Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-09-11
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

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Pll pay my respects to Lonely
Boy" know you are my enemy and
l know whole lot about you that
wouldn't look well in print, but you
II keep on until will write you and
your pals up in fine style. The truth
is, you've never been anything but an
annoyance to the better element in
| your community. You invite me to a
meeting that you have nothing to do
with, thus playing the part of an i'm
poster. You say am good to start
things. / don't know that have
started anything in long time. Just
such characters as you are preventing
me from doing more than / am doing.
like to help people all can, but l
don't like to be annoyed by a lot of
hoodlums while l am doing it. All
the enemies have are of that class
and kind who don't want to act right.
They know exactly where stand and
as such they would love to silence me.
TIL show hands with any of my tladu-
GERS and defy them to show cleaner
hands than I can or cleaner life
behave myself at church and that is
more than LONELY Boy" I guess,
! does, l know quite lot.
Now. l demand of you, ''Lonely
Boy" to put your finger on q single
thing of good report ever tore down.
Come acioss or acknowledge you wrote
and caused to be published a lie You
must make your words good. I've al
lowed slurs and insinuations about
long enough and ] don't care a fig
for your sex.
Well, heard man stand up and
assert that Christ had come the sec
ond time and was here now, and cit
ed the congregation to | John $40 to
prove his assertion. | don't think
many believed his Interpretation as
they didn't clamor to hear him preach
the next night He was fellow who
didn't believe in any organized church
or in the sacraments or ordinances of
the church. don't know what | am
to hear if keep going to church,
Well, not wishing to do an injustice
to anyone I'll say to the gentlemen
who didn't relish what l said about
them, am glad there was no liquor
on hand, but heard differently, and
also heard more than that which said
nothing about. don't reckon am
called upon to prove anything /
wrote from Madam Rumor, as most re-
porters do, so if there is a lie out am
not the author of it Threats have no
terror for me and l don't write up
falsehoods on any man if know it.
This ends the matter so far as l am
concerned. My business is to write up
the news and give it as correctly as !
can, and if err it is because I've
been wrongly informed.
The people of this day and genera
tion are puzzle, and 1 believe they
are an enigma to themselves. I really
do not know folks now. l used to
think l did, but guess don't. Why,
to say 1 really know myself would
hardly be true, for l change. I just
have to live by the moment, and the,I
next moment can't tell what I will
do. 1t is sort of this way, l may and
l may not. Then, to know who is your
friend is another problem hard to
solve, one that won't lie on you and
misrepresent you. Lying on folks ap-
pears TO be the biggest stock in trade.
You can't hardly hear the truth and
newspaper reporters have to guess
lot about things. No reporter wants
to give his paper lot of lies for pub
licstion, but it is hard to get facts
second handed.
Then, again. some are so dull of
comprehension that they can't under
stand you and you are misrepresented
and cause no end of trouble. Gossip
ing liars are as thick as black birds in
a cane brake.
Well, the meeting on Flat Branch
has been good one, about so persons
have professed faith in Christ and
some Is were baptized Sunday, accord
ing to report.
The meeting on Shadrick Hill began
the 7th inst. There were five peni-
tents at the altar and quite number
bowed for prayers. The Myers Hill
came out and did good SER
vice for the Lord. Bro. Baxter Meeks
is in charge of the meeting leading
the Christian forces and is proving a
good leader. Everything is doing fine
SO far. For ''Lonely Boys" benefit
I'll inform him am a member of the
Shadick Hill church and an officer in
It, and not above associating with the
Lazaruses of the Hill, and that is
enough to say. We expect three
preachers in few days. Bro. Carol
Nunley. Smith. Ed Nunley and Elihu
Fults will join Bro. Meeks in few
days.
1t is decided to hold a revival at
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