Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-28
A SHOT FROM GEN. SHELBY.

EDITOR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES since the
Kansas City Journal published u statement pur-
porting to have been written from Concordia'
this county, in which the correspondent. for the
purpose of injuring Alex. Graves, and to preju-
dice the Germans against the eN-confederates.
resorted to statements that are false from the
beginning to the end. The Register, OF Lexlng-
ton, on the 18th OF this month re-pubiishea the
article. Had the German paper 1.-THE Missouri
Thalbote) ut COncordla not published ana CON-
mented upon i. as it has. l should have let II
pass unnotlced, but as l have u very great re-
gard for the Germans rs citizens and AS u people.
l am unwilling that my old command or myself
shall be placed in such a false position.
The correspondent says that l have intimateh
that 1 could control the German vote of Freedom
township. This statement is not only a lie, Dut
1t is an insult to the progressive and intelligent
citizens of ConcOrdia and vicinity. No such
remark ever fell from my lips, and no man OF
ordinary sense would assert that he or any othtr
man could WELD the Germans for political pur-
poses; the Ohio election demonstrates that.
The correspondent of the Journal says-''Shel-
by and his partisans are the living representa-
tIJes of IL cause that deprived this settlement Oh
some of its best and most honest men more thah
twenty years ago" The object Of this cowsrdly
correspondent nus lie luouAlSS y - ""S
read this article. His object is to arouse the
| feelings of war times. and prejudice the GEL
mans against Alexander Graves. from the fact
that he is endorsed by the confederate element
of this district. But in his effort to outrage
Graves he iorgets to tell the Germans that Col.
John I. Crisp and his III were a part and
a very important part of my command. IL he or
any other man inlimates that my command re-
sorted to assassination Or any other means saw
such us are recognized rs legitimate in war by
the civilized nations, he asserts what he knows
to be u malicious ialsehoOd.
IA to the German settlement: Neither nay
command or myself We're in it during the war
1t may have been that Col. Crisp's command i'm
pressed IL few horses from the settlement, bu'
beyond that l know no citizen could have hat
ground Tor complaint. A number OF Ger
mans are now residing III the said settlement
men with whom l did business before the war
They can speak and say ii l or my command
were there during the war; and many are ther'
that can attest that in lS52 and 1854. when in thi
county We only had about 300 Democratic voters
1 was OF the number, when the know nOthiDi
party numbered J. 100; and. farther. If this cor
respondent will show NE a republican voter Q
to-day who was u voter Of 1854. l will shoS
him u know n%othing-l mean the native Dor
!. voters-and these are the people who desire I
have the aid and support of foreign born Cit
zens; these same persons who once desired I
deprive them of citizenship, and these, too. Al
the same people who would like to force upo
them prohibition and any sumptusry act th
!, fanaticism Of their party might suggest. No,Mi
Editor, the issue OF slavery was all that evt
. separated the foreigner from the democrat
, party. That is gone and gone forever. and "
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