This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hoskins, Perkins, Arnold Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3921/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Louisville Daily Journal - Oct 10, 1850 To the Editors of the Louisville Journal: Garrard County, Ky., Sept 23, 1850: Gentlemen: In your Journal of this week, I notice a paragraph, in which is stated, upon the authority of a Lancaster correspondent, that the charges made by me against Mr. John B. Arnold, my competitor at the late August election, were proven false, and that the free negro Plez had instituted suit against myself and others for slander. That, sirs, I assure you, is doing me great injustice, as it calculated to form an undue prejudice against me in the minds of those who are soon to adjudicate the matter; and who, as yet, know nothing of the facts relating to the case. As to the negro suing me, it is false; and even had he, I would not fear sustantiating the charge in any court of justice, there being three separate and distinct records, either of which would warrant me in the assertion. In the suit of Laurena Perkins vs. Christian Perkins, for alimony and divorce, she sets foth, as one of the causes, his intercourse with the negro Eda, the mother of Pleasant, which was not controverted. There is also the will of Christian Perkins, emancipating the whole family, and, lastly, there was the mother of Pleasant, voluntarily listing herself and children (Pleasant included) as free negroes in 1840. It is true that suit has been instigated against one of my friends (Maj. A. J. Brown) who, they knew, would be an important witness for me, from the fact of his intimacy with the Perkins family, and they hoped thereby to invalidate his testimony. Their whole course from beginning to this time has been characterized by ______, resorted to for the purpose of bluffing me from my determination, his first handbill being leased upon the day the commissioners were to be appointed, the second just as they were to commence their sittings, when there was no call whatever for either, neither one containing an iota of proof as to the legality of Plea's vote or any of the 37 others which I had challenged. I herewith send you a handbill in which is contained a certified copy of the clause of the will by which Plez was emancipated, together with certificates from as respectable citizens as our county affords as to his standing. As to the certificate of John Johnson, his son, who was living with him at the time he made Perkin's his home, will certify to the reverse. This publication in your paper, together with his last handbill, will place me under the necessity of issuing another, which I would not have otherwise done. You will therefore much oblige me by giving the name of your Lancaster correspondent, who, you can state upon my authority, has lied basely and knowingly, Arnold not having proven in any the legality of Plea's vote. You, I hope, will do me the justice to make the necessary correction in you next; and, if it is consistent with your feelings, I would be pleased you would publish the letter of your Lancaster correspondent. All I ask is fair play until the facts can be brought before the proper tribunal, when I fear not the results. I am, sirs, very respectfully, yours, W. A. Hoskins Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.