Washington telegraph., 1853-06-29

CONSIDER, 1t +; and from such view of il We
can't be forced or tempted away. by the
Governor, or his organ, to give it either a
personal coloring, or political cast. Upon
1t, as the issue, we have arraigned the Gov
ernor for trial, before the people. for abusing
the power they entrusted him with, bv sac.
rlficlDg their rights and Interests to crafty
the feelings, of himself or his personal
friends and relations. To this we hold him
and, upon him, on this issue, we ask the
JUDGMENT of the people,
10 return. then, to the charges AGAINST
the Governor. from which we have been
brushing away the cobwebs of false issues
personalities, and politics, with which he
has sought to obscure their point and break
their force
lst He has failed, aud still refuses to call
an extra session of the Legislature, when
the people, with unexampled unanimitv.
have demanded, and still demand it.
In this, which is not denied. we repeat.
he has treated the people with contempt
for he has not only been deaf to their calls !;
but he has been dumb, in the wav of ex-
planning to them why he refused to comply
with their wishes
And his refusal to speak out. and satisfy
the people of Arkansas with reasons, if be
have any beyond his own selfish purposes,
derives peculiar significance, and the more
importance, from the fact that he is repor,
ed to have given reasons-and satisfactory
ones-to people from another State, for his
failure and refusal TO comply with the wishes
of the people of his own State. OF the char
acter OF these reasons, we are not fully in
formed. The most we can find out about
them, is contained in the following paragraph
which we find in a report made to the Nav
or and Aldermen of Memphis, by Mcss;.s
Williamson and Porter, two gentlemen OF
that place, who. short time since, visited
this city to induce The Governor to c;ll a
session of the Legislature, &c. In report
ing the result of their interview with the
Governor they say:
"For reasons which were entirely satisGlc-
tory to us, we became convinced that an i'm
mediate call Of the Legislature would be
inexpedient; among the most prom nent OF
which was the fact. that his Exccllency iu
his late message to the Leais!a .ure then in
session, had invited action upon the very
measures, for which an extra session is now
mainly desired. A call upon thai body now
by an extra session to do what they had so
recently declined. was, to say the least OF it,
deemed premature.
How far this may. in the end, turn out TO
be true, as regards either The satisfactory"
character of The reasons" even TO the gen
tlemen themselves who so report, or the gen
eral success of that embassy from Menphis,
we cannot now fully Enow, and will not, un-
i'll better informed, undertake 70 pronounce
decided opinion; but. from private lei
Ter we have received on this subject, which
we may publish this week or next, we much
doubt whether their Report. as published,
gives fair and candid version OF the rca;
opinions and feelings of The gentlemen whose
names are subscribed to it. 1t may turn
out, that, finding the Governor dressed in
a iiitle brief authority" which, if not fat
tered, might be turned 10 the disadvantag &c
OF their mission, they deemed it prudent,
for The time, to ''make the worse appear the
better reason" We shall see.
But, whether this be so or not, does it not
seem strange that, while, with he Governor,
reasons were plenty as blackberlies," and
given abundantly, and satisfactorily to
persons from another State he yet fails and
refuses to give any reasons at all, OF even to
talk patiently, to the people Of his own
State, upon subject so deeply affecting
their interests? Then, apart fom this con-
sidcration, the only reason which is disc!os-
ed. and that one declared 20 have been
'among the most prominent he gave, seems
to us a very extraordinary one. especially
to come from man who claims to be DEM
0cra6. Turn back to The paragraph we
copied from the Memphis Report, and it is
seen to be that The Legislature, at the last
session, refused to adopt some policy which
{" His Excelency" had recommended =
Just think of this which means, il it
means anything, that because be could not
persuade the Legislature, last winter tc
adopt his pozicy. nor force them to register
his decrees be is determined, now, TO sho"
his po,rer, by refusing to convene them
again, so as to prevent .heir doing anything
at ali; however much fhe people may desire
or however loudly and unanimously they
NAV demand it, Doubtless, Ills Iixcelien
cv'' had otser reasons. and gave them to the
Memphis embassy. We have no DOUBT o
it. But, as this is the only one disclosed
as vet, through his organ, we limit our re-
marks to it, for the present; reservlng The
discovery and suggestion OF others, and oul
comments upon them, for the iuture. II
the mean time, by way of suggesting sub
iect for reflection to them, we inquire OF oul
democratic readers what they think OF thu
reason of the Governor? what of his democ
racy, as its author
We come now TO our End charge agalns
the Governor, which, on account OF the
lenotb to which this article has already run
we must abbreviate more than we coei'
wish; but, we trust, on account Oh It's in