The Arkansas banner., 1846-03-18

- Plco Ao' ". Dut ny EemonStrances were
 unavalling. They were afraid of the respop-
 siolllty of opposing the resolutions offered
 by the wings, and which it was plain to he seen, were only intended for Bunconbe. and
 the resolutions were passed, that the public
 printing be given to the lowest bidder. re- qulrlng good security, Be. Another argu- ment which used, and which ought to have
 had It's due weight, was, that there was only one other press here besides mine, and that the proprietor of it had neither the necessary materials to do the work promptly, nor the stock nor the means of procuring it, to do It on-and that It was giving one who was notorlously unable to do the work, as prompt-
 y as It ought to be executed. an equal chance With one who had, at heavy expense, bro- Vlded ample materials, stock, and workmep. to execute it with despatch. It was a notori- ous fact, that Mir. Colby, the publisher of the Advocate, had not printed a single number oi hIs paper, for more than six months pre- yious, except on paper which he purchased from me, and could seldom raise the means, as he frequently told me, to get two weeks supply at time, and he was in no better con- dltlon at that tme do not mention this in dlsparagement of MT. Coby-for it was not
 is fault, but his mslortune-but to show the injustice with which was treated by my party.
 After the resolutions were passed, reouir- Ing bids, told my political friends that could no longer do the work, unless could get prices that would afford me a fair profit, and that should submit proposals accord ingly. l accordingly, at good deal of hou- ble, made out detailed tariff of the prices at which l would do the work required. and proffered any security that could be required for its faithful execution, &c. The prices proposed by me, were such as only afforded me a reasonable profit and re- muneration for the labor, expenses and risk required. The result was as anticipated Mr. Coby's bid was greatly lower than mine So low that 1 would not have taken it off his hands at an advance of 25 per cent. Sev- eral of my friends then proposed that would consent to do the work at the prices offered by Mr. Colby. This promptly refused. The consequence was, Mir. Coby's bid was accepted. This was for executing the print ing required during the session-not for printing the Acts and Journals
 Previous to the acceptance of his bid, the printing for both Houses was executed at my office, and was done promptly. The same day q believe) on which his bid was accept ed, several bills were sent to him to print which could have been executed at my office and laid on the members tables the next morning. He had no paper to print on, and there was but little in town for sale except what had, (and that l procured for my own printng-notl sell J, and his office was sadly deficient in many of the othernecessary means for doing the work promptly. Several days elapsed, during which one or both Houses were lying on thelr oars, waiting for the bills. A committee was then required to inquire into the cause of the delay. do not know what their report was, but the bills ordered were delivered the next mornlng-but, in the meantime, the Legislature had been waiting for them near a week, at an expense of more than one thousand dollars to the State-a larger sum, probably, than all the printing executed by Mir. Colby amounted to during the session.
 This was the consequence of the short sighted policy of the democrats in.combin- ing with the whigs for ioae prices, and re- suited in its costing the people more than double he price it would have cost had my bid been accepted.
 At the same session, had submitted a me- morial, to be relieved from the alleged de- falcation reported against me by the Legisla ture in 1887, (the injustice of which l ex- plained in last week Banner), and on which suit had been instituted against me. l saw no signs of its meeting with favor from any very large proportion of the democrals-the others being too tender.footed to afford me any relief 1 therefore abandoned all hope of relief from the Legislature, and expected nothing short of having to sacrifice my pro- perty to pay that unrghteous claim before an- other session of the Legislature.
 So soon as I made the discovery that there was no hope of my receiving any faror at the hands of the Legislature, of which had ample evidence in its refusal to give me tIie printing or to notice my memo rial for relief, saw that could not sustain myself, and that l must sell ont my printing establishment, or involve myself in irretriev- able ruin, which l think no reasonable man would expect me to do. My determination was taken at once and without consultation with any one. It was to sell out my print ing establishment, and to seek some other means of supporting my family. fixed my price at S6O00-$l000 to be paid i'll specie, and the residue of S5000, to be assumed for me in the Real Estate Bank, and my notes for that amount taken up and cancelled l proclaimed my determination publicly, and notified every democrat l saw, that was in earnest-and stated, moreover, that, notwlth- standing the democratic party had treated me so illibcrally, would give that party the prcferencc, if they would accede to the terms mentioned above but that, sell would, if l could find purchaser A good many could not be made to believe me In earnest-they thought me so devoted to the party, and opposed to the wings, that l would sacrifice every thing and even beggar my family, rather than sell out. Only lew showed a disposition to aid me, and they had not the means; and l will mention, as an act of justice to F. N. CONWAY, Esq, Auditor of the State, that he was the only of- fce-holder who really seemed disposed toI render me such aid as might have prevented me from selling He proposed to raise' by subscription, the amount oi the claim