. [Miscellaneous papers on insects. Entomology. THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Mr. Sotham in Reply to C. M. Clay. Messrs. Tucker i SoxâI fihimld bo sorry to involve you in any difticulty with your reiid- , but I have a strong dcairo to uao my own weapons in my oicn dofonco. I will defy any man to prove that I Dvorcommoncod a controversy, and iim always willing for a jusl public to criticise my articles as they deem proper. When I doviale from the truth, trim mo with a severe pen. Mr. Clay says: " Mr. S., avowedly, upon personal olwervat ion, at- tacks my herd. I show he never saw
. [Miscellaneous papers on insects. Entomology. THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Mr. Sotham in Reply to C. M. Clay. Messrs. Tucker i SoxâI fihimld bo sorry to involve you in any difticulty with your reiid- , but I have a strong dcairo to uao my own weapons in my oicn dofonco. I will defy any man to prove that I Dvorcommoncod a controversy, and iim always willing for a jusl public to criticise my articles as they deem proper. When I doviale from the truth, trim mo with a severe pen. Mr. Clay says: " Mr. S., avowedly, upon personal olwervat ion, at- tacks my herd. I show he never saw it. ;tlead of an apology he attoiiipts to cast upon mo imputations of untruths, as an oOset to that which I hud proved upon ; You will observe, Messrs Editors, in Mr. Clay's for- mer Utter, which I send you, ho says : "If through mistitke ho applied his romnrUs to me, instead of my brother, B. J. Clay, I need only say ho took more premiums," Ac, &c. 1 said in my letter in the Hertford Journal and Mark Lane Express, to which Mr. Clay alludes, that I wns sorry for that " mistake," as I fully understood the herd belonged to Mr. Cassius M. Clay. I then transferred the remarks I mido to whore they belonged, and con- tend that every word 1 said of that herd was strictly true. Mr. C. M. C. then joins his and his brother's herd together, making them one, from which ho issues the challenge which I accepted in my answer, which was as follows : I will now for a ;Hnality, propose to meet Mr. Clay's "cluilluiigo" in ii fair way; 1 have two heifer calves,â ' Prudence,' calved Augusi 2Ulli, lt>5(J; ' Woodiark,' calved Sept. aoih, 1860. TliL-et. !uo :ill I liuvu lull »ca»a]i. They rail Willi their daiiiB, ii« Iomk as any ^â |â¢a^.-, wlii-u tliu tilt ⢠UaiiiB idaj stalks, mixed, ^^'it .diy, mixed with ta'baK-a pi-r flay, â r tlicy r)j per I the to gia»» III ihe Biuiiif. uiilil 1 them with me to Kenlucky at t
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