1867 Letter on Political Beliefs of Farmerville Lawyer James E. Trimble, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2006



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Captain George W. McCranie founded the 'Weekly Telegraph' in Monroe, Ouachita Parish 
beginning in September 1865. In mid-December, he decided to change the name to the 
"Ouachita Telegraph'. The paper continued publication until and the 1890s or later. 
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1867 Letter on Political Beliefs of Farmerville Lawyer James E. Trimble, Union Parish Louisiana


From the Monroe "Ouachita Telegraph", issue of 10 October 1867, page 2
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We cheerfully insert the following communication inasmuch as we would do no man 
injustice; but have to say in explanation of the objectionable paragraph, that 
it was penned just after a very loud "whisper" from a very resonsible source.
But Mr. Trimble ought to be the better authority as to his own political views, 
and these, we trust, will never be in dissonance with the honor, dignity and 
brilliant record of the "intelligence" of his adopted State:

    FARMERVILLE, LA., Oct. 1, 1867.
Editor Ouachita Telegraph:
   In your issue of the 19th ult., I saw a paragraph where the following language 
is used:
   "The reconstruction candidate for Delegate in Union has a straight-out Radical 
opponent in a Mr. Trimble who is, we learn, a lawyer of Farmerville."

   I wish simply to deny the honorable position which your paragraph has assigned 
to me, except that I am a "lawyer of Farmerville." I was not a candidate, as so 
expressed myself, should Mr. Barrett come out as such.

   The imputation of Radicalism, I know has been **whispered** [word in italics] 
against me; but whispered or asserted, it is false. I will be found among the 
last men in the South who would fraternize with such men as Stevens or Sumner 
or Wendell Phillips. A Louisianian by adoption, I expect to make my home where 
my interest and my predilection have brought me; and as a citizen of the State, 
I wish to see her destinies controlled by intelligence, ability and liberality. 
I do not believe that the Stevens school of politics fills my bill; therefore, 
"I am none of them."

    Respectfully,                 J. E. TRIMBLE.
                       

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