Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-30
THE NASHVILLE PAPERS IN REPLY TO
BAXTER'S CHARGES.
They are Sued for Libel aud Can't Defend
Charge of Stealing.
From the Union and Americana
THE PUBLIC PRINTING.


From the Union and Americana
THE PUBLIC PRINTING.
Col. John Baxter, of Knoxville, pub
lished in the Knoxville CHRONICLE Of the
GOTH a lengthy article assailing the Public
Printers for alleged frauds in theiraccounts
against the State. All who know any
thing of the hostility of Col. Baxter to the
proprietors of the Union and -fnericdB
and Banner, and of his eager desire to sue
coed in the suits now pending in Knox
county in which they are involved with
tive which prompts him to this new de-
partuie. With him we can have no news
paper controversy. That he, n protested
hater of Radicalism, should be driven to
Radical organ to find a conduit for his false
utterances. is enough to convince those
who do not know him that nothing but
baseness could move him, even if he had n
good cause We repeat, with him we can
have no newspaper controversy. Before
an honest jury of Knox, unbiased and UNI
preiudiced by this weak effort of his to
change the issue, we expect TO have the
cause now pending there between our
selves and him Justly determined. Should
he have any friend bold enough to attempt
to maintain these late charges against us
before a committee of the Legislature, we
shall meet him there, ready to stand upon
the law and the testimony. The bully may
below; he cannot alarm.
From the Bannerl
ANTICIPATING THE VERDICT.
The Radical organ at Knoxville, the
Chronicle, which seems also to be the char
tered organ of Mr.. John Baxter i'm the
prosecution of his numerous libel suits,
contains n communication from that indi-
vidual in Sundays issue, inyeighing with
an assumed virtue of patriotic indignation,
against the Banner and the Union and
american, for collecting, as he alleges,
more than they are entitled to for printing
done for the State. During the prosecu-
| ton of one of his libel suits at Knoxville
last February, he went out of his way to
| indulge the same ISLANDERS, now cOnven-
| iently reiterated with undated malevo-
lence, few weeks in advance of the trial
| of his libel suits against the Nashville pa
pers, at the approaching term in October.
Those of our readers who have taken the
| trouble to read what has appeared in these
| columns in relation to Mr. Baxter, Will not
| he at n loss to discover his animus, III this
| last publication, when told that he still
maintains his action against these two
journals for $50, 600 damage to his precious
reputation, and is prosecuting it with all
the rancor and venom of Camanche. An
honest jury of twelve men not inspired
with his malice, let us hope, will justly
estimate damage to his character we may
have inadvertently inflicted in the one
case and the Legislature can, if 1t deems
necessary, investigate the acts of the Pub
lie Printers in the other. In any event,
we cannot afford to engage in newspaper
controversy with him about a matter
which he has already attempted to drag
into this suit against us, nor is it necessary
for us to repeat that his insinuations are as
false rs they are characteristically mall
cious.