The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-08-16

the public. as well as Daughters and
Veterans.
When my proof was read at the first
meeting of the Confederate committee,
several said that when Tyler saw that
proof. so clear and convincing. he was
the man who would appear before the
committee and make as brave a cor
rection as was ever made by an hon
! orable man. and there were several in
the audience who believed he would.
Instead. he has fought with malicious
desperation until the last inch of
ground has crumbled under his feet,
and will continue his contributions to
the press. But nothing he can say
shall have one word of reply from me,
not even his staggering boast of per-
sonal responsibility for what he says,
and that the courts are open to an
action for libel, etc, for all of which
| have only contempt. This is my
first and last paper to the public.
Routed in disgrace on the charge of
disloyalty, he concludes that, after all,
disloyalty would have been bloom
ing virtue compared with representing
myself as driven out of Paducah, even
under such threatening conditions,
and nearly forty years afterwards re-
| ferring to it as Punishment
Space is not allowed be to detail
the facts leading to the rupture be-
tween Gen Paine and myself-the ar
rest of Mr.. Anderson, with whom we
boarded-Paine's rage and violent
threat-the notice during the next day
or two by a lieutenant that l had
been placed on the banished list-my
| great alarm in the absence of Mr..
Latham-my seeking advice from MI.
| Caldwell, Mr.. Flournoy and others
their advice to me to leave at once,
| IL | could and avoid further trouble,
etc. etc. (See letters of Mrs. Water
Geld and Mr. Barber and Mrs. Katie
| Whitfield.) The proof shows that l
acted under the conviction of the exis-
tence of an order of Punishment I'M
mediately following the rupture with
Paine, of which l had notice, just as
| Col. Voolfolk acted at the same time,
under the same belief of the verbal
report that he was to be shot.
II left Paducah on my information,
lust as he left on his. That such an
order was not made has not been
shown. Please read the letters OF Mr..
Barber, the voolfolk sisters and Mrs.
Waterfield Those who knew Paine's
desperate measures took no chances
they could avoid. 1t was. at one time
almost a daily occurrence to near OF
his having some one shot. / was not
afraid of being shot, but OF other IN
dignities. A few days after Col. Wool
folk escaped left, going with his lam
fly to Canada. The calling of this in
ouestion by my enemies is incredible;
thew should know better. They can
not honestly doubt the direct state
ments of the witnesses have named,
leaving out my own. to which l am
willing to make OATH l beg you note
carefully that the only contradiction
Of these positive statements are two,
who say they were on the car tnat
trin ana that I was not Think of 1t.
Here were two people who lived In a
different part of the state. We mad
never met or heard of each other In
orr lives; and we did not become ac-
nuainted on the trip. And yet forty
three years after that trip, they nave
become, from some cause, deeply IN
terested in this controversy, and mad
me pointed out to them the last year
or two and state they are ready 10
make oath that they never saw me
before, and that | was not on that car
forty-three years ago This is too
ridiculous to discuss, and yet Iyler
even down to his last raid, urges II
over and over as the only proof need
: ed to show that | was not In tnat
marty. You will observe from the let
: ter of the Misses voolfolk that they
never heard Of these two witnesses
during that trip or since, until recent
". and | certainly did not, and there
fore, according to Tyler logic, neither
of them was on the train. or course
: claim no such absurdtty.
81 was about to forget one other con-
tention along this line. They have
found another voolfolk sister In
Louisiana, who writes that she don't
recall me, and they claim that cllnch-
es the case. See how completely
they entrap themselves. This same
sister shows she does not recall any
name of any one except those men,
toned in her sisters printed letter
about four or five years ago Well'
that list does not contain either OF