The Arkansas advocate., 1834-09-12

to become $ member of the Union; yetwiler f people, Ii ttered by the prospects of prosper 1 lty, come to the Territory, they are modest. i " told Dy those who have grown rich on the
 sgood FAT JOBS'' of the public patronare--
 and ef which an ssunexpended balance'' sel.
 dom if ever regnains-that they have not 2.
 qual rights and privileges.-p6e OLD Law. ] yers0 and ssJisD9 Printers must first i,e sar.
 ved. The new conner is called ssstranoer'
 and must surrender all his pretensions, rights
 and merits to the monopoly and exclusive pri, 1 yiieees oi she s'0isi, lawyers and ..Oi1f D
 Printers.
 Col. Seyier, fwhose popularity and influ-
 ence Mir. v oosiruii would fain add to the p,la- lanx Of 5sa gee, sstla D f.lwAyers' and sss' Printers against me, and who is high autho- rlty with him. procured the passage of i law lby Congress, declaring that residence of
 SIX months should give Q man 3 right to vote
 at all general or special elections, and of 1 course placed him on an equal footing, accer-
 ding to his talents, with the 'sOI D Lawyers''
 and sSOlD" Printers of the Territory.
 Mir. Woodruff has so long enjoyed, almost exclusively, the public patronage ofthis Ter
 rtory that he seems to thinkhe has sort of
 monopoly or exclusive right to it. He should remember that monopolies and exclusive pr- Fileges are incompatible with our free insti- tntlons. He has grown rich, and calculates that by the force of his wealth, and the pub
 llc patronage, he can bear down every poor
 man who attempts to compete with him in the printing line.-I am in but humble cir
 eumstances, and have my little family to pro-
 vide for, and insist that, 'estranger'' as he
 would have me considered, have as fair q
 claim to ] share of the public patronage as
 Mr. Woodruff, provided lrender equal servi-
 ces to the public.
 am ssnot a practical printer (thbugh short experience may have given" me 'some smat- Itering of the art, says Mr. Woodruff. To this have but a word to say: s'smattering'' as is my knowledge oft the art, pledge n.y. selfto him and the public, to excel Mir. Wood rutf both for neatness and despatch, of ALL ssGooD JeEs'' s.fat'' or seleano which may be given me, and never like him to charge at the extortionate rate of 8 per quire of the most common writing paper blanks. l consider every printer in my office decidedly Mir.
 NFoodraiii' superior fer skill in the art, and myself doubly sofor justice in the price. For d specimen of the ''smatterne" which have of the ART, the public are referred to my cards to be found at the Hotels of this city.
 If the appointment of s'strangef" is so ob- tiectionable, why has MT. Woodruifnever ur- ged 1t before! Have no ''stranqers,', even nonresident s'strangerse been appointed be- fore? Have not some of the most meritorous citizens been recommended, and yet a ssstrsn- gern been preferred! Were not some emin- ently worthy citizens recommended to fill the vacancy when Col. Desha left the office of Receiver md yet Mir. Beni. Chambers, of
 Scott couIty, Ky, who had never resided in and perhaps never seen our Territory, at the instance of Col. K. NJ. Johnson, was prefer rel Why was not the objection toa, ssSTRAN- aERo Htea sounded by Mir. Woodruff! Was t because Ar. Chambers was friend to the Johnson family, and calculated to add to their strength and influence i'll this territory! Mr. Hawkins, of Kentucky, who never resided in the Territory, has been appointed Recei- yer or Register in the new Land Office loca- ted at Helena, and yet have not heard one complaint from Mir. Woodruff. for allthis par tiality III favor Of ssss'l k AN GERS"
 Have not many strangers, and some of them ''late of Missouri" too, been appointed to ssgood fat places in the Surveyor Generals Office at this place! They have not only re- ceived respectable salaries in that office, but have not some ofthem been sent out on ssgood fai jo5s' of surveying through the country! and yet, no complaint is heard from AIr. Woodruff because of,the preference of these @STRANaERs!" At the late session of Con- gress, if my recollection serves me, the sum of Sl06G was appropriated to bring up the ar- rearages of work in the Surveyor Generals Ofiice.-A good fat sum to be dispensed by the Surveyor General to whatever friends, dependents, or even strangers he may think proper. Yet no denunciation is heard from the Gazette, because of the successful appliea- tion of Strangers at the Office of the Survey or General. know and esteemthe Survey or General highly; acd all in his employ, " tn whom am acquainted, have my best. wishes for their success and prosperity, whe ther ssOl D" citizens or ''strangers, and ! only advert to the Surveyor General and his course with strangers, to show that Mir. Woodruff, for some cause unknownto me and the public, has not, until very recently, dis covered this great objection to GA SYRIAN. GER"
 Mir. Pelham, present Auditor of Public Ac- counts, who, presume A1r. Woodruff will not say was very s'old' citizen of the Territory while he held ''good fat'' clerkship in the Surveyor Generals office, was elected Audi ditor of Public Accounts of this Territory, and it is said by the exertions of Mir. Wood ruff, in opposition to Dr. Robert Watkins, one of the mosthonorable and respectable ci tizens of this Territory; almost a native; the son of one of the OLDEST settlers here, who fell by the hand of an assassin. Did not Mr. Woodruti''s friends wonder at his strange conduct on that occasion, and were they not at a. loss how to account for 1t! Before the election of Auditor, MT. Woodruff had been elected ssnnhlic nrintero for the Territory.