They have flooded the country with a lying circular letter, intended to deceive the people as to the cause of my withdrawal.
Col. Mann’s name is not even mentioned in this circular.
Almost every statement made about me in that circular is a base, malicious falsehood. They are simply trying to hide their own guilt in a cloud of slanderous fabrications.
In the November number of “Watson’s Magazine” appeared an article with the title of “Explanatory.” It should have been labelled “Defamatory.”
It reeks with venom and lies. Col. Mann wrote part of it, and DeFrance wrote the balance.
These publications of theirs do me the rankest injustice.
I have no mailing list of the magazine which bears my name, and never had one.
Consequently, I am at present powerless to reach the subscribers and readers of “Watson’s Magazine.” I have no way of letting them know the real state of the case.
On account of this very serious disadvantage, I make this appeal to you:
Pray, inform your readers that I am now publishing the genuine Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine in Atlanta, Ga., of which this is the first number.