Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-08-17

""N ehc .lvb tAcbUtct VI StNCh WI LAY
Tor a valid reason for not complying.
But the tickets were printed and at
the Tobacco Leaf Office. The tickets
having been struck by Ligon in the
job Office of the Tobacco Leaf is prin,a
facie evidence that the work was done
in accordance with Mr.. Taylor's re-
quest and the instructions of Martin
V. Ingram; hence am fully endorsed
by the card of Mr.. Ingram, notwith-
standing his charge that the statement
made by me was wholly incorrect.
Therefore, Mr.. ingram has proven
himself liar, and not me in his effort
to skulk and screen himself from pub
lie opinion.
One more quotation, and l am done
with his reply. Engaged in no trick
cry myself, | am not afraid to meet
Mr.. Harris at the bar Of public opin-
ion"
You are not2 Then, Mr. Ingram,
select your tribunal, and l will con-
front you and make oath to all I have
written or said with regard to these
bogus tickets.
now make other disclosures which
were held back in my former card out
of pity.
now charge Mr.. NJ. V. Ingram as
having per verified the truth in his reply
to my card.
/ further charge that the said
bogus tickets were printed in accord
ance with Ingram's instructions
hence by his consent and with his
knowledge.
further charge that when this dirty
trick was discovered | went to Ingram
and told him that he was caught, and
his reply was that we must get out OF
it; that he was a feeble man, and that
| was big stout man and had char
acter as fighting man. He Qngram,
then said to me that / must take stick
and go to Kos. Ligon and scare him OF
whale him like dog, make him deny
that we had anything to do with hay
ing the tickets struck, and that mus
make Ligon pack it on the Beaumont
party, and that he Ingram) and mus
deny having anything to do with it,
Ingram said that Kos. Ligon was 8
coward, and that | could, and must
scare him into it. While thus instruct
ing me how to act, he was trem
bling with guilt, his knees shifting
the one against the other as did thos,
Of Belshazzar when he saw the hand
writing on the wall-Thou art weighed
in the balances, and art found want
ing. Suffice it to say refused to com
ply with this proposition. Still h,
| (Ingram), being cognizant of thes,
facts, is not afraid of public opinion.
i / further charge that Ingram in hi
reply to my card asserts that | ha(
made statements wholly incorrect, an,
insinuates that | have been cringini
and crawling on my belly in the dust
His charges are simply false. At tn
same time, he tries to excuse himsel
on the plea of Ignorance. | suppOs
that he has been acquitted for ba(
conduct before on this plea. | ADM
that ordinarily in his case ignorance i
the strongest point he could make.
Under these circumstances, | hav
thought it best to give all the facts a
they occurrcd-and rs Ingram vel
knows. In my previous card | sal,
Mr.. Read was innocent Mr. Doak wa
innocent, and that Strawberry Ale
was innocent as far az | knew; but 70
the part Mr. Ingram took in the bogu
ticket business, and his conduct since
| charge him as guilty.
AS for Mr.. Ligon, he executed tn
work and exposed the same, for whicl
Mr.. Ingram denounced him as sp
and traitor, and expelled him from tn
office; after which Mr.. Ingram intro
duces him as witness against me.
do not think this testimony worthy 0
notice, or Ingram's card of furthc
comment.
In conclusion. Mr.. Ingram said m
only chance to get the tickets wa
through his man Friday, Mr.. Igor
If had wanted the bogus tickets,
could have gone to Sterling Neblet
We were raised as boys together an
have lived together all our lives, an
he would have kept my secret as sa
cred as myself. could have sent t
Nashville or Louisville and had thcr
struck and expressed TO me. NJ
friends, that tale of Mr.. Ingram
won't wear. The whole thing is falls
: in every particular. As to denyin
having amy knowledge of the bogu
tickets, he asked me TO have thcr
struck, as previously stated did, q
requested, my part of the dirty jol
and owned up like a man. That
| what | call honor among thieves
If Mr. Ingram had acknowledged a
much in last weeks Tobacco Leaf a
he did in his circular, | would nc
have said anything about the matte
GEO. II. HARRIs.