The Arkansas advocate., 1830-10-27


 sss.Ii ings at the Hempstead dinner, giy, z = to the tfovefaoF. War ant sff sf rooaa pre- .,,naes their insertion this week.
 f7- Tie Superior Court, for the adindi- ootion of the French and Spanish Land Claims, commenced it's session in this ,,,aee on Monday last. Present--the Hon. 7udees BATES, JOHNSON, and CRoss.
 Tte Sappiemem.--Mr,p ' oodrua in a sup s,IeD.eat to his last Gazette, pronounces an Editorial article which appeared in our paper of the 18th inst. to be base and ,naiieions faisehood, utterly destitute of even the shadow of foundation," and calls spon IS, either {. to substantiate our charge, or acknowledge ourselves guilty of wantonly and deliberately propagating an infamous slander without any justiliable grounds This formidable paragraph, la boring under an immense woightof italics s5laree capitals, he intends nc doubt should strike his readers with considerable force, and thereby convince them that he is ViIely .ssiandered." Before we notice the rest of this huge supplement, the precious nor sel we now have before us, we will state for the satisfaction of MT Woodruff, that we believe every sentence contained in the paragraph which has given so much of fence, Is every word of 1t trne; we have 1t from undoubted authority, and as Mir. ". talks so hercely about sscourt of Justice ,' we think, if he will give us an opportunity. we will prove it to be so.
 Now as to this < court of Justice" mat fer. we had never thought that any thing be could say, would be subject of litiga- ton; we were willing simply to notice his paragraphs, and attribute them to their proper source; we could never have inten- ded to institute a suit against him, unless we were willing to put up with a reeaata- .ion; but he is anxious to commence such aprocess against us, VI will meet him with pleasure.
 The truth is, Woodruff has been so long engaged in publishing paper in this Ter zitory without opposition, that we yerily believe he does not know when he com mts error; and he isso impatient of con- tradiction, that even when he is convicted e{the grossest inconsistency, he becomes almost blind with rage, and pronounces tA,s.,s " 10 l re attempt to check him as (
 amprudent, and brands them with the i'm pntation ofvIie sIanderers. But this reign of nsarpatien Is over; Mr. Woodruff no longer yields the soeptre of complete do- Ininlon; afew un6ehepers have crept among the people, and his sayings do not now car with them so much weigist.as they were won't to do.
 M r. Woodruff has thought proper to at tack Mr. Bertrand, individually, and quotes an expression which he says has fallen from him. Whether this is true or not. we are notprepared to say. Mfr. E. left this place some II or E days since, in order to re- gain his health, which of late, has been much impaired; but we are willing to say. Ii Nr Bertrand did use such an expression, ne will not deny 1t, neither will he sue Mr. Woodruff for giving it publicity; we be- ileve that a sentiment contained in Mir. -'s paper, afforded hima precedent for such an observation, if he needed one. For this precedent, we will referthe reader 10 note accompanying the first No. of era iohn-tus-ky;' but this aside, we are of O. pinion, that Mr. W. should be the last per son to talk Of a ss blood -thirsty'' disposi- ton, this might afford some comment, and nr' woodruff should be careful how Ire Uses such expressions, lest we should take occasion to retaliate upon him, for which we have ample room. But the "upstart'' Haltor he speaks of, (Mr. BertrandA has oeen known from his chiIdhood; and 1t IS uhewn that he has npstaated from youth to useful inanhood that his years have ripen- ca into maturity; and the only reason why HIT. ". denominates him an supstart. :" is. because ne has dared to think and act in- dependently.and has chosen a course which differs from Mr. W's political creed. that ne endea1ors to make virtue the guide of ais actions, and has dared torspeak freely of some public men. This we are conf uehtiof, that Mr. B's character can never suffer hy the aspersions of the Editor of the Gazette.
 
 itis useless to make farther comment