Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-02
For the journal.
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MKssRs- EDIroas:-V. N. seawell, through
your paper III cari, says with all the dignity
Family" sIok-n vi i'll the Magnolia Nj onitor' u
b. kitty kuTous,' that ny card OF the 2nd
hist 'uudigniied -
L coincide win the criticism 1 assure him
that felt 1t coDdescensiob even to notice
him much as to use an undignihed express
sion, notwiti standing it was tr e. He boat
ingly says: 81 defy him to point out one lie
that has been told, except his own man ufa c.
| turc." Now to satisfy him we viii give an ex-
tract from lis letter to me OF nearly two pages
of fooscap, written on the 14th or July, 1874, IN
- hich he feigns friendship at least. that no
unkind feelings existed towards me up to, or
near the time 1t was written. In it he rays: Il
thought to say not 8 word in regard to the cleo
ton this summer, but understand you have
been making some illusions to myself in rome
of your speeches in the can pagn, not calling
my name of course but in such q manner that
also says, in the same letter: II d ID not intend
to gay word against you, but it is an easy
matter for you to provoke an attack. and any
may be accounted for in that way" In that
letter he claims to have had no Intention OF
! saying word in regard to the election, and
particularly against me, showing conclusively
that up to that time he intended to keep silent
in regard to me. AS an excuse for not supp ort
ing me at this election Gas he two years ago
worked hard for the independent candidste),
he says: "You know could not vote for you,
for being in the Cor vention am honor bound
to support the nominee" He also gave his
reason for going into the Convention. Now. in
the above letter, is Language was, to say the
31st, 1874, be true In tn at he says: 81 intended
saying to you, and may have intimated as
eren, as YOU defeated me once and assisted to
defeat you in RETURN Remember this was
after the election, plainly showing that some
retaliate. When was it that I defeated him
once? Was 1t since his letter of July 18th,
1874 in which he says, Anything may say OF
do, or have done or said. may be accounted for
In that way, - referring to what he calls ga lit
tie indiscretion" on my part? No, it was over
fI,aS
he wrote i'll bis own hand writing, and over his
own signature, palpable untruth, which l
am preta are to show him at any day, and
gentlemen of unquestioned veracity spoken
of in my first card. Several of the gentlemen
but / prefer meeting him face to face with
them and see him stcdltO,o that which "emanates
oRS lips Hs and sy
opposition, since the opening Of the last cam
AND an hs H Letter dates 1T back over
1 am satisfied his July letter contains what is
untrue. 1t is the very essence of falsity.
thing. as he would have the public believe,
that man of sense would take to be an apo.
to- whom he aluS d es Or an 80
ignorant. An apology as Webster defines 1t, is
can excuse, something sad or written in de-
wrong, or unjustifiable, or of what may be liza
Bile TO disapprobation." Now what are his ex-
hs fer an
gust letter, in which he says: s'In the card 1
had publish ed last thursday, and in the latter
part of the first para Aph, you will that it
says: When be gets a vo'e for himself in this
way, he gets one Ior himself and the other Rad
ical candidates. This was a mistake either In
the printer or in the copy I sent him, as I in
tended saying, he gcts one for Judge Russell and
the other Radical candidates l make this
PLANTATION. as do not wish to misrepres ent you"
The generous public'' can decide to the
matter in dispute. and see upon which side the
truth lies. have stated plain cts. The truth
needs no varp ish. Let the guilty one be treated
as ''unworthy of respect and beneath the dig
nifty Of q gentleman, !" for this shows plainly the
degradation to which he has descended.
Very Respectfully,
j. q. MCMILLAN.
Teachy's, September Path, 1874.