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associates ObServed-''lt IS WOHuer ile ulu not give you kicking" He replied-"O! the Governor didn't hear me.''
 !Sabinus. There is no application in that case to my speech; and l don't know what put the silly notion in your head.
 P. No, Sabinus, 1t is not applicable to your speech; but a man can't help hls thoughts; and you know Sabinus, that you always whip the senator the worst, when he is great way off; and have heard several of your best friends say, that as long as you are Captain of the Artillery company, and military man, you would have done yourself great deal more honor by giving him good drubbing, than by writing that piece Tn the "Spirit of the Times.'
 Sabinus Ihated to do that, and would not, if could have injured him without You know F., told you was going to write about him before left.
 F., Yes, but l had no idea that you would write piece that would render your self ridiculous, and make your friends asham- ed of you.
 Sabinus could not find any thing but that to write and l wrote to all my strlk- CTS, q had few amongst the democrats) to ridicule him, every where, about it.
 F.. They did their best.
 .Sa5inus We'll, how did 1t take? One of my strikers told me, to day, that 1t took ex- ceedingly well; but he can't see well, and am fearful he is also defective in judgment. What say you F.?
 F.. Well, sir, he must be defective in judgment, if he told you so, for, the truth is, it took very badly. That Judge who has served you with more devotion, than ever you worshipped at the shrine of Bacchus, 1 (and you know that you have been a dutiful subject there,) says that the whole piece is as flat as pancake; and worse than all, am told 1t is not true.
 Sabinus Some of 1t is true, F..
 F.. Then 1t is not ALL true, Sabinus
 Sabinus No, F.; but you know, that humor and wit, are an excuse for lnven- ton; and only added little to make the tale good one.
 F.. Well, Sabinus, what part is true?
 Sdbinus The part that B. had lawsuit against B., and that F. was his attorney that F. sued B. for his fee in that case, and read his letters in evidence in the latter, which were written to him as attorney in the former, by B.. This is true. But the part that B. and B., were sitting s.cheek by jowl,n and that reading those letters pro- duced split between them; and that F--- took his judgment without further trouble, IS false. But this was getting the scene to Jeff ferson, where 1 could operate on the Sena- tor. And as to him, 1t is true that there was something said upon demurrer to one of his bank declarations about stipulated or conventional interests; (and as he had once demurred to one of my bank declarations for the same reason that was there urged against his--l was an attentive hearer,) and he was trying to ridicule something some Rock lawyer had said about conven- tional interest, which thought was an awk- ward expression. This was true but it is false that he said .'man and boy thirty-three years old, and practising attorney ill the State of Arkansas for seven years, and never heard of conventional interest before.o My comment was, that such talents ought not O be hid under bushel
 F.. If there was any wit and humor in l 1t, it might be an excuse for invention; but nothing could excuse that low hate that rankles in that comment. Hate, so low as 1 that, ought naver to be harbored by a militia " man. And 1t appears to the world as an unprovoked attack, upon young man who never injured you.
 Sabinus He has never consulted my in- terest at the expense of the State, nor even where individuals were concerned. When had gotten judgment against J. l.. for six or eight thousand dollars, he told L. that he could get uew trial, upon the ground that the jury had included in their verdict an item of something like twenty-eght hundred dollars which was due, if due at all, from J. L. as administrator, and could not be re- covered against J. l.. only; and if L's attor- nies had known how to have taken bill of exceptions, I would have lost that large sum forever. He is now managing an old and perplexing suit for l.. against me. He op- posed the Hotch-poch party, that was esab- lished at my house; he will not acknowledge that to play poker well is the first quali6ca- ton of lawyer; he will not praise the ssHymns to the Gods ; he opposes the as- signment; and says that l am not the great est man in the State of Arkansas. If all this is not just cause for dislike, then I call for a greater poet than am to explain why.
 F.. Well, Sabinus, l am no poet, and God forbid that l ever should be for poet and fool are synonymous terms with me- There is Weller, for instance: where was a finer and prettier, and more sensible young man than-he was, until he wrote that poetical Temperance address, which is superior to any thing of the kind you ever wrote? And he has been mad and ugly ever since. If were to judge, would decide that the whole of the offences you have enumerated ought never to have ''raised the nap'' of military man, further than just to have given him a little drubbing. fine will not acknowledge that to play poker well is one of the first qualifications of a lawyer, it only shows that he is unfashionable, and man of bad taste :; and as to the "Hymns to the God's,o you have paid to have them praised once, and that is sufficient; and as to the assignment, you know you say you hase yels ed the State, and ali the great men have to pull, as you pull the line. His not being directed by the l line, shows that he Is not one of the kind of men you need. That piece in the Spirit of