The Arkansas advocate., 1832-02-29

< Mir. NOland, Was much IHdlspcSen. anu
 occupied q room at my house. ithere
 freoueutly met Mr. Noland. He be-
 came, believe, before the termlna-
 ton of the affair, much attached 10
 m, family, and sincerely my friend !;
 but at the lime the difficulty occurred,
 and the challenge past, we scarcely spoke. Mir. Trotter's last charge is, that l wrote to Kentucky to obtain press, fer
 the purpose of brow-b.iating and blaek- .guarding the Governor out of the Ter
 ritory. The first part of this charge is
 trae, that l did write to Kentucky for
 the purpose of inducing a printer to come to this place. The haianee of the seharge is q creation of Mir. I'rotteT own brain. Let any man, Mir. Trotter, II
 he pleases, look over the flies Of the Ga
 zette of this place, since the year ls2l
 he will see that there is scarcely num-
 1s,er of that raper that has not been fiiled @with the most wanton and scurrlious
 abuse of me; that whether present or
 absent, whether in or outof. office, ] zl,ave been hunted down by the pack, 8with whom Gov. Pope and MT. Trotter Bare now associated in full cry; that the kwhole course of that paper was daily that its conductors were #capable ofany deviation from moral rec *iitude, by which wound might be in- flicted upon me, and that was pow
 crless victim in their hands. No other paper had circulation in the Territo- Try, and through the polluted columns
 of the Gazette, every art was cssayed
 10 blast and destroy me. wished an-
 other paper here then, not to assail any
 one. but that knight, when l wished,
 vindicate my character from the foul
 aspersiorls that were daily attempted to
 be cast upon it. It was the first law of mature, self defence, which prompted A.the wish. Long before Gov.Pope came
 to Arkansas, myself and many others s.pnblicly made an effort to obtain anoth- ter press. wrote letters to Kentucky 1 on that subject; but my memory fails Tie if } have written Ssisce Gov. ope 1oas ' Gopernor of .4rhansas. If there was crime in wishing another paper here. and in making efforts to obtain one, I
 have never ceased to be guilty since 1S57.
 Having answered, and trust repell- ed the imputations attempted to be cast apon me by Mr. Trolter; his. motive
 for thus assailing me becomes Il matter of curious inquiry. have never seen
 him--neuer crossed his path directly or
 indirectly. I hold no official station ~and seek none-in the Territory am
 not viewed as probable candidate for ssofficc. have not visited Kentucky for ! five years, consequently could not have
 offended by interfering in the politics 2 of that State. Living in an obscure corner of the. Union, he has hunted me out and dragged me before the pub- Ellc, holding me responsible for the acts #of the Legislature of the Territory and Etheir treatment of the "good governor;' Swt'cn in truth. I had not the remotest Hconnection. with those transactions. 1 srepeat why has he thus assailed me ?-. Gould Trotter, no matter how capri --Gious and wantofi lie lie may be in his sis,n- Sdcrs, have poured cut all this billings.
 gate uPonme of his own volition? How
 has he acquired the little smattering he Ahas of the affairs of Arkansas? How
 does he know, that the Governor kneao the s.foul'' means l resorted to, to ob-
 tain the passage of that law? Because
 Gov. Pope has prompted him through
 out-else why the republication here.-
 Does any man in his senses believe that Woodruff would have republished that production without consulting Gov. Pope, or even that Trotter would have written it without his assent, when he was so deeply interested in its conse- quences? By consenting to its publica- tion here; the Governor adoptsit. But ,t other proof were wanting. that this
 islander on Arkansas, this vindictive as- saultupon me, was the work of our anat- able Cth:;;gef Cth:;ge Magistrate, it may be found in the fact, that the paper from which Woodruff republished, belonged to Ills Ercellency. Woodruff takes the same paper-l have his entire, and the slip al- so, from which it was reprinted, from
 which Hts Ercellency's. name is not en-
 tire!y cut. Has this course been mag nanimous-is it becoming high-mind- ed Chief Magistrate-thus to stimulate
 to acts of violence, and then deplore them?