GRENADA POSTMASTER.
Pronounced a Demagogue, Untrustworthy and not to be Believed on His Solemn Oath.
By a Colored Republican who Knows Him Personally and Politically, and Shuns Him as a Bulldozer.
From an Appeal Correspondent.]
SARDIS, MISS., January 2. – […] I inclose you a correspondence which I would ask (in justice to a long-suffering people) a place in your columns. Price, to whom the letter refers, has, for a long time, been postmaster at Grenada, and failing recently to bulldoze the good people of that section into his way of thinking, he put forward some infamous lies, which the good readers of the APPEAL, through its columns, have been fully advised. J. T. Settle, whose name is signed to the inclosed correspondence, was chairman of the Mississippi delegation that nominated Mr. Hayes at the Cincinnati convention, and also elector for the State at large upon the Republican ticket, and stands to-day the head and front of his party in the State. Mr. Settle is a colored man, and though differing with many of us politically, still he is ever ready to frown down fraud and corruption when the welfare of a whole community is jeopardized.
SARDIS, MISS., December 19, 1876.
Hon. J. T. Settle:
SIR – Occupying the high position you do among your race, and an elector for the State at large on the Republican ticket, and knowing well that, politically and personally, you are well acquainted with Captain Price, postmaster at Grenada, who of late has been guilty of a gross misrepresentation of the people of Grenada, and the people of Mississippi in general, I would ask if you would believe the aforesaid Price upon his solemn oath, and what, so far as your observation extends, is your opinion of the man. Yours, truly,
D. B. M’HENRY.
SARDIS, MISS., December 26, 1876.
D. B. M’Henry, Esq.:
DEAR SIR – Yours of the nineteenth instant came to me sometime since, to which I would have sooner replied but for a pressing business. In your letter, you ask my opinion of Mr. William Price, of Grenada. I cannot say that I am well acquainted with him personally; politically, I think him a complete demagogue, unworthy of confidence or belief. I further think the election of such men to office is one of the causes of the recent defeat of the Republican party in this State. Respectfully yours, etc.,
J. T. SETTLE.