The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05
Brother Dams Weak Refuge.

given ce1OdtiW ~ tueFdttm, Puhcfud-
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Editor Cronicle
As you have done me the i4juatic
to publish me to the world as q ras-
cal in Office hope you will undo
some of the wrongs you have done
therein by publishing the following
affidavit an exact copy of the original.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
Parish of Grant.
Personally COME and appeared before
me the undersigned authority Wilson
Prestrige ex depty sheriff Of the Parish
OF Grant who declared upon oath that
the two dollars charge alleged against
Daniel Fletch in the COlfax Chronicle
was made and collected under instr ,c-
tions from sheriff C.. X. Nugent also that
the charge Of fifteen Dollars and fifty
cents collected of aunt Pud as Jail fees
for Henderson Reed was the amount of
fees accrued in previous suits and ordered
by sheriffy Nugent and not at the insti-
cations of Daniel Fletcher.
Sworn and subscribed this 2lst day
September A. D. 1875.
WILSON PREsrRIDGE.
Now Sir think l have proven
c0nclusively the falsity of your
charge and established my inncense
and the above is not the only in-
stance wherein you and your betters
have falsely accused me. would not
your time and theirs be more crcdi-
tably and probably employed in ex-
paining to the Tax payers of Grant
Parish the Modes Operandi by which
they ware compelld to pay to ex-
Orbitant tee of one dollar for being
published delinquents Then thease
Mode refOrmers can stand open the
high ways and say aloud with holy
terror extertiOn in Office But it mat
ter little with me what you say
about me in the CrOnicle as for |
read it and none believes it I am too
well known in Grant Parish to suf-
fer by your calamnies For if as You
admitted at Fat Toms Tea Party
last Saturday that you told many a
lie while editing Radicle paper in
arkansas for the money l have no
reason to dout your ability and pref
ance for that calling now It's your
bread and meat But the Strange part
of the whole proceedings was the
wilful an malicious neglect of Judge
Raglan to Sign his name to the above
affidavit after Mr. Prestridge was
sworn Father horn of the delem will
gore it matter not which you take
hold of BROTHER DAN.
In the outset we would inform
Brother Dan that our betters do
not reside in Grant parish, nor in
any other parish. As to his pnrile
filings at the CHRONICLE, and of ito
editor having lied for money. 10
such admission having been made.
We do not feel called upon to answer,
rs these statements bear the lie on
their face, and are bnt specimens
OF the writer's own depraviiy and
the great strait he is in to hide his|
own infamy, which he tries to do
by scandalizing somebody else.
He asks us to explain why the
delinquent taxpayers of Grant
parish were compelled to pay fee
of one dollar for being published
as delinquents. We will do SO with
pleasure. and refer him to The law
on the subject See Acts of 1877,
No. SO. Section 40. Brother Dan
and some others have made the
mistake of supposing that . ,ction
i0l, of this same cot is the law on
this matter, whereas that section
applies to New { rleans Only, and
comes under the head OF "Mode of
Assessment in the parish of Or
leans" One dollar is the fee fixed
by law for the publication of deIin-
quent taxpayers, and that is the
the tax collector has col
lector for that purpose, and it is
the amount that will be collected
bereafter for the same object.
There is not personal acquaint-
ance of Capt. Nash's in Grant par
ish that believes that he would
make wrongful charge on any
man, eren y he ,uos instructed to do
50, as Brother Dan says he was
when be made his extortions.
Brother Dams letter is m at
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