The Arkansas advocate., 1833-07-24

pleasure 10 Stdtc3 uiae oiiioO my " this place, Maj. Field has called upon me and denied ever having made such state- ment. either to MT. Leeper or any other in- dividual.
 One of those letter writers charges me with having stated, that in my duel with Is,;r. Conway ii5 ctilaiiiieI,geti Ii me. This is q wiiff;iii ffaIsehood. If ! had SC said, why not have pr0ued 4, and thus have disgraced me at orce--why not give ilis name ii he knew he was speaking truth. It has given me great pain to have this affair alluded to in this contest. To the constant lmportu- nitv of my friends to have filii deveiope- ment. I have constantly replied that had rather incur some censure than disturb the ashes of the dead. ] have always believed MT. Conway, both in private and public life. was worth whole regiment of those who are now shedding .Cfockddite tears over his grave. If they loved him so dear ly. why disturb his memory and the repose of of the grave, by rudely thrusting his name into every petty contest. The truth IS, 1t IS not love for his memory, but burning hate towards me, and their own inordinate ambl- ton. that prompts their course. found tho most absurd calumnies circulating in the distant parts of the Territory. in relation to that affair. I was charged with having my clothes made impenetable to ball. with having shot him after he had missed me, and was in my power-and iii one neiohborhood, I was assailed for having followed him to Kentucky and there killed him, because he had beat me for Congress. These stories were circulated among the new emigrants, and believed; and my si- lence was construed into guilt. Thus situated. I was constrained to allude to the subject, and to give the lie to all those stories. stated that Colonels Rector and Desha were the seconds, and asked, from the high standing of those gentlemen, fl afly one believed they would have permitted an unfair advantage. l stated that Mir. Con- way, sometime in the last of August or first September, after he had been elected to Congress, published card against me, filled with the most violent abuse; that in 1t he called me by every appellatlon that could dishonor or disgrace me; that hls pub lication had been so violent as to leave me no alternatives between absolute dishonor and conflict, and that thus situated, 1 had challenged him. have ever believed, that Mir. Conway having placed me in situa- ton literally compelling me to challenge him, was incufring, on his part, as high re- responsibilities before the people, as l, in my situation. in giving the challenge. To save myself the necessity of a single comment, 1t was my wish to publish Air. Conway's abusive card, which compelled me to ehal- lenge him, and leave the public to decide. For this purpose l searched every where for a paper containing 1t, and at last ascer- tained that William K. Woodruff had the only ofie in my reach. At my request, a M ii y alae ffaGaaaS fadaaaagfSgTE Taited gpelR5 hitad td copy It for fne-tbls as you will perceive by the following letter, he P0SITIY ELY REFUSED:
 LITTLE RocK, July IS, 1885,
 ROBERT CRlTTENDEN, Esq.
 Dear Sjr-Soon after the reception of your note tbis morning, l called at Mir. Noodruff's office, and requested him to suffer me to copy from the files of his pa- pos the last note addressed to you by BIr Conway, previous to the meeting between yourself and that gentleman, stating to MT. Woodruff that made this request at your solicitation, stating also, that you had in- formed me you had searched in vain for the paper wanted, and found 1t impossible to obtain 1t from any other source. have only to add that Mir. Woodruff peremptors- g refased to suffer me to copy the required note. Respectfully, yours,
 VIM. T. YEOMANS.
 Thus 1t will be seen, what confidence Mir. Woodruff must have in publishing the aehole truth. If he will publish al, care not; and 1 have too much confidence in the good sense of the people, to fear a garbied, one-slded statement, when he alone has the power to give full one, and refuses to do so.
 inrelation to the partiol extracts from the letters ot Sylvanus Phillips, and Gen. Montgomery, can only say, that I have neither read their statements, nor my reply; Tor i've years, and as he refuses me access to the files of his paper, must speak from memory alone. 1 remember distinctly, that in-relation to the statement of Phillips, l denied it throughout, and indulged in strain in relation to him, which now he is dead, shall not repeat. He was my bit ter eneny,m consequence. of my using him roughly ina islander suit, in which I was counsel, and took this means of revenge.- In relation to Gen. Montgomery's state- ment, in my reply at tiat time, in Wood raii's paper, l gave an explanation of the with him, but at this distance of time, my memory does not serve me as to what 1t was. If Woodruffss object was the truth, why has he not published my re-