The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-25
cHALMEIss AND GALLOWAY
A Violent Denuneiatory Editorial
In the Memphis Appeal.

In the Memphis Appeal.
Times Dem0crat.
There are signs of blood upon the
face OF the moon, aud all owing to
an editorial which appeared in the
Appeal of "Wednesday, in which
which Gen. James Il. Chalmers, of
the Second congressional district
OF Mississippi, "is called political
ingrate aud traitor, and a hired per-
secutor OF old friends.'~ The etlito-
rial referred to MAS written bJ Col.
Matt z. GalloSsy, the seuior edit
or, who also, in the same article,
charges Chalmers with uttering Il
falsehood in saying that he, at the
request OF Col. Galloway, wrote
several editorials for the Appeal.
To this publication Gen. Chal.
mers Ielegraphed from Batesville,
Miss, TO the Avalanche AS follows: !:
Batesville, Miss, May l6.-I pub
ished Col. M. q. Galloway as a fal-
sitter ot his word, and like II cow
ard he says, you are another, aud
il he will furnish me with tue files
q5 his paper, will prove that he is
lot only liar, but a literary thief.
JAS. Il. CHALMERS.
In reply the Appeal, under the
caption of "The Coward's Refuge" /"
said editorially:
When Gen. James X. Chalmers
bartered his honor for money, turn.
ed traitor to his party and became
Il beggar for his share of the Hub.
bell corruption fuud, and the hired
prosecutor of old political friends
aud comrades in arms, it was sup.
posed he had reached the lowest
depth of iufamy, but his resources
are immense and he has added still
another shade to his disgrace. In
a card, published a few days since,
he made false assertion about the
senior editor of the Appeal. In re-
ply we branded him as common
slanderer and traitor, and accused
him OF coudnct unspeakably mean,
aud charged him with fabricating
aud utteriug an arrant falsehood.
He knew better than he knows he
has u soul that such language did
not admit Of u newspaper reply,
aud that hisonly recourse was per
sonal redress. But he pockets
these insults AMI seeks to shelter
himself iiom disgrace by the resort
OF the cowarl--a newspaper card
abusing us. lie boasts that he pub.
ished us asa talsitisr of our wor,i,
when his language is as follows:
ale (thusenior e,litor) volunteer
ed the assurance to me that would
never see in the editorial columns
OF his paper anything personally
offensive to me. The readers of the
Appeal know whether he has been
true to his volunteer promise or
not.'
1t will thus be seen that Gen.
Chalmers admits that we have per-
sonally offended him, makes the
readers of the Appeal witnesses to
prove these insults, and then would
have the world 10 believe that he
offered the FIRST offense. Gen. ChaI.
mers, you know, and the chivalrous
people of Mississippi know, that
such strategy is the cowardly sub
tertuge of poltroon. We brand
ed YOU with falsehood, as u traitor
and as guilty Of Conduct unspeak.
ably mean, and now you add TO your
own disgrace By making yourself
as great coward rs we have shown
you tcbe a liar.
1t Is not surprising that this po-
ltical vagabond aud unprincipled
wretch is now the dirtiest beast in
the filthy den of the republican
party, for when a knave gets his
own consent to disgrace friends,
party aud principles, he is univer-
sally more bitter and proscriptive
than the party to whom lie carries
the odium OF hiSgsod will, because
the apostate knows he is to live in
the hate and scorn of those whose
cause he has sold for plaoe--pnr.
chased with a corruption fluid, and
he hopes and expects by the zeal
| and noise Of a new convert to in.
spire the friends of his new associ
ates just in the same proportion
that he is losthed by those whom
he has deserted. But it is euidenl
the republican party is anxious to
rid itself of the weight of Chalmers
infamous character, and soon he will
be despised by those who love ths
treason while hating the traitof
Even now his touch is regarded as
pollution, aud his name never men
toned by honest men save In alb
horrenea and cOntgmOt.