The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-23
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 ] 4Crlttenden, you have lost sight of your. object Tn so omany particulars. that it feahhotcscape me unno,ieed. Ien. sir, lin your reply, have made a most wan
 ton attack on the last Legislature, of
 which am member, followed with I.coiitinuedseonpiaints ei eoiItcil,p{s fer cd you hy that Legislature. Sir, this 1 could nilxe been hardly expected from l you. You, sir, make so many com. ! iissiltts, iet'ti boasts much of your sgood
 Goyernorship,,' such IS your veto au. theflty, and your willingness sto excr
 cise It, thai hardly know which 10 no- 1 tee iirst. But, sir, l will first ondeavor 10 notlccyour merit and worth, as t pre- ] sented ltseli ton me on my arrival at the
 Rock, lay all the contcinpts offered by you before the public, and then sec how
 they will balance the scale with your
 popular fetoes in the other end. Ii, sir.
 you were treated with contempt, could
 you look for any thing else from Il body
 which yon had treated with such indlg- #fai5 as you did the last Legislature at
 the commenccmentofthc session. Yes, say lndlsnitl, and will explain il to
 tae public. Sir, do you reeollect that
 on the evening of the day fixed by law 1 for the meeting of the Legislature, committee waited upon you as our good Goyernor,' and informed you tllatthc legislaturewcrc organized and
 feadyto recelyeany commufieatlonyou had 10 transmit for their dcliberations2 ask you now, sir, what was your reply?1 u,sir, instead of having your message ready, requested the indulgence Of 5fle Legislature until Wednesday, at I2o- l clock. This, sir, was yielded to; and ROW, John, ask what was your object for that delay. which cost the govern- ment from SI50 to S20O per diem?-l Why, sir, this, inmy humble conception. was your object, from the evidences pro- duced: 10 give Woodruff. Your friend tandpet, the advantage ofyour message in lis prostiiuted paper one week sooner thaa Bertrand could have il; and, moro 1 over, sir, il gave WoodrafTanother small advantage: that was, 10 have his type ready set. which would eaable him, af tin shortest notice, to print as many co- ipiesas might be=nceessarY. and cheaper than Bertrand could possibly do fl for: l this is evident from the fact of Wood FtA being read ;.tt 1t the door the mo- ments the motion made and carried for printing copies. to say in the next breath, Twill do it for so much. Now. sir, could you suppose for moment, that the Legislature could or would pass over such eontempts, s,unnoticed? Could you imagine that they were Sc blind blind as not 10 see your object? ] ask, sir, is this good Governorship p"-is it patri- otism-is t statcsmanship; or, sir, sit partyism alone, tomalSe sucha sacrifice of public money as well as of public trust, for no other object under heaven but 10 give Woodruff the advantages al- laded 10, unlcsst was expressly 10 treat with contempt the whole Lcgislature? Such an outrage, Ivcnturc tosay, ne yer was heard of before.
 Sir, you and our friends arc much in the habit of boosting of the frequent applicationof your vetoes, &c. Now, sir, ifyourvcto 10 popular bills passed hy the Legislature, have exalted you to the skies, would ask if smuggling or hooking few bills, if properly explain ed, would moi add q little 10 your rising popuhrity9 Sir, Iwould ask if you ad- hercd 10 your promise 10 the members generally, that you would attend flo their business, and act upon bills as fast 1 as they could be presented, that the members should not be detained on your account, and thus Keep several bills, fin ishcd by the Legislature, and handed to you foryour approval or disapproyal2 By this. kind of chicanery, sir, you have ( marred the interests and thwarted the l dearest rights of tho people, 10 wit Sir, what was your conduct in regard to a certain bill regulating elections What was your reply, sir, to the com mittce instructed 10 inquire ofyou what bills you had in your possession, and what disposition you would make of them? l ask, sir, what was your re- ply? It was this, sir, if lam not mis- taken: "l have those bills, but the law allows me three days for returning a bill, and ] have not had time to act on them egardless of your previous promise toact otherwisc--knowing, too. at the same fine, the hour was fixed on, Eby resolution, for adjourning, and that Eff was near at hand. These were the i