Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-24
THE NASHVILLE PAPERS IN REPLY TO
BAXTER'S CHARGES.
They are Sued for Libel and Can't Defend
a 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, lengthy article assailing the Public
Printers for alleged frauds in their accounts
against the State. All who know any
thing of the hostility Of Col. Baxter to the
proprietors of the Union and american
and Banner, and Of his eager desire to sue
ceed in the suits now pending in Knox
county in which they are involved with
him, can very readily determine the mo-
tive which prompts him to this new de-
partule. With him we can have no news
paper controversy. That he, professed
hater of Radicalism, should be driven to a
Radical organ to find 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 a
good cause. We repeat, with him we can
have no newspaper controversy. Before
an honest jury of Knox, unbiased and un-
prejudiced 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 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 Banner.l
ANTICIPATING THE VERDICT.
The Radical organ at Knoxville, the
Chronicle, which seems also to be the char
tered organ of Mr.. John Baxter in the
prosecution of his numerous libel suits,
contains communication from that indi-
vidual in Sundays issue, inYeighing with
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 unabated 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 rave taken the
trouble to read what has appeared in these
columns in relation to Mr. Baxter, will not
be at loss to discover his animus, in this
last publication, when told that he still
maintains his action against these two
journals for 900 damage to his precious
reputation, and is prosecuting it with all
the rancor and venom of a 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 it deems
necessary, investigate the acts of the Pub
lie Printers in the other. In any event,
we cannot afford to engage in a 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 as they are characteristically mali
ciOuS