Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-09-18
For the Advertiser.

Mr.. EDITOR: AS we'll as am fond of
controversies with decent gentlemen up.
ON literary or scientific subjects, I as
equally despise disputes with men who
will stoop to anything that is low and
mean.
I did receive scurvy note from this
man Barker, which I returned without
consideration, as any other gentleman
would have done. was sure from the
tenor of said note that there was some
severe penalty in store for me, in case I
refused to make retraction of the truths
I published some time ago in the Adver-
tiser. am truly glad, however, that he
pursued such bloodless course to salts
~ his offended honor. I thought moth
ing less than blood would appease his
wrath. My nightly slumbers were dis
turbed by loodyvisions, and every bush
by the road side developed a Barker!
How ridiculous! 1t is amusing, Mr..
Editor, to think that this man, coming
over here with the smell of Edgefeld
Jail on him, for suppose he had been
lying in there two or three months for
.an outrageous and dastardly assault up
on defenceless woman, to frighten and
whip out decent people.
Barker knows very we'll that every
sentence have written to the Advertiser
is nothing but the truth, and that if he
has taken an oath to do justice in his as
sessments, he is not only guilty of deny
ing the truth, but is a perjured man. If
he has never taken such an oath, beg
his pardon, and will lay it at the Audit
or's door, for some one surely must take
oaths to discharge their duties properly,
and some one has certainly violated his
obligations in this particular, as I have
proof to show. am not only
going to furnish certificates from the par
ties to whose assessments referred in
my communication, but I shall publish
a card, signed by large number of our
most responsible citizens, as to the cor
rectness and justice of my charges. I
also appeal to Mr.. Thos. w. Blease, who,
observing the injustice of these assess
ments, had the fairness tomake the re-
ductions,, which have caused the books
and my statements to differ, and this
very fairness will impel him to so testify.
He has already stated publicly that he
made these changes, and Barker himself
said that he had no right to make them,
and if he denies it he will have stouter
men to whip than my poor weakly self.
We would say to two or three of those
who seem to beinterested on the other
side of this question, you had better let
this matter alone, for you are getting old,
and the grave will soon yawn for you,
and if you do not hasten and wash your
selves of these things, the. curses Of your
posterity will sink you SO deep ,eneath
your little hillock, that Gabriel's trump
will hardly awaken you..
And to Barker would say, reflect
awhile before You publish truthful man
as falsifier. You had better hush, for
can say enough about those tax eXecu-
tions to send man to the penitentiary;
and you will find it a rougher berth than
Edgefield Jail. Pursue some honorable
avocation and we will then respect you
as democrat, white man, and gen.
tleman.
In conclusion, I would say, if any Of
the readers Of the Adrcrtise" are inter-
ested in this dispute about veracity, they
can be satisfied as to the truthfulness of
everything 1 have stated, by enquiring
of any gentleman in the Huiet Township.
CITIZEN.