The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-23
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l ne GNeNlleS Ol lllIS tticiitd esoAAtiN man are endeavoring to make false issue before the people, with regard tp the report of the Investigating Committee. They state, broadly, that he requires the Legislature to ExruNcE and then they lament over the obliteration of the public records. f $ Hn- true, Hat hc erer placed a afea his ground. What he contends for, is, that the next Le- gislature shall re-investigate the matter; take testimony with regard to it, and all the les tmoRy; in a word, he asks what the obseurest citizen can righifully claim at the hands of that body-ihat justice shall be done 10 his reputation. To him, the mode adopted to eifsSt this object is immateriaI with that he has nothing to do. But he does claim, that inasmuch as the facts in that report are mis- stated and the deductions from them unWar- ranted and false, that, on every principle of justice and law, he is entitled to a re-hearing, especially as he was condemned in his ab- sence, and had no opportunity to make his defence to that foul libel.
 And who, We would ask, would refuse it: What honorable man, what gentleman, would say to him, Il is true, sir, this report was adopted while you were proceeding to the capitol, to take your seat in the Senate; true, it is a stain upon your reputation, and, unless wiped out, will attach to your children; but you can have no re-hearing.
 Nature itself would cxclaim against such monstrous injustice: the records of the Spa nish Inquisition could not furnish more palpable disregard of human rights And are we to understand that there are men among Us, so bitter in their political prejudiees, so destitute of ehivalry, as to be willing to im- molate man who has been in public life nearly twenty years, and served his State well, without hearing word in his defence :
 In asking the Legislature 10 re-investigate the subject, il is not privilege, but matter of right Courts grant new trials, over and over again, when verdict is contrary to law or evidence, and yet who was ever in tatuated enough to talk about the mutilation of records?
 Courts of chancery, after the lapse of years, open judgments and grant a re-hearing, where party is equitably entitled to it, and yet what sane man ever urged, as an objection, that 1t was destruction of the verify ol re- cords
 If re-hearing would be granted, i'll a case where the pitiful sum of two or three hun dred dollars was in controversy, how much stronger is the case, where the most invalu- able of all earthly possessions is at stake mans rcputation-which cannot be esti- mated by the standard of dollars and cents
 Col. Savior, like any other citizen, who is aggrieved, has constitutional right 10 peti- ton the Legislature for the redress of that grievance; and surely, report, which black ens his character, and would strip him of his public honors, and render him unworthy of the peoples confidence, constitutes griev- anee of the very first magnitude. Do the whigs mean to say, that 1t should neither be inquired into, nor redressed2
 The Legislature make a law, al one ses- sion, and repeal it at the next, and is this expunging records3 It is just as much SO, as what Col Seyier asks at the hands of the people.
 
 The whigs may misrepresent, and talk about his requiring the expunction of the journals, but the issue he makes, is, fhat he has right 10 demand re-japesiigatioa Of hjs report, Jefore C fair and impartial body -the neat Legislature, aud Mat thc people osee Ais to themselres, as aeeH ds 10 him and Hat if, upon full aud fair examination, hat body come 10 Mc same conclusion, lie 'rH no longer 5e c rcpresenfatire of .lrfan- Sas, n Me Seaafe, aud aciH retire from Hat Honorable station. On bhe othcr hand, #, on his re-inrestigatioH, H shoald aPpear, as he contends il 'ciH, H5at He iaffrencsg in He re- port, rcfeciipg on his reputation, are H5eL- loas and uqfoamded, Ae aejH erpect He Le- gisiafre 10 rcReal, rescjad, or erpuage, or in some other ntanaer 10 qGord q substantial re- mcdy for tde gierances of 'etich he com pfaias. Thc substance $ uhat hc looks 10, and mol hc mcre form of redress,
 IHis is no aew ground ;; he has taken d in his tetiers and publications, and in lis public speeches-
 95-The editor of the Times and Advocate seems, strangely enough, to have recently strayed among the muses; but without any nihor damann annarentlN than some slirht