The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-20

| a little leave of absence from 1861 to 1862
| You now tell the world you have been
| nothing but farmer all your life, except
| when in public life and the war. You con-
fess you are not lawyer. We all know
that farming, politics and war do not
make a man a lawyer. Having made this
confession, will you, when addressing the
farmers in my absence, to persuade them
you are their best friend, tell them:
!. How it came TO pass that the great
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany wanted to hire farmer as its advis-
ing counsel?
q Why that railroad company went to
the United States Senate to find farmer
to do its law businessl
g. Why that company selected you, a
farmer, out of that body of ssventy-six men
to be its advising COUNSEL:
T. How did you find out that the Louis
vile and Nashville Company desired q
farmer as its chief advising lawyeri
5. Did you, a farmer, impose yourself on
that unsuspecting, innocent corporation as
a first class lawyer Nv dear Boycott, you
are not al impostor ? You do not intend to
leave yourself in the position Of inducing
that company to engage you as its advising
counsel, on salary of $l4, 900 year, when
you are nothing but farmer or course
you do not.
Well, what then9 There is one escape
for you; but it is terrible one, for that
path leads to a pit--an abyss-worse than
that Of being an impostor. 1t is this That
the Louisville and Nashville Company,
when you entered its service as its advising
counsel, was well informed that you were
only farmer Do you not see the pit,
general A few more strokes of ths pen,
and it will appear TO every one las by the
enchanter's wand.n
If that great railroad corporation was not
imposed on and knew you were nothing but
a farmer, what on earth did it want with
you on its pay roll at $l4, 900 year, or at
any price! You staid around Atlanta doing
nothing. You were not once asked for your
legal Tor farmers) opinion on any law ques-
ton. You rendered no legal services.
Bruce 81 Co., the leading and advising
counsel of that great corporation, never
heard of you as counsel Of that road.
What consideration, then, did that rail-
| road receive for the large sum OF m )ney
| paid to you for dong nothingl If that rail
road paid out its own money to you, it re-
| ceived no value for it. A farmers services
are not worth $4,000, nor $500 per annum
| to railroad. If that railroad did not pay
out its own money to you, it must have paid
out the money and charged 1t to the ac-
count Of some one else, or have paid out
IN 1ney deposited with it to be paid to you.
What then, | ask, was the real reason for
your resignationi Your sudden flight from
the Senate; the equally sudden appoint
ment of Gov. Brown to your seat; your
ostentatioas announcement that you re-
signed to be counsel of the Louisville an
Nashville Railroad Company; your con-
fessed total uutitness for tle position; the
| enormous salary paid you; your retention
on the pay roll Of the Louisville and Nash
vile for less than two years; the
fact that you were never called on
during that period by that company
to do any work, legal or otherwise; the ex-
cuse yon gave that the senator's salary
| could not support you; the fact that there
was no prior relation or obligation between
you and the railroad are some of the links
| IN chain of evidence that cannot be
broken by raising your hand to the great
white throne, or pointing your finger back
ward to the war and saying you will not
| answer. You say you resigned for bigger
| pay. You got your pay from one that en-
| ployed you without having any use for you.
can see how you could have been traded
| out of your seat without knowing it-that is,
that the Louisville and Nashville compa ~,
at the request of some one else, might have
| offered you that big bait of $4,000. But
that theory, while entirely creditable to
| your guilelessness, would be equally de-
monstratlve of a degree of simplicity
that does not at you for a states
man. TIE fault is the head. Your last
mental strain to fix up bstter plan for
| the alliance produced fit illustration of
your business judgment, when you advocate
one warehouse ON the coast of Georgia to
| mold Georgia's entire crop of cotton-a
warehouse when strung out that would be
seventy-three miles long, and when doubled
up, more than mile each side. But enough,
until hear from you. Yours, ETC.,
T. M. NoRwooD.