The true Democrat., 1856-10-28
The Villains Attempt.

It seems that the miserable autoaQgtOn of a being who occupies in a nominal manner the editorial tripod of the Gazette & Democrat is still dissatisfied with us and our paper and very plainly manifests his dissatisfaction by sending forth mean, low, base fabrication of fase- hoods and m!srepresentations, the production of some one or two of his white ivered mini ons, evidently for the purpose of inuring us and II possible to cripple the weight of our paper This baseless fabric" of an article ap- pears Tn the shape of a correspondence and pur- ports to be the composition of an inofensve boy whose situation is that of an apprentice in the office of the Washington Telegraph-a youth for whom we entertained the kindest feelings and to whom we accorded the gift. of good sense until he permitted his name to be used in places where it has suffered from the using. And we would suggest to him and those who have the control of him, that if he wishes to preserve paSsable reputation it would be well for him and them, that they | prohibit the very indiscrminate use of his ini- tlals In the columns of a newspaper at least to our derogation-and for other reasons. not to be mentioned here.
 | We are falsely charged with approprating and claiming as our own, that tUL,ich tCe neUer dtd nor do ,Ce now claim, when correctly understood. Sometime ln the latter part of the month of August we prepared rehash upon the spirit of Reorganization of the present day from two articles, one from De Bows Review of October 1855, upon similar subject, the other from the pen of distinguished whig writer we'll known to the people of this State-our atten- ton being called to the latter by friend who remarked that the article suited the spirit of later day. In the body of our compiled art- cle we made about the following acknowledg- ment:
 | We gather these sentiments from sources of acknowledged ability, the one from an able edi- torlal article in former number of the Arkan- sas Wing, which was written with almost a prophetic sense of the future, and from an ar ticle upon a similar subject in De Bows Review for October 1855.
 This article was deposited in the office and directed to be set up in bourgeois type, smaller size type than that in which our editorial has ever, with but one or two unimportant excep- tions appeared, and the article was intend ed when prepared to appear upon the first page of the paper. Shortly afterwards we were taken sick as evidenced by an editorial notice of our associate in the paper previous to the one which contains the article in question; and during our sickness and consequent absence from the office the article was not put in type. Being in the q was made for "copy." As we were about leaving town we presented the article in ques- ton to be set up, aoittom the extracts from the Review, which were originally designed to ac- company 1t, as they were too lengthy for the space then left We did not read the proof sheets of that weeks issue, and our attention was never directly or otherwise called to the mutilated article until by the unjust charge in the Gazette X Democrat. We turn to the pa- per and there to our astonshment is the piece shorn ot the most important part, which con- talned our acknowledgement The article was on detached pieces of paper and this we pre- sume accounts for the loss of portion of it.. We regret the circumstances. As to being com plimented and lionized, as the author of the article, this is only the smallest He which ap- pears in the whole tissue hurled at us. No such compliment came to our ears for we were absent from town for sometime after wards.
 Now that we have explained ourself we propose to deal for awhile as gently as the cir cumstances will permit with this vllainous attempt to injure us. Look at it, all ye who admire fair, open combat, and tell us whether John A. Murell ever concocted midnight scheme oi atrocity with more adroitness An individual is stung with what we have hereto iole "IltIeh coucerhlnS nm. lie harDorS the revenge of midnight assassin. Lurking in ambush, he watches his opportunity. When it Is found he turns loose some of his mon- grel crew to bark at our heels-he keeps him. self behind, aud whinningly, but very prudenty tells his mou'hpiece to be b1ef in his barkings. Did ever the prowling thief who watches be- hind corners to filch away some exposed article of property resort to such mode of securing his object? And yet that self-same thief is more honorable in spirit than the wretch whose desire to injure Us has manifested itself in the columns of the Gazette & Democrat.
 But we entreat all to read the two pieces which he publishes in parallel columns, con- pare them and then read the veritable article which appeared in OUT columns; what gross fal- shcatons, and Mievishness too-the concocter ol } that dark device to njure us is surely an ! adept at lying and stealing, and whoever he is we venture the assertion that this self-same in- dvdual has learned to love" dark deeds, be. cause much of his life has doubtless been spen, , in concocting them. And now that we have
 vindicated ourself, we are determined at al ' hazards to defend the rectitude of our conduct when assailed, in becoming manner.