Show A card J 28 s kr k r a virulent aback i was made on mo by an obscene and contemptible sheet called the dispatch his city tho cliant cli ait ai segious as burglary or murder appearing in a public paper naturally found some be human baturo being so constituted readily lei bevo evil than r good fi t is generally supposed eliat such a statement invoking the greatest consequences to the would not bocade adequate n bof of the correctness of this ts I leave the public to audgo for themselves have been sil n t thus long be cause I did not wish to proceed on the a iii principle and wished to present to ano public the fullest proofs of my innocence of the vile charge brought against me which J need apt say could not be don ata moments notice a most eollo are averse to being drawn in liny involving legal consequences quen ces bad bpd therefore SITO their acs unwillingly you have already in your valuable and impartial paper of oct completely exonerate mo from the preferred one cronl the pretended the before mentioned lying hoet charges with having made the accusation as it appeared in that dirty rag which denie alie a walt and in conjunction with the statement which accompanies and only partially agreda with it speaks for itself and and impartial reader on comparing loth with iowa can easily judda tho amount of ft worthy of the first of these i taic menta was tachi down by a prominent legal gentleman in his city and eignor by her tho other also taken down in th preset tc and signed by djs own hand is from a gentleman present at he aho being not more than fifteen feet di hint and in perfect possession of bis hearing was certainly in a position to testify to the ruth As the foregoing fore coing ought o bo o ag regards my innocence of alo chargo in question I will pot further to it but as he imagine why such a charge should be made and ara very unlikely to discover the reasons for themselves will give them as brief as possible of the existence of a conspiracy to ruin ma I biava not tho doubt and chopo to iagal proof of it in a few days I have discovered that tho lying charge preferred me was instigated by enemies who evidently that I would b to di it sup that they had secured in their own interests all who were likely to servo me in this however they acro mistaken as I hope to prova to choir oot and that if la lo 10 make false charges and that every raan has rights which even his enemies ro bound to respect on these grounds I dono unoo the water of the aforesaid article as base liar and a slanderer and any public journal which would t without the most proof os an luceno publication for circulation in ariy community S |