The Arkansas advocate., 1835-07-31
THE GAMBLERS,

soorAr1oN, formed in this town on sunday last.
 Our course with regard to the Gamblers who haunt this town, has called down upon ,,s the anraadversions of both the Times and the Gazette. Our readers, therefore, will haze patience while We reply to both as brief ly as possible.
 When we first published the account of the cxcesses in yicksburg, we uttered senti- ments which we shall ever entertain. We then declared that we could not look without horror and disapprobation on such scenes enacted in the eyeo of the law. To that opin- ion we still holland the reasons for 1t are, to us, strong and conclusive.
 Every man who urges, as the Times and Gazette have done, that the people should take vengeance, in defiance ofiaw, whenever they may think 1t necessary, is urging the people to throw down all law, and to establish anarchy, revolutionary fury, and popular im- pulse, in place of 1t. It is confessing that q republican people cannot pass laaes by s0hich to defend themseEues--that our Government and laws are weak-and that sse are not CO., pa5le of seycgouernmem. They INSULT the people by telling them that they cannot make laws strong enough to defend themselves. It is lamentable condition of things, when VIC gre told by those who are the watchmen of the people, that tho only way for us to defend ourselves, is by trampling on all law, and re- enacting the scenes of revolutionary France. Our convictions on this subject are briefly told, We detest the Gamblers, as class of beings, as much as any man who has signed the proceedings of that Associaton--but it Is our firm belief that where the sanctity of the law Is at stake, tbe end does not ;ustyy the make new ones. We are the people-and con make them. While we belong to free and intelligent people, we will ever spurn from us and expose the man or men who shall dare to tell the people that they are not sem sible enough to make laws to defend them selves--that they should have either anarchy, mob law, Lynch's law, or DEsPoTIsM. As we are living man, NC would sooner choose to confide our destinies to Napoleon, than to the will ofa people only governed by their changefnl impulses. We shall speak of that part of our subject again before we. conclude.
 We were called upon by William Copp, professedly gambler, on "Wednesday eve ming, last week, to publish the article which appeared in the last Advocate. He offered us our price for advertising, which was ssoiee the common price. He paid us for 1t, we published 1t, and marked 1t paid. This course has been the subject of censHre from both the Times and the Gazette. 4 few words to each of them will put them out of cur way, and leave us to deal with the public, to whom alone we arc answerable, and to whom we are always ready to account. AS the Times comes first, we will dispose of 1t first. The Editor of that paper accuses us of being i'll favor of the gamblers, and of being brought to favor them by the paltry sum of fifteen dollars. We are not in favor of them, and will explain, in the course of a few sen- tences, the reasons why we published that ad vertisement. At present we would only say, that fifteen dollars may be an unimportant sum to the rich old gentleman who edits the Gazette, or the very liberal, careless, and profuse publishers of the Times. No man ever suspected either of the three of loving money, or caring more about it than their neighbors. To us, however, being rather poor, and penurious withal, which neither of them is, fifteen dollars Is no inconsiderable matter.
 We are sorry that we have lost the friend- ship and good feeling of the Times. Ne as- sure that paper, however, that we cannot be forced into a quarrel with 1t. We are not it's political eaemies--so far as any body knows any thing about its politics-and we have mo- thing to induce us to injure it's Editor per sonally. He has been rather protase of hard words against us, but as he seldom seems to know what his words mean, CT to have any ideas scattered about among them, we do not suppose that he meant any thing very bad about Us.
 The Gazette also rcprobates us--on both pages of the paper--for publishing an adver tisement for which we were paid And now a word or two on this subject. When an ad-