JOHN RIST,

PHILIP FISHBURN, J. P.
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| have now finished my task-one begun amid
suffering and sorrow, and continued in the bit
terness of a bruised and wounded spirit. Should
the mghtness of truth prevail, and its voice reach
that far-off city where the ISLANDERS against my
family originated, it is well; for there are good
souls and honest hearts in every land, who will
not be deaf to its dictates. 1t is for such as these
that have written-that | have opened afresh
wounds that were scarcely closed, and depicted
scenes that | would fain forget. For those base
calumniators ofmy house, whose malgnty death
itself cannot appease,


81 bide my time"


WARREN G. WHITAKER.


EAST FEIIcIANA, La.) Oct. l, 1886.