The Arkansas advocate., 1833-01-30

sense oi any man, cas. apply :o s.als s.alss ssss;;.c roao uescribcd Tn the other three II can not. lie chosen ones of the Governor, then, publish his shame. and sloY his abuse of the public fund placed in his hands.
 Whoever will read this petition and de- ciaratlon closely, will observe that in both of them, this Pope and Rorer road is dis hngaished from an sela road. , If 1t be asked what road Is this old road, answer. tits 'the l.. R. and II. road, and Ire very road for the repair of which the S20. .ooG were given. So much for descriptions.
 Let us now see how stand the facts- The Governor must have understood the word aepdaT Tn a new, a peculiar kind of Governor senses Wifi. him, 10 repair an old, and accepted and established road, , means to make an entirely ae4o road, and to get tiie County Court 10 order that the old be sdiscontinued' for a public road for to that extent goes this judicial lecla. ration. Let the Governors sense and manner of road repairing be tested b, lis acts, He has privately contracted witi. Korer 10 open and maiSea road. The bar gain between them is a profound secret
 Ire Governor cannot or will not. explain It even when examined on oath ip Court. ihe road made commences at a point op- posltc Little Rock, on the bank of the Ar- kansas, sever al hundred yards from the l., k and M road and runs along the bank Of the river far enough at least to pass right spang' by Dayy Rorcr's new patent ferry, and IS generally throughout It's conrse from quarter of mile to two miles distant from that old road, which was opened and made under the direction of the President. l ask common sense ii this is repairing that sestahlished and ac- cepted' public road ofile U. $. for the re- pair Of which the S2G, eco were appropri- afed If Ii be *o. then words lsave isst their meaning, common sense IS common. deiasion, and we have neither language nor law.
 Let this sense and manner of road re- pairing be tested when applied to oyer- seers of tlle roads in Arkansas. Tie duty of overseers of roads in this Territory, consists in repairing and keeping in re- pair. Their duty it this respect Is ex- pressed in the laws by this same word sre- pair II is their duty 10 keep a speoi- hed road in repair and not to letit re- main sont of repair.' r.'-Geyer's Digest, p. 356
 ask Gov. Pope, if the little oyerseer would do his duty or obey the law, if, in stead Of repairing the road assigned bim, he should make an entirely new road n quaftetof mile or two mics from it?- ct the little ovcrseers right and autho- rry arc given in the same terms and by tlle same word as the sbig oYeyseer's'
 Still further. Mr. Hail is appointed the oyerseer of the Pope and Rorer road. hy tle County Court. If Mr. Hail should make another new road, so as to accom- modate another new ferry, further down tlle river than Rorer's, and running for t or ' miles from quarter of mile to two miles distant from the Pope and iiorer road, would the Governor call this repsti,- ing the Pope and ieorer roada Yet Mir. iIaiIs powers arc as ample as the Govern or's. Both have merely the authority 10 repaic road.
 Again. The Pope and Rorer road is the same as the l.. R. and M. road, or else the first differs from the last exactly as much as the last differs from the first The Governor is required 10 repair the l.. R. and M. road He has opened and made the Pupe and Iiorcr road. Mr Hail is required to gepair the Pope and Ilorer road. Now if Mir. Hail take his hands and repair the l.. k. and NJ. road, will he be repairing the aigh road Let the Go- vernon answer that he will not, then these roads arc not se same.
 The Governor, Ashley, and ll.e Coun- y Court, all say that Mr. II. must not work ou 'the l.. k. and NJ. road d'-that is, the sold road,' which is sdiscontinu- ed if.tncn, MT. II. must not work on sthe l.. 4. and M. road,' when he re- pairs the F. and k. road, by what in. gcnuity or logic cad il be made ont, that tie Governor worked on sthc l.. R. and M. road when lle opehed, cut oni and made the r. and R. road? And if the Governor did not work on sthe l.. R. and Nj. road, l ask him in what possible sense il can be s,id, that lie re- paired the old road? The Governor must remodel the doctrine Of identity, before he makes nc believe the absur- ditics involved in the idea, that he (the Govefnor) repaired 'the l.. R. and NJ. road whenhe worked on and made ihe F. and R. road; and that Mir. II. must not repair slhe l.. R. and NJ. foad,' when he (Mr. H.. repairs the F. and k. road; and yet these are the same roads. These two roads are one and the same road, it seems, when the Governor puts forth his magic hand 10 this work; but they are distinct and different when common men work upon them. They are one and the same road when the peoples money, given from the Govern- or's hand, is expended upon them-- they are distinct and different whom the labor and sweat and toll of the people is applied to them. If the public can be gulled with such absurdities, NC have
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