The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-11
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Gard from VAR. h. l.. Weber.
DONALDsONvILLE, aug. ll, IS17

DONAl4DSONN1LLE, Aug. II, ICI
EDITOR CHIEF;
Please insert the following under the
rules usually regulating such publications
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 8, 1877.
Editor Dem0crat-A statement appeared
in yesterdays New Orleans Times in refer
ence to controversy growing out of a per-
sonal matter between myself and Mr.. r.
Reynaud, which is entirely incorrect. To
the main issue of the case | will only say
that acted from beginning to the end upon
the defensive, and that | propose to estab
lish this and refute Mr. Reynaud's state
ment in day or two by competent authori
ty. Now as to the duel to have been
fought between myself and Mr.. Reynaud, |
hereby declare upon my honor and that of
my seconds, who are here present to sus-
tain me in this assertion, that | had no
hand ill the matter of the arrest of Mr.
Reynaud, who came down with the Parish
Judge, who had the warrants of arrest in
his pocket, and who, it is presumed, had
Mr.. Reynaud arrested that night, whilst l,
finding out through one of my seconds that
a warrant of arrest was out for me, eyaded,
with my seconds, an arrest that evening,
and was only arrested the following morn
ing, not at the Mobile Railroad depot, but
at the Pontchartrain depot, where my seconds
and myself had thought best to take the
! y
maud proceeded to the rendezvous APP
pointed. There, after Il long and tedious
/ interview, a proposition was made to n,y
| seconds by those OF Mr.. Reynaud, to the
effect that - inasmuch as the principals had
been prevented, through the Intervention
OF the law, from encOuntering each ether,
| we, the said seconds offer the following
propositions as an honorable basis for the
| adjustment of the controversy existing be-
| turaa la CaiI Enliy RnUnouA and f. L.,
| Weber" These propositions we're re-
traction of what | said and did to Mr.. Rey-
maud, and rice rerSG. My seconds signed
| these propositions us they understood them !;
! that if / refused TO accept them they would
| meet Mr.. Reynaud's seconds yesterday
morning, signitying the same to him that
| they were to be null and void and destroyed.
My seconds, when meeting Mr. Reynauds
| seconds this morning, were informed that
| they Mr.. Reynaud's seconds) had under
| stood that the propositions, whether ac-
cepted by one party or the other, were
binding and ended the matter at issue.
| Upon hearing of this decision Immediately
asked my seconds to explain the case as
| they had understood it, and they i'll person
waited upon Mr.. Reynaud with the follow
ing statement, which he refused to accept:
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 8, 1877.
Mr.. Felix Reynaud
Strive have met your seconds ON the
ground appointed. They offered us propo-
| stions i'll writing which were to hold good
| and be final in case they were accepted by
| both parties otherwise, we were to meet
your seconds this morning, destroy the
some, and declare them null and void.
| Meeting your seconds this morning, they
declared to rs that they understood the
propositions to be binding if accepted by
one OF the other party, and to put an end to
| ha ant Il nnyvirany thnf tbaSn
sitions are repugnant to Mr.. Weber, that he
has no desire to rctract anything he did or
said-to appear as the aggressOr when he
was acting i'll self-defense-we hereby with
draw this document, us also our signatures
attached thereto. Respectfully,