The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-23
ShOccO TO Citizen,
Editor Brookhapea Leaaer.

Edttor BroohhaueR Ledger.
Upon reading Citizens last sarcastic
salley at myself, | concluded to review
his first letter to the Iedger, and
confer old Dame Hearsay, whom Clti~
zen quotes 50 freely upon my political
record.
about my remarks about his letters
published in the Ledger, unless he
was Iaborine under another attack of
worms. The facts stated in my letter
nave always been public and well
known, and can be s~ubstantlated by
m ,dreds of worthy men and women
till living. As to the correctness of
f the two statements of CItlzen and
| myself, l leave ii to the public to de-
.ide. aud carnot for my life see the
sense Of raising so great a hue aud cry
bout the matter, aud charging me
With political heresy, and according TO
ttiZens views a Greenbacker ia not
| vnthy of aly credeuce whatever
Where is the man that Will resort to
| such means, uuless laboring in n bad
anse. If he had been Informed of the
| uliing alluded to in my letter, so much
the worse for him, and shows that he is
| not posted. The facts remain true
| never the less. Citizen claims to have
, zen an infant at the time of the kill
ing, and puts the date Of the same rs
flows: zone twenty four years ago.
| nd one twenty years ago. Nov what
IL vnur readers think when [ inform
them that Citizen was married ten or
| .l.yen years ago, and still he never
| ,eard of one of his neighbots being
| xillnd. 1t is a poor evasion to say that
| killing occurred in GaIlatiu when al
| he parties lived near Caseyville, ant
he misfortune had been brewi G for
| months previously aud it was expected
! hat one or both the parties would be
! <illed at the first meeting of the two.
| Now suppose that Citizen is correct
that white men do not kill white men
| n his vicinity" Who in the name of
| -hnnder do they kilt? Strange that
| citizen should publish that his contry
vas at peace when a great CRIMINAL case
vas pending IN the courts against citl-
zans of his imme late neighbnrhOoi.
n which Citizen. together with many
,thers. was gravely Interested in brings
NO the criminals to Justice. If Casey
Vile is a qnlet neighborhood, then WHY
hat military orgariz ~ there with
Citizen as one of its members for tn"
suppresslou of lawlessuess? Whit
Citizen is pleased to launch anathemas
~tgainst all whom he suspects If pplltl
al heresy, will he pi 'ase tell Us it the
parties complained OF by the organic =
sion were not of the same pDlitlca
" I..,,IFG ~ mil thau mt
boast of as much artho loxy in thai
i've as he could? The pr coed ngs Of a
naatine held. Mt or near CasevviIIe. and
published in the Ledger of My 22nd.
1879 rather conflicts With Citizens
statements of peace and quiet at Casey
Vile.
After soeaking of the religious status
IT Clsayville. Citrzan gives an account
If the roguas Whereabouts. Hear him
~ do not know of a white rogue. very
f,w colorei rognes, about half a dozen
Greenbackers, the balance Democrats v
He,a vo1r readers will readily see that
tha Graenharkers aud Democrats are
mt Town with the roguAs. Wlll he
please tell rs the ccior Of the Green
backers and Democrats against whom
no brings this charge? Rather n
strange charge to be brought against a
oartv by it's own self constituted cham
pins.
How are we to understand a man VIII"
blows hot and cold at the same breath?
Tn. attampt of CITIZEN TO make sport
# n oantiamqn hv calling him a
s'sfump. puIIer' has been treated with
that silent contempt that is richly de-
eervad. Knowing as he did that 1t was
an epithat used against m argument
which Citizen had not the ability to
meet.
CITIZEN pronounced the Greenback
party the "biggesU humhug that he
ever read of Judging from his lgno
once Of the history OF his little ne'ghN
borhood one would think his reading
or information rather thin. when he
advises certain parties to ''crawl INTO
the hole and phil it in after them he
forgets to set mp his quotation marks.
Int plagarlzes the language ri a hero
who died forty four years ago. Come
now. Citlzen, 'houor among thieves. !"
Bv wav of conclusion. I will just tell
what hparsav saws. Tt says that Citizen
at one time had serious Infections of
Joining the Bulldoozers, and was by
them counted as one; but when that
everlasting military company was or,
qanizad he. like the bat. went over to
the strongest side (see A. e. Sop's
fables). and using the language of one
of the attorneys in the aforesaid crilni~
nal cases ''boramr a swift witness
against one Brunt Smith for BULLDOG
ing.
T am not surnrispd Mt the ignorpnce
Of Citizen az far as the countrv's history
is concerned. since hearsav tells MS that
a short time since Citizen in company
with Frank shannon. OF Claiborne
county. riding together. came upon a
covered bridge. Citizen refused to en-
ter the bridge, says that 1t didn't look
right to ride into a mans honsn. bnt
proposed that as that was the first gro
cerv they had came to. they would dis
mount. 90 in and take a drink.
Now Citizen I will close with nv
warmest regards. recommending to Won
that vou 90 through a good course of
worm medicine or doctors truck"
and refer Won to P. Hen1Y's advertise
ment in the ledger. SHOCCO.