The Arkansas advocate., 1834-09-12
of the public funds and ailoftbe seoodfat iobs'

lofthe public funds and allofthe seoodfat jobs
 beng gwen to any particular set or clan oi men.
 His oblectionto to strangers seems to be con
 fined to the friends of Gov. Pope, for the only
 persons l have known objected to on the fground of being ssstrangers, are Judge Iacy
 ! and myself, who are supposed to De tse Gov Ierner2s ftie...,,s--'! Int .s : fs1Ill t
 long and lntlmate acquaintance with the sSo-
 vernon, IS his friend. IS well known. With l regard to myself, never h4d ary atf'soaal 1acqualnt7nce With 6oe. Pope before gcans to little Rock. So far as iF9na iuforpcd on
 hls administration ofthe assfss is Feffi- tory ] appf9ye, and T f!sssk . bf ra ~ of fsfistiee 10 hin to sag that no avernoY ~ siiy < Territory has ever administered it. affairs ] with more ability and fidelity bofh ta.slle sse- neral Government and the aeople than he has, Some misrepresentation will be imposed on the executive in every government, but will venture to assert that they are as few under his administration of this government as any
 other.
 When came here feeded friends and
 some share of the public patronage, and for the Governors kindness and liberality feel grateful, and hope shall never be so mean and greedy as to abuse hm if he should feel It hls duty to bestoN some of the egood fat lJobs, within his control, upon other men of merit, even if they shonld happen to be s'ts5i' FRAN FRS. called on the Govern or and communicated to him my design of es- tablishing myselfat little Rock, as lawyer
 and an editor. He informed me that if we | sb0H1 fat ct flrr ba would probably remain here, but if not, his stay was uncertain, and that he felt very little l interest in the party contests oIthe Territory.
 lie at the same time observed that Mr. Wood ruff was business man, and good printer, but not well calculated for an ed tor, and that he would be pleased to see man Ut the head of the paper who had the heart, firnlness and talent to vindicate the conduct of himsslf and other public officers, against unjust re5roaeh.
 He urged upon me the propriety of an union, to avoid competition with Mf. Woodruff, and
 assured me of his aid and influence to effect 1t.
 l entered into heGoYernor's views, and made a sincere effort to form an union with H4r.
 Woodruff, or to buy out his establishment, but without sueeess. then. without any un- kind feelings toward, or desire for collision with, Mir. Woodruff, determined to establish an independent press, and taereupon issued prospectus, which l had 10 sooner done than
 MT. Noodrutf's friends, and some of the wodld-be-only friends of Col. sevief, com menced operations against me, and industri- ously streve to poison the public mind against my enterprise, in order to prevent people from subscribing for the Political lntellgencer. hey aFerred that the new paper WAS to be I h, iIa kszI any thing about me or my designs, knew to be basely false, for believe that even my enemies will do me the justice to say, that they never knew me to be opposed to any man unless believed he was a hypocrite, or Was operating against the public interest. But will forbear to eDumerate the doings of Mr. Woodruff s erusades against me, in the shape of letters, oi many of which l have received hints, and some quotations; nor will reeite the conduct of his preteided collector in the south part of the Territory, where, under stand, or rather 1t is whispered, he propose to send q branch of his Gazette, for the pur- pose, as is supposed, of aiding him to write down Governor Pope and his friends. Does he not calculate On the patronage and support of Col. Sevier's friends, and the pretended friends of the Governor! He has begun the war, and suppose he intends to keep 1t up, if bis packers stand by him, until he accomplish es his object.
 1 In one ofhis papers he says, he s'under stands that Governor Pope has been making sad complaints' on account of his want of courtesy, in publishing, without his know ledge, an attack on him from Miller county; but who his taie bearer is he does not inform ,C T'EOo4, tx5ha Iy,oxu Cow EJ1no x15ii ..t,,a little credit to such story. Few men in the world are less apt to complain ofnewspa- per warfare than the Governor; ana it Is hard ly to be believed that after contending suc- cessfully with the talents and bulldoes of the opposition to him, he should be seriously dis turbed by the iiHle CUTS ofany kennel or par- ty.
 The hfge editor of the Gazette seems to have a particular spite against the friends of the Governor. Mai. William Fields, his ne- phew, who has been held up as probable competitor of Col. Seyier, on what account know not, unless from jealousy of his growing popularity. is the Postmaster at Little Rock. In order to injure Maj Fields, and the Post Office arrangements in the Territory gene rally, without one palliating word he cries out, 'sratsi rats, rats! in the Post 0ffice!' All eyes are turned to see the phenomenon, and behold 1t was a tie, and most likely wilful and deliberate; for the letter he advertses as having remitted $4s of Territorial scrip in, has been sent back to the Postmaster, with the most undoubted evidence that it never en- closed a dollar or any sum of scrip, though Mr. Woodruff says in the letter that the scrip is enclosed. This cry of 'srats! ratsi rats,' from Mir. Woodruff, has been heard at dis tance, and has elicited editorial notice in other papers, and it is therefore due to Maj. Fields that Mr. Woodruff should come out and say that he made statement of an oc- currence in the post office, as q fact, which