The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-04-28

IL think he is guilty of a great sin in
acting as he does. / can have no SYM
pathy with a man who gains power
or favor, as he does with the Dernocra-
cy, at the price of blood, and that the
blood of his friends.
"Yours, truly, A. AMEs.n
] had rather not have seen this let
ter. 1t having, however, fallen into
my possession, feel constrained to
give it to the public as an evidence,
under the light of the ofiiciai facts pre-
scented above, of the value attaching to
to the recent accommodation that have
swarmed from SO many quarters to
damage the interests and jeOpardize the
libefties of this people. Whether aman
holding the honorable position of Sen.
ator in the Congress of the United
States can afford to address such ex-
travagant and irflammatory appeals
to the pa ions of the poor people strug-,
Cling up among us to the moral and in
teIlectual level of the Government
telling them they are being murdered
under that free Government by tens
and husdreds-is question to be set
tied, not by my individual Judgment,
but by the Judgment OF men of honor
and self-lespect throughout the nation.
You charge upon this civil admins
tratiOn as failure the fact the streets
Of Jackson are free to Yerger. THIS
accusation is highly disingenious. Yer
ger committed his offence under the
rule of the bayonet; was dealt with by
the rule of the bayonet, and was set free,
as he is now, by the rule of the bayonet.
After long detention under the find-
ing, he was handed over by General
Ames to the mi'itary-civil authorities,
and having been detained by them for
q short time in prison, was set free ly a
military-civh judge.
When the courts of the civil govern
ment were established, they found YER
ger at large. At the prosecution Of the
eli, Il government he VIZ indicted by
the Grand Jury and placed on trial be-
fore court of the civil government to
answer the Indictment. The case is yet
pending, but future failure of a find
ing on its merits may be, perhaps, ex-
planned lulIy by the fact that the m IS
carriage of the military power in deal
ing with his cese has embarrassed it
now by the plea of previous jeopardy of
life. With this statement of the facts,
your condemnation ofcivil government
in that instance is, l submit, totally
graf litous.
l suppose / understand the course
you have seen proper to pursue in ref
erence to me personally. Flashing in
to traces" is, however, an unpromising
performance in the case of a mon given
SO inveterately as am, to work in no
harness save bis own. A Republican
| am for reasons satisfactory to my
judgment and COR science; and not
pardon me for saying-because of any
consent of yours. While 1 shall he
very happy to receive that consent at
your leisure, shall, nevertheless, con-
tinue-if you will excuse my bluntneSs
to he Republican without it. Even
though you should Withhold your valua-
BILE support, / hope, Heaven helping,
10 go on in my Repulbicanism with the
result-aiter having guided it through
the imminent danger of the approach
ing elections-of casting the ell ctoral
vote of this State in the next contest for
the Presidency, i'm favor of the cardi-
date of the Republican Party of the Ma
ton. have the honor to be, very res
pectfully yours, &C.,
j. L. ALCORN.
Jackson, Miss, April 5, 1871.
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