Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-19
w. LEIGH WILSON.


reply. l have remained in Wytheville
all day Wednesday, and have stated on
she streets to every one l have met that l
was ready to prove the genuineness of
the letters so far as | was concerned, but
neither Captain Blair nor any of his
friends have given me an opportunity to
do so. l believe those letters are genu-
inc. and here assert that they are genuine
| say this because l have received large
number of letters from Captain Blair
perhaps fifty--and they were never denied
or questioned, and the two now for the
first time denied were parts of a running
correspondence, and fitted in too well
to be spurious. The handwriting of all
the communications received by me
from Captain Blair is the same, as far as
[ have been able to judge. was at Sa-
lem when l heard of Captain Blair's de-
NAL, and came from there directly to
Wytheville My trunk, containing near
" all my letters, was at the Yellow Sui
phur Springs, so that | was not able TO
get at them without losing day, but l
found at Salem two other letters from
Captain Blair, which a friend of his,
Mr.. JOS +. Hurt, carried to-day to Cap
tain Blair, and he pronounced them to
De genuine. "
Wilson here publishes two letters,
which are admitted to be genuine, in
which Blair acknowledges Wilson's ser
vices in working up delegations in his
interest for the Congressional nomina-
tons, and refers to money drafts which
he had sent him. Wilson then continues:
81 will produce other letters as soon
as | 90 TO the Yellow Sulphur and have
access to my trunk. Now, in conclusion,
l desire to say that the letters denied by
Capt. Blair were received by me in due
course of mail; that they were so re-
ceived at the time they bear date, and
have ever since been IN my possession
until last Thursday, when | delivered
them to Capt Geo. ID. Wise at Big
Lick; and | hereby declare that any man
who says or int mates that they were
not so received by me, and at the time,
is a falsitier. further declare that any
person who SAYS that | have forged or
uttered those letters knowing or be-
lieving them to be forged letters is a
falsiier, and the person or persons who
L
ever received any pay or consideration
of any sort for surrendering the posses
sion of those letters is falsitier and a
villain. If Captain Blair is willing to
submit the question of his responsibility
for these letters to a fair test challenge
him to sue me for libel, and l will find
ample security to make good all the
damages he may recover.
Nv. LEIGH WILSON"
Here the matter rests for the present.
As Blair made no published denial prior
to the receipt of Wilson's letter, he will
hardly venture to do so now in the face
of the latter's positive declarations.
While all the Readjuster leaders may
not take such a practical view of the
colored brothers usefulness, the level
headed darkies will be apt to suspect the
interest that Malone & Co. take in them,
and with them to suspect is to desert.
The mass of the negroes, too, when they
come to comprehend the document, will
not be consumed with admiration Of pro
fessed friends, whose only use for them
is to vote them. As things look, Mr..
Blair and his friends are about to realize
truth with which he was impressed as
to the negrO-''he is very tricky"
1t is TO be hoped that Northern adver-
tisers Of the old-fashioned and now
disused Southern outrage mill will give
this edifying document wide circulation.
As a contrast to alleged Bourbon
coarseness and brutality it is refreshingIy
refined.