Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-06-11
Makes Reply to G. W. White
and "Watchman."
IContinued from last week

pOSUOuCe dduTesh W WnOm 4 Idlu my
wife dues so you could procure a Ger
tificate. You just as much as said by
this that lied Now, here she goes.
First, gave $40 to help build the
church house before the church was or.
gained Then after my wife joined
said church paid one Robert Phillips
81. l next paid 81 to Poney Scott,
Baptist minister of Paramount, Tenn,
and then l paid one Ashly, a Baptist
preacher, 81, who pastored said church
at Burnett's Chapel.
Now, have contributed to very
near all the different churches, both
white and colored. I have invariably
signed nearly all petitions hat were
ever presented to me to sign to build
churches, schools of different names
and orders all over my county wherev-
er was, and signed very nearly ev-
cry petition to relieve any person or
persons hurt in any accident that oc-
Cured while in the mines here or else
where. This is my past record. l
subscribed and gave money to help
build nearly all the different churches
in the town of Whitwell, and am
proud of it. l always paid Bro Butch
er and Bro. Hash and others when
they called on me, for they were my
friends. My neighbors will sustain
me in that | have some good chris
tian principles yet and am not as bad
man after all as Bro. White and Bro.
Waterman would have the readers
of the News to believe. l never will
commit myself into the hands of any
two men to be crucifed and nailed to
the cross, and put to open shame by
two writers only When the general
public lets me down and no longer
holds me up to transact business for
them as whole people, then and not
before will bow my head and step out
Of public business. Take notice, you
can't put me down and out for the
people will put me right back. | sure,
ly must be better man than you two
writer's represent me to be for the
majority of my country people surely
would cut me loose and let me fall SC
low that the dogs would refuse to LICK
my feet, but, thank the Lord, it's moi
SO. They come to me every..time l cal
for them to come, and they are with
me even unto the end, and stand ready
! ! to rally around the flag for me at an,
!, time.
D Now, you two say over both of you
own signatures that you don't want t.
Q further enter into this salaried preach
: er subject except with regular ordain
ed ministers, claiming at the sam
time that correspondent that WASH
g regular ordained minister WASH
Q worthy to cope with either of you be
y cause you were men of God, and We
you both just itched to reply to 10
Hackworth and me, and after you GO
your lead the last thin g you said was
Preachers! PreachersN Preach
ers p are the proper persons for u
to reply to. l guess if you get out c
the ring after you have shot your gat
!. thing guns at me with your persona
> attack, the readers of the News Wi
J, say / vast known in the race.
o Now, ''Watchman, you absolutel
failed to answer me ON any point
: Your piece was the worst slobbered u
: reply to sensible piece that I eve
@ read or the reading public ever read
e You never once touched on the subject
Il either side nor bottom. You didn't q
u much as name what | asked you t
show up on the preaching of the Wor
Il of God from different pulpits. Now
}. sir, it has come to a show down and
: put on, and entirely run on cas-
o principle. You dare not ask minis
. ter to reply to me on that for these ar
facts and beyond contradiction, bu
e you left the subject as you did FEY
y years ago and made personal attac
u on me and my family by saying re
fused to work and never did work i
!. all my life. Now, will call 20
down as minister and say to til
Il reading public that there isn't wor
d of truth in what you said on tha
. point There never was slave i
10 slave times that ever worked harde
than l, barefooted and half-naked, u
: until I was 20 years old. Then ha
= a relapse of measles which settled o
u my lungs and | came very near dying
From that day up to the present tim
i. I never have seen we'll day. At
years of age WASH stout. ran fc
n Office in democratic district and cal
- ried it by good majority on the n
- publican ticket and from that da
d down to this date, "a years, I hay
"A served the public in various branch'
and different Offices and still hold tW
l. of honor. You know, Waterman,
i worked until was stricken with r
in lapse of measles, harder than you ev'
did, and worked right close TO you.
a. REPRESENTATIVE
lg Ito be continued