The Arkansas advocate., 1832-04-04
she letter aof Mr. Speaker Trla,ble. 7


 such letter had been written J; yo
 did return it, however, not qa,ste surrey fittously, but in written ssmessage
 by your Private Secretary. IL was ITO announced and read al the bar of tn House by your Secretary, asot'aer mes sages, but laid upon the Clerks table The memorial then, on motion. was re stored to the files of the House, ant your communication (messagc, you cal it,) treated as it deserved 10 be. You relied, perhaps, too much on the ssigno rance" of the House, or was yourself ignorant that that branch of the Lcgisla. tnrc was composed of gentlemen ofhon. or, the BePresentatiyes-oft the Ereemen of Arkansas, and who have as high re- gard fer official station, and as much dignity and selfrespcct, as your Ex- cellency. The indignity thus offered to you, fellow citizens, through your Re- prcsentatives. in this prcteHded amcs- sagc," was hurled back with indigna- ton on the source from whence it enla- mated. IL is painful to me, fellow citi- zens, to pursue his Excellency in his long catalogue of calumny, though it is q duty ! owc to you and to myself, to notice the following paragraph:
 ]" If, sir, you were ignorant of the me- morial, did you never hear that tho mes sage sont by the door keeper to !" John Pope" motion of Judge Scott, was 10 have been followed, if necessary, and majority would have to endorse tho step, by an order to arrest the person of aJoln Pope," and posse of your friends 10 have have been summoned to execute the order! Xes, sir, did you not hear, that was 10 be assailed hy mob, arrayed under col- or of Legislative authoriiyl''
 Now, Governor, whileI remember how much is due to the high office you hold, cannot with any decent ap- peafance of proprietv, call this "the gf5ssest f;tbrication,' andyouthc ;. < x man, l ever saw. protest. my dear sir, do not think you so. You have dangerous rival in that kind of Eime, in the "pa7try Editor" of the paltly pc per you have undertaken to endorse for. But hero take the liberty, with due tlefereDee however 10 your official sta lion, as far as am Implicated, knozp or be1ieee, to give 10 your insinuation q di- rect and unqualified denial.
 There is another paragraph in the communication of his Holiness the Pope another conspiracy ehargedi which l should be guilty of dcreiictionofdu- Y, to myself and friends, not to noticc. He says:
 q You complain much of Woodruf's pa per; but neither you nor your friends ought to expect any forbearance alter the treatment he received at the last session. He was abused, personally, in debate, where he could not defend himself, and he repelled the attack in lis paper. While 1 he was at the Clerk s table, engaged in taking down the proceedings, with the leave of the House, and underiis protec- ton, a recess was moved for by Judge Scott, and carried, and he was assaulted at the Clerks table, by ono of the Mem- bers,. few minutes ~after the recess was taken, and many suppose that the recess was taken to have the outrage committed"
 l was the principal actor in this tragi- comedy, and I do not feel any inelina- ton, Governor, to play " it over again" My only object in noticing it, is to free Judge Scott from the unjustimputations your Editor has cast upon him, and which were harmless, until endorsed by your ExceIlcney. in the paragraph just quoted.
 "If you knew" Judge Scott, @ as we'll asI do," how incapable he is of de- vsing conspiracy so base as you repre- sent this to be, his delicate feelings and high sense of honor, you would feel GfI You have a heart that is not callous 10 every sense of honorable feeling) the deepest humiliation at your unlounded insinuation. Aud perched up, as you are, on the gubernatorial chair, beyond tte reach of tue people of .irkansas, and irresponsible to them, l do not envy you your situation. I here deny that Judge Scot, or any other man, had any fore knowledge ofmy attack upon Woodruff, that dqy. had despaired of meeting hias hc knew lie deserved oiilastise- ment, and evaded me; Ihad given up the chase-this communicated to my friends and room mates. But uillang tciH meet is appropriate reuard. l found him in the House during a recess, mo more sacred then, to legislation, than court yard or public street, and l chastised him. for which IhoM myself alone responsible, and to make quota ton from your Excellcncy, "my course IS almost universally approved"
 N. MENEFEE. ConaoGy County, .a. T.
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