Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-02-23

CO M MI MIC A TED.
MOUNT jackson, FEB, 18th 1871

MOUNT jackson, FEB, TN 1911.
MEssRs. EDITORS -
ask the privilege, through the medium
of your paper, of informing the public, that
| the communication made to you, bearing
date Feb. 18th 1871, was made upon good
| authority, and in the language Of the parties
who authorized me to do SOL have not only
| certificates stating tina. Misrepresentation
were made, but | have afidavis setting
| forth what was represented. But desire not
and will not drag TIE names of the third par
ties into this quarrel. | consider the article
i'll the Tenth Legion Banner Of the 10th inst,
| a personal matter and shall so treat it--and
now as to til pronounce hint o be an arrant
coward, or he would not make personal
charge and conceal himself under the cloak
of an assumed name, "Pro Ten " and with
more CAB than BRAINS VOLUNTARILY be come
the Cars PAW" of the Editors of the T.
L. Banner for this occasion. | know that the
Editors were at home for | saw, one of them
in Woodstock on Monday, and | understand
he was in Edinbnrg on Saturday evening. A
man that can fnl no better employment, and
will thus willingly constitute and appoint
himself TOOL for saeh scandalous work,
must be one Of those unhappy men who are
constitutionally prone TO the dark passions,
men, all whose blood is gall, and to whom
bitter words and hard actions are as natural
as snarling and biting to ferocious dog. To
come into this world with this wretched
mental disease, is q greater calamity than to
be born blind and deaf. And such, is this
Pro Tenn and | tell him '.Physiclan heal
myself"
lie heads one of his articles with my name
and before he gets half way through with his
personal TRADE aud FALSE ASSERTIONS. he coni-
ri ina md zliY,tr hn 10
Of Woodstock aud vicinity. lie must be very
ferocious, much worse than BEAR with n
sore head'-w0uld like to dcnoish all i'll
one dd5. From the exhibition he makes of
himself III this las4 issue Of The Banner. |
am convinced that he approaches nearer than
any person mentioned lii history or fiction,
whether man devil, 10 the idea of consum.
mate and universal deprayity In him the
qualities, which are the proper objects of
contempt, preserve an exquisite and absolute
harmony, mau who will voluntarily and
sneakingly under the cover of an assumed
name, SANDER his fellow citizens with inditfer
ence, with satisfaction, and with a hideous
rapture deserves to be regarded as the incar-
nation of wick edness, and shall not enter into
any NEWSPAPER QUARREL with him and had
he given his name 10 the public when he
slandered me, | should not have INDUCED
III THIS but as he attacked me under an
assumed name, / take this method of ex
hiblting the coward to he public and if he
feels aggrieved, l an ready and willing to
give him satisfaction in any way or mann err
the nature of the case may require and for
that purpose, l give him my name and
address; LEONIDAS TRIPLETT.
Mount Jackson, Shenandoah Co, Va.
P.
The party ard individual TO whom [ refer
n the above communication is DR.. D. w
Prescott. The editor Of the Banner uIonap
plication was kind enough to furnish me
with name Of Pho TEN" which proves to be
DR.. D. W. Prescott