Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-09-22

d.. j. n. Nh, ArtsosA, La.
Dear sir-whsn I wrote before oonessn-
ing Jour bloody shirt letter 70 the National
Journal, was acting editor Of the Clai-
borne Guardisn-now I write over my
own signature. In your communication
to last weeks Guardian you made . far
fetched effort to evade the direct issue BY
trying to engross the libellous language
of your letter to the journal, with .
lengthy extract, in substance, from the
Centennial History Of tho United States.
As TO whether Clay or Adams, Crawford
or Jackson, was President, is not the ques-
tion-this ! could have learned from al
most any school boy Of ten Year, old
Neither do raise the point - TO whether
you were reared in Colnmbis county or
defeated in your political aspirations in
Hampstead county-this is collateral TO
the main issue. have made no attack on
your personal character. The question IL:
Does your letter to the Journal bear trstA
on it, .faoe' This letter of yours, and
nothing moro, have / attacked, and It 10 .
political document. You told me that you
would establish the truth Of this letter, -
space had been rendered you in the Guar
dian. You have made an effort, spun out
a long political hsrraDgue and made, in
the estimation Of al, signal failure.
In your communication to the Guardian
you heap abuse upon the Republican party
and carpet-baggers, and say that you are
astonished that "the Southern people LEFT
even one of these Northern pups unhuug."
Hoping thereby, presume, to alleviate the
feelings Of u people .As. feel slsndered by
your letter to the Journal. And you con-
clude the paragraph by saying, THE only
remedy possible for q bettermeut Of the
future is in the speedy disntegration of
solid North against solid South" Now,
no letter or document written by . private
taking into consideration the
influence Of the writer, ever went from
the South to the North, even in the days
when carpet-baggers ruled, that had q
greater tendency to steel the Northern
hearts against the Southern people, than
your letter TO the Journal, which only
adds fuel to the FIRE that already burns.
You say that misconstrued your letter.
Perhaps 30, but the public generally made
the same mi-construction and approved of
what said. Aud no minds have changed
by your communication to the GUARDIAN.
In your letter to the Journal you say, I'VE
are for Weaver and Chambers, and will not
be intimidated any longer by the shotgun
system at the bsllot-b box, and it should be
so understood at once by all The copdi-
ton Of Louisiana demands help at once"
And from this every reasonable mind is
forced to the conclusion that you intended
to create IN impression upon the Northern
minds that the ballot box In Louisiana has
heretofore been controlled by tho shotgxa
system. And in your effort to establish the
truth of this groundless insinuation you
the killing Of Dixon in Missis-
sppi-a matter in which the ballot box
played no part, and his slayers have all
been acquitted by the courts of that State.
Also the capturing Of the ballot-b box in
parish. This case il still in the
courts. When on trial in the District
Court there was = failure TO prove that the
shotgun system controlled the ballot box,
and an appeal was taken. The case will
be passed on by the Supreme Cont at
in October next. You have.
mentioned no established fact that has the
least tendency to substantiate the spirit Of
your letter to the journal. Then what
does your letter meant fou have failed
totally failed, 10 make n satisfactory ex-
aud still claim that the infer
ence necessarily TO he drawn from your
letter is not true, and hold it up to the
public gaze ~ al instrument that is con-
iemned by the people among whom you
live.
Now. Doctor, al a personal friend, for ]
assure you personally have the very hest
If feelings for you. ! would suggest that
you write to the National Journal, &C.
that you have committed q
political error, u thing that we all are
liable to do,) and done great injustice TO
your neighbors and friends, and all will be
we'll. Respectfully,
F.. II. McCLLNDON.
The poetry Walking by Jesus Of course
can't be published. As there is no name