Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-10-30
a question as to the right of the Court to

a question as to the right Of the Court 10
make this appropriation and then levy .
tax to reDlace ~ We would ask Mr.,
Shepherd to quote his own language that
he elieved, "by the voluntary odtion
Of persons iwho fed from cholera at It's
first approach in Ionesb9rU' aud said by
their action every man Tor hinSdli,"
(Now these bright specimens Of humaa-
ty and symithy to eo,eal thsir gaiIt as
they imagined Come up aud asked the
court to give them the peoples money for
some one else, there by as we think
heaping fuel Gu the FIRE, and adding
crime to cri ne, because of our refused to
betray the confidence and trust Of the
people, | would ask Mr.. Sheppard to
state what crime any citizen of Jones
boro' comitted in fleeing from the pesti-
lcnce Of the cholera either in its incipicn.
cy or in the worst stages of It's action or
IN its close? Who were the heroes who
administered to the sick, to the fallen,
to tho distressed aud the bereayed?
Were they Of that class Of men WHO voted
against the $3.50 appropriation, or were
they ofthat class Of men OF whom Drs.
W. r. Sewer Il. L. Dealerick and
Capt. j. j, IIowren belonged. AS |
was not in Jonesbore' duliug the pres
valance of the cholera, or evel for the
last eighteen months the charge can GER
tanly have no application to me. Bat in
this connection | would ask if j. A..
Sheppard ever contributed a single ceut
10 the cholera sufferers OF JoaesbOro' /;
and did he not endeaver to claim mil.
age from Nllbranoh as a member of the
County Court. After paying his respects
to me by way of inn cudo, and to use his
own language, "0nd to show more fully
the exteu t Of their disontion after being
fully and fairly defeated On Monday
they slipped back into the Court House
on Tuesday evening, after having fopnd
out that u number of the Magistrates
had gone home oil Monday aud that it
was not contemplated that they would
have the authority to return. it having
been announced from the chair that the
Court would adjourn over until the next
morning to hear the report OF the com.
mittee on an important casa"
On Monday, there we're 81 uagistret.
present and upon that day a motion was
made to appropriate one hundred dollars
each to Drs. Sewer & Deaderick, and
so to Capt, j. J. Ilowrcn, Town Mar,
shal, which molten Was lost. As soon
as the Court convened, on the next day
a motion was made by my personal friend
John Allison, jr., to reconsider the vote
on the appropriation, which resulted viz.
II for, aui II against. 1t has leeu
claimed ly Mr.. SleElcrd, that hid the
MpgstIals Attending tie Court on Mons
day been present On Tuesday, that the
motion to allow tie uIlr4riation would
have tccu te.Nteo, Which is entirely
iaEc. From this suplcs.tion that had
the Magistrates who wer present on
Monday, returned and the difference
betveen 81 and 2S, had all voted against
the appropriation there would have been
II for and II pgirst aid G. W. M,el,
ESQ, would have cast the deciding vote and
would have made a majoritytor the appro
priation. But there were a number Of Mag
~istrates absent on TUESDAY, who had they
been present would have voted for the
appropriation, knowing full well that
same If the eleven who orno,cd this m,
nr,rriotiop have been dealing in County
Stock Bonds and Warrants and who have
mt the oudooitv to a~rr,irn me in a public
article, but throwing himself behind the
pplaside of IN. lliterote, who attacked
me pnlpr the forccable entry Of low
~w;t,s0s and ro;rtloss personalities A.