The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-16

1 gisiataFe was at full liberty 10 treat you as private individual. To show your
 unfair and disingenuous artiticc oif per yertinS facts, misstating of facts, and
 the order. they took place, for the pur-
 pose ot eonyicting the Legislature of ..ignoraneep or "spite-actionn against
 you, for not letting them give you
 (Crittenden) the land," you state, that
 "a motion was next made {the 9th of November) to cxpel the chairman of 1 the committee, who had, in obedience
 10 the joint rule of the two Houses, handed me the memorial.' Now, sir,
 the journal of the House of Representa- Hives shows !hat the joint committee which was raised 10 detain that memo ria, aad hand if 10 the Delegate, with out the iaterven,ion of the Governor, reported tp ..le House onthe s3d of Nov. that the chairman of the committee of enrolments, Nlsr Grown, in contempt and violation of ih,, joint older O. the two Houses, had haneed the memorial to sJohn Popc,7 Governor, in a sur reptltious manner; and oH ii,c fitii oi Nov. a resolution was introduced 10 ex- Ipel Mir. Brown for said contempt. So that the motion to expei tine ehaii 's''an of the committee of enrolments, tor.a contempt 10 the House, was made the 1 day before, and not after, you returned inc memorial and it was no doubt to save your friend, Mr. Brown, from be- ing expelled the House, that caused you 10 return thememorial at that time.
 1t is certain the Legislature had no spite, malice, or revenge, 10 gratify upon Mir. Brown; fer as soon as the memorial
 was returned by you,on motion ofJudge Scott, the impeachment was immediate 1 y dismissed against him. Butit proved
 one thing most clearly to your Excellen- misunderstanding, that the eLegislature
 was not quite so ignorant of their rights
 and dignity as you had supposed; and
 l appeal 10 the experience and parlia-
 mentary knowledge of all just men, if
 the Legislature did not treat you exact
 iy right, In nsupporting their own dagnaty,
 in refusing to have any further commu-
 nieation with you upon the subject of that memorial, after you had obtained possession of it in surreptitious man. ner, and returned 1t to tue Legislature in an unusual and ,ncourtcous manner. The great object and burden of your 1 complaints to show that the Legislature had spite=action against you, because you would not let lNsiii. Mir Crittehaen have the land. But your sophistry and aisin- gcnuousness in blending those two dis tinet subjects together, 10 gull and de- ceive the people, will not answer your purpose. You may be a hypocrite, but without the power of deceiying. The people will see through the arti6ce, and contemn your shallow efforts. Sir, you presume too much upon the igno- rance of the people; you indeed treat them as if they had no feeling or under standing; but the day may come when you aud your holy Junto will feel their indignant power.
 If we believe your statement, you felt and expressed such deep indigna-
 ton and contempt for the House of Re
 presentatiyes, for their treatment to-
 wards you, in relation to this memori- 1 al, you tell us from inc time that MT. Speaker Trimble, through the door keeper, addressed a letter to "John
 Pope," to demand the memorial, that you were constrained by sense of
 duty and selfrcspcct, to decline any
 further official intercourse with the
 House of Representatives, and made your reports tothe Legislative Council" ]" Now, sir, it does so happen, that the journals of the House of Representa-
 lives speak differently. How does it ' Ehappcn, sir, that the Governor and the journals so often natvariance? They prove that from the 26th of October, the day on which the Ten Section bill
 was vetoed and put to rest, down to tine 5th and 7th oi November, respectful
 messages were interehanged, on other
 subjects, and throughout the session,
 this memorial forming the only excep-
 ton. But, sir, your statement involves
 your Excellency ina much more serious
 and weishty difficulty than you appre-
 bend. Much as feel bound to justify
 tue acts of the majority of the last Le-
 gislature, pn the subject of this memo
 rial, because they are consonaEt with
 true republican principles; yet 1 do
 not wish to see you turn your. own ac- cuser. Truly, sir, the Organic Law,