The Arkansas advocate., 1832-04-11
that little weapon called frailt, sir, we can esfeetually prostrate and destroy you--ue car iay you as waste as the desert--if we so Wiiied if--l.,f


 Lct any man, we care not who, if he be
 not siaoe 10 party, throw a glance. at by
 gone days--lct him trace you through your Faeyioiis wanderings, from the summer ol 'Ssz np. 10 the spring of %, and what will l De his verdict! he will pronounce you to
 Dc one of the most callous, black hearted,
 and corrupt men, permitted to mingio in tcivliized society. Fi will find that on the
 l7th and 18th Of Jan. 1893, you forfeited
 your honor-yonr veracity--yonr every
 thing. On the morning of the first day,
 the lzth, you made your famous R iaCAN 1 PATTON 10 Mr. Grittenden, which, or #. self, was enough 10 damn yor in the esti- inatlon of every honorable and good man and, on the evening of the same day. an end was put to tho earthly career of Il ha- asan 6elpgg tt Still yoa were not satisfied --Jou Lad already drunk deep into thc cup Ietiaiamy, and appeared determined to sip t to tic ,dregs--and, on the .tot{oaoang day. the 18th, at one fell swoop you pros trated--yea, forfeited all, hy making de- position which contaiacd Jagsehood--Wilfnl and PFemeditated. And you ,oac nave the presumption to talk of efforts to blast your reputation9-sir, you have no ,epa- Hfatioa to blast, (saYe your reputation for Etaiseltaod and calumny, which none, we presume, enyies ycp,) goa 5lasfed what lit tie repFtaiioa you had left, on tie 18th of Jan ls2s--yoar osoa deposition, sir, will bear IS out in this assertion.
 You attempt to give, what you term, ,sa Ebrief history of the affair."" but unl'ortu- nately for you, fl is so beief that you have entirely omitted to give hisioly of your oasa participation in it.. on " ere chargca with saeeasiag tllat you did net strike Gar rett on the head with your pistol and far ther, with swearing that you had no pistol during the whole affair, and if you had one. Eyou did not know whether or not it was loaded. What reply lo o,i. .i4.li. C to these two sfaye charges? Wby, sir, you do moi even attempt at replieation--you arc as si- }ent as the grave. Ard pi4yl because you Eknew tbem to be Aaxd places, and thought fit advisable to sdip them ovet. You have not once Tinted, in eH 5oar ( brief expla. natian," that you had pistol during the whole condict-yet itwas proven positive. y before the Inquest, that you were seen 10 strike Garrett several times over the head eitli one 1t was also proven, if we are not much mist tazen, that you always carried pistol about your person, and that you were seen on that very day to take it from your pocket and examine the primipg if was dcposed, also, that immo- diately after the afray, your pistol was examined and found to have neither lead nor flint, fthe flint was destroyed or dis placed by tl'c beating over the head and showed every mark ofharing been but just discharged; and permit me, sir, to ask you question, which, if you deny, I shall prove by one of the members of your own family did yea not, immediately after the departure of Garrett from the office, re- quest young gentleman present to re- foad the plstols9 This proves conclusive fly, sir, that you not only kHeeo you had a pistol, bat that you were sensible 1t was ea,pfy--that it had been discharged in the contest with Garrott.
 Your effort to impress on the public mind the belief, that tlre unfortunate G ar. rett shot himself, is an argument too pitiiul and ridiculous, to merit serious roply--bui as we can easily account for the absence of bullet hole in lis (G.'s) cloak (abou, which you harp so much.) by singlo in-
 terrogatorv, we shall do so, and pass on
 did you not tell gentleman, whose name
 we could mention, that when you ap-
 preached Garrett, you threw his cloak aside7 Will this not accout for there be.
 ing no hole in it It so strikes us.
 In your reply to the C Voterof Putds
 ki," you have not attempted to offer siR
 gle word in response to hls numerous ant
 cutting nterrogatories--bu have con
 tentcntcd yourself with mere iayishine
 of curses and hateful maiedictions upoI
 the author. But, believe me, sir, all tht
 cpithets and all the billingsgate you caI
 bestow upon him, will neither prove tht falsity Of a single interrogatory put to you nor prove that you are not destitute 0 every principle which belongs to an hon est man. The People, sir, will requir' something more solid at your hands-the will not be satisfied with yonr blaesguard iisiis sl;.s!! sHf feePFing dennnciation. No, sir