Wilmington journal., 1872-07-19
From the Raloigh Sentinel,

"a.
NeSa,;s. Editors Il Glowing the lead
ing Radical orators in their tour through
the State, and cleaving to their steps like
the slime on the trail OF the serpent, there
appears a small sheet which may be con-
sidered Fpar excellence the campaign
document OF the party, and q most worthy
monument of its virtue and defarnatCry-
skill. The names on the Democratic
Conservative ticket are assailed with more
or less malignity, and the missiles OF
calumny, cool assertion and impudent
lying are indif1erently employed in this in
feinal broadside. My own name and
character have received the distinctive
compliment of its most rare abuse. Any
thing would be preferable to its approval.
The charges of which l am the object
may be briefly stated to be: .-
l. That I arrested and dragged to bull
pen forty-two respectable women of Ran
dOlph county.
say that L never arrested, or caused to
| be arrested, any woman of Randolph
county, by any order, written or verbal.
This charge is therefore false.
2. That sanctioned the torture of one
Mrs. Owen, and, it is even inSinuated that
! witnessed and aggravated her sufferings.
| N lie more heartleSs and wicked was ever
| invented to iDjure the fame of any human
| being. | denounce the liar. | appeal to
ny unbleInished character, established by
Is years of citizenship. | appeal to the
| Confederate soldiers of the State, and to
every man and woman Of honor III North
! Carolina, whether this thing is true of me
whether it is possible. They win answer
| that it is not. | despiSe the rest.
,. That l am responsible for Owens
death. Were l so. l should not shrink the
responsibility. But l do not even know
how he died. My orders were to offer par
don to all who came to me. No man was
| ever killed by my orders. Seven hundred
| men surrendered and acknowledged my
humanity and good faith.
4. am accused of having " shot and
| killed, one beautiful Sunday morning young
| Northcote, and that he would not raise his
arm to fight against the Union"
| This is given on the saying Of Judge
| Settle. We place all anonymous SANDER
ers with their fit associates, and only peers
the paid informer, the common spy, and
the common haugman. refuse to receive
the evidence Of such 'canaillO.' L decline
| to believe that Judge Settle-himSelf a
| gentleman-is the author of this false and
| studiously malevolent assertion. l pro-
| nOunce the statement that l killed North
| cote the wicked invention Of an anony-
nous villain. did not have Northcote
| shot. Norman dare say so. l did not
even hloW MN. he was SAOI, DtHcFes
| by the soldiers of command to which l
did not belong, and more than year be-
fore came to Randolph county--in short,
when / was thousand miles away, in
prison and wounded. . -. =
This Infamous sheet, which contains
charges of nearly corresponding atrocity
against every candidate on the State ticket,
is franked aud sent (and perhaps written9
by Il United States Senator to influence
the election, and, like Malay running a
muck it goes on its degrading errand,
stabbing and assailing character without
conscience or consideration. -s..af.
pity the party which needs and designs
to accept sucn aid as this, from the veIY
/ q. IEvENTHORPE.