The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-02

difficulties presented themselves in ans wering His ExcelIency's personalities, in at form, that have d ii s5 t, ;s cribe 1t and direct individually
 To His Execllency,
 JOHN POPE,
 G0rernof of .4rtaassas.
 SIR-The character ot your address to me, of the l4th of March, has saved me the necessity of apologisipg to your self or the public, for again obtruding myself on your or their notice. l had wished much to have postponed this communication until could have heard from Mir. Newton and Col. Oden, in re- iatlon to the facts with which you have connected their names; but learning l that you are about to leave the Terri tory, 1 feel constrained to forego that consideration, that your Excelleneymay have an opportunity of responding be- fore your departure.
 shall not complain of the temper and spirit in which your communca- ton to me has been conceived. ] as sert no claims to yoar lorbearance: but It does seem tome. that the People had a right to expect It your hands, less Of passion and vituperation; and that at least, you would not have yielded to those feelings, to the exclusion of a calm survey and argument of the positions you have chosen to assume, in defence of yourself, as well as in assaiIing me. speak practically whenI tell you, that passlona always beclouds the understand Ing, and that the ranting of a Chief Ma gistrate. is not the very best evidence that he is a "good Governor But. sir, II you have permitted your personal hate towards me to overcome your sense of personal and official dignity-if you hayeinduigedssin strong assertions with out proof, Reclamation without aren- ineiit, and violent censures without dig fity or moderation --iitt has beef, |, de- ilberate adaptation of your course to your case. For you there is no youth tut impulse to extenuate.s The People had right to expect from pat,1arch sage from the West, temper and moder- alton; they owed youinplicit credence, and you should not have attempted to play upon their passions, prejudlces or credulity. Let thens detect you in a preuarl sataon or deception upon them, though your object be only to sacrifice as humble an individual as myseif,) and you have severed the only link which unites you--mutualconfdence. twill be seen in the course of this investiga- tion, whether your ExceIleney has dis charged your part of this mutual obIi- gation.
 In your .Jia,st line, you pronounce my previous publication a < ssmalignant as- sauit upon you, and endeavor through out, to keep up the idea that it was wholly unproyokcd on your part. Was It no proyocaton that your nephew charged me with corruption, with using < foul means 10 obtain the passage o1 the Ten Section Bill, that you, by man,e, was cited as the witness, that Woodruff endorsed and repubIished it here, and that your Excelleney for three weeks maintained mysterious silence in re- iation to,ths foul charge against myself and the representatives of the people? You knew the anpert of such silence -it amounted to an emphatic acqui- essence in the charge. By this silence you became my accuser. Were you not bound, cited as you were by Trotter, no matter what your vindictive hate to- wards me, to do me justice; and did you not owe tito the people, if their repre- sentatives and myself were so criminal, to impale us on high by public expo sure? Was not this course an obligation which your station imposed, not only to the individuals concerned, but to the people you govern and the character Of the country in which you live? Your silence imported much, before my pub lication and your reply; it noav only in- dicates the impotency of your hate to- wards the last Legislature and myself; for you have, in that publication, resort ed to the " common sewers of filth and malice" for all the vindictive stale slan- ders of by-gone days, and again parad- ed them before the public. None will 1sos0 believe that that hsi,sdsaess ioi- them and me restrained you.
 Your Excellency protests, that but for my uanto7s attack upon your feel ings, in relation to the conflicts of your nephew, you would not have responded, and exolaim, pathetically enough, at the outrage. What other course had |?