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Rolla
Herald
July 28, 1870
Letter
from Gainesville
W.S. Pope, who is a
candidate for State Senator in the, 22nd senatorial district,
writes to a friend at this place under date of July 19th, saying:
“Yesterday Judge Fyan spoke at Gainesville, Ozark county,
Monks, anti-suffrage radical candidate replied to him. He said Breckinridge had recently been
elected U.S. Senator by the legislature of Kentucky, and dealt out much abuse on the Judge, and blood
and thunder on and against rebels, saying he would not accept an
anti-suffrage vote, and that if rebels were permitted to vote that their
hands would stain their ballots with loyal blood.” Of course the Judge replied, and being
goaded by the senseless remarks and ungentlemanly vituperations used toward
himself by Monks, pointed his finger into his face and called him a liar, a
thief, a hell-hound, and every other name known to the catalogue of crime and
villainy. The judge in his excoriating
speech, said in the days when the rebels were in hostility to the government,
no man fought them harder, or with more earnestness – that no man in Southwest Missouri none more to whip rebels than he did. He said that he was in the front all the
time – that he led twelve charges against their forces and that many brave
boys all over S.W. Mo., went down by his side, amid the danger crash, and
carnage of battle, but that men of that type never fought dead rebels nor
tomahawked dead “Injuns.” Said he
never murdered innocent men, never abused a prisoner or suffered it to be
done in his command. He asked Monks
about his Arkansas record – about all the old men, and defenseless
captured rebel sympathizers he had murdered.
Judge Fyan is a host and is a full scholar
in the light on enfranchisement, and from the enthusiasm manifested,
Ozark will give a large majority for suffrage.
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