The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-23
CARBONDALE LETTER.

ID. II. BRusH-SiR; My attention has
been called to a communication over your
name, published in the WEEKLY CAIRO
BULLETS of June 18th. In 1t you state,
that YOU were indicted by the grand jury
of Jackson county for larceny Of the city |
seal of Carbondale; you also show that
there were no grounds for the indictment;
and, upon trial, that a jury returned a ver-
diet of "not guilty. without leaving their
seats. These are all facts in the case, and,
if you deemed IL necessary, no one ques-
tons your right to publish them in answer
to the communication to which you refer
In that communication, however, you
have seen fit to go further than n simple
statement of the facts, and have made
bitter personal attack upon sme and that,
not by name, in spirit of hate and injus-
tice which i'll becomes a citizen of your
standing much less member of an hon.
ored christian church, you have made this
attack in language both coarse and abu-
sive, and in terms at once shameful and in
the highest degree insulting-terms one
might expect from bully or BLACKBOARD,
but which have been laugh: gentlemen
do not use.
From the high respect have had for
you, sir did not believe it possible Tor
you to stoop to SO low, and, TO yourself, so
dsgraceful an attack upon any person, no
matter how great your provocation, or
how much you deemed him your inferior.
BE assured, sir, l shall not follow you to
the low ground from which you have at
tackled me. Where my cause can only be
sustained by calling hard names, shall
be silent. ] shall carry on no contest with
you or any other man in slang land Bill
lingsgate. To one who chooses such wesp-
ons, shall give clear field. My tastes
do not run in that direction. However
"corrupt and degenerate / may be,
am above such degradation. prefer to
fight my battles from the vantage ground
of gentleman. My words, though they
may be plain, will be dignifed and cour-
teous. | give you notice, sir, until
you come up to the same level, you will
wage IN unequal warfare with me. am
above low 'patry filings. They dchle only
the hand which throws them.
p If the facts in the case SO far us they re-
D late TO me were and are us stated by you
y If the showing you have made of my con-
nec,ion in the matter were u true showing
if had been the instigator of, and, b,
b. false swearing, had procured your indict
d ment if ! had done all these things
,s though my wrong would not make you
o attack upon me any the less coarse anc
L disreputable, any the less disgrace t.
!. yourself it would have the merit. at least
: Of some justification.
But sir, you know when you made your
attack upon me, that some person other
than myself, without my knowledge, pre-
scented this matter to the grand jury.
Who that party is you may know, l did
, not then nor do now; you knew that
james II. Campbell and myself were sum-
moned before the grand jury to testify in
the matter; that | was an unwilling wit
|, ness and protested against being in any
way connected with the proceeding; that
before the grand jury | made n simple
statement of the facts connected with tho
- removal of the city seal from my Office
adding that in my opinion no criminal of
~ Tense had been committed, and that
hoped the matter would stop then anc
there. That the grand jury, after examin
ing the other witness, took n different
u view of the case, is not our fault
I" You knew all these facts, not only from
!, general report, but you knew these from
= my own statement made in your presenc,
- at the bar meeting hose resolutions you
Y published-you then and there heard m,
disclaim having any connection with tn,
case, except as / had been forced into i
II by order of the court You heard me sa,
l. that ] was opposed to the proceeding from
of my first knowledge Of il, which was but
IL few minutes before ! was summoned be
b. fore the grand jury that | well knew n
ne crime had been committed that | S
,i- stated when before the grand jury and re
a, peat"d in private conversation with som
of of its members, and urged that the matte
r. DC dropped.
10 Right here sir, let me tell you, tina
from the first, l have deemed you guilt
OF IA glazing, high-handed trespass in TAX
=. ing the city seal and city desk key fror
- my office, in the manner you did, withou
my knowledge, and after had refused t
- allow you to take any of the city propert,
~ An opinion which is well confirmed b
; your subsequent action in returning tn
s. seal to my office upon the sam
i day you took II away--a strange proceed
Il ing for one "who was the duly appointe,
= clerk of the city council, rs you claim t,
= have been in your published article.
sc would like to ask, sir, upon what page OF
;, the city record that appointment is no
: corded.
# wish to call to your mind the gran'
~ JURY OF one year ago, to which you pre-
scented, for the crime of false swearing il
our previous city election, certain partie
ily VINO h"a worked against you and you
NJ. party at that election, and to whom yo,
ise. attributed the defeat Of your side-agains
my protest, and yourself admitting tLot /
To the indictments were found they woul,
led probably not be sustained upon trial.