The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-03-26
ONCE MORE.
POWDER SPRINGS, Mar. IS, 1885.

POWDER SPRINGS, Mar 10, 1859.
Messrs. Editors-Brer Mckinney thinks
he has the bull by the horns and is ready to
shout Glory glory 4" but if he is not very
careful before the contest is over, he will be
mistaken We have some good "Krupp
guns and will use them should it become
necessary. We do not care to be shooting
Napoleons at little cock sparrows and we
are not going to let him constitute himself
judge and jury and us cannon, put and ans
wer questions TO suit his own. No.
Brer Mckinney you have bitten off
rather large chunck and we do not believe
you can swallow it. But we don't want to
shake you up like unto that upheaval that
the Cultlvator man gave you. You are GER
tainly deficient in law Having made your
statement before the jury instead of produc-
ing evidence to sustain your case, you turn
to the defendants and ask fsuch and such is
true. Great Jehosophat We tell you
hundred times, mob We told you before, you
had been msled or misinformed and we tell
you again that what you have said origina-
ted from conversation between club man
! and one of his best friends between whom
there is not the slightest misunderstanding
and both of whom are ready to testify to this
fact. If you will not accept this we will
have to class you with those who have ears
| and hear not and have eyes and see not So
there was no spotting, no folly and there is no
| conversion, and the remarks remain as APP
| plicable to other places as they are 70 Pow
der Springs. And that leaves you to your
old trade of building up straw men and de-
molishing them.
When we told you about the cotton being
| sent out the warehouses here to be sold in
| Marietta, we thought that you had mental
acumen enough to see the drift of the affair,
but we see it did not penetrate The mer-
chants and buyers aided and abetted and
would have been better pleased if the farm
ers had received much more than they did
for their cotton. Did you ever see a man
question another's right to buy and sell
wherever he pleases2 Great Scott What
do we want with larger pieces or heavier ar
| tillery? Pop guns would do for this sort of
game. You disclaim any reference to one
fthe largest buyers, now no more. The
ether largest buyer declares that he did not
use any such language about buying cotton
or sporting farmers, nor did any of the firm do
such thing, and moreover he advised them
not to. Now if you did mean it for the one
dead, and the one living denies it most en-
phatically and you cannot establish it you
will have to build up another dialogue to
meet the issue.
Ifyou do not understand this thing, cot
ton buyers in Marietta who sold to that buy
er do Do you understand why dealers in
fertilizers cut the price here last year and
this year too and for which they get no cred
it. Come now, honest Indian, translate that
Is party entitled to any more praise
who for one year gave a little more for cot
ton than party who for two years cut the
price offertizers and by this procedure
gave it to the farmers for less
| We champion no man, nor set of men,
and we have no anchor to heave to the wind
ward. We say let justice be done though
the heavens fall We fight for our own dis
trict and town teeth and toe nail and will
not prove an alien to their interest. We
are peaceable and serene, and hope these
few lines will find you enjoying the same
blessing.
If we do not write all this or did not write
all the other, it says just what we wish to
say and we will not put you to the test by
asking the same question for we know that
farmers generally are not given to well
rounded proverbs or elegant diction but are
rather disposed to murder the Kings En-
glSh, and leave the printer or editor a good
deal Of work to do. Requiescat in pace.
T. p LINDLEY,
| j. NJ. CHRISTIAN.
| IN. B-Having given both sides engaged
in the above controversy equal showing and
as there can be no possible good to grow GU,
of it, we must close our columns to further
discussion, except at the usual advertising
rates. -EDlroRs JOURNAL.
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