The Arkansas advocate., 1831-07-27

tice, you 'siaugh 10 seorn" their ur,er. ding insult to injury. You refuse to srao, them a road viewed and marked in the
 most strict accordance with your own ad Vice, upon most frivolous pretence, and when you md that the numerical strength o' ehose you have offended, Is equal, if not superior, to that Of those you sw eryed from yonr outy to grattfy, you seek to mend the ii"''er oy playing off most pueriIe and eohienptibie trick, and say that the busi- ness aoas oat5f taad eees', aud they can gel q road J fhey soiH apply .for d. And do you suppose you can throw dust into the eyes ot the people Tn this manner. and obtain votes by ssrch pitiful come off as this!--- iiyou do, you must be grossly ignorant of 'he character of the people you seek to serve, and ought 10 be enlightened You may think them ignorant and unlettered, aud they may be so. Most of them have had opportunities ofiearning only in the school or experience. But whatever you may suppose tbelr deficiencies to be, they are tree and independent voters, and will. m exercising their privileges at next cleo tlon, prove to your complete conviction, that they are possessed of some little self respect, and can make use of the aid their mother-wIt affords them, in forming opin- ions adverse to your pretensions.
 now take my leave of you. It might perhaps have been as well to have waited week or two until the people ssin these parts could have answered your letter en masse. Let others triumph for while that the road to the Warm Springs passes by their houses, and that travellers are compelled to go twenty miles further than they would do, had you granted road to those who were entitled to 1t. The time IS not far distant when proof as strong as Holy Writ will be adduced in favor of the route lately viewed. The road will he made without even your sanction, and tue people of the two upper settlements will afford to their fellow citizens that conve- nience which their Judge has denied them.
 POPLICGLA.
 Upper Settemeat, Saline Township, ,J'iy 1881 TO THE FREEMEN OF ARKANSAS.
 fei5e7o- -Citizees-The postponemeut of the Land Saloon Monday having left me at liberty, 1 had determined to de fete the intervening time between this and the. election, to-a free intercourse with my lellow-eitizens of the south: remaining at tats place, however, until runaored assault should he made upon me in the Wednesday mornings Ga. zettes in consequence of the postpone ment of the Land Sale, in which post ponement, the Register had heartily concurred.. That paper has just appear ed, and instead of the contemplated attack, q more insiduous one is made by insinuating that have pursued an unmanly and illiberal course towards my competitor, Col. Sevicr, iD my re- cent electioheerlng campaign. Totfose charges, whether manufactured by Woodruff, or his anonymous correspon- dents, l deem t simple justice to myself to give the he direct. appeal with confidence to my fellow-eitizens where l have been, for the truth of the mega ton l now give, and should not have responded to the caLumny, but that its effect was designed for the citizens of the south and east, who cannot know the truth or falsehood ofthe allegations. I Ispurned indignantly, both in my pub lie speeches, and incolloquy, the echarge of being influenced in my course by Mr. Crttenden or Caucus, ard did say that if Col. Seyier had so charged me, he knew it was untrue. Imode no charge-my course was one of self vim dication-a negation of charges made. In relation to my admission that should he beat in the eustlinp contest in Lawrence, Jackson, &c. it must have been a coinage of Mir. WoodruG's own brain, and is totally devoid of truth l have sought, and shall continue to Iseek, a fair and honorable competition with my adversary. If have, or shall in future, for moment depart from such a course, # shall be only to repel the assaults of my competitor. When became a candidate, believed that my prospects were fair, and l have no reasen to change that opinion, sirce my intercourse with the peo pie, in whose sound discretion the matter still rests with them, l am stil willing to leave it, unnnuenced by the paltry artiiccs which are daily attempted to be played off upon them, to dupe and mislead.
 fam Fellow-Citizensvery respect fully, Your Obedient Servant,
 BEN DESHA.
 Little Roch, June 20, 1881.
 Memphis, July 13.
 .4iai. B. Reynolds, agent for tine Chick