The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-01
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"MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING"
Under the above caption the Abbeville
Press and Banner has the following reply
| to the article of the INTELL1GENcEa, in
reference to its statement about certain
gentlemen of Abbeville County who
| have traded in Anderson during the
past season:
A few weeks ago the Anderson INTEL
L1GENcER said something about the
Messrs. Magee going to Anderson to sell
their cotton, when we predicted that they
would not do so again. Later we stated
! in the columns of the Press and Banner
upon authority Of as reliable and truth
| full man as there is in Abbeville or An
derson County, that these gentlemen were
dissatisfied, and that they had said they
could have done better at Hodges OF
Dopalds. It seems from the following
card, that our reporter had himself been
misinformed:
| HODGES DEPOT, S. c., March Is.
Editors Press and Banner:
Your notice in last weeks paper of our
dissatisfaction of Anderson's cotton mar
| ket, &C., is untrue. Your informer has
made wide mistake. w. P. MCGEE did
not 20 at all. We were we'll pleased and
| we'll paid could have bought cotton at
Donaldsville on our return, hauled to
Anderson, and made good wages.
Respectfully,
NJ. B. MCGEE,
J. T. MCGEE.
In addition to the above the Anderson
INTELL1GENcER has long article which
that paper requests us to reprint in the
Press and Banner. But as it is written in
manner and style not in keeping with
the character of our paper the INTELLI-
GENcER has no right to complain if we
refuse to crafty its wishes in this par
ticular. Except for the bantering way
in which that paper chronicled the fact
that Abbeville planters had gone to An
derson to sell their cotton, its paragraph,
as it deserved to be, would not have been
noticed by us. In our allusion to it, we
had no feeling in the matter, but merely,
as we thought, accepted its invitation to
exchange little pleasantly. AS it turns
out, however, that paper seems disposed
to give Importance to a matter of no con-
sequence whatever. We have no time or
disposition to handy words with the IN
TELLIGENCER about matter unworthy
of a moments consideration.
This, coming from the Press and Ban
ner, is the most sublime piece of impu-
dence we have met with in many day.
To begin with, the INTELL1GEScER did
not, few weeks ago, say anything about
the Messrs. McGee coming to Anderson
to sell their cotton. 1t is not in keeping
with our taste or habits to parade the
names and private affairs of gentlemen
in the INTELLIaENCER. We merely said
that some prominent citizens" Of Able
vile County, residing near Donaldsville,
came to Anderson to sell cotton, &C., and
it was our supercilious contemporary,
whose paper has such an exalted and
pure "manner, style and character" in
its own estimation, that put the names of
these gentlemen in public print. Now
the Press and Banner seems to take great
exception to our article correcting its
mistake, and pronounces our manner
and style not in keeping with the charac-
ter" of that paper. If We have trans.
gressed propriety We are not aware of the
particular, and there is certainly nothing
in our article to which gentleman with
clear conscience would take any excep-
ton. But to define clearly the issue be-
tween the Press and Banner and the IN
rELL1GENcER upon this point: we call
upon our contemporary to quote any por-
tion of our article which he has cause to
complain of, that the public may know
exactly the ground he has for his ridicu-
lously self.righteous condemnation of the
ISrELL1GEScER, and if he does not show
the matter of which he complains, then
the public will see how glib our neighbor
is to make charges and how slow he is to
prove them. If he will publish his own
article to which we replied, the public
will see that we simply took him up in
his own style, and from the force of stub.
born facts he came off second best, and
the effort of our thin-skinned neighbor
"to exchange a little pleasantly" became
exceedingly disgusting to him so soon as
the fun was turned upon him. So far as
the remark of our spiteful neighbor, that
he has no time or disposition to handy
words with us, is concerned, we can as
sure him that it is his own fault that
there have been any words, for if he had
not misrepresented the Anderson market,
and made statements about some of It's
patrons which were incorrect, there
would have been no words between us.
However whenever the Press and Banner,