The Arkansas banner., 1844-06-05

The following was prepared for our last number, but deferred unayodabiy.
 REV. II. s. LAFFERTY AND THE SURVEY
 OR GENERAL
 We observe that the Rev. H. S Laferty, of Car rol county, is assailed by one of the numerous anonymous correspondents of the Gazette. We no- tice it because believe that the writer has treated that gentleman uniustly.
 MT. Lalierty has been citizen of this State from its earliest settlement. Few can claim an earlier acquaintance with its soil and it's inhabitants; few an older residence in Arkansas, than Mir. Laffcrty This has been his home since lSIl. During all that time he has led an humble, unassuming and useful life; and for the first time in residence of thirty wears. it seems to have become necessary for the public veal or to the qualification of some private spleen that he should be ehastised in public print, and his motives misrepresented. MT. Laiferty is in truth '.reyerened' and good clergyman" and a man whose moral life and unstained character will weigh with the best. Through all lis residence in Arkansas he has kept clear of public life, and for sooth because he has been engaged in a contract with the Surveyor Generals Department as deputy surveyor, and because, like the Surveyor General he $ mol Cgay whig, il must be shouted aloud that he has been bought up with patry contract for the survey of township of wild land. The charge is ptfu, and doubtless the author of it is pied by his intended victim IL is the lot of public men to be suspected when they change their sides in politics, and they perhaps should be suspected; but we had always thought it the privilege of the private citizen to alter and change his political opinions, without subjectng lis honesty to humiliating Imputadon, or his name to public scandal,
 An alleged change in the political position of Mir. Laerty, gives the ground for the debasinS insinua ton that he was bought up. MT. Laflerty had a right to change if he had chosen 10 do, and to expect at least, that an honest conviction of the right would have been accorded to him if he had done But it happens that the groundwork of the charge is untrue, Mr Lalerty is and always has be. "The physic (that) worked, ,'' was not needed, and that which has been administered by the Clay men will not work.
 In connection with this, we find the Surveyor General charged with buying up men with his con tracts and eoercing his clerks and deputies to take the Madisonian. This ridiculous falsehood is an- swered by the character of the man. That he has acted the parzan in his office the facts absolutely contradict. That he has shown favor to democrats whigs, because of their politics, is untrue and the slightest knowledge of the truth establishes this He has been htated and par@e&6y ubigs, from He hour of hls appointment arih molgaty almost ua- paraHeiied His office is filed with the hottest Clay whigs There is but one democrat and one Tyler man in it. What is wanted of the Surveyor Gene ra' Will nothing short of death or resignation satisfy thena Perhaps il is wished that he should discharge the whigs with whom he is surrounded. If that be the wish of their party, doubtless they are ready and willing to quit of; and fl they are not ready and willing, and il is still the wish of their party we do not think the Surveyor General is the man who fears the responsibility of controlling and of governing ill his office. If we know man who in his office, has exhibited the widest spirit of political oeration as well devoted attention to it's best interests, that is the present Surveyor General.