Excerpt from The Papers of Randolph Abbott Shotwell, Vol. 1 Naturally Shotwell was not loved by his opponents. Apart from other considerations, he had proved himself too dangerous and too unrelenting an enemy. Becoming a real political force, he won the undying enmity of the Radicals of Cleveland and Rutherford counties, and it was certain that they would spare no efforts in his undo ing. The later tragedy of his life was largely due to the hatreds which he now aroused. In 1869 he went to Asheville and established the Citizen, buying for the purpose the printing plant of the defunct News. He had a wider field here and the circulation of his paper increased rapidly, and its influence grew apace. But in Spite of its growth, it did not pay, and he sold it on July 18, 1870, and returned to Rutherfordton and began once more to read law, keeping, however, an attentive eye on public affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.