The Arkansas advocate., 1830-08-18
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ssnpTfiy atEne z as rem loved ssc sss csa co E | addressed letter te friend h Con gress, stating the manner in which l had been eJected, and asking him to try and procure me the charges; he replied under date ot the Fist March. that he was not certain that the Department was in the habit Of giving reasons for removals, but that this much he did know, that when charges were made against q gcntlensaf.4 he should not only be furnished with them, [ but with the names of the persons making them, and that he would procure them if possible. He accordingly, few days af- forwards, enclosed me the following com munieation from tho Department, adding that It vas all that he could get for me. i,
 PosT-OFFIcE DEPARTM TMENr.
 Q0ice of .appoiatmeats,
 April 1, ls3O.
 SIR--fn answer to your application for the ground of the removal of George W. Ferebee, as Postmaster of Helena, A {. IT,, l am directed by the Postmaster General to say, that the reasons for preferring Aus tin kendrick for that office, are Rot such as affect the eplttatioil of .ii,. Ferebee, for in- teea,ity. They are founded en matters os public notoriety; and any farther informa- tion cannot be required from this Depart ment.
 l am respectfully your ob't. serv't-
 $. k. HOBBIE. Hon. Mr.,
 House of Representatives.
 Here It may. be necessary to add, that before wrote tony friend for the charges, ! had obtained the certificates Of several of the most respectable citizens here, of all the facts relating to the letter, and had en- closed them to the Department.
 his isa plain ssasa saisisesi tad efI1ent oif the whole ransaetion--literally true in every particular--from them the public may judge whether have act been more ess sinned against than sinning." Take their own statement Clark sw ears the let ter was deposited in the Post-offi ce, ,'' Woodruff says it was ss accidentally drop ped' there. If one is true, the other is false; this admitted, what other conclusion do we arrive at than this, that either the one has told lie, or the other has sworn to one. Facts are stubborn things gentle men, and yon may take either end of this dilemma that suits you best.
 Woodruff says sthe had seen evidences of the genulneness and legality the returns from V alnut township, and felt convinced that they were legal" 1t would take a better lawyer than he is to convince me that Poll Book can be legal without the signature of the judges, and without the judges and clerks being first sworn ; but even admitting that it was legal Poll Book, dld that give to him any right to abuse me! Whether or not the Tegis1a- tare afterwards decided that 1t was legal. i do not know, nor do l care. It was their business then, not mine. They might have had the power, but l had mol.
 He also says, for this was ssreformed out of the office of Clerk of tine Circuit Court. > lie IS azLrAR, for the subject was never mentioned during the pending Of the elee- ! ton. was beat one vote in the county. by other means Were not persons paid :, tor rather were they not promised ] dol- lar day, and their expenses borne them, to go to the polls and vote against me ! Were not honest good citizens threatened with law suits, If they yexercised their right of suffrage in the manner that their con sciences dictated to them was right? And when after resorting to all these base means, their evil purposes not yet effected :, did they not impose upon the judges of the election free mulatto, who gave the cast ing vote against me? Let them answer me this. If they deny it, I can prove 1t.
 Some animals there are, who wear the outward appearance of man, but so degen- crate in their nature, and approaching so near state of nothingness, that one can scarcely lay their finger upon them-such an one IS Woodruff, (alias the String Bean, by which more appropriate appellation he IS better known in the yankee country, than by any other; he knows what mean. ] Chaste language when applied to such a character, If the epithet means any thing in allusion to one who has none,( has no force; and low vulgarity will not stoop to; shall therefore pass him by. He can not tempt me into farther notice of him.
 GEO. w. FEREBEEs
 Helfna, August ', 1890.