Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-27


The Nashville Bulletin has come out
second best in the controversy it voluntarily
got into with Col. Burch. The Bulletin
made broad assertions which had no fOun-
dation in fact, accusing Mr.. Hobbs, former
Comptroller, of sellin out bis Office to Col.
Burch. This accusation brought a lette.
from both of the gentlemen named, and
between the two they entirely demolished
the BulletiR, and prove to the satisfaction
Of all that Mr.. Hobbs never had any idea
of selling bis Office to Col. Burch, or any
one else, and that Col. Burch never had the
remotest idea Of buying, or attempting TO
buy the Comproler's Office; consequently
the Bulletin is left flouDdering high and dry
on the sandy beach of apparent falsehood.
From the Trenton Gazette, Aug. o.
The vile wretches who have sought to in
lure the good name and fair fame Of Col.
John c. Burch in connection with the
Conptrollership, must hide their heads in
shame. Gel. Barch has been vindicated,
and has put under his feet tie foul calum-
MES and detractions of bis enemies. No
one believed them from the first, but his
silence might have been misinterpreted, so
ths cards of Gov. Brown and eX Comp
trolle- Hobbs put q quietus upon the base
fabrication of bargain and sale Of the
Comptroller's office. Col. Bureh is an in
corrupsible gentleman, and bis good name
is above calumny and detrsction. He
brings to the Office of Comptroller integrity,
financial ability and a knowledge of the
laws bearing upon his Office, and his official
acts must rebound to the interest of tie
State of Tennessee.
From the Brownsville States, Aug. %.
Nashville, as a matter of course, has
postoffice. 1t is twofold in its character. 1t
has an ostensible object, which is the deliv-
cry and distribution of the public mail. 1t
has another object, which is to become the
q rong-hol9 and outpost of Radical power
In Tennessee, and a sort of general hospital
magazine and depot for decsyed pensioners
on the bounty of that party, and place to
resort for campaign supplies, and stimulus,
IN the enemies territory. 1t would be
strange indeed, if this postoffice did not,
with its greasy drippings from the puOlic ia
bic, create clique 1t would be stranger
still, If the clique did not desire and possess
an organ like the Nashville Bulletin. Like
so many hungry Lazaruses, they swarm
around the gates Of the administration Rich
Man; show to the sckened public, sores'
ulcers, bruises, con -usioDs and moral pros
tratioD, l. Cured in long, uncertain and
painful tramp as pilgrim carpet-bsggers IN
behalf ofprivate pluncer and the pubic ad-
ministration. The postmaster at Nashville
is their legitimate chieftain. He is a carpet
Dagger simon pure. He was the carpot-bsg
Representative from that district, but was
defeated, ard was given the postofice for
supposed service to the party. He has gath
cred around him the broken remnants Of
his friends, and the Nashville rCstofiee is
81, ha
Nashville Bulletin is the natural and proper
organ of this collection ofpoliticsl Bedoulns,
and from their 1astness, through it, they
make inrosds and forays upon the character
of some of the noblest and purest public
men of the State.
The Bulletin is q singular sheet. It Is
SUI generis, and has no likeness or simili.
tude on this earth, or elsewhere. 1t also
has remarkably bad memory, and does
not keep in wholesome recollection some
painful transactions in the past, and while
seeking to fling filth on the skirts of its hon
est neighbors, has forgotten that its own
have cong trsiied in the mire.
few years ago it assayed to attack
the character of one CT the best men
the State ever produced, Gov. Neil s.
Brown, man of noble, generous humani-
tartan instincts, with a soul too broad and
genial 70 harbor malice, and nature as
pure, courteous and chivairous as mailed
knight of the Holy SepulchIe. The instan-
taneuus chastisement that followed on the
heels of that malicious assault should have
carried with it recollection sufficient to
have tanned the venom Of a viper. But it
did rot. From its den, kissing, ard dart
ing its forked tongue, and spreading its
spotted and Shiny body, the Nashville
Bulletin has struck agsin, and as before, it
has dashed its poisonous mouth against the
granite foundation of the good names of two
public men well and favorably known in
Tennessee for genius, heroism and patriot
ism, long before the editor of the Bulletin
packed bis csrpet-bag and started on his
a ventures, and before his appearance in
this State.
1t was unnecessary for Col. Burch or
Gov. Brown to have published explanatory
letters in the public journals, in reference
10 the charge made by the Bulletin in re-
gard to the Comptroler's Office. No man
credited the slandsr, and silent contempt
uyould bava heap ito fl and nr0nar answer.