The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-09
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III the last Gazette, letter from tine hon- orable gentleman whose name we nave placed at the head of this article, q to gentlemen II, this tos~ss,'' wonder # H eed fluff still has presumption enough to call himseJf gentleman-Periury! Pegju1ytt sPeaJury. T, charging Us with cpdeavor- ing, Through him, to DEFRAuD the Post office Department out of four and ha!f cents. Had this accusation come from any other quarter, or had il emanated from any other than the big Delegate from ALL the .1rkansas, we should have passed it by, and left it to the good sense of the people to correct. But Col. Sevier is not2 Jig .fsh, (although he is often found in shalloio water,) ard is, therefore, entitled to some notice. He must have. been hard run, in deed, for charge against us to urge such pnttry and .f-iuoious one, as is contained in his letter of 27th March, published in the Gazette of 2d inst. Had every word be says been as true as Holy Writ, how much more creditable would 1t have been to him, if he had appropriated the, lime consumed in writing this ssdolorous' epis- sle, to gising his constituents an account of his stewardship since the commerce ment of the present session of Congress. But let Us proceed to investigate this charge, and see what 1t amounts to.
 In order.to place this f5saad tas the Col. terms it) in its proper light before the pub lie, twill be necessary, in the first place. 10 make few extracts from an advertise ment issued by MT. JONATHAN ELLIOT, of Washington N City, dated sixth January ad dressed to the Editors and Publishers of newspapers. The extracts follow.
 s Johnathan Elliot, of the City of Washington, requests the Editors or Pub fishers of newspapers within the several States and Territories of the Union to furnish him, through he members of Con- gress of their particular States or Districts, at the Seat of the Federal Government, with three copies of their Newspapers marked ssone, sstwo," and 'sthree, ''1 issued on for about Wednesday the twen- ty-sccond of February, 1s32, being the Centennial Anniversary of Gen. Washing tan.
 As his motive is entirely disinterested and patriotic in making this request, It being his desire to produce positive eyi- dence of the number of Newspapaper printed in the United States, and their Territories, he desires that particular at tention may be paid to this request; and !, above all, by the publishers of country papers, Tn distant towns, that are, compa- rativtly, little known and if, at the same time, they would communicate, in their papers any ssstatisticai sinformations reia- tive to their immediate neighborbood. 1t would be highly appreciated and grateful ly acknowledged.
 It is intended that every newspaper re- 'ceived shall be carefully preserved and arranged by States, in a room at Wash ington devoted for this object one set to -as eventually deposited ia tic Library of Congress; the duplicate set to be trans lnitted to o. RIcH, Esq, of London, (Agent for the purchase Of Books, &c. for the Congressional Library,) to be by him placed the British Mnsenm; and the Duplicate set to be retained for some pub lie institution"
 In this advertisement we were requested, in common with other Editors, to furnish Mr. Elliot, throughtte member of Congress, with three copies of our newspaper, issued on Wednesday, the 22d of February--the Centennial Anniversary of Gen. Washing Con. This request was compiled with. by sending him three Advocates, of the date required. under cover'' to the Delegate in Congress iom Arkansas. 1t was mo business of ours to know, in having the papers furnished him :. through the mem bers of Congress- whether MT. Els de- . sign was to saue postage, or what. His ob- Ject in making the request, was to "pro- duce positive evidence of the numb C T. of newspapers printed in the United States, and their Territories.n We thought pro- per to throw ia our mite towards aiding him in this a disinterested and patrietie'' undertaking--and who had right to con- plain! At least we should have looked For complaint from any other quarter, sooner than from the Delegate 10 Congress, whose pride it should be to promote, when lie could do so with little or DO trouble, all such IaudabIo and patriotic undertaking as the one proposed bw MT. Elliot.
 Let the reader peruse Mr. Sevier's do loroas letter of charges, and then the ex tracts made from MT. Elliot's advertise Inent, and if he does not decide that tllt 1f1erafa has piared b;mself in n ypost 3.3