Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-07-16

Withd,%Wal oi tlo offensive language Of yoAc
card in The COLUMNS Of the AleXandria Gazette
which published it, Your obedcnt servant,
EppA HUNT0S
Because the Alexandra Gazette omits to
report that part OF the gontIeman's speech, the
latter thinks it q ar!on3d opportunity oigetting
himself out oil the dilemma in which, uphap.
PLY for him, he is placed. But that will rot
do Before wrote my letter to the Gszattc,
went down TO Alexandra for The very pur.
peso Of requiring, personally, ito the matter,
and there l. Was assured by many personal
friends, who had been present at that meeting,
that the remarks of Mr.. Hunton, as reported
10 the Baltimore Sun and Washington Star.
were correct.
Mr.. Hutton will not deny that lie used the
names of Judge Wylic, Comm issioner Bryan
and myself, and that he did not say columbus
Alexander and Others. Among those 10Th.
ers" be certainly could not, as he attempts io
his neW version, have Included McssTs. Bryan
and WyI:c, because zone Of the gentlemen had
anything to do with Mr Splinger's motion, or
even knew of it at the time it was made.
Mr.. Hunton must have small opinion OF
bis Alexandria constituents, or clSo he would
not have thought it possible that i've days
could have been sufficient to wipe from their
memory his eloquent words spoken to them as
late as last Wednesday.
Let him first correct the reports in the Star
and SUP, certainly two reliable newspapers,
and the first one especially friendly TO HIM,
aud then, having myself been convinced tina,
be was incorrectly reported, he will have 10
cause cf trying to ''hulldosc" me- as evidently
seems to be his intention 10 the above letter.
General IIunton sent his letter to ne through
a Capt. i. G. Sheppard. CT Wauenton, Va.
one OF his many appointccs lu the Territorial!
building, on 4! street, the seat OF cur radica!
District government. That gentleman evident
ly, too, was uader the impression that q 'ttIr
swaggcr would bring me dowo. But General
IIunton, at least, should have kuo%n that a
man, who for years. has almost slDgle' haout"
fought the Washington ilpe; who has pf'n
made the object OF their special hatred, SO tha'
they even planned against him that ssi'
bur- larry rascallty, and who, Virglnan nun
self, never gives up as long as he kGo"I Ac -
in the right, cannot be "bulldoscd' hy General
IIunton or any Of his District apro'n'ScS. -
Generl lIunton is wrongly reported, slIaI! u"
him justice, At present l nave no pr"''
however. that such has been the clI".
In conclusion, think it proper to state 10
nv VIRGINIA friends that | "m positive tina!
General lIunton las always been friendly t.
the Radical Rings Of this District, apd hrIrr!
them 10 get through bills Of the character .!
that infamous assessment enforcing act "hlrH
passed the House March IS. last. H.: has, ~
that sccouat. boen rewarded wltha consider
able District patronage, ii which thr ahnv'
MIR. Sheppard il living siccimrn. FOR lEi'
reason, the democrats OF the S.h EIt%lal4 60"
rrcssional nisr.cl will really have r"rinrnr! ::
Charitable acl towards the panr people Of ihI@
District. il thcY should keep the ti2nnral lr1n;
I The field 4: the next election. Il they have
any doubt a. to tn, corrcatngss Of my ASSET
tons, that doubt will be removed by The tact
that every Rag paper iii the District, railcti
and democratic, from The Nalicne! R"r'lboan
down, wnrhs far The re- r!.cion Of General
| llnninn.
| am, sir, most respectfully, your,
| COLUMBUS ALEXANDER