Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-16
TOrOTOTIANA.

totots paper" Our space and time are very limited but these must yield on great occasions. When an intellectual giant en- ters the arena and taps the shield of him with whom he would tilt, the lesser knights are incontinently hustled out and all are agog for the desperate encounter. Before entering the lists it may be proper to set one's self right. In the first place, no challenge was given or intended. In the second, the editor of the Balance, with all his marvellous ability for seeing through millstone is wofully mistaken if he thinks he can identify the productions of Tototot. He would miss far oftener than he would hit.
 In former number of this paper the editor used the expression, Reasons are said to be plenty as blrckberries, where upon the Balance spreads itself in this fashion:
 "Can he inform who ever said that? If it was ever said, somebody said it. If anybody ever | piles it, it somebody not apt to bequoted from. But the editor thought he knew something and didn't. For authority for the qustion he tried to make and didn't, because in the connection he couldn't. refer him to Shaksperes King Henry ". act II. scene ". where he makes Fastaif say: Give you a reason compulsion. if reasons were plenty as blackberries I would giveno man a reason upon compulsion, r.
 With all due defcrence and with high appreciation of the critical ability of Mir. Kennard, Tototot submits as an answer to the question who said that: John Smith He is certain John Smith said it, and John Smiths father and perhaps, his grand father He further submits that 1t is a common saying, an old saying and often quoted Again, Remarks model hero Honest Jack Falstaff, was not the first who used the words reasons" and backber- ries" in connection. Read it thus: "Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons acere as plenty as backberries," etc. Does not Mir. Kennard see that somebody had there tofore asserted that reasons were thus abundant, and Falstaff says, if they were that plenty, still he would not give q reason upon compulsion! We must go beyond FalstaAf to find the origin of the saying, for the fat knight evidently refers to a current expression or one that had been used in the course of the conversation partly reported by Lord Bacon. Tototot writes Lord Bacon instead of Shakespeare or Shakspere or Shakespeare, whatever his name was, for it is his deliberate opionion. founded upon " rumination at his leisure" that the play CT never wrote line of his so-called plays. And on the question, whether Shaks- pere did or not write said plays, he is will ing to take that tilt. Would it not be a better subject than politics?
 Mir. Kennard further says:
 "Somehow it hurts 'Tototot's feelings that we know so much. Either that, or he is great ad- | mirer of ours''
 Hurt his feelings! Why, Mir. Kennarl how could that suspicion ever arise in your mind. Jealousy is not an infirmity of great minds like ours. The latter suppostion IS the correct one Tototot admires Kennard with genuine and hearty admiration admires his wisdom and his wit his humor and his pluck, and for logic Tototot
 gowns his skill,
 For cen when vanquished, he argue still"
 Mr. Kennard further says:
 He has several times exhibited much surprise and admiration at the manifestations of our erud- tion, and we have been expecting him to persuade Dick that would make shining light in the family, and that it would be good idea to offer us fat office, bribe of some sort, to join them.''
 Just what Tototot told Dick, and what, think you Dick said? Quoth he" That's the trouble. There are more smart men than there are fat offices. If you bribe one of these fellows, you have to keep his nose always in the trough and the trough al ways full, or he kicks up his heels and jumps the fence" Tototot fears that Mir. Johnson does not appreciate the erudltion and ability of the Balance man as highly as do either Mr. kennard or the present writer. If some justice of the peace in h. dependence county will die or resign, let Mir. K. apply to fill the vacancy and Toto tot will leg for him. That is all he can promise just now.
 So far from invading Tototot's province of knowing it all, he does not think Mr. kennard has set foot on it at all. So far from being an invader. the object was to persuade him to enter the territory. When he comes, room will be made fer him and from know nothing he shall be exalted into know something. The next point in the Balance article worthy of notice is the following:
 "If he'll deny (and prove it by responsible wit ness) that he wrote the ( Bold Cornmodore' and Consistency articles we'll admit that we don t know nothing Aha, Tototot, have we not got you there! Or is it bargain?"
 What? Prove a negative? Fie! MT. Kennard. Call up thousand men and they each and all will swear that they did not see Tototot write those articles. But that would leave the question just where it was. Will the editor of the Balance deny (and prove it by respectable witness) that he is not the man who struck Billy Patter- son? Will the editor assert that.the afore- said articles were written by Tototot and prove it by responsible witness? I reck- on not.
 Convinced that the editor of the Balance is Shaksperian scholar of whom Collier, or Verplanck, or Vandenhoff might pro6ta- bly, take lessons, 1 desire to ask him a question: Does he believe that William Shakspere, the player, wrote either of the plays that are called his? Twice now, once in matter of the name of Benedict and again in the blackberry affair, the Balance man has traced the thing to Shakspere's plays and foored his opponent, as he thought, with quotations therefrom. He Al. l..