Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-06-23
O'Ferrall's Reply.
NE COMES BACK AT MR.. VIM. ALEXANDER.
To the Editor Of the Timfs

NE COMES BACK AT MR.. VIM. ALEXANDER.
To the Editor Of the Timfs
In my card published in your paper of
the Sd instant, endeayored 10 uncover a
person, who, under an assumed name, had
been lately villifying me in the news
papeTs and by circulars, and stOning me
from abush, and stabbing me under the
cover of various noms-de-plume. l did
so, not because l thought them worthy Of
notice, nor for fear that his statements
would be believed IN the Congressional
District in which be and l both live. But
noticed his ISLANDERS, because ] knew
that many people of the State were not
as well aware of the falsity of his state
mcnts as the people of the Seventh Con-
gressioual District, who had heard and
disbelievCd HIM so often. No one can
hold him worthy OF notice who recalls
the fact that he made his attacks under
assumed names and by circulars ursign-
ed, and especially, as in my said card of
the Sd instant, l used the following Ian
guage:
IF any man charges, intimates, or ir-
sinnates that my name was ever on any
Republican ticket with my knowledge,
assent, or appreciation, directly or indi-
rectly, he utters base, wilful, wicked
and malicious falsehOod."
OF course, any man who would anOny-
mously attack another, and. when de-
nounced in such language as l employed
rest under such an insult. is not entitled
to the notice of any honorable man. He
felt the force of my language just quoted
and attempted in his card, published in
your paper of the 9TH instant, to relieve
himself of the disgrace by using this
language:
at is hardly necessary for me TO say
that OFerrall never branded my state
ments as base, wiiful, wicked and mali
cious falsehood.'"
To this statement have oaly to say
In the Winchester Timcs, published in
the city where my assailant lives, of date
of August 10, 1892, published a card OF
nearly five columns, disproving and de-
n0uncing bis lnsinuatioDs and SANDERS
In it used this language
"In one of his cards he asks the cues
ton. Was my name put on the Grant
ticket With my knowledge and consent
If by this question, or in any other line
or word of either of his cards, or in any
of his writings, he meaps TO charge, III
slpuate, OF intimate that my name was
placed on the Grant ticket with NY con
sent. assent, or know ledge, directly or in
directly, he utters a base, wilful, wicked,
and malicious falsehoOd."
Such beng the fact, no one can think
/ Int that be has deserved the denuncia-
ton | employed, nor can any one hold
that I should give him further notice.
| will add that fully concur in the
opinion that under ordinary circum-
stances private letters should not be
made public.
For NV publications of extracts from
his so.called "private" letters, he himself
is responsible He compelled me to con-
Wet hlm out of his own mouth lie had
kent m his attacks for more than slx
wears. and endeavored to pillOry me, and
I wiped out his public statements with
extracts from his letters, in which he
professed great esteem for me, gave me
| hints as to my canvass, offered his SER
vices. &c. Yes, with full knowledge OF
the Grant ticket circumstance. for which
he assa.led me, he thought in 1884, that
WAS worthy to represent the Seventh dis
trict in Congress, and "beiieved | was en-
titled TO the nomination over any other
man in the district and was my Jealous
supporter even over Honorable Holmes
Conrad. his own townsman, and BIZ
opinion of me did not change until in
| lsS5. when declined to recommend him
for appointment as United States district
attorney of the Western district of Vir
giuia.
Iii well known in my Congressional
district that after announcing that
would be an Independent candidate for
Congress in 1S74, soon saw that. not
wlthstandmg the fact that the district
was erwhelmingly Democratic. l was
pursuinp a course that tended to DISC .
Gapiz ltion IN the Democratic party, and
I Immediately abandoned my purpose and
suppor;ed and voted for the Democratic
nominee at the ensuing election.
No stronger evidence of the entire SAL
isfaction Of the Democrats of my district
with my political record conld be fur
nished than is found in the fact that |
have since been chosen TO represent them
tor six consecutive terms in Congress, aud
that last August l was nominated for my
sixth term by the unanimous vote of the
convention, and though ! had coalition
competitor. / received, as shown by the
returns. more votes than even Mr.. CleYe-
land, and was elected by 8 400 majority
the largest in the State, and about 5000
larger than had been returned for me IN
either Of my previous elections.
CHARLES. r. O'OFERGAL,
R:crm0nd. Ta., June 1871, 1893.