Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-09-24

that have reflected on your honor or your
character Yet this is your only reason
for dragging me into ridicule and con-
tempt.
All right-minded men feel contempt for
demagogue, and all southerners look
down on one who shirked military duty
during the war. You tried TO put me IN
both of those positions. and your only ex-
cuse or apology is that you thought III
meant YOU when l said the senatorship be
longs TO no one. / left the whole field to
YOU for your Illuminating, disgusting,
begging canvass. | was Deither writing
letters nor speaking. | was not IN your
way, vet YOU strike at me IN way tnat
shows bad heart and a weak head. You
have known for ten years ut least that
there was no foundation whatever for your
remark as TO my war record. You know
that was in the Georgia Legislature; that,
while there and exempt from mill
tary duty, | joined the Chatham artil-
lery as a private, and while on duty re-
ceiyed an injury from which did not even
partially recover until 1854, and have not
vet wholly recovered from II. You knew
that this has been rehearsed in every cam
paien | have been in and thrown aside
with disgust by even opponents, but You
ignore your knowledge and strike one not
in vour way. and one who during the
heated, fiery, bloody campaign In 1851 did
not saw an unkind word about you,
although the air was ringing the cry and
the evidence was strong that you had sold
ont for price the nigh commission placed
in your hands bv the people OF Georgia,
and when ] say you have slandered me ana
ask to face yOu-the only surviving brave
man of the late war. who Is Boosting every
dav from the stump of your bravery-you
take shelter behind my unwlllingness TO
nominate myself as a candidate, as you
have done. SO much for Introduction and
explanation.
STRICTLY BUSINESS.
Now for business. Ny dear John Boy
colt. YOU are the last man on earth who
should attempt to ridicule any one. TINS
surprises YOU. / know YOU have not the
remotest conception of yourself. j know
it: your friends know it, because you are
too good-hearted 10 do what you so often
do. if your head was right. The fault SIN
your head. That is your weak spot and
vet YOU believe il your strong point. mat
is always the case with weak-minded peo-
pie. Achilles, when dipped in the river
TO make him invulnerable. was held 10y
the heel. You were held by the head;
Achiles's softest part was his heel, and
through it he was killed, you know.
You don't know. for instance, that your
business career furnishes material enough
for dozen fiTst-class farces. You do not
imagine that you are the living, realistic
Mulberry Sellers" of America. IL Is i'm
possible for YOU TO see it. because the men,
tai defects that lead you to get mp so many
and such variety of skin games and
South-Sea bubbles utterly dlsquallfy you
for seeing the absurdltles and impossiblll-
ties which YOU swear are perfectly practl-
cable and have millions IN them" You
are "a good fellow, but in business you are
child. and a simple one at that. No, not so
simple, for your friends who go into your
schemes fare badly always, while. you do
not. / do not mean you swlndle them;
! mean only that you take care of your
self but not of them. / do not intend TO
revile your great schemes in this letter. !
can write a book to-day. If Think the
subject of sufficient importance TO take 1t
nm again | will devote a few hours to the
weakness of your head; your want of
Judgment, of capacity tor business. In
my opinion you are the best subject for
ridcule in America. Your implicit falth
in all your wild speculations. your utter
unconsciousness of your own mental de-
fects; the pomp and dignity you throw
into even How DIDO" the grandiloquence
with which you demonstrate to friend
that "a SOW is worth more than cow" as
If YOU were saving $50 help me God" are
known by all who know you.
BITTER ABANDONMENT.
Nv dear Boycott, don't enter the ring TO
fight with ridicule. Stick TO the war. IL
alone has carried you into big offices four
times and has paid you SO, 900: that is, the
good people of Georgia gave you that
much. but you threw down your title 10
| S24 600 of il in 1880. and deserted them 10
serve a railroad for money. Your leaning
is toward railroads. You threw away your
senatorship to be q railroad lawyer. You
next got up railroad corporation
| (the Atlanta and Pacific, made II
| large sum of money, gambled 1t
of in Wall street, then got up an
other railroad in Florida that emptied
the pockets of friends. First, "A railroad
| lawyer; second, railroad promoter;
| third, a railroad president, and fourth, the
| farmers best friend. If your Florida
scheme had succeeded, you would be to-
day railroad president, fleeing the farm
ers. Nothing but your lack of business
| Judgment kept you from being that kind
| of farmers friend; nothing but your
| failure TO be railroad president drove
YOU back to Georgia 10 be the farmers
| friend for the came Office you threw away
when you deserted them to join railroad.
! You could not live on Its salary then, but
you can now. "Barkis is willln'," anxious
ly begging for 1t again.
| ABOUT THE RESIGNATION.
OF the several reasons You have given
| for that resignation. whichis the true one
Was il the small pay of $1,000? If so, how
was II that after drawing that salary for
seven years you seem suddenly to find ont
| its small size, that you had to use the tele-
praph to notify Governor Colquitt that
Won could not live on IL. and had resigned
! Why this haste, when Congress would adj
iourn in three weeks, Sd your pay of >i5d
a month would 90 on? Why not resign in
November, 1880, accept the place on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and let
your senatorial pay run on during vaca-
| ton? No. While You recently boast of
your bravery in war You have never been
courageous enough to tell the confiding
people. who have honored you twice too
often as Governor, the whole of that trans
| action.
will now shed some light on it in way
that. SO far as | know, has never been
| given. What shall say was IN the begin
ming of your attack on me at Decatur.
quote: "Mr. Norwood is a lawyer; | am
not; am farmer, and have lived oil my
life on farm except during my public
life and little leave of absence from 1861
TO 1865" You now tell the world you have
been nothing but farmer all your life ex-
cept when in public life and the war. You
confess you are not a LAWYER We all know
that farming, politics. and the war do not
make man a lawyer, and. having made
this confession, will you, when | resign the
farmers, in my absence, try to persuade
them you are their best friend? Tell them
READY FARMER.
/. How il came 10 pass the great Louis
| vile and Nashville Railroad Company
wanted TO hire a farmer as its advising
counsely
2. Why that railroad company went TO
the United States Senate to find a farmer
to do its law business!
8. Why that company selected you. a
farmer, out of body of seventy-six men
TO be its advising COUNSEL
4. How did you find out that the Louis
vile and Nashville Company desired a
farmer az its chief advising lawyer?
8. Did you, a farmer. impose yourself on
that unsuspeeting corporation as first
class lawyer
Mr. dear Boycott. you are not an impos-
tor. You do not intend to leave yourself
in the position of inducing that corpora
ton to engage you as its advising counsel
on q salary Of $4,000 q year. when you
were nothing but farmer? OF course
| won do NOT Wall xchat ehap2