no attention to yon.
that your object was to render him and his
friends odlous to the people on the eve Of
the election in August; that if you and YOUR
party were anxious that law and order should
prevail in the county of Robson, the muir
derer of Colgrove would not be concealed
from justice and kept as an honored guest
in the family Of one of the leaders of your
party in this county.
also waited upon several magistrates of
the county and urged them to sign mo- re-
QUESTION for troops, or any other paper for
that purpose unless the people of the county
in mass meeting, and without distinction Of
party, demanded troops for their protection.
1 believed then, and am convinced now.
that your editorial for troops was written
for party purposes and for nothing else and
now that you have failed to plunge the
county into irretrievable confusion and debt.
which you intended to saddle on the Renub,
lican party, you turn round to seize upon me
as the scape-goat your sins in order if DOS
sible, to extract modcum of party canital
from your wholesale ISLANDERS. Your marty
is welcome to all the capital you can make
fer it if you continue to occupy your present
position and to pursue your present course
of vili6cation and falsehood.
ti have the honor to be. &c
JAMES SINCLAIR. ,