The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-08
c. P. BERTRAND.
For tte .Arkansas .adpocafe.
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'
 CHAPTER I.
 st How strange and how peryerse the pass
 ing times
 How big wonders, and how blaekwith
 crimes!'
 Be not surprised, or think yourself de- graded, by seeing your name at the head of communication but console yourself, that fortune and fate has so combined things in your favor, as to render you, in public estimation, flung worthy of ani- madveFsion. I know that centempt IS the only enemy that can disturb your serenity or reach your feelings but as you mecha- nically superiBteud newspaper, evident ly editorially advised and revised by Ches- ter Ashley Sse., and as said paper has &C., quired some notoriety-not from the truth, the virtue, CT the purity of moral or poli- tical sentiments 1t contains, but the gross and scurriious aspersion of private charac- ter, and misrepresentation of facts--a dis regard for truth to effect your own politi- cal purposes and ends !; all of which l will make appear in the course of my Chapters, and for convicting evidence, l will sum mons 10 one in the public cause, but your own paper, the Gazette
 1t IS lamentable fact, land you, eLittle Billy" owe all your importance to that one cause,) that the shouts of virtuous triumph IS never heard with such satisfaction as the cry of discontent, and that we suck in evil report with twice the avidity, we do good. Alas! what is there on earth that can com pensate for the forfeiture of that true in- tegrity, which, while it exists independent | of fortune or of station, renders all other dignity eventually subservient to its own. Keep your temper, Billy, dame nature has mixed up in your composition 3 large share of submissive forboarance; fret not, for should you be found restif at this, what will be the agony you will have to undergo, the bangs of guilty conscience you are doomed to suffer, when you read review of file of the Gazette, for 1927 g, g & 30, relative to yourself, as the nominal editor, containing the political warfare which end cd in fatal manner-a celebrated suit in- stitutea fer danagcs-a certain public pledge given by you to sustain all the ale gations and charges contained in said pub- licatioa, on which the suit was predieated "a certain-what do you call it Billy an apology2 no sir, public quiddet9 no sir, an acknowledgment of evil doingsl some thing like 1t, but not quite the thing--a re- IGdhtGllOb Ol llOcis Lut tulflE ItoGit---d CSl- tain 17th or lsthday of Ianuary-and when your mind recurs back to this melancholy period, 1t must undergo ali the poignancy and torture of Macbeth, when Banquo s ghost arose and took his seat.
 | Lady .Mac6eth
 l The Thane of Fife had wife; Where is she nowl-what! will these Hands never be clean p
 With your pretended skilfulness in the analogy ofIanguage, you universally forget that truth and servitity are never synoDy- nous Seryility, however, is not easily lgot rid of. and you are found trettiag 8! our "good Governors" heels just as con Itentedly as you were formerly at George Izard's, the latter a decided Adams and Clay-man, the former Jackson-man, who probably, like yourself,
 EssWho still his party changes, like bis shirt To wear again when ridden of its dirt. 1 1 " " ho leaves one scheme another to begin And drops plot, as serpents cast skin.
 I will close this Chapter, Billy, hy hap py, just and classic sentiment, taken iron la writer in the Advocate, over the sigma. ture of Aristides :-se Where man is ei: therto seryile to think for himself, CT suf fers the energies of his Eind to become