Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-30
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nave DooH Watching ana Waltlno, uedr
Judge, hoping that when the convention
should come off at Knoxville that you would
see the trap into which you have been en-
shared by your enemies, and that you would
desert them and escape for thy life," but
still you are led blind-folded by the enemies
of your soul, and of all the undesirable
''hubbubs' of earth they are getting you
into the most undesirable. Perhaps, how
ever, it is well enough you have entered
this race; had you not we never would have
known how cruelty you have been treated
at Washington. The people of the city and
the representatives of fifty millions of peo-
pie would make fun at you and even point
the finger of scorn when you was SO sick
that you could not walk alone through the
streets and through the Congressional balls
Then that yillain0us rascal Mr.. Barley
Corn, dastardly stole into your room and
put poisonous drug into your drinkn
cup. Then the policeman capped
1t all by putting you in the
station house when you were so
crazy that you forgot your own name, and
signed 'L. Campbell instead of l.. c.
Houk. Il am also sorry that you did not
forget that you were Congressman from
rennessee.) But
ooh, wouldn't like to catch him, whoever
he may be;
Wouldn't give him particular fits"
That pizened Houk, of Tennessee.
Judge, if ever 1 do, knowingly, run
across that MIR. Barley Corn who pizened
you, and have it in my power, I'll not hang
him nor shoot him, but I'll dig a trench one
mile wide and one hundred miles long, will
niaca nd oil tba G.
II, will heat them right hot, then touch fire
to them, and thus destroy the whole Barley
Corn generation SO there will never be any
more of them i'll existence. Then I would
be perfectly willing for you to go to Con-
gress. There would be no. danger of your
being poisoned and then locked up in tie
station house.
But Mr.. Barley Corn and his entire fam
lily are still foot-loose, gong about seeking
whom they may poison, and if you don't
stay away from temptation, | fear some of
these times he will put drug in your cup
large enough to lana you INFO place less
desirable than even the station house at
Washington. Oh, friend, flee from the
tempter; withdraw from this race. You
can't afford to sacrifice your lfe and your
soul just to get to Congress. Billy Rule |
can represent our interest up there |
do VIGIL Jou Olu DdIlSJ
Corn never trouble you with his drugs, |
and certainly much better under the present |
circumstances.
Now, Judge, | want to get close to that |
once noble and feeling heart of yours, and |
ask you if your conscluce, seered as it may |
be, don't torment you for that very unbe- |
coming, slanderous TRADE upon your former |
presiding elder, the Rev. j. A. Ruble. |
Don't you know that you may sheer and
pour your cOntemptous bowls at him thou |
sand times, accusing him of speaking false |
ly, etc, yet every man, woman and child |
that knows Mr.. Ruble, will never doubt but !
he speaks the truth, while you lie. They |
all know that you are trying to sheer Oft a |
truth that plerces you to the heart. The t
Holston Conference decides that Mr.. Ruble |
is no disgrace, but an honor to his church |
and calnng and the world VIII not believe |
even you, when you speak to the contrary.
A. minister he is only doing his duty, not I
Ill fighting you, for he loves you, but in tax |
ing his stand against vice and drunkenness, in |
favor of virtue and sebriety. Judge Houk, |
the Methodist Church has taken you out |
OF the quagmires of sin and degradation,
have tried to reform you and make you
man, and have borne with your transgres- /
SONS long. Yet, by your own vile life, you
have driven even the sipner-loving and |
long -forbearipg Methodist Church from |
you. Now, III token of your gratitude for
her many mercies toward you, when dury
has compelled the church to turn from you,
you hurl false TRADE upon one of her
leading ministers hurl it back upon you
sir, as the most ungrateful and the most
wicked assault of the age. While the
Methodists of this district viii not take re-
venge, yet assure you that as body and
as a rule with the pastors setting them an
example, in this Congressional race, as in |
other affairs of life, they will take their
sta d against vice and drunkenness.
But 1 am still your friend, Judge, and
my advice is for you never again TO deny
that you said Garfield will go down in in
fanny" but say, ''Some rascal had put a
drug in my cup"
l speak the most sincerely when l say it
would be the best for all concerned for you
to withdraw; for the prospects are that you
will be beaten, and were 1t possible for you
to be elected, it would be a misfortune to
your party and the people, and a calamity
10 you. Come, dear friend, avoid tempta-
ton. Reform your life. Spend your re-
naming few years in your Masters service,
preparing for eternity. His grace is bound
less. Come now, let Us reason together,
saith the Lord, though you sins be as
scarlet they shall be white as snow; though
they be red like crimson they shall be as
wool" AS ever, your faithful friend,