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h my last resninAce, brief al.uSioa was made 10 woodruf's eGob supersedc Gov. Drew for a second term, andkmpose the noaSrioss bank peculstor. TAoFatoNn the Peonp1S of Arkansas as their Chief Magic.
 Instead of my otTecollee.ions ihis week, shall present to yoNaders passage in Arksn- sas political histosyhs will be new to many of the citizens of tue k. It is from the pen Of Maj. Borland, and Sblts ,ha, vigorous case and caustie force of eIk ksion that characterize the Majors style. I, extract from the greeting the ''Democrat' ed from ihe Major on the appearance of its Snumber,
 TSe history of Vkruas peraay ;o inc demo- cratic party by the of the Gazette to the whieS m ls42, will hew.o many democrats who have emigrated to {Siae since that period.- And the sketch cts jfaieotion IS peculiarly spreprs after the blukngln the las; '' Democrat:"
 " It is customarSih editors, and i, usually affords ss pleasure welcome all accsSslons to The number Of the twSaper press; but ia this instance we are ud de to say wt leone 10 -Nr Ws04yltf or wish hsaeceSs "a his undertaking And nokpny so, b las democrats, and honorable me le7w C feel requi To declare that he IS seek ing to impose himSf flpol The people. under false c0!oEs, and with 4unded pFetensionS, for the unfair, unhallowe And disreputable purpose of pEaGTiRg Co the dsfiOn aR9 GdpaneiRg uas poht!eaI forl z.es of s,ng Siridust, ty forming Gn ali aRee ef portion stSs GeARoerats scitA tkr trhgs: and thus, regafasd of the union sad integrity of the u euocratic pS. striking an InSidIouS, but if successful, most fti Alow, at it's continued as ceRdsney n thlS 9e."
 
 "In isl2 km Woodruff, then proprietor and publisher ul the tfksnsaS Gazette the only oenocta,ic paper he State, sold Il 10 the WHIcs; aItbougk good adtppss.t!e assaocrats efeYs3, Gaf urged hAs 70 tEee, ssMe price and ihe sssae terms lcAic. E.. sci.hin 9Hers tAree days. accepted Gn3 reeeirea firm he sfS We have this from the bes, authority. By hi shSaeton, the democratic party was left withou hpef ln the State; and placed, as was then beiet, and e1u;ingiy proclaimed by the whigs. sthnercX of 'he whlg party
 (" If vt ing ire kt the motive which impelled him to the pepetrtn tn of such an act, we find, m the circupStano Sf he case, and from hs stcn deeLsrgiIsn, GbSeqklty, and recently made, that REvzNsE vi the dtve-rerenge against the dem oeraic paFy. whiS lad nuItured and sustained him, aud iven kluEie very means which he now used the irst opp1lnity b turn agaiaS; it-aS the ungra,eEl viper q Is itself of the first acquired strength to stiugts generous bosom that had warrnefit into Id Revenge-aye, rerenge! be- cause fdelnocrat Legislature refused to violate their clicial oa,h3mpose tax upon an impov- erisLe people, adrob an exhausted. tIeasury-for what Why, forhthng more nor less, in the frs. place than 10 givIEm. E. WoO3rLf the sum of TuR, THOUSAND nLARs IN SPECIE, over and above hIs ;puisted Sals ol S1t1, f0r oae yesr's ser rres. as Tfeasurebf the State; and ia the second plee. 10 pay Aaa. exorbi'au; price for the pub iapgin,ing, wb-1iel could for they didl have it eecutsd at reaSabie price, by another priniet."
 
 "In ls42, acdding to his own statement. he Woodruff was $edlced and embarrassed in his pecuniary stTais4hat ae was wholly unable to conduct long esblished, and hberally patron lzed paper unls the Legislature would grant hiTn oat of ihe IDllc money, the enormous totsstg of sereral fA0tssa dollars But, now, Siih pc cuniary agairs st, according to hs own account, even mote redlBd and embatraSSed-and with the judgment sfhe court. for hts al'udg,d de- falcst.sn of S3in, still hanging over him, he has abundant mean without Legislative boUniy, not only to establlfh newspaper Of his own; but b offer 8, ,00O fo. J whig papef-;he 'Gszetter' the same price be felved from the wings, and the same paper hesss them, in is42."
 "Thisbrefketch of the self-styled, but spurious 3cmocfscy ufBs. E. WooiruF, we submit 10 the "a Hdid eonykanon of our rcaders-and especially ot all gcCS democrats, as presenting some of the reasons wiE. Ee ws,Lhoid oat welcome and gooi V iShes from bs undertaking, and denounee t as anti demochA dlsorganizing, and disienorabie." The above te random selections from a rich mine, and, alangh far specimens, hope to fur n,sh your reads with others Of sgpsri0r attraction, obtained from same depository. That accom- plIshed, shalhve occasion 10 refer to records of ! still earlier de in the history of Arkansas,
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