mind many readers of the
showing up of your infamous character and conduct, by the editor of the
Louisville Journal, ten or twelve years ago, and of the exposure of your
villainous conduct by the _Rev. Mr. McNutt_, of Kentucky, through the
Nashville Advocate, some eight or nine years ago.

I will only add the following article from my paper of the 21st June,
1856, as it completes your record, so far as Tennessee is concerned. I
will only add, that you were driven out of McMinn County in East
Tennessee, where you were preaching, lying, and drinking whiskey, years
ago. There and then, too, the records of the Sullivan County affair,
certified to by the Clerk, were produced against you! But to the article
from my late paper:

STEPHEN TRIBBLE AGAIN.

This old hypocrite and scoundrel has been denying in the pulpit that he
was ever convicted of manslaughter or branded! It turns out, also, that
the old villain once joined the American party in West Tennessee! And
last, but not least, it seems that he was turned out of both the
Methodist and Presbyterian Churches before he became a Campbellite
preacher. A pretty disciple to be abusing honest men! But to the law and
to the testimony:

"ROANE COUNTY, June 3d, 1856.

"SIR:--In your issue of the 14th of May, you notice _Stephen
Tribble_, and ask for information concerning him. He came to
the lower end of Roane county from one of the upper counties of
East Tennessee, and passed himself for an Arian preacher. I
objected to his preaching in a meeting-house, and came near
getting myself into a scrape. About that time a gentleman came
from our upper country, and said he had seen his father apply
the branding-iron to Tribble, and the smoke rose ten feet high!
I then began to play on a harp of one string against him, and
that was _a tribble_, whereupon he left between two days for
Kentucky! He was once expelled from the Methodist Church, and
afterwards he was expelled from the Presbyterian Church. If
Tribble disputes what I say, all I ask is a chance to prove it.
I live ten miles south of Kingston, near Barnardsville. Yours
truly,

"JOHN BLAIR."

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"PARIS, TENN., June 6th, 1856.

"DEAR SIR:--I see in a late issue of yours that you are after a
Reve