Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-07-07

Miss Florence Crutchfeld, my daugh-
ter has been visiting her grandfather
H. M. Cunningham at Dunlap, who is
very i'll, has returned and has given me
something to write about. She tells
me that young man whose name will
not give, heard conversation in Dun
lap between lawyer and an editor
The lawyer was an old friend OF mine,
Y. Ii. Carpenter and the editor was Mr.
Blalock and the subject under discus
sion was the one who is Bill Dooley.
Well, Charley it is the same old fellow
that hauled logs for you and Bill An.
derson at Condra's Switch and Bill Cor
dell sawed them up and when you made
out check to pay me for my logs you
made IT payable to J. w. Crutchfeld
instead OF Bill Dooley. At that time
went by the name of Crutchfeld and
would yet II / was logging for Ander-
son & Carpenter and getting an Ander-
son & Carpenter check now and then
for fifteen or seventy dollars. That Is
my acquaintance with G. II. c. / will
now tell of my acquaintance with Mr..
Blalock. | was in Dunlap about a
year ago and visited the Tribune office
and made the acquaintance of one Of
the Blalock brothers aud subscribed for
the Tribune. Which one Of the Bla-
lock brothers it was l don't know as
there are three of them. Now l will
come to the point. The young man
Carpenter and tBlalock that it was old
man Crutchfield who wrote under the
name Of Bill Dooley. They did not
give his word any credit and went so
far as to say that Crutchfeld was not
smart enough to write such an article,
Well let that be as it may Joe was right
and the others were wrong.
made the acquaintance of Mr.. Bla-
lock the day the soldiers were in Dun
lap and practiced target shooting from
the depot to the side of the noun
bdlu, anu SuUSCElD6u lOE bu6 4AlUuhO
the same day and as the paper has been
discontinued take it for granted 1t
was about year ago. How it was that
Mr.. Blalock summed up me within
fifteen or twenty minutes is something
l can't understand. | guess he can
measure mems intellects by some new
process and If so, would like to get
possession of his secret and am willing
to pay literally for it.
am not lawyer and therefore am
not able to discuss the statutes with
any degree of accuracy and am not q
preacher and conseq uently cannot ar
que scripture successfully. | am not
an editor and therefore am not able tt
set type to criticize something someone
has done that don't suit my way o
thinking. don't profess to be Solo
mon nor a Webster but flatter myself
with the opinion that l can discuss any
subject of common history with as muci
as much intelligence as either OF thu
gentlemen before mentioned. | don
write this as a means of conveying any
idea that have any i'll will agains
either Mr.. Blalock or Mr.. Carpenter fol
have not. l am merely writing
this to inform them that they have
formed too hasty conclusion from
mere casual glance of the eye.
NV business and social relation
with Charley Carpenter have been yer.
pleasant but our political persuasion
don't compare very favorably. l bein
republican and Charley a democra
our views would parallel about like th
two lines of the roman letter y, Now
Charley, you are a lawyer and 20
know the law was intended to be found
ed on Justice and man must violate tn
law and be tried before the judge anC
iury according to the evidence in th
case and if the evidence fails to estab
lish his guilt he is not a criminal bu
for one or two men to decide his gull
and inhict the punishment without th
proper process of-law is mob violenc
and the parties who mete out thi
punishment themselves becom
criminals. Now it seems that you an
Mr.. Blalock have preferred charges c
ignorance against said Crutchheld, trie
the case and decided according to you
own views of the matter and const
ouently committed mob violence o
Crutchfeld's ignorance.
know don't know as much as som
people but what ! do know know
like grown people, and il the editor
the News will print my correspondents
will make some men feel so ashame
of the rascality and devilment of the
rarty that they cant meet an homes
sbeep in the face without making a
apology to the sheep.
know my education won't admit
using much rhetoric but can e.
Main nv views in back~oods logEin
ann way that most people uuderstan,
when I began TO write a little over
u..r AGO / had no idea OF writing NOR
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