The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-04-22
WOODBURY. MATTER
WILL NOT DOWN.
Mr.. Sellers Replies to Mr..
Johnson and Presents the
Woodbury. Proposition in a
Stronger Light. Marion
would Disown Woodbury.
in Her Hour of Poverty.
Some Interesting Reading.

To the Editor of The News and
Courier: MY friend, Mr.. Johnson,
and | are not SO far apart in a mat
ter that happened some years ago
and were it not for his unfortunate
habit, (Which, perhaps, he cannot
help, owing to his long continued
training,) of splitting hairs and
drawing nice distinctions between,
a reply to his long tweedledum and
'tweedledee article would hardly be
necessary. Let us try to keep the
record straight, and not befud6le
matters. Bear in mind, please,
that we have not been, and are not
now discussing what may or may
not have happened in 'Woodber-
ry' Township thirteen wears ago
in reference to the attempt of the
Marion politicians to kick that
township off into Horny, but we
are discussing the Britton's Neck
and Woodberry townships peti-
tion-the mass meeting held in
Britton's Neck Township-not
Woodberry-at which the Marion
orators were outclassed by stur-
dy farmer of Britton's Neck Town
ship-how that petition-the Brit
tons Neck and Woodberry pcti
tion got lost" Disappearing"
between the Governor office and
the office next adjoining.
Whether new petition was af-
forwards filed as to Woodberry
Township alone, leaving out Bri-
tons Neck, and an election order
ed and held | neither affirm or de-
dy. 1t may or may not be so,
don't know, but l don't believe
Mr.. Johnson, or any one else, can
show from the records of the Gov
ernor's Office or the clerk of the
Court of Marion that any such e.
lection was ever ordered or held.
1t was stated by the Columbia Reg
lister that an election was ordered
by the Governor as to Woodberry
Township; not Britton's Neck, on
the 18th January, 1897-the same
day the first new county election
was afterwards held, but this the
Marion Star denies December 80,
1896. The Marion Star did pub
ish the names of the managers of
the election, for an election order
ed for Woodberry Township, not
Britton's Neck and Woodberry.
Tho election n question:" which
Mr.. Johnson in his first article so
confidently affirmed, was order
ed and held, and the proposition
defeated at the polls" See how
my friend juggles with places as
glibly as he does with figures in
order to befuddle the jury. He
speaks of that famous meeting of
the Marion orators with the be-
nighted voters of Britton's Neck
and Woodberry, at which one
doughty farmer, having truth and
justice and the people on his side,
showed how true is Holy writ, one
can chase a thousand and two can
put ten thousand to flight. as if
it occurred in Woodberry, when
Mr.. Johnson knows full we'll the
meeting was held on the line of
Britton's Neck a n d Woodberry
townships at the Britton's Neck
Church, few miles below Nebo.
The fact that the meeting was
joint meeting and held on the line
of the two townships shows conclu-
sively that both townships were
equally interested in the petition
that had gone to the Governor to
annex both those townships to Hor-
ry. IF Britton's Neck Township
was not included in that first Pc
tition, why was it, pray, that it
was a citizen of Britton's Neck
Township who took charge of the
meeting and protested SO vigor-
ously that he got such move"
on the Marion orators that one of
their number did not stop till be
landed in the Governors office,
bright and early the next morning?
Why, the answer is very plain.
Those Britton's Neck people are
a reading people, and especially of
the Marion Star, and that paper
had been discussing the Britton's
Neck and Woodberry petition, and
they knew full we'll that Britton's
Neck Township was included in
the petition that had been sent on
to the Governor.
By the way, Mr.. Johnson twits
me with being an assiduous read
er of The News and Courier. I