The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11


 and inexcnsable, coming from one clothed in ministerial robes, and as editor of q journal in worthy cause. I should feel more than gratified to know that when the crisis comes which will call for it that "a grateful public will erect pile of honoring stones over Dr. Winfieid's ashes, marked from top to bottom with sen tentlous and epigrammatic eulogy." For Dr. Winfield I have always en- tertained much respect and regaid, and would be the last to detract from or asperse his good name. It seems remarkably strange, however, that while the editor of the Temperance Banner would accord to ssCoI. Scott's memorial slab, birth, name and death, ? the insignificant evidence in his opinion that I had existed, that he should become so suddenly fright ened and alarmed at my importance as to exclaim, ssdelr me. wait till we recover breath; Scott is after ns." In this he is much mistaken and surely means some one else, 1 am innocent of the charge. "J. Homer Scott" or Jno. R. Homer Scott, if the article was intended for the lat ter is not guilty of scurrilous or in :. decent remarks about him, Dr. Win field or any one else, and although his monumental slab" may only 'sspeak a name, birth and death,' he has the consolation of Knowing, at least, that his record for honor, pro- pity and sobriety will compare fay orably, and in the latter virtue and characteristic especially, Tn juxtapo- sition with the editor of the Banner. That while he and his paper are ad- vocates of temperance and sobriety we practice it, and have always done so from our earliest infancy up to our present ripe old age of sixty seven years; unlike our ironic and sarcastic censor, if Madame Rumor has~not misrepresented him heretofore, in which, however, we are glad to know he has reformed {, 1 have never been guilty of suffering one single drop of alcoholic liquid to go down my throat as a beverage by which my nobler nature or manhood could be debased and subjected to rldicule and reproach and holy, re- spectable and honored calling in society jeopardized or forfeited.
 I regret much to make even this allusion, but hls personal and scur- rillous attack upon me has forced me to it; and had the editor in form ed himself before he penned the arti cle, and have recollected the adage that ''those who live in glass houses l should never throw stones," and of Davy Crockett's laconlc answer to lthe letter of his would be son in law in asking the hand of his daughter in marriage, "always be sure you are right, then go ahead" he would have found no cause for assailing me personally, and I should have been spared the necessity of this answer and allusion to faults and foibles which if ever possessed by him, I had hoped might slumber, and whom I had always respected and admiredf or his oratorical ability and eloqaence in the pulpit and the rostrum, but whom l have uncon- seiously offended, eliciting from him an humble inscription over my ashes of "birth, name and death" and an admission that such person as Scott was born, lived and would unwept, unhonored and unsung, die without being so fortunate as to have 'sententious and epigrammatlc eulo- gies" engrayen on 8 monumental slab," and which have never sought or contemplated, would be erected by grateful public, and which may or may not be found over my ashes, a matter wholly dependent upon the ability of my family, should it ever be done, and the failure of which might add to the pleasure of an un- christian heart and cause him to ex- ut and exclaim, veni, vidi, vici lull- ing his conscience with the glory that sic transit vita.
 I am now about done. Such effu- sions are not agreeable, sought for, or desired, and never indulged in voluntarily, and only then in self defence when assailed without any knowledge of having gwen cause or offence. This is the first time, and