Memoir of the Assassination of Henry Rives Pollard (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Pollard, Edward A.

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ISBN 10: 133202226X ISBN 13: 9781332022267

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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November, he told his friend, Mr. Stover, that he would hold the proprietor and editor of the Southern Opinion reopensible for~the publication. We can now understand why he purchased more pistols, as is proved. We can now comprehend his motives and measure his acts, when, on the evening of the 23rd of November, he procured the key of Clinton, which secured the entrance to and possession of the room, in which he was discovered, locked up, immediately after the gun was fired; why he st'aid there alone, meditating over the terrible act so immediately in prospect; why he had those fire-arms there; why he need them, as they were used; why he fired the gun at the deceased; why he slept on his 'wrath and nursed his malice.

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He then gave me the notes he held in his hand. I suggested that possibly it would be best to suppress names, as the parties stood high, and trouble might ensue. He angered at once, and replied: 'The papers don't keep my name out when I get into a difficulty; why should I suppress the names of these persons?'"

Previous to the publication of the article it appears (as given in evidence on the trial) that James Grant, brother of the person whom the article exposed and caricatured, while making preparations to bring back and reclaim his sister - who, it is not denied, had left Richmond and gone as far as Philadelphia, without the consent or knowledge of her parents - had sought a friend, a Mr. Stover, a clerk in a clothing store, and had besought him to see that the newspapers made no mention of the event in his family, his apprehensions having reference to all of them, and Stover replying that he thought he could prevent it in the case of the Southern Opinion. Two or three days, however, before the Southern Opinion of the date referred to was printed, mention was made in another Richmond paper of the disappearance of a female member of a family of some social pretensions; but no names were given.

Meanwhile to Mr. Stover's approaches, designed to suppress the narrative of the elopement as it had been prepared for the Southern Opinion, Mr. Pollard appears to have firmly asserted the truth of the article (once remarking as was testified on the trial, that if a poor girl had been the delinquent, a newspaper would not be asked to withhold her name, and that he would recognize no social distinctions in publishing what he believed to be true). Of the decisive interview of Mr. Stover and Mr. Pollard, Mr. Hanna, who attended it, and who was a party to it, has given the following account: "The conversation again, as before, hinged on the possibility of suppressing the publication. The intermediator at last, rising with impatience, said, with emphasis: 'Mr. Pollard, is there no way by which this can be prevented? I am a friend of the family, am acting as such, and do assure you, upon the honor of a gentleman, that the reports concerning its member are false - utterly false.' Mr. Pollard, rising, walked the floor of his sanctum, then resumed his seat and replied: 'As for any pecuniary considerations that may be offered me' [there had been a proposition in a previous conversation of buying up the edition of the paper] 'that is purely a matter of business. I publish my paper to sell.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 133202226X
• ISBN 13: 9781332022267
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40