The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-02

that political furnace: and you would charge me as the aadilor. Such an idea is absolutely Preposterous. If l con- sented to avail myself of the permission granted by ayindictive enemy. aho ras arrifiag qgaislst me himself, of defending. my publications must be dissccted and answered, editorially, by the same edi- tor, iii the same paper. must giYeny name against my anonymous assailants. Under those circumstances, fnot known Iabroad,) mY silence has been construed into guilt. You, on the ground, knezo bcftcr, and yet you write in gall. Since ] tie establishment ef new pHPer here, there has been but two conflicts, both growing out Of controversies in which yolt were concerned, and in which y0u do not pretend to duplicate me. But, lsir, believe you that man steeped in feads and crime, as you would have me, could have ever incurred the sus- 1 pieion of leading party in Arkansas Las formidable as the one arrayed against you? The very names you give 10 the Publie-Desha, Farrelly, Biscoe. and the Beans-would they sustai'a my claims 10 integrity and character, did ldeserve the odium which yoas would cast upon would such men as those (some of. whom have known from oyhood, and oil for ten or twelve years) call me 1 friend, and boldly defend me, did they not knozr that the charges .ansmuate against me, ire gross sIo1tdefs? But, sir, go a little further with me-go 10 the county of Arkansas; visit the pal ace or the hamlet there, where lonce 1 lived, talk to the men of other times, and what will they say of my prescribed name-eYen there, where l first exer- eised the oppression and tyranny, with
 which am and have been charged. If l have seen one bright spot on the po= litical horizon to cheer me on my way, ] ifz has been in the atfec ton and appTo-
 bation of those, my oldest and best
 friends. Look around you torthe proud
 est names of that day iu Arkansas
 which of them is my enemy ?-theY have known me for thirteen years. Here ] have been and am denounced by one ] half ate they are your cousins and dependents, with but very few exeep- tions. l am poor--I have neither mo- ney nor office to give; yet take the atil- connected part of our village, and how would the account stand. Even here, l proudly challenge comparison with your Excellency, as to the character or number of our friends. Yours, arc mainly reiatiyes-nine, untrammeled freemen, defying power for opinions sake.
 Your Exceffency next proceeds to declare the sincerity of your desire, when you came among US, to seothe the feelings of all and restore harmony.
 You declare, if you are now q partizan, you have been driven 10 it---eongratu-
 late yourself upon your first successful efforts to make peace, and conclude by saying, that it was from my hand that
 the lire-brand was again trrown-that you once doubted ft, but was ultimately "undeceived." When your appoint
 ment was announced here, oH hailed il
 as the hamburger of peace. When you
 arrived, all met withreyerence and pleasure. Such were the envlable feel
 ings which your appointment and pre- sence created, and such they continued
 to be until your famous dinner speech-
 that dissolved the charm-it rent the
 veil, and dissipated all the fond antici-
 pations that had been formed from your 1 character for high attainmentsandso Judgment. It is true, it made you no enemies, but it left you no admirers.
 That speech had deprived us of ral lying point-it was latent but posi-
 tive misfortune. Still all went on in
 harmony till you left for Kentucky parting with yon, ] had the honer of receiving an expression of your cordial good feeling, yet you had not been in
 Louisville three days, before learnt
 from high authority, that you were speaking of me in the very worst terms. ] Previous to your departure, Mir. Ber-
 trand had determined 10 take charge of another paper, and if mistake not, went on with you. In the succeeding spring, l had enlarged my professional
 labors, and was absent almost the en- 1 tire season. WAile absent, Major Field arrived in the Territory, Mir. Mckinney
 died, and Judge Fulton appointed the
 former gentleman clerk of the Superior Court, over Col. Caldwell, an old citi-
 zen. An attack was made upon Judge IN h II