The State Guard

To the Voters of Coosa County.

In the last number of the Guard. I notice an article over the signature of Richard Richardson, containing a long catalogue of what he has heard and what he has been told--and among other things, charging me with having circulated the report, that he had come down. In answer to this charge, I have only to say, that some ten days ago, I did hear it mentioned in the upper part of the county 'that he had come down.' I do not now recollect where or by whom, and I may have mentioned it incidentally to others, but not otherwise. as I did not consider it a matter of much importance whether he was up or down. The subject had passed entirely from my mind, until my attention was called to it by the article above alluded to. The gentleman says 'he has been informed that I have said, that he was brought out by a prominent democrat for the purpose of creating discord and confusion in the democratic party.' I now say that I have been told that he was brought out by a prominent whig of Wetumpka.' I know not, however, what the object may have been, or who brought him out, but if the object was, as he states, to produce discord and confusion in the democratic ranks, I think it was a bad selection, for I have no fears of his much troubling the waters in the pool of democracy. All this, he says, has been done for the purpose of profiting thereby. Now, as to the profit or loss that is likely to result from it. I have not taken the trouble to estimate. for I would as soon expect to extract blood from a turnip as to make capital out of him in any way The gentleman goes on to caution the people against false rumors-says that the good people of Nixburg were once deceived. and had their favorite candidate defeated by false rumors having been circulated just on the eve of an election, &c. I have consulted some of the oldest citizens in the vicinity of Nixburg, none of whom recollect of any report ever having been circulated there on the eve of Election, that any candidate had come down,' whereby, the people were deceived and their favorite candidate defeated. I must thereby conclude that the gentleman has been imposed upon by his informant. Mr. Richardson has made a long comment upon certain propositions, which he says were made at Maj. Moore's, on the 10th inst., some of which, I have no recollection of ever having heard of, before I saw them in print. But among other propositions there was one made for all the candidates in the field to withdraw, and to that proposition I assented. as Richard Richardson very well knows (and you too, Mr. Editor.) yet Richard Richardson comes before the public in the columns of a newspaper, with a falsehood in his publication, knowingly. and without pretext or subterfuge. I hope the gentleman will now rest satisfied, since he has succeeded in getting his name into the columns of a newspaper, thereby letting the people of Coosa County know that there is such an individual in the County. as Richard Richardson. And now. fellow-citizens. I am done with the subject. You have seen the personal attack that has been made upon me for the purpose of drawing me into a paper quarrel. However repugnant to my feelings such a course is, yet I am reluctantly compelled to notice it in self-defence.- I have been assailed from one end of the County to the other-the tongue of calumny. falsehood and detraction have been let loose against me with all the virulence that green-eyed malice can invent, and for no other crime than having gone to the polls and exercised my right of suffrage according to the dictates of my best judgment-as every freeman has a right to do,

I am respectfully,

Your Fellow Citizen,
A. H. KENDRICK
Nixburg. July 18th, 1847.