Year: 1873

nave Ihe auuaclty TO compare yourself
with Lee and StOnewall jackson.


"The man Of Farce, to Tragedy aspires,
And, calf>like believing, feels heroic fires"
Either one of these dead heroes if living
would as soon be caught robbing a hem
roost as aflixiEg their signatures to the
foul emanations of your head and pen.
There is about as much similarity be-
tween you and them as between the Amer
| lean Eagle and a turkey buzzard.


Ihave been disappointed in you. Though
Knowing you to he NANCY dog, had,
when this controversy began, given you
credit for some ability and spirit. / have
since learned that while constantly de-
nouncing the Federal Government and
slandering its friends, both living and
dead, you had the meanness to cringe and
crawl after Congressman to have a son
educated at West Point at the expense of
Government you contemn.


Are you not beautiful specimen to as
sail me for what you denominate the


back salary steal?' Why, a man who
would do what you have would steal the
coppers off u dead negro's eyes. ....
If Congress were made up of men who
would crawl on their bellies to have son
sent to West Point while holding the
views of the Government which you ex-
press, would put my hand on my pocket
book whenever / passed through the Dis.
trict OF Columbia. The Hon. Matt w.
Ransom, OF North Carolina, who was
with you, q Rebel General, and who voted
with me on that question would scorn the
humiliation you have stopped to.


L don't know that l will take further no.
tice OF you. You are too weak an antag-
onist to interest me in controversy. While
at West Point you were known as "Sleepy
Davy" Hill, in contradistinctiOn to anoth-
er Hill who was there at the same time and
who was q smart fellow. After reading
your rice-water editorial discharges, l see
the appropriateness of the Sobri9ltet given
you by your West Point school-fellows.


You obtained high rank in the late war
by abject servility to jeff. Davis, and you
were as insolent to those below you as you
were abject to those above you. The whole
country has seen in the removal of that
really able man, Joe Johnston, and his
supercedure by little Hood, that servility
to Davis would secure high rank or impor-
tant command without the possession of
merit.


A distinguished citizen of Georgia, who
occupied a high civil position under the
late Confederacy, and who is now Demo-
crat, writes me I: ~ congratulate you on
your castigation Of ID. II. Hill. / saw him
during the war exacting abject homag e
| from his saff, and attempting its exaction
from all classes of citizens with all the
| Casarean-A leXandrian airs that modern
/
ors of contemptibility, put on in supposed
| imitation of ancient greatness. If you sue
| ceed in reducing his self-conceit to about!a
| millionth of its present bulk, he may
possibly turn out reasonably sensible
man, but of limited capacity" -.-
| So far as l am personally concerned, l
| am Indifferent as to what you say of me.
| | long ago learned that it Is not enough to
! bepraised by the good an honest man has
| failed somewhere in his duty if he is not
cursed by the bad.


You are n small pattern of a mana
vulgar fraction of human nature reduced
to its lowest terms. Your body is not very
| large, but large enough to accommodate
| twenty such souls as you possess. 1t is said
| that human body has twenty-eight miles
of drainage through its seven million
pores. That is not enough to cleanse you
| of all the filth, falsehood, treachery and
| carrion-scent which possess you. Though
| / have made you the derision of your ene-
mics and the melancholy pity of your
| friends, you are indebted to me for adj
vertising your little, unknown newspaper,
and giving you the notoriety you covet
| Your buzzard- winged fame is now Nation
al. AS your articles are but repetitions,
containing nothing original of thought OIL
| expression, [ shall probably not again no.
| tice you. Your assaults upon the charac
| ters of such men as Candy and George ID
| InomaS Is DuJ y tne viper DllluS me-


In the words of Junius, addressed to 9


scoundrel like yourself, l would say:


ave owe it to the bounty of Provi dence


that the completest depravity of the heart
is sometimes strangely united with con
fusion of the mind, which makes the
same man treacherous without art, and {
hypocrite without deceiVing."


In conclusion / will say a word of Mr.


f. B. Drake, editor of the NdteSvilLe (N
CO american, whom you denounce as
having written me anonymously certain


things concerning you which he dared not


put under his own signature.


When Mr.. Drake wrote me he author


lied me to give his name as authority fol


the statements contained in my last letter


| did not do so for the sole reason that he


was living in proximity TO you and be


lieved you mean enough to hire an assassin


to waylay him or set fire to his dwelling


Mr.. Drake is a true man and edits good


reliable paper. l believe every word h'


wrote me. You and your man Friday
statement to the contrary notwithstaud
ing,


If I have failed to do you full justice


Drake will make up the deficiency through
! the columns of his paper.


w. G.. BRowNLow.