Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-01
BLUE LIGHTNING.
Hon. q. ". Terrell Asks the Public to
Read Few Chapters Of Facts
and "reminiscences.
Jroko Aancock's Memory Refreshe
Letters and Witnesses IN Regard to
certsin Acts and Occurrences.

WooTAN WELLS, TEX, July 20, 1856
On visiting this place two days ego, |
found In an Austin paper what purports
TO be speech delivered at Georgetown,
by Judge Hancock OF Austin, on the 2lst.
II covers five columns and is devoted 10
Misrepresentation OF myself. ] crave the
indulgence Of the public for whot am
about 10 write, fer In the discussion OF
the great politico-economic questions now
challenging thought, | will find
little II any time to devote to this
man when I address the people. | have
not referred TO him when speaking, eN-
cept to correct misrepresentation OF
myself attributed TO him by the press,
and can poorly afford to do even that In
future. While pretending 20 deprecate a
canvass before the people for the United
States senate as wrong, he has thrust
himself before them In speeches devoted
10 unprovoked attacks on me.
At Mexia we spoke from the same
stand, and Judge Hancock was as courte-
Gus as his nature would permit. After.
wards, when he had visited Dallas,
which, ! believe, is q sort OF railway
headquarters, and where he seems to
went to Fort Worth and INDUCED, II the
press reported him correctly, In state
ments about me which In Gainesville |
proclaimed TO be untrue in warp, wool
and alllng.
My exposure at Gainesville OF his In
gratitude was not soothing to his feel
iDgs. He has reminded me In his George
town speech that the mention OF kindly
act cancels the obligation II imposes;
but'he fOrgets that never asked, expected
or received favor at his hands, and
never even suspected his acquaintance
with the sentiment of gratitude. That
he should utter the truth concerning my
self Is the only tribute ever
demanded for past services. When
assailed with his malignity, ! revealed
my efforts once made at great discomfort
to myself to preserve his life, and since
this Is denied 1 will fasten on him its
truth until the brand OF ingratitude shall
cling to him like the shirt OF Noesus.
His lye-column PHILIPPE against me ut
Georgetown was before people among
whom we have both practiced law for
thirty years. and their estimate
OF this man is seen In their
primary meeting two days after,
when they instructed for me as their
choice for the United States senate,
Judge Hancock receiving but eighteen OF
the 500, as | am Informed by letter. II
the instructions for me by four-iifths
vote 10 the county where We both live,
and after Judge Hancock's name had
been hoisted for weeks by his itinerant
organ in Austin, could not convince him
that he was not needed as public censor,
the Georgetown rebuke will be equally
unayailing.
His charge that was the author or In.
spired the articles In the Austin States
man, the Dallas News and the Galveston
News, in May las, is so utterly untrue
that / can only regard 1t as subterfugt
10 excuse his attacks on me at For'
Worth His dwelling nonsense about com
press stock, about my argument before the
constitutional convention eleven years age
TO prevent connscation of wharf proper
ties his statement about what hi
wife told him, and his effort to mix IN,
with his cotton speculations during th,
war, all indicated mind and conscienc'
I'll at ease.
The Travis county Democratic conven
ton held at IAustinlhe characterizes a
the result of the "mldnlght action o
primaries" attended, as he asserts, b.
isthe class of persons who ar,
usually abroad at that hour
His partner, N. G. Shelley, an,
every known Democratic friend of Judg,
Hancocks at Austin were among thos
,abroad at that hour" and ATTENDED
those primaries. This sneer at a Demo
cratic convention Is characteristic of tn
man, and measures his estimate OF tn
party.
can afford TO disregard his venom
which is powerless at home, and which
Ike the Psrthean arrow wound
only at distance, but he ha
forfeited all claims TO forbtarance
and what must now say OF him has be
come at once personal duty and a publ
necessity
desire now to say
That whenever the Democracy OF m
county shall instruct for another as II
choice for Office when my name Is at th
masthead of a paper in my county 70
that same office, I win not ask an indorse
ment away from home which my neigh
bors refuse 70 give.
p. | viii not receive the help OF ali
gentleman for twenty years, es thi
man has done, and thea lsh wit
dirty nngers amid the garbsg
OF dimly remembered conversations, te
years old, with that gentleman's persons
enemies TO prOve that he did not absC
lutely belong 20 me.
s. Not only on the stump, but twic
In convention at Brennan, and ON all oC
casions while he lived in the same dis
tTIct during Republican rule, l aide
mis- man to official position, believin
that his known sympathy with IN
North, during the war, would enabI
him to exercise an influence for goo
with Republican administration, whic
no war Democrat who espoused tn
cause Of The South, could possess
whatever may DO either charged o
maintained conoernlng me to the con
trary is false In thus sustaining thl
man sought the security OF my people
not the advancement Of the man, an
when he sat dumb as an oyster In con
gress and heard his section denounce
and our people slandered, and ye
uttered no word In their defens
though / felt Inundated, | did not, lik
others, denounce him, for had helpe'
TO place him there.
When Giddings was nominated b,
the Turner Hall convention l left M
seat In the senate and visited the vii
Hanson county delegation, who refuses
Ia mite on Hancock, and was unable 4
reconcile their objections The presen
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