The Arkansas advocate., 1833-11-13

UP the feelings of fathers, mothers, brosil
 CTS, sisters and friends, whose sorrows have been ineliowed by time, by treating With feproaeh the hslowcd names of those they loved, under the feint hope of inflict- Ing wound upon me. And yet you call yourself 6 christian, and with pended knee at the alter oi your God, ask that forgiv- ness from him which you extend to others. I You say l stripped the Hon. William irimbie of his fortune and regulations and that he left the epllntfy renting excavations against me. Now for the facts. Trlmble left Arkansas early last spring, having en- tered into partnership with his brothers in Kentucky. He was decidedly the veal thlest professional man iii Arkansas, with one exception. In money and available Hieans, he could not have been worth less than l2 CT I5,G00 dollars, every cent of which he made in Arkansas. purchased tlle ferry across the river at this place, and admitted him a full partner at cost. He would not now take four thousand dol lars for his contract. l sold him my share of a plantation, We originally purchased jointly. precisely at the cost of the land and improvements. On that purchase he pro- bably sunk $2000. Those are the only contracts of any consequence eyer re- member to have had with him. You say l 'stripped him of reputation.' He was at the time he left here, member elect from his county, and Speaker of tho House of | Representatives. You say sshe left here venting the the tbiiterest execrations against the man who had betrayed and destroyed him." When he did leave here we were together until the moment of his depar- ture--he treated me with the sane affee- ton he had ever done-regretted his ab- sence in the then pending election, and told me what he had been doing to promote my views. lie iias llot u relative in irizan- sas that IS not my friend, and that did not sustain me at the last election. Such has been his loss of fortune and reputation through my means, and such his resent ment for my perGdv.
 1ou tell the public that your acceptance of the office of Judge, originally, ly, was a great pecuniary sacrifice, and that you had made III ten months, fifteen hundred dollars by the practice. Why then did you accept the office? Or why retain itl Did no sense of shame como over you at this unblush- ing falsehoodl Those who wish you suc- cess here in your unprineipled crusade against me, can but laugh at so glaring subterfuge. Who of that day here but knows you were pennyless drone upon l the profession, and that you had never made a speech at the bar that would not have disgraced a school boy. Ne gave you credit for judgment, because we saw you wanted every thing else, not dreaming that your solemnity of aspect might result as well from vacuity as plethora of the per- lcranium, or that there was any thing but brains where brains ought to have been. An apology IS due the public, and par ticularly those who have never read your bilingsgate abuse of me, as we'll for my obtrusion upon their attention, as for the severity with which have treated you That as Thomas P. Eskridge, you arc ev- cry way unworthy the notice of a gentle man, Is certainly true. The office you hold, however, has placed you for the mo- ,nent, is rank which :aiparttss cosisagaefloe to your name. To your publication should never have replied, had you realized the manly daring it indicated, To a call for satisfaction, you have thought proper to respond by hypocritical cant, which would add to the disgrace of even deeper stain ed villain than yourself After having made q publication over your own signature, aimed directly at ali a man of honor holds dear-after branding me as black-leg, swindler. liar, an alien to every honora- ble impulse--then to escape from the res- possibility by canting of your religion, by telling me that it acoalld nieke you rerg mis- erdble to shed any blood, when you have at tempted to rob me of that infinitely moro dear, and adding, that the people q youa. Circuit acould be greatly injured should yost l be killed. You. sir, to cant thus, after hay- ing aimed blow at me which if success ful would destroy even the prospects of my offspring. You have chosen this contest and left me no alternative. 1 have deriy- ed no pleasure from scourging skulklng, trembling, characterless poltron like your self You are like drunken soldier who will encounter an inevitable aegging for the qualification of getting drunk. You did not doubt the punishment that awaited you for daring thus to traduce me, but you had made up your mind to bear the scourge for the sake of a re-appointment of Judge.
 have designed this publication rather as self-yindication, than with any hope of reaching your feelings l am fully per suaded, however, that l possess specific which will yet awaken even your dormant sensibilities-it Is too substantial not to be efficient. The experiment shall at least be made.
 RnBERT CRITTENDEN.
 Lstfle Rock, .Noren,beY 5, 1883.
 
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