Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-12

that position by making an uaproroked, un.
called for, basely false and co1oardly attack
upon a private citizen, who has tamely and
willingly submitted to the laws, awaits and
cour full investigation Of his conduct and
asks for nothing more from his countrymen
than fair trial and even handed justice
You, sir, have prostituted your high office to
array public opinion against me and have
Judgment passed without a hearing. Your
course was "unprovoked and uncalled.for, as
I had nerer expressed to any one the unbound
ed contempt had for you. Your attack is
"cowardly," for you assail me now when am
in the fetters of the law. Your attack is "base-
ly and maiciously false" for while you pro-
fess to "know no!hing of the merits of the
case," you carefully misrepresent (and to my
injury) the facts you do know. and you have
the brazen effrontery to use the words "swash
buckler" and "border rufianism." Your past
record should severely admonish you against
the use of such expressions. In addition to
your other qualities of heart and soul, you
may add that Of the basest ingratitude. A
sh ,rt time after you had completed your
campaign as peddler of bogus lottery tick
cts, you piteously appealed TO me to aid in
removing the barnacles and filth you had col.
lected on you in the foul wallow. You had
no claims upon me, but in pity for you gen.
erously urged my injured friends to give you
a fair hearing before you were condemned.
They await that clearing" now, General, but
doubtless will wait in vain. Subsequent to
this you cunningly, adrotly anu very polite
ly solicited the privilege ofinserting your hands
into my pockets, but politely declined the
distinguished honor. Can that be the sore
that chafes you now, General? or has your in
tuitive sharpness enabled you to read my un-
expressed thoughts, and that you are now my
enemy, for the reason that you know believe
you to be unscrupulous, heartless, totally sell
fish, cruel and cowardly? could not expect
or wish, General, that man Of your soulless
character could understand or in any manner
appreciate the motives that actuate and sus-
tain me in my present difficulties, nor would
I hope for sympathy from man who has
recently been branded in public as liar, and
who only sought redress by returning the Of
fensive epithet. As you have heretofore on
all occasions been for sale to friend or toe,
Radical or Democrat, the idea occurs to me
as to the propriety of buying you for the pres
ent occasion. Please, General, name your
price? E. &c. CASH.
Senator Butler was interviewed recently in
Columbia BY correspondent Of the Neus
and Courier in relation to the above letter.
When asked what action, if any, he intended
to take concerning it, he said:
Colonel Cash's letter to me shows him to
be lunatic or blackguard. and, of course, 1
cannot notice him in either capacity. / have
done him no harm, and if I had injured him,
it is usual among gentlemen, at the first step,
to ask for an explanation. Instead of this he
has chosen to write me letter by mail which
does him more harm than it does me. He
is welcome to all the glory that he may acquire
from this vulgar and coarse exhibition of
bad and malicious heart. have not noticed,
and do not intend to notice, anything he may
saw"