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In den WarenkorbUnrecorded. Hannibal, Mo. 1854. A Missouri Judge Responds to His Critics [Broadside]. Killen, Thomas J. To The Public. In A Handbill Dated April 21, 1854, And Signed In Large Capital Letters "John Poynter McMillin," That Gentleman Makes "Three Specific Charges" Against The Rev. Matthias M. Barron [first line of text]. [Hannibal,… MO? 1854]. 18-1/2" x 8-1/2" (47 x 21.6 cm) broadside. Text in three columns. Moderate toning and light foxing, minor edgewear, fine vertical and horizontal fold lines, contemporary docketing to verso. $2,500. * An apparently unrecorded, fierce antebellum Missouri broadside published by Justice of the Peace Thomas J. Killen of Saverton Township/Hannibal. The piece serves as a public defense and stinging rebuttal following a bitter local legal dispute involving a former litigant, John Poynter McMillin. After losing a lawsuit decided by Judge Killen, McMillin-who lived roughly "three miles from the City of Hannibal"-circulated a handbill accusing local minister Rev. Matthias M. Barron of wrongdoing and misrepresenting the courtroom proceedings and testimony to exonerate himself. In response, Killen issued this three-column public address to refute McMillin's "superlatively ridiculous" claims point-by-point. Beyond defending the integrity of his judicial rulings and the reputation of the elderly Rev. Barron, Killen delivers a colorful, vitriolic attack on McMillin's character, mocking his financial embarrassment and deadbeat status: "You may banish fears of sinking to the degraded level of a mere slanderer. Both your tongue and your pen, sir, have lost all power of slander, or detraction; true like the native polecat, they may occasionally offend and disgust the community yet no one blames it because it is the nature of the beast." The broadside offers a vibrant window into frontier justice, local feuds, and early print culture in Marion and Ralls Counties during the 1850s-the same milieu and setting featured in Mark Twain's Hannibal writings. No copies located on OCLC or the online catalogs of AAS, Harvard or the Library of Congress. Unrecorded. Hannibal, Mo. 1854 (illustrator).
