Year: 1863




tated an finally stopped, and the kisses
continuing, he suppose they were intended
for him, and returned them with will, to
the great merriment of Il crowd of specta-
tors, and the intense disgust 81 the ladies'.


For the Times
MARTIN CARRIER, President Of the Board Of


Supervisors


DEAR SIR Il have read again your pat
riotic, gentlcmanly, and high,toned letter
in reply to one of mine of a previous date,
and as do not believe the people Of Clay
ton county are yet tired Of the controversy,
propose to answer portion Of it.


1, is an old saying and true one, that
whenever rogues fall out, honest people find
their own" So it may be in this case with
you and ], for by this controversy the peo-
pie Of Clayton county may find where some
of the hard earned money goes, which they
are year after year compelled to pay into
the county treasury.


| am aware that you as an individual,
have no control or disposition of the public
money, but as member of the board, you
have It in your power to control and dis.
pose of, not only "single dollars WORTH"
ont of thousands if you choose to do So
AS member Of that board, and as one
Of the ''twenty-two," it often happens where
Martin CARRIER can Civ. the casting vote
and thereby do g eat deal Of mischief, in
the way Of imposing heavy and burthen-
some tax upon the people Of the county.


In this way too, you can reward your
friends in the way Of fat contracts to build
jalls, court houses and bridges, and at the
same time vote for and bring about meas
ure whereby large number Of the best cit
izens ofyour county may be sued, in order
to throw large amount of sheriff fees into
the pocket Of your brother.


But, sir, if you had nothing to do with
the action of your board in sueing large
number of the best citizens Of Clayton CO, H.
ty who owed dollar to the school fund,
whereby your brother received large
amount Of fees, why did you not deny it,
instead Of saying that the board was com.
posed Of 'twenty.two' members, and that
they would not let you do any wrong if you
desired to.


Some Of these men whom you sued, were
Union men, aud some had sent their sons
and relatives to the battle field, as you say
to fight for your rights and mine,' while
the father and mother toiled in their absence
to pay the debt you sued them for, and it
would have been far more manly in you, ei.
ther to have admitted, or denied it, instead
of evading it, by saying you had not the
control Of a single dollar"


II tall nc cir urh hat bnr h,1
to do with the action Of your board in su.-
ing some forty five or fifty more Of the best
citizens Of Clayton county, at the last term
OF the District court, whereby another large
sum in the way of sheriff $ fees were thrown
into the pocket of your brother. You first
declared that these men must be sued you
next intimate to them that all you are sucins
them Tor, is to make them pay few dollars on
ly head. in the way of sheritfis fees, in order
tO learn them better next time. Then the most
contemplate part of this most contemplate
farce, was to see you. the President Of this 'peo.
pie loving board, with tw clerks to assist you.
standing ut the counter, as the agent of the
board, looking after your brothers fees, and
telling these men that the costs was all you
wanted. You will, no doubt, tell the people
that you had nothing to do in the matter, that
the board sent you there with instructions to
compromise, if they would pay your brothers.
fees, and that you had to obey the board, and
that you had no control over a 'single dollar,
and that IL nas ''r'vhie shuushs to rtncnatr
from the pen Of Judge Murdock to suppose you
had"


must say with all due Difference to your sa.
gacity, and to your high position as President
Of the "aoliier-loving," ,""wife relieving ""chl-
drcn sustaining" "union.loving" board, that
you can so through smaller hole than any
man l ever knew.


You ask me "what honest purpose hid in
view, in telling the people that il they did not
pay this thirty three thousand dollars tax in
hard money by the first day OF January. they
would incur penalty of 25 per cent" In the
first place l never told the people Of Clayton
county, they would have to pay that tax in
''haId money!" but said they would have it to
pay in what was equivalent" to them in hard
money, and l say SO STILL


But you seem to laugh and chuckle at the
thought and idea that your "sOldier loving"
board has SO managed these soldier warrants,
that the people can buy them Tor almost moth.
ing. Yes. you can now laugh ard say in tri-
umph to the people OF Clayton county. what a
fool Judge Murdock was last December, when
he told you these warrants would cost you dol
lar for dollar, he ought to have known better
than to have even supposed that our "soldier
loving board ever intended them to be worth
more to the "dear soldier" than Il 'little pork
and little -four" dealt out by your farmers to
the rt twving wives and shiver.ng children Of the
"poor soldier"


Besides, Judge Murdock ought to have known
that J, Martin CARRIER, in my extreme love and
devotion 10 you, the dear people Of Clayton
county, recommended a plan in my annual
message to the board, whereby these warrant,
would tall SO low in the hands of the soldier and
his "dear wife" and .'naked children" that you
farmers could easily exchange "ltt!c pork
and little -four" for them, and thus pay your
taxes without ever knowing that you had done
So.


Yes. when you wrote your celebrated ''sol-
der loving" patriotic message to the "soldier
loving" board, you knew that there was ut that
time over forty thousand Of these warrants scat.