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Letter to Editor
July 16, 1840
Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
Preston S. Brooks rebuts an article by 'Sub-Treasury' accusing him of fleeing the district to avoid confrontation and failing to cancel a bond. He denies the charges, cites prior proof of contempt, and notes the writer's prior knowledge of his intentions, dismissing further response.
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Communications.
A CARD.
A writer in the last Advertiser over the signature of "Sub-Treasury" has thought proper to assail me by name while he studiously preserves his mask. The writer is welcome to all the advantage this act of chivalric gallantry deserves. "Sub-Treasury" insinuates in an amount that I had fled the District, to avoid his anger, and failed to comply with my threat. To the first charge, I have only to reply that the writer has strangely forgotten the impressive proof I gave him two days before my departure (June 29) of my utter contempt of his puissance. In the second place—that I refused to cancel my own Bond—it is sufficient to say that at the time "Sub-Treasury" penned his article, he was in possession of a note of intimation of my then and future course. The etiquette and good taste of such an allusion is in unison with his entire communication. For the present, I deem further notice of his extraordinary article as uncalled for.
PRESTON S. BROOKS.
Columbia, 12th July.
A CARD.
A writer in the last Advertiser over the signature of "Sub-Treasury" has thought proper to assail me by name while he studiously preserves his mask. The writer is welcome to all the advantage this act of chivalric gallantry deserves. "Sub-Treasury" insinuates in an amount that I had fled the District, to avoid his anger, and failed to comply with my threat. To the first charge, I have only to reply that the writer has strangely forgotten the impressive proof I gave him two days before my departure (June 29) of my utter contempt of his puissance. In the second place—that I refused to cancel my own Bond—it is sufficient to say that at the time "Sub-Treasury" penned his article, he was in possession of a note of intimation of my then and future course. The etiquette and good taste of such an allusion is in unison with his entire communication. For the present, I deem further notice of his extraordinary article as uncalled for.
PRESTON S. BROOKS.
Columbia, 12th July.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Provocative
What themes does it cover?
Politics
Economic Policy
What keywords are associated?
Sub Treasury
Preston Brooks
Personal Attack
Bond Cancellation
District Flight
Columbia
Advertiser
What entities or persons were involved?
Preston S. Brooks
The Printer
Letter to Editor Details
Author
Preston S. Brooks
Recipient
The Printer
Main Argument
brooks denies fleeing the district or failing to cancel his bond as accused by 'sub-treasury,' asserting prior proof of contempt and the writer's knowledge of his intentions via a note.
Notable Details
Signature 'Sub Treasury'
Departure June 29
Refusal To Cancel Own Bond
Note Of Intimation