The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-07-24
Bulldoxers In the court Room:
Natcbit5ches Parish. Juiy az 1853.
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EDITOR CoLFAx CHxoNTcI&:
In the issue of your paper Ut the 18th; there
appears q card from Il. h Cameron charging
certain parties with having entered your cvurt
house In 1852, heavily armed and for the purpOse
parish, and releasing from custody II. Z. Brown,
OF Bapides parlsh, then undergoing trial for the
murder Of one Moore, also a citizen OF Kapides.
say from inquiry yon had learned the names of
tho parties alluded 10, and that was among the
number Of Mr.. CamerOn's IMAGINARY hulldOzers.
! say imaginary. because don't think that such
an impression could have originated any where
except in the fertile brain Of a crank after a
protracted spree. was in hopes that after the
body OF poor Guiteau had passed through the
sulphuric vat and the ifesh eaten from the bones,
and the bones then placed in the public museum.
We were forever relieved from the wild stare of
TO be so sadly disappointeda 1 was on business
hare during the trial Of Brown. and crossed the
river TO Colfax IN company with Il; II. Grant to
soc an attorney -at-iaw from Alexandria, who was
then attending court in your town, After my
business was attended to, concluded to remain
10 await the verdict In the Brown case. and from
at the termination Of tbs trial. / had no desire
to release Brown, nor did know Of any one who
was there present for that purpose. The charge
think, Of asssssinssins &. r. Teal Il almost too
Contemplate to contradict, as ii is we'll known
fact that Mr.. Teal and myself are warm personal
fr,ends and closely connected BY MARRIAGE; Only
\ little too far advanced in life to act as an
assassin in case in which 1 had not the least
don't know positively whether Mr.. Cameron
included me or not as among those whom he
Imagined were to release Brown. l write this
explanation 81 my presence at the trial as duty
alike to myself and Mr.. Teal, and can only say
whoever the cap fits is perfectly welcome t. wear
it. ! say. once for all, that any man, woman, OF
child that says was party 10 the plot set forth
IN Mr.. Cameron card OF that have ever carried
a concealed weapon since lS7l. just simply rIks.
Respectfully, 7. n. WKLLs.
kprroR CoLrAx CaRoxIcLE:
In justice to me. as we'll as for the honor Of
Of the gross misstxtement concerning me in your
last issue. l am charged with lawlessness in
attempting the rescue OF one Brown; Of disre-
spect to the court, by disorderly conduct, 'vio-
lent and villainons tions in its august
presencei OF sangulnary intentions-the ass,,ssi-
nation Of Messrs. Teal and Iacour. l brand
these assertigs as false in every particular. and
see IN them the claws Of the political tricksters
that would clutch the public sinecures at the ex-
penss of truth and honesty. Having themselves
thrown honor to the winds in their mad race for
voter, who asks no greater gift than deliverance
from such ~ they. My presence at the Brown
trial was simply a result of the same curiosity
that Drought 40 many others there. / was nm
armed. II my conduct was (as susy il was not)
rude and disrespectful, whers was the sheriff
that he did not enforce the dignity of the court
Your informant surely forgot the close relation
ship existing between myself aud Messrs. Teal
and Lacour when he linked my name with the
plot to assassinate those gentlemen. And, Mr.
CHRONICLE, fight FOR not AGAINST my friends
AZ TO Brown, do not know the man: never saw
him until he stood arraiRned for murder. From
the evidence deemed the verdict just one,
and would sooner have offered my services to tho
aid Of the ofiiciais than TO any member of that
murderous hand. that, after all. had existence
saye in the fanstical ravings Of mind diseased
With respect. H. II. GRANT.