The Arkansas advocate., 1831-06-01
For the .4rkansas ..ldgocafe

ford, and Washington counties"
 
 For the .4rkansas aduocate.
 MR. EDIToR-s' One of the People, ,'s in his windy production which appeared in the last Gazette, pronounces my former num- Der :. 5ust wrong" and pledges himself to prove my assertions " coDciusiyely false D Now sir, should like to know what single poiHt he has controverted, or proved :. to the satisfaction of any man in the commu- nity" to bcuntrue. l said l4e was brai,s- less booby! How has lie proved this to be untrue! His last eiTusion does by no means -anvfaoc i,s lie has done so. said that .lr. Crittenden was much injured man ! cannot see that he even denies 1t, much less proves to the contrary And said good many other things, which cannot see that he even mentions. His pledge IS therefore unre9eemed, his bravado must pass for nothing, and himself for consnm- ate fead-pase. H. pledges himself to show sltat the production of Jaste, e,ss is an uneon- neeted tissue of tie sersest nonsense that ever .brainiess beoby' wrote in defence ot lies and 2 grac e!ess cause,o yet imm e1i- -ately forgets both his pledge and his text, i, and consumes d whole chapter with his choicest slang aud heaps of abuse upon Mr. Crlttcnden, and bandies about epithets Nith as much freedom as an ass would bray Rt minister, and which, hy the bye, pre- snme to be just as harmless. He must thInk that the people are silly enough to mistake sound for sense, and to take for granted that lie has convicted ne of false assertions, because he has of late been searching the dictionary aiid found out . 3ew hard words to supply the place Of sound logic. He ceases to find fault with Col Deslia, but makes Mir. Crittcnden the greatest political sinner the world ever Saw, and then endeayors to pack him, sins and all upon Col. Desha. But 1t won't do my word for It he IS q barking mp the wrong tree" He has endeavorcd 10 show that Mr. Crittcnaen has been a fire-brand in Arkansasi that Ire has heen promoter ofdiscord and domestic broils--no name no appellation IS thought to be too degrad Ing to be applied to him-wlen If he will but look into his own ranks, he will see the progenitors Of all the bad feeling that has eyer disturbed our country There IS not a parallel case in the Union, where an anpretending and retired citizen 1as been 50 hunted-up and persccnted This lie IS conscious of, but the maxim of his gang is s'down with all opposition to oSevier'-and his chief and greatest end is to crush Crit tenden- s'Cease viper, you gnaw file, and in lime they will find it SO; they will find all their base and wicked machtnafIons recoiI upon hemselves-their poisoned darts will pierce their own bosoins, while those they seek to destroy shall escape un- scathed.
 fittle vat ye wha's comin,
 The people in their might IS comm,
 Ben Desha an as comin.
 And the freemen of this Territory on the first of August next will proclaim at the polls, that the reign oftyranny IS over that A-t~. H04sof f1y yIq and that their sovereign will shall be the law.
 This C no party man. wayes warm al being told he is a satellite, yet his very Ian guace, and defence, proves that he IS; we gee him revolving around the orb, from whom he horrows his lille consequence the most humble among the hum ble, paying glad homage to his "common centre.' He says ,oe are "malcontents!" Yes we art discontentcd with the present state o things, and would gladly see change-w' are yolsed with oppression and bowed dowi with injustice--we want change oecaus' eswe live in a land of freedom We wish t enjoy tho liberty of expressing our req sentiments without having any to make II afraid we want the whole, as well as par of us to be fairly represented, we want th good things of the land to be fairly dlVlde among us. and we do not wish to be '' nall ed to the eross' for honestly differing continent with the Delegate. These thing make us stmalcontenis,o these things V want, and these things we vii! have ,,
 In proportion as this writer abuses M Erittenden, he praises Col. Ashley; so ie il be. He tells you flat t'Col. Ashley, his own Alpha and Omega" His ow 'sAlpha'' we know he is, and may be trace sfrom New-Y ork to Arkansas, without muc being sald to his advantage. As 10 .40mega" we as yet know nothing of Ia' has wisely concealed it from mus-except 5 far as his political life is concerned; an n thatr egnires no socthsayer to iere.eii, n IS said to have money-perhaps se - . sand in answer to the stanza tntroauoe' permit ne to ast--how did .he get h to ehans can answer aase question: Let n ask raileyrand or s'ose of the People 't him--if he ever heard of the estate o'
 8vra, CT of one pr, Simpson. ef Niss0u'