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July 25, 1852: The New Orleans Weekly Delta reported, “The Jonesborough (Tenn.) Rail Road Journal relates the following as a specimen of the way they do things in Tennessee. ‘S. D. Adams has written a letter to Col. Roper, of Dandridge, Tennessee, notifying him that he will shortly publish his life, which will be illustrated with woodcuts, and will disgrace him and his children to the tenth generation.’ Col. Roper, in reply, says he will prove his calumnies to be false in every m...