The Natchitoches enterprise., 1916-05-04

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if you, or he feel aggrieyed, by
any act of mine, | hold myself
responsible to answer therefor,
either to you or him, if it should
please either of you to call upon
me.
| am Sir respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JNO. r. DUNN.
To Major Lewis G. DeRussy,
Paymaster Q. s. A
Natchitoches, La,
26th, July 1882.
To Mr.. J. R. DUNN,
Sir:-l reply to yours of 9th
inst. which, you say being ten
dered to me, | refuse to receive.
In answer to the first paragraph
of your letter, | have to say, l
fear no difficulty in persuading
the Public that my right to vindi-
cate an individual, is at least
equal to that you may claim, to
asSail him.
The 6nesse by which you labour
to shew that | was prompted by
party zeal, will avail you nothing.
l disclaim any such mott Je. and
my note, is susceptible of no such
constructions; it is we'll known
that MANY, or most of my friends
are on your side as to politics.
The very cunning trick too, by
which you introduce my connec-
ton with the army, is admirable,
yet, strange as it may seem, !
have dared to meet you before the
public, however reluctant / have
been to do so. Having bestowed
this nassiaa Rsp4tiHf44 5f6RtfBu FF I'd fiiJtee
self, in your reply, l proceed to
an examination of that portion of
it, affecting a more important in
dividual.
l confess sir, that your deport-
ment in regard to Judge Billiard
has been unacountable to me:
your first step was to abuse him
IN language more reprehensible
than any shown in any part of
this publication, in the most fir,
1uented street in town, and in I'll.
nearing of as many as woul
listen to you; and your next, III
a pretext that | would not re
'eive a letter, acknowledged b +,
vour friend to be abusive G.
Iudge Billiard, has been, to circr
thro' a newspaper, a publics
ion that can in no possible MAJ ,
ler be of service to you, and the F.;
annot fail of being disapprove. !
f by every decent member O.,
his community. =
: You deny in YOUR letter havin +
that Judge Billiard had at q
smpted to induce you to sig 4
alse certificates and acknowledge =
aving SAID something which, Ut =,
'rtunately, non of those present n
card. You will perceive, sir, b. f,
le certificates of Messrs. Vii II
ANS, SomDayrac and Prudhomme \
lat if you did not use the word
certificates" you substi
ted other words very simiIa,
an instrument of writing know W
z it to be false" And it seem :;
hat this act of the Judy, 4,
same certifcate) was given b. E,
u, in evidence of dishonest pur. n
ses. Having procured the his M
~ of this instrument of writ wi
z" | can see nothing about i B,
IRE than an honest difference OF 70.
inion between Judge BulIarC 10
i yourself upon a construction
law, and unless you successfully
use Judge Billiard of somt
minal design, or of having made
.lse inventory, or of some i'm
'per motive in procuring your {
nature to it-you cannot stanc s2(
though for argumen De
legal accuracy be yielded NJ De Dc
you; (see certificates of Chas. -
Billiard and J. P. Harrison.) he
IS to the epithet you avow hay If
applied to Judge Billiard, ana jer'
you say was used as :
ter of private opinion" l car 3ro
nothing, except that You have q
e a good guess of what would ~