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Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
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In Tuscaloosa on June 11, Col. R. E. B. Baylor campaigns, delivering a speech denying anti-Jackson charges except for boarding at an anti-Jackson house unknowingly, affirming his loyalty and earning confidence.
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Col. R. E. B. Baylor.—This gentleman passed through our town on last Saturday, on his electioneering campaign, he here delivered quite an eloquent address to the people, abounding in political knowledge, which concluded by summing up the whole of the different charges exhibited against him as proof to convict him of anti-Jacksonism, he unequivocally denied the whole, except one charge, and as to that he said if he were guilty, that he knew it not. This charge was, that of boarding at an anti-Jackson house during the last session of Congress—he said that he boarded at the house of a good lady, whom he would judge to be about 60 years of age; but that if she were a Clay-man he was entirely ignorant of the fact, not having had much time to converse with the lady upon politics—therefore he hoped the good people would not condemn him to perpetual hermitage for an act, which although of a very sinful nature, was no crime in him to commit, as he was ignorant that he was committing it at the time he did so; that it was not a direct dereliction of the interest of his constituents, but only a piece of negligence to which the best men are liable, viz: the neglect of asking all old women, into whose company he may chance to fall, whether they were Jackson or Clay men.
We leave the people to judge for themselves, but as for us, we do not doubt Mr Baylor's being a sound Jacksonite, and one whose political course entitles him to the confidence of the people of Alabama.
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June 11
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Col. R. E. B. Baylor passes through Tuscaloosa on electioneering campaign and delivers eloquent address denying charges of anti-Jacksonism, except for unknowingly boarding at an anti-Jackson house; affirms loyalty as a sound Jacksonite.