The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-02

who perhaps read 1t aloud. In the course of the evening l was called on by a. leading Jackson man for a sight of the letter. l showed 1t to him. ] believed 1t contained your real and avowed political opinions, and no injunction of secresy was imposed on me. And this is the incident which "undeceived" you-nay, which con yinced you thatI was iastigdting others to assail you. You say you had repel- led such insinnations before the showing of that letter. Now mark, sir, that let ter was shown-the very day-nay, al- most hour, after my reaching home. l Lad aot knozen aatu thQt day, that you were involved in the contest. 1 had been aHHe time absent. And yet it had before been insinuated to you, that I'm 8tigdted the attack, andnothing but your generous disfnterestedness induced you 10 repel the idea. But the showing the letter was conelusiye--it undeoeiYed you. was violently assailed. ] made no reply. Still, each week poured out Ia new torrent of billingsgate upon me. l did not even initiate your Exeellency
 in writing anonymous eulogies upon my self. The plain unyarnished truth ig, that during the session of the Legisla- ture, you thought you had found the strong side, and determined to join it. You also found, that the diFectroad to admission, was a quarrel with me, and you sought 1t. Ii is in vain for you to l say that Oh your return last faH you foresaw the Ten Section bill would put us by the ears. We had been by the " cars for long time-all social in- tercourse had ceased long before, and yet you would have the people believe that the Ten Section oct produced the feud. You seem 10 use your veto upon that bill, as Doet. Last used the lancet, for all diseases; no matter what tbe dis Icussion, ttis one act must be held forth.
 You seem not even to suspect yourself for another solitary act that calls for the appreciation of the public. You may overload that one-you were too heavy q rider even for the compensation bill of old. Youshould ride the present hobby with some caution. You diselaim q statement which you say l gave as com ing from Col. Oden, and say that had l called on youyoar explanation should have been prompt and "eandid.8 8 did once call oii your Excelicney, en q different subject, and had a specimen of yoar "candor.' ; You prdcficalig il. frustrated the fkeory you unjustly aseribe to Major Field in politics. 1thenodopt- cd the course in relation to yourself which you have been since kind enough to advise me to adopt towards that gen ueman, "when he is not of my side ; In your next paragraph, your Excellen- cy yagainbecomespoetleal-thef first half is entire assumption, without probabil- ity, and the residue deductions from po- sitions so taken.
 had no agency in writing "Cassius," i" or causing 1t 10 be written, and yet your fertile imagination has dwelt with com placency upon the situation ! should be in, # Had written that productions You have even violated poetic license in your assumptions and deductions.
 Yourself and Woodruff have at last come to q perfect understanding, and I trust that TO necessity for a second se- ries of "Justice," from your pen, will ever exist. That duty will now devolve oT him. You have virtually said,
 Tickle me, William, do--do--do,
 And in return Fl tickle you
 And he has closed with proposition. The subjects are about equally fruitful. There are many perplexities in both, but you were no less necessary to each other. In your first essay, under this compact, your Excellency has under taken to prove, that your nephew, Trot- ter and yourself, had perfect right to assail and vilify me, for the acts of the lastLegislature, in whichlhave proven had no concerns and having familiar
 zed the reader to htis sort of reasoning, you advance the notable proposition, that Woodruff has beenperlectly justifi- ed in his assaults upon me, becaatse Doet. .Henefee gave him a drubbing. l shall not attempt to refute reasoning so pro fonaad and logical. You next charge me with coming out as the champion ofthe last Legislature, and as having thus drawn from your anaiablc and tolerant natureyouranathema upon them, which, in my reading. has only been cqualled by Doct. Slop's curses of Obediah. l published Trotter's wanton attack upon