The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-15
For fhe .ArkGnsus .4d8ocete. To WILLIAM |. WOODRUFF.
 CHAPTER II.

" In place cypher, and cypher out
 While laughing faction bandies him about :; Slow as the mule, laborious as the bee, No Shuttlecock was ever so bang as he !''
 After all, Billy, why should I not enter ] tain . sorteg" of a regard for you, as well z as for other animals. Many bestow their ' affections on beasts and scptiles-auda let me ask, If yon and your coadiutor, (Ashley, Sir Ashley } are more loathsome or de- S struct1ve than pet rat, fayorite spid CT, or dearly beloved monkey? And if we descend from the animate to 4he inan;mate creation, why may not one grow fond of a @aGood Governor Justice,' or a < Henry Secretary as we'll as of clumsy arm chair or pewter tankard
 5hongh you may felicitate yourself on being attached at the present time to the 8srongest party, recoileet, Billy that the summit of wave is the most untenabIe e situation III nature and that in place and out of place are different thinms.;' Rest assured, Billy, that before end nay Chap ters, wall exhibit you in all your hypoeri~
 tieal deformIty; l will strip you of that mystic garb which shronds your rottenness,
 and throw yea naked and dcfonce,ess before s just and serntinlzing public; and for con yietlng evidence, will rely solely on your own defence and pledges to the public.- 4 All your appeals to generous public, par 2 takes of mealy suck-egg someihins, which < renders disgust rather than alleyiation to % roused feelings, and the very thing you la- N Dor to impress on the minds of the people E the worth and reverence due to private # character, and the first .you are found to H trampie on and wantonIy abuse and you stand charged in your own paper, and by yourself, with impugning private charac- fer, with publishing charges against indi- siduais knowing them to be false, based on naked supposition and without the shadow
 of truth to establish the same.
 will now proceed to make good my charges, to do which I will not take re- trospect beyond your address to the public, ' contained in a supplement to the Gazette,
 dated June 24. 1927.
 1t IS a well known fact, that Robert gserlttenden was charged by writer in
 1oqr paper over the signature oss' A Voter #ei Pulaski county with having made use
 Si 2, pubic funds for private speculation, stc.
 10 which charges Mr. Grittenden replied. Eand at the same time demanded the author, and received from you the following reply, % dated June l5, 1897 :-ss I conceive it to Dc the duty of all editors, in cases like the present, where they decline giving up the k name of the authors of communications, to assume the responsibility of such publica- eions themselves. You will therefore con- < slder me responsible for the charges alleged aSalnst you in the publications which ap- peared Tn my paper over the signature oi N voter of Pulaski county :" and I now ] announce to you, that am prepared to
 sassdaa those charges, if you require me to S do so, in legal manner''
 The public will at once see, that the only alternative left Mr. Crittenden, for the foul sspersion of his reputation and character, 4 was to institute suit, and compel the vi- porous traducer of his character to prove ehe same, or acknowledge that what was ! written, was defamation of the blakest dye, :. as the segii;:Ssa. ii:ss. Y will i'll show.
 The public will see from your own state Aents, that you assumed the sole respon- eiolllty and authorship of the publications sgalnst MT. Crittenden, and that you were held accountable for, and responsible to sne public, for all the allegations and
 charges therein contained, will more fully appear from the following extracts taken
 rom your famous address, dated June 24
 is27 :-" The charges made against him.
 Norittenden,1 are no doubt calculated to
 wound his feelings, and to make him feel
 some uneasiness, as we'll they may, about
 nis security in the office which he holds
 and If made without .5ussi6abie grounds
 would subject the person making them to
 .he Indignation due to a slanderer and de-
 Jamer--the erecration of an insuDed comnsu-
 m1y. But whenever an opportunity is af-
 4orued me of producing my proof before M an honest, intelligent, and impartial jury
 .ae vic charge of 1" slandcrer and defa-
 'her will be wiped from my skirts.''
 q m your paper of June 19, 1897, we find :: sne fo!luwiisg editorial remark :-ss At pre- &sent we Hin merely say to him, (Critten-
 aen.1 ths.. tho suit V uilieh i,e has threaten-