The Arkansas advocate., 1833-01-23
To the Edaor of Me .advocafe:

SlR--I beg permission 10 use the col umns of the Advocate for the purpose of reviewing, in a summary inanner, an ar- ticle Tn the last Gazette, on the subject Of the new road lately opened by David Ror- CT and Gov. Pope.
 "Ihe unanimity of the Court" is partic- ulariy noticed, by the Editor of the Ga zette. Strange would il have been, sir, if Court, especially organized for fhe pnr- pose of adopting the road as a public nigh way. had not been unanimous.
 The Court was composed of Jesse Brown, who IS soaHy and bodily the property of Chester Ashley & Co, as much go as is any horse belonging to the firm :-- Ezra NJ |. Owen, the same :-Dudley D. Mason, a would-be honest and upright man. If he were not too easily led by Ashley and Pope, to adopt whatever measures they may die tate :-Wm. P. Reyhurn, especially made Magistrate for Big Rock tewnshin,. 10 supply vacancy in Satiae townships the object for which he was appointed IS evil dent:-Eli Lindsey. wilose political faith IS pinned 10 the sleeve of Ashley and Pope: -Fhe last and least of the bench is David Rorer, made a Justice for the purpose of deciding on his own case. Isltto be won dered al that Court thus composed, should he unanimous on subject in which the Governor and Dayv Rorer were so deeply interesteds
 The petition merits some attention. II was drawn np by Ashley All who have seen Ashiey's bea writing, know that il is a miserable scrawl, scarcely legible by one person in twenty. In drawing up the petition. determined that no one should read 1t, he wrote 1t in so much more mis- eratae scrawl than he usually writes, that of the 36 names appended to it, venture to assert that no one but himself could read 1t.
 In obtaining signatures to tha petition, he told the persons 10 whom he applied that if was only petition for a county road on this representation, many sign ed it, who would not have done il, had they known the true pnrport of the petition
 i'he petition starts with misrepresenta- ton, when II asserts that the road peti- toned for was opened "ander Inc autho riiy of an act of CopssTess. Ashley is too astute lawyer pot to knNw that to repair an established rgad does not mean to open neao road. HEtherefore wilfully set forth a misstatement fortbe purpose of imposing upon the honordble Court, which he had with so much good management got up 10 efect'the object of the petition.
 The record of the Court is made up " ith shrewd artiulness, to set forth an erro- neons state of facts. It sets out with. "Whereas. it appears to the satisfaction of the Court. that good road, highly use- ful to the people of this county, has been opened. required, and improued, Soc. That IS false statement; for the road is a CIV road, and required no repairs it is n CIV road, and required no improvement. Why this subtlety in frs ming the record of the Court Why not spread the facts on the records of the Court, and not deface them with false statements? lniquitous proceedings mark every step of this transaction; and if any but those ! hose consciences have long been scared had been concerned in it, their feelings | on the subject would be far from enyla- l ble.
 ] In conclusion, will ask where was l the Reueread presiding officer of the Court during the proceedings had in this affair Was he opportunely indisPosed, to keep l him from the bench while this nefarious transaction was before the Court? EXAMINER. | Little Rock, 2lst Jan. 1883.