The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1882-04-05


WlILFULLY FALSIFIED THE
FACTS
to escape the Just indignation his words
have brought upon him II is one
thing 10 say what he admits he saws,
hut very different thing even in the
superlative ROBUSTNESS If his fun, to say
that he would pardon man that would
kill another. Admit for the sake Of
argument, alone, that the remark was
hut the spontaneous onlburst of the
Govern"r's long ptnt-up vii, ask in
all seriousness il ii was the proper sub
jet to joke about, hy the man who is
clothed with power to carry his offer
into execution, should some ruffan, moi
seeing the joke, rnwarlly aylay aud
kill me. But he j. not content with one
utterance of this huge joke, hut repeats
it in all it, charming POPULARITY TO
dozen men that can name besides hose
that ! give below, and this brings me
To- the source of my Information on the
subject. DIR. r. q. Young, of I.ancas.
: ter, gentleman against Whose veracily
no one dare speak, first informed me of
the matter. He says that the Governor
uttered the identical words that We first
printed That if he bad killed the
G-dd-n 81 of a h-h would par.
don him without trial or trouble" That
the conversation in which he used It
occurred IN the Cali House in Louisville
in the presence of several Others, among
them MIR. Hmley Singleton, uf l.ancas-
ter, and that the impression prO'luced
on them was that the Governor was
most deeply, deadly in earnest. That
he used the identical words ina CONVEX
sation with Mr.. \. NJ. iceland, late
Sheriff of the county, whu>e word i II
good a. any mans. Ii did not occur to
him that there was any joke about the
matter; on the contrary, he was i'm
pressed with the earnestness uf the silly
aud cowarlly old man | can name
other> who heard the same words at
other times, but the above are sufficient
until the proper time arrives, when, il
the Legislature 81 wills IL,
CAN PRODUCE MORETESTIMONN
than sufficient to convict Blackburn ten
times over. Now, let H. see if Black
burn was really Joking; He tells the
CD. man that the reason he ignored
my letter Of inquiry was "because had
maligned him without cause; had pub
li~hcd that lac ought to be hung, and that
he does not consider me gentleman"
Do men Joke when speaking of one
whom they regard with ~ much en-
nifty ~ the Governor does me? Does
a gentleman entertain his friends with
constant remarks about one whom he
does not recognize a. his equal? think
not. And ! believe II will he taken for
confessed, that in this matter Governor
Blackburn has shown his utter destitu-
ton of every sentiment Of propriety,
and has displayed the craven in using
words that he would not, save for the
distance between him aud his adversary,
and from the punishment OF which he
hopes to his age and position for pro-
lection. | am not disposed to discuss
the question of gentlemanliness with
such man, confident That my stand.
ing wherever am known entities me
to fully a, much respect and confidence
rs a brsptted, vaporing and childish odd
man.
The Governor cndeav0r- To divert the
mimi of the public from the real ques-
ton at ISSUE 10y charging that | have
maigned him and said that he ought to
In. hung" ] admit that have un re-
peated occasions
CENSU RED HIM SEVERELY
for hi unparalleled abuse of the pardon
ing power and shall continue to do 50
a long ~ there j. occasion, but have
never in the Hfeiipr .Lp"pdi, nor IN
conversation, maligned him. and defy
him to produce the proof that ever All
vOcated his execution. He knew never
did when he said So and again charge
him with classifying the facts to Shun the
odium he So Justly deserves.
Al that have ever written against
Gov. Blackburn has been on his capac-
ity as public official and his prohigacy
of the power conferred on him. A. q
citizen and rs an editor that was my
God.given'right and duty which | dare
rot shirk in justice to what conceived !
to he for the public good, and this IL the !
entire secret of Blackburn'S malignity
toward me. For this | am Outlawed !
for his there has been prize, ~ il were
put upon my head.
do not propose to handy epithets
with man so lost to every sense of the
high duties OF the position to which an
over sentimental people called him, hut |
do insist that the members of the 4g- |
stature investigate these charges, aud, |
If substantiated to their satisfaction, |
that they strip the wOuld-be Car, in the |
manner prescribed by the constitution,
of the kingly powers in which he inn
AGNES himself clothed.
w. =. WALTON.
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