The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-08
TO THE PUBLIC.

TO THE PUBLIC.
 much regret that it has again be- come necessary for me to respond to the viietissuc Of personai islander and abuse that has been dealt out upon me with such profuse and liberal hand, in the publications which have recently ap- peared in that suborned and prostitat- ed print, the Gazette, over the signature of '.Jaw-Bone.' Had the writers of @Jaw-Bone," confined themselves to the subiect-matterin controversy, ,insteadof, as Woodruff would say, < descending to the low and grovelling office of traduc- ing priDate character l should, per- haps, have been spared the painful duty of a replication, in vindication of my character from tic I11aievoient shafts of masked and dastardly assailant, who
 dare not diYest himself of his shield. and render to me that satisfaction due from man to man.
 As the people at a distance from Lit tiee tie Rock, are, perhaps, ignorant of the author or authors of this production, for their information, 1 will point them out, and tho public, knowing the men as well as they do-not for any good they have dohe--ean give to their malicious as- persions that credit which they may deem them entitled to. Jaw-isone," $ Che joint production of Col. CHESTER AsHBEv, aud his lackal and pImp, Wm. [. Woodruff. do not wish to be un- dersteod, fer q moment, as charging Woodruff with assisting incomposing or writing any part of the last, or former productions over that signature-but as
 acting in the capacity of piosp to Col. Ashley, and assuming the truly Slow and groveliing office, catechising my friends and neighbors, in relation to my } prioate qf'lirs, and carrying safely home what little he could collect to his mas- ter, that he might be enabled to give it publicity, in the most glowing eolors, in S his succeeding Jaw-Bone.n
 Col. "Jaw- Bone" commences his last Mo-, with a tissue of personal abuse. < which, perhaps, has not its parallel, in the annals of political warfare. He says he @knew me to be young and in- experienced, without learning or gen ius.' That l am young, and therefore cannot have the experience of q man oi double my years, 1 do not deny. As to learning or genios, have always inva- riably been unpretending. have never
 as have before stated, figured, as l pre-
 sume " Jaw Bone" has, in the Colleges < of the east-but on the contrary, what
 httle of talent l may possess, has been { acquired within the walls of the humble j 31og-eabin, far in the forest. l clain
 nothlng on the score of great intellect natural or acquired" Jaw-BoneD ar 2 rogates much to himself as man O T great requirements and learning. How, # ever much l may feel disposed to differ \ with him, in his opinion of himself, ye will not deny his egotistical assertion S but freely admit he has much talent 5 and have but little. But permit me a a to inquire, how those great and power # tul talents, which he has discovered him self to possess, have been used. Have E they been used to benefit his fellow man, as they should, or to defraud tho widow, and cheat the orphan!
 s He says, that from my boyhood to tht E period of issuingg my prospectus, hass 2 devoted more time to my toilette, ant # :toIthe arts of dandyism, than to book # or to the company of the wise and yir S tuous. That ! have ever been desirou z towear good clothes, and appear in re 3 spectable attire, ! readily admit-bu 4 my apparel has ever been procured by
 honest industry, and not by ehicane,y
 Injustice or fyaud, and that have iep
 company with these whe arc ffieeitsiee ffieeiiHtsiee
 wise nor virtuous, may be true, but a
 she time kept their company, though
 them to be virtaous, if not overstockes
 with wisdom. l believe that consid
 erable portion of my time aas spent il
 the company of tho family of . Jaw
 bone,'' and although admit they ar hot wiser than their neighboFs, at tii
 tme thought, and still think, them to b
 Trtuous, 's Jaw -Bonev to the contrar.
 notWithstandin ing
 Tam charged with having straine'