The Arkansas advocate., 1836-11-04

gisluture and in part designed for yourself But air coniess ieei q less how to answer such ambiguous nntruhful, schooboy reasoning-however feel bound to give reply to some part of t-which shall be as con } else possible.
 The first thing you say, that think worthy uf my mo- tiee, soa fsi,eak aki;e , ths Commissioners, that the of justice should not he 1 cated so low down in the county. You may have said to the two Commissioners you refer to- for aupht know care, but you did ot dare say to the pco- tpie when you candidate.
 Ton then charge me with saying that you imposed Oh the Honorable Legislature with petition, dc. Yoh then, with the united dexterity of your colleagues m fraud and guilt appeal to the Report of the Committee of the Senate. What, sir did that Committee know on the face the petitions, except what tho Representa- lives ot Crawford told them they not being citizcrsf though acknowledge esteem them as high minded. honest honorable gentlemen, and truly acqa them of the least cenaure in this case.
 How stands le ease, sir with regard to your impos- ing on the Legislature with your pettions Why sir 1t s thus oa presented petition for the removal of tho seat justice of Crawford county having throe hundred and thirteen sgners, mud in the uprghtness of your un. prlneiped heeft, you struck of thirteen, being le- gal The remcnstrencers amounted to hundred and eghtysix sgnera, and geur way of d6ing you struck ot fifteen as illegal Bg thus acting, you made it ap- pear to the unFuspepting Committee that there diff ference of iS9 III favor of removing the of justice Ton say to me strange s that you were ignorant of the aetthat full and complete of the number of the votes poled in the county filed i'll tho office of the Secretary of State at Little Rock.
 Dear mel what unfathomabe wisdom you have learn ed, Colonel, by being elected to the Legislature! Who who would have thought ali this and that the office of Secretary of State is kept at Little Rock tool What place Little Rock must he!) Bat, Colonel. you could have got the nanes the Clerks well as tho members and then you could have avoided the necessity t you had wanted b Go rgb) of shearing your faith ess treachcrous conduct under the nmsy plea of gno- rance.
 Now, sir, will show you how you have deceived thu Legislature and betrayed the confidence of your consttu with the poll books
 The total of sgners the petition for reuov. 3la Of this number there of persons not known on the poll books, and persons having signed the petit tion twice. and persons signing both the petition and remonatrance-all of which call illegal ........90
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 Extract these ninety illegal lgncrs from your three hundred and IS you see, 223 remain. Here follow the names of those persons call eeai Madison L. Alfrcdl \. Payne Ammon, Peter Addans, c. NJ. Arnstronr Polly Baker, Ezekiel Burlison Elizabeth Barnh Eli zaboth Bell, Ihos. A. Berry, C. D. Carney, Wm. Coo dey, Jacob E Ghurehmans iarkin Cappa Josiah Foster. fjnn Ann Fisher Mason Flowers, Wyatt Flowefs Bates l 9rigge, Edward II Hudsou Henry FIartgraves, Wm D. fierd Robert Henderson, Jacob Hayes, Wm. Hawthorn Iiartey I5 Hoae john inioW, james ingram, Wm. Q. Jenkins, Wiley Jones, D. R. Looney, Rebecca Lock. John W. Lewis Hugh Lewis, William R. Luson John Lewis twice, John Mckinney, Henry Moore, D. Me Leian George Morgan, James Kerkendall signeJ both petition and remonstrance.1 ]. ". Koen James Keer j. R. Kenady, Elizabeth Morse, Luereta Mays, Isaac Merlman, Andrew Moles, ". C. McRosey, Joel Oliver. v. J. 0rrick, Nn. 0fck scn Wm. Orick, jun, Eliza v, j. Isaiah Rollns Alfred Reed r. Ritchie, Owen somner. l. shores iarkn Ske,ton, Niclo4a sfe4od. Jesse j. sheton twice, Jacob Strckland Chas. G. Scott, Saml Stevenson, Albert shelden George Sorrelcs, Nimrod smart George B. Stagner twice. Hezakiah Taylor, Mo ses Tuscan John Taylor, Jackson Trammel, Alexander Williams, D. C. Weaver H. A. Wasson, A. T. Welty, x'charlah Young, with six others who signed the re- nonstrance and petition, whose you find ie remonstranee from Lees Creek making, above shown, 93 leaving your petition, sown 223-lackng . of one half of the legal voters Of Crawford county
 lr ffafra l. la he Secrearys office ut Little Rock The total num- ber of voters sour hundred and nnetysix and lest you should be dissatisfied with the above calculation, will give you one other statement O. the case to wit Upper Township has 40 voters Lees Creek has 62 Rchland has 3e, Van Bnren has ll3, making in all 25l This call the upper end of the county and by examining thd poll books find 6G legal whose arc not on the petition for removal ofthe seat usce Take the 66 from the 25I and 1t 1S5 The lower end of tho county has 215 voes 10 wit Big Creek township 16, Mulberry H.. White Oak B, McLeans Bottom s5 By examining the poll boohs, find out of that number 2I legal sgners 10 your petition which added to the one hundred and cighty-fve, make exactly 212 Now, sir, where is your pretendcd majory It not impos sble but these statements may be precisely correct but in the main part defy contradiction. Will you be so good as to get your Col to aid you and let us know who those i5 illegal voters that you found on the remonstraneei But do not bring tho Colonel to Crawford county to do so, lest the squeang ghosts of l Wackards hogs aIould visit him.
 Now sir, I've shown how far my assertions have been warranabe, and instead of my having deceived any have had the honesty expose your decepous conduct
 You boast much cf having beat if two elections but my dear sir if had but told the zgzag you were compelled to pursue to obtain your election, it would reflect but little honor youand to say the least of it, your boastng only rroo of the teness of your soul, for it always humbes Of magnanimous spi- Tit to succeed in election man of superior a- Tents and integrity to those of his oWn
 You talk about my being aithcss had been elected. The best way to know what will do, if elected, is to look at what he did when he in office. |, sir, have been onofed with public trusts and say the least, never heard ot any honest