The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-02

l knew when l wrote, thatit would .,.. yoatT purpose 10 charge me as the defena CT CT ef that assembly; and l k.ac.f ~
 would attempt to play on it 10 my jn;,,r,.
 and your aggrandizcment. l did no. design 10 defend them. believed tbes
 and stiff stiff do, that the people will proteet
 their servants from unjust aspersion. des pite the calumnies that have been so- -;a
 dustriously and insidiously cireulatea by your minions, "under your eves
 and with your appreciation. Ihe'e
 were men in that Legislature. sir. warn ly sustaining those measures, fully com petent 10 their own defence. Your fet
 some compliment 10 one Qf Hem in yoa,
 address 10 me, will not, presume. de. ter him from vindiration of his nun. and the integrity Of that body, ofwhifb
 he has had the honor of being so long 2 member. our situation is d sinpaIar one-a Chief Magistrate forced upoe the people, and escaping from tie Ter.
 ritory on all occasions, as from prison.
 and returning only at distant interyals
 to secure the S2060 per annum, ds' nouncing the representatives of the people for expressing their disapproba.
 ton of his conduct, and calling upaa the people for the punishment Of the;f
 servants, for this discharge of their ds. | ty. You were absent all the last Sun. mer, and l learn are again about 10 ah. sent yourself during the present season.
 and yet, if the people or their represcn. tatiyes complain, your Exeellency and your minions denounee them as faetiow
 What would the people in e Stote sayto such a Chief Magistrate? In yourtWo last paragraphs, you threaten me with further developements, which You ven. ture to predict beforehand, will deier
 me from responding. and declare you
 have kept them a profound secret up to
 this moment; and when I have public. ly called on you, ynu say that it vas
 because Ihad once lefihe Territory ultA.
 out leqee. What mighty blow this 10
 keep in reserve with such parade of
 a3 3stet5 i}s49 e,s,stssf.s,.s from tle Sec retary of State of the United Staies.--
 But suppose l had not, and should have
 been removed for thataet-what should
 the course then be of Gen. Jackson to-
 wards you, who have been absent more in three gears that was in ten l was
 Seeretary2
 Your ExcelIency assumes, on more ] than one occasion, in your publication,
 the attitude of my superior in our pH.
 vafe and social relations, and saY Yoa
 were spilling to be on toferdble terms
 with me. l will not attempt to dis. tuFb, by a solitary allusion, self-eoa-
 piacency so inoffensiye. Itis perhaps ! prerogative of age-and one certainly, upon which YOU are in the habit Of
 drawing full largely. Your nephew George James Trotter, without your 5 participation, doubtless, continues, l sec,
 to pour fourth his anathemas upon me.
 should never have alluded to his ma.
 leyolent assaults. but for the purposed
 showing that you were the instigatord aU the invective hurled at the Lcgisa. ture and myself. You have. in term, endorsed and repeated every ebaFge
 made against either-whether made 1 by Tfotter or Woodruff. You hare
 now assumed your proper attitude, md
 have nothing more to do with hr Trotter in relation to this controversy; he has officiously thrust himself intoI,
 and quotes, as his sole authority. Wood |
 ruff s newspapers although he knows
 that individual has displayed towards
 iae the most yindictive hate for len |
 years, he has consented to become ilt [
 retailer of his stale islanders, and canna
 expect me to respond 10 his calumnles'
 retailed second handed. although osten'
 tatiously ushered forth under his slgaa,
 ture-when l have for years treated them with consummate indifference, when they were first invented and pro
 pagated. He knows nothing oi wha' he is writing. and is only displaylne the worst propensities and passions inc heart, without the rcmotest cauS to excite them-he has certainly recen
 cd the last passing notice from me- One single remark in relation to ano'nsl
 allusion of yours, you charge me win having ordered very respectable ma'
 of this place never to dafken my a00. as
 again, for voting for Col. Sevier; ana U, y,
 having denounced Maj. Field TOT Ut same offence. The latter is not true, My best judgment approves of wna. then did in the iormer-you have nl', E stnted Ne faets. much falsehood has peen