The Arkansas advocate., 1833-04-10

'- os thSuis Let lhem pass. ask !, o'iy an lndisPutable right--a right al 'l ways awarded even to lclon---the . fsht of Knowing with what am eharg. i. eo that may defend if necessary.
 r lou have arraigned me before the . trlhnnal -sE rs-tisz-. szs-zz- ''"e strive 10 have me condemned on mere suspicion. Neither the public nor the accused has the least intimafion oi offence. Sir, it is with difficulty l can restrain my language--my ink al.
 most turns to gall, when view your
 eoVefts dastard attack. cannot bur as
 sa''iiaie Ii to that Of man firing at me. l W dsstdnee, and from behind hedpe.
 Lou made lt, when you knew was al I least thousand miles distant from yop
 me papers say, you made 1t on the
 noor oi Congress. You published 1t at
 '''e saPltai city of the nation; you took
 especial pains to promulgate il in Ar
 Aahsas, and through the nation, 10 a
 greater extent than you believed m,
 folce, unaided by official pinions. could
 ever be heard. Your darkly islander. 1 ouss inuendo slang, reached and wound 1 " "SS'' '' os ma my nt fri olhde m the States. ieng before ] #as aware oi ] It's existence. Those friends, If they
 knew yon and the base motives ot your language, would seorn, as do. the ] mean spirit which dictated it. With them a member of Congress is esteemed what you ought to be and are not--a
 man who will not prostitute his priyi- iege nor descend to the vile trick off taStnuating calumny and islander, when ne adventures no fact. Did yoa hope | to lmmolate my reputation, by such an
 at''manty mode of slaughter? Did you expect, by one fell, darltlng thrust like this, to draw the life blood Of the hopes
 and aspirations for fame, distinction and
 honor, you sancied might have? Must no young man, opposed 10 you, live un- suspected, for fear hereafter you may nod sa hnrnnti.e 5.e>Ar surq's- 9eeeft seII 1 attack! made upon a man whom even you charge with no wrong--a man who
 never injured you except in once voting tor your opponent--made, too, by the ''abie, faithful. talented, Honorable, brave, gallant and golden Delegalei! Why, sir, fl had actually committed
 the blackest crime in the catalogue, cannot see that fl would justify such CO vert, skulking, assassin-like, aims at ne,
 at .soeoho distance, and under such cir 1 cumstanccs. 1
 Are you sent 10 Congress to slaadef the people of Arkansas--to tnsinudte q. gainst ahem, and labor to have their
 characters blasted on satspicioa2 Ii such be the fact, you did your duty for once,
 when you made your brag speech. II
 that speech be specimen of your Dele
 gateship,s course at Washington, We
 must either ourselves or send some
 agent to be ready to defsnd us, against
 your attacks. II we do not, we are
 liable to be condemned and executed
 without a defence, q trial or sentence :;
 our fame. reputation and honor, are 10
 be polluted by a foul stream from your
 mouth; and our names sounded, with
 dishonor, through the world. Pray, ,sir-
 of whom were you the represeatatsve,
 when on the floor of Congress you tra-
 duced and villi6edthe People of Arkan-
 sas, generally? Little Rock, particu-
 larly? and also several individuals, be-
 sides myself, by name? Whose repre-
 sentative, when you white washed and I bedaubed wftti pra1at, jauge Johnson and q few others? Were you then the 1 Representative of the peopie, of those
 you siandered Tor of the Judge and
 the bepraised, chosen few? Who were
 those chosen fazo? Mostly Federol eG-
 cers who favorcd the Judges; and there
 fore, they alone were worthy. Is it so, in-
 deed, that the Delegate and the Federal
 officers have clubbed and combined
 they to support the Delegate and each
 other and the Delegate to sustain and , secure them in office, by stopping the
 ears of the National Executive and of , Congress against any voice from Arkan- f ses, except the voice of this chosen few, soclubbed, crying aloud forthe Delegate
 and for each other? Your speech ap- , pears to me to exhibit a something so very like such confederacy, that do ]. not readily perceive distinction or a difference. l make no charge of such , a clubbing or combining. If you have
 disclosed it in your speech, it is no fault { of mine. But, 10 return.
 | You thought it material to villi1y J every man and thing, that looked like : opposition to your deep determination, 2 to save the immaculate Judge Johnson. l do not find, however, that you, or any r of your tools, have ventured to deny Htt a truth of any of Mir. Cumnins' charges II You bluffed at some of them at Wash. ington, but dare you deny them in Ar-