The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-12
Jack.o-ville Corre.po.de.ce.


Jacksonville Correspondence.
Sun and Press Endorses Mr. Davis Lies-Opens
it. Columns for Further &andero-s Letters
Saayev has Fsized to Refute HSckS Lies-He En-
dorsss them By Ais Silence Has not Rs6lished TIE
denial Of 40 men in HSeks' Aeme-D Defeat 10 Star
ing them in the Faos and tAey are getting Des-
perats "A scortAg Mechanics Statement made
light Of 6y Sa,eyer-His Character Beyond Re
proaeh-A Licing Witness Of. Hicks Pulpit Lies
TO Iajxrs the State Is their Object, By Death
Stab to fmnssgrants-A Secret Combination and
aceH Matured Plans By the Carpet Baggers to sf
feet 1t By Secret C0rrespon6enes-" Murder ciA
ot t"-Treason to the State They should Be In
dicted-SinaOn don't scant Bis6ee Elected and
Bsi5ee don't soant Simon Elected = LedciM a
Shuttle Cock for both Of them and the Cloen Of
Bis6ee's CSrcus-Hs noss Is R4nniag his oscn Cir
cus, " Vindicating," and has knight for has
CIOon-~ Moral InnoceaceT and Grounds on
schich to QuasA = Guns Spiked and all Fight
ing Ceased = " Kilkenny eats," ssiR decour each
otter-Good Radiance - So Mote Il be p'-Vis-
iting Statesmss = HHaAes g anted"-ConOcer
Stops 0rer.
JACKSONVILLE, October 9, 1880.
In my last letter was in some doubt what
course the Sam and Press would pursue in regard
to the wicked, malicious and lying letter of DIR.
Davis 10 his friend, Mr.. Demott, of Seneca Falls,
n Y; whether it would sustain its sub-editor in
his lies repudiate his ISLANDERS on the people of
this State. To my aslonishmenL it would seem
by the Sun and Press of Tuesday morning last,
October 9th, that Mr.. Sawyer stands by all that
DIR. Davis has written. for he has opened the col
umns of his paper to DR.. Davis 70 reiterate what
he said and gives him three columns to try to
sustain the charges he made and to back them
up by extracts from various newspapers and
slanderous letter written by one William Kirk,
dated Pensacola, September 9Th. This is also
pricdte letter, possibly not intended to meet the
public eye, bat, like the letter Of DR.. Davis, was
considered as likely to make political capital at
the North, and might add mite by publication
to suppress the stampede now going on there by
Independent Republicans to the Democratic
insult TO injury, and in its desperation, with an
initiation TO it and its party in November next
staring ii in the face, has put itself forward as
the champion in the destruction of the settlement
of this State by Northern men. Seeing, % be-
fore said, defeat to the whole Republican ticket
staring them full in their faces, they now must
have revenge on the State and her prosperity by
doing her Us much injury as possible, in prevent
ing immigration, and are now concocting and
promulgating lies against her people and circu-
lating them in cowardly and sneaking manner
all over the North. This is no doubt precon-
certed action on the part of the carpet-baggers; !;
at least it has very much that appearance, for
you see letters OF like character, one from Pcnsa
cola and one from jacksonville, dated within q
few days ofeach other, and appearing about the
same time at the North in Republican journals.
Hicks, when in Maine, in the pulpit and on the
stump, we know told Of 0utrages tkat neuer &C.
esrred, and his neighbors thirty or more in num-
Der, came out over their names and pronounced
them false. Has the Saa and Press printed that
denial, to have it 60 TO the people OF Maine
through its exchanges in that State No. Has
not the ISnn and Press stood by as willing party
TO have the ISLANDERS and lies OF Hicks go unde-
MED in Maine? Don't Sawyer, by this course,
endorse Hicksf And has he not made himself
an endorser of his liesi When the evidences of
one OF our citizen mechanics, who had hired,
while in Maine, . hand to work in his shop here,
came out over his name and showed that Hicks
in the pulpit and on the sslmp had pictured the
condition Of Florida ~ unsafe for any Northern
man 10 live in, and actually prevented that do
sirable immigrant and his family from coming
here-one who might have been the means Of
bringing other settlers-what reply did Sawyer
make to that exposuref That the card had bet
ter be supported By IN cath . 10 the fActAs No
one here doubted the facts; the mechanic il .
man OF character and repuiati0n, and b willing
now 70 make oath 10 al he says were II neces-
sary Now comes 10 light Dr.. Davis letter. and
the course Of the Ssn and Pfss goes 70 confrm
that tn editor s in full sympathy with The SLAM
derers. and endorses the slandem by throwing
open ifa columns to the slAndesers, not only to
justify all he has said but 20 confirm The justice
Of his attack ON Southern people By quotipg
largely in support Of them I make the charge,
and feel that am warfznted in doing % nom
the evidences now bessrs me, tlas Ghis ssatsw q
ssesst essvsspondsnds i siss1 matsvsJ sad esysa-
Ipist % ~ part n Rspssiesas b sis dssth-
stab 70 imssigratioa.
Don't think for Q moment ] include an the
Republicans in the State - being connsctsd
win shis band Of frsiicrs The bsnd d COM
posed Of the carpes-hag element, man who have
no landed interest, no Anything n stake. saye
ones ard piunder en which they have existed
~ years past They 80 their support and living
passing away and this w0uld seem : lasf and
desperate resort 10 inict ths grsaiesk injury pos
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