The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-02

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 red. In few days afterwards, at the request of Judges Bates and Fulton and Ssoii. Col Desha, drew a note, submitted q first to d relation of Maj. Pope, who approved it, and then to the gentlemen named. It was approved, copied and signed, by them and myself. In that s;otc. @e asked permission (not 10 dtftatc q compromise,) but to suggest the terms of one~-and for 50 doing, you have put into the mouth of your deceased ne. phew. the foulest suspicious of my in- tegrity. have at least the consolation of knowing l ! aie did mt deserve them--- had never done him wrong never been guilty towards him of an act of un- Kindness, and if he did entertain such suspicious, they were the result of prac- fised artiiice upon his young and guiie- less feelings. The context of your publication leaves me no room to doubt from. whom the poison was infused.- You insinuate the same suspicious. when you say--ssfou had the charity to hope would act with sincerity" But fit be true that 1 was the only o5sta- cle to the mediation, myself had plan- ned, why was not notified of the fact; was fl fair, was it just to leave mo n ig- noranee, when such blisteFing cruel suspicious were entertained of my in- tegrity? Nay, sir. what a compliment do you pay 10 the intelligence Of those with whom l vas associated. by giving vent 10 such suspicions-that l could have misled, dnped. such men as Bates, Fulton. and Desiaa. 10 the dishonor of young gentleman who had confided als honor 10 iiii8tir keeping. To your insimRatIon I can offer no testimony, but . confident appeal 10 those with whom l was associated, for the frankness and fairness of my conduct. You then trace me to my own house, associate me with Judge Bates and MT. Noland, pending the negotiation between the former gentleman and Judge Johnson, and endeavor artfully to leave the i'm pression, that if tkcn l was desirocs ol q compromise, my ityauetace might have effected it, leaving me responsible for the failure. In this public manner ap- peal to Judge Bates, and ask him as an act of simple justice, that he will give the public my conduct in relation to the mhoie negotiation, from the first moment uc eopsersedd upon ttllie subject, af te the morning Mir. Noland departed for the contliet-as well seiIl iii relation to the compromise, as in the way of advice to Mr. Noland. You say, in conclusion, that you do not censure me for any por. ticulor participation in fomenting the fight, hut charge that your nephew met an ssuntimely fate under the inhu- cnce of damnahle spirit engendered under my eye, and among those devot- cd to me-" This is your osserttora- now for the facts. In April, of that year,I 1 sat out on the circuit and return cd the last of June. Ileft again in Sep tealber, returned in November, remain ed al home about week, sat out for Louisiana, and reached home again the very last days of December. Thus was at home but about two months from April until the close of the year, When l returned in June, the war was raging, and immediately l became a conspicuous object of attack. The on ly pieces wrote that year, were under my own signature, assailing no human being, and even beseeching them 10 let me alone. Your Excellency, that same year, was scriti.g anonymously, and in dulging in violent abuse of others Mai; Pope and Noland, were both politi- cally opposed to me. When they quar- relied, was two hundred miles from them; and yet, with all those facts be- fore you, you talk of sthe damnable spirit engendered under my eye"
 Sir, since the establishment of a se- ooHd i1apoi at this ts place, 1t ittsee;iis .o bc concerted to ehwge me with every thing that appears in the Advocate; and up- on that assumption, to denounce me, individually, for all the consequences growing out of newspaper controver- sies, when in truth, (and call my God to witness, as shall hope for mercy at the last day,) never wrote but one an onymous publication in Arkansas, and that one, was SO changed before it reach ed the press, that it ceased to be mine; and farther, that never caused or pro- cured one to be written, assailing the character or feelings of human being. Yet you, sir, have adopted the common slang upon this subject, and indulge in the hacknied cant. Is it not true, that .Ix ..l.