The Arkansas advocate., 1832-02-29

this assertion been endorsed by Mai. Field, we would have readily believed 1t; his honor and veraciiy is irrcproach- fable. Nc so with Billy. Better esi- f.dence than the mere say so of this recon- ftation gentleman is required 10 give credit to his assertions, if he wants to be, believed by us, or even the public, about here. No, no, Bt1iy. you don't Epalm your naked assertions upon Us we require respectable endorsement.
 His "nonsense and bIaclSguardsm'' about Mir. Cfittenden, is the same old tune that has been sung by the PARTY it's r'iiions, for the iasi five years; land we shall, therefore. pass it by.
 He says that summers wercl des- patched in sperys direction. , EvsRy DIRECTION" Oh, where is truih! Did it ever abide in the tabernacle of the the PARTY?s If so, fl has long since been put to death. "Runners despatch- ed in every directionr' Let us enquire how many "runners' we're despatch ed. Mir. Jenkins, of this neighborhood, was employed by Mir. Biseoe himseIf, to go to Batcsville, in Independence coun- ty,and Jackson, in Lawrence county, and deliver, to persons named. one or two hundred of his Circulars. MT. Jenkins performed the duty for which he was employed, and returned to this place without delay. Here is the 's,7t,a- negs despatched in epery direction r'- By process lging to which Billy is by no means stranger, MT. Jenkins is nsetanaorphosed into half Q dozen "run- ners," and Independence and Lawrence counties into the zUhole. Territory.- Fiel fe, Mir. Rcca7afatiof, we really despair of your ever telling the truth! If a asubstitute called a lie will suit'as well. As well might an attempt be made to extract blood froma turnip, as tosqltecee tIle.t,7dd from you---savcby the .Henetee process.
 lie speaks of thirty or forty of the 
 Members of the Legislature ptcdglng their influence anl support to Mir. Bis COG. If the gentlemen alluded to, ever made sucFia pledge, (which we deny, and call forpr0of9 we have yet tol learn it from any other thanthe contemptible channel through which t is promulga. ted--lroin a respeclabie source, we have yet to hear it. Pledged or otherwise, we know very well, that the subject of the election occupied so little of the the attention of two or three of the Members, who are called pledged-men by the Gazette, that they did not even mention the fact of MT. B.'s being a candidate, 10 their constituents, upon their return home. We could mention names, were we so disposed.
 If there was one, he says, who voted for the Ten Section Law, who gave his vote to Maj. Field, he has not heard of it. Perhaps so. But why not? MT. Biscoe and Maj. Field were Loth in Ga- yor ofshe measure-we speak posttiDely when wesay the helattergentleman was. he may perhaps, have been more sscret- ly its friend than inc former, but there was no good grounds of choice upon this score-"'one was as deep in the mud as the other was in the niire.''
 ii was certainty agreai piece of ina- pudence in Judge BATES to cote for Mir. Biscoe, after sshaving recommended Mai. Field, in the most nattering terms, as very efficient Clerk. , But, when it is generally known, that Maj. Field opplied to Judge Bates, (as he did to most, if not all, the other Judges,) for this (. '.fatering recommendation it will perhaps, serve as sort ofpall1atipe, for this outrageous aud ,u.heard 9 conduct of Judge Bates. A man to exercise the