Washington telegraph., 1859-03-16
IEor Ms Warrington Teisgreph.

-nF. EutoF. u snOrtstlme slDCe L ach-
cd leave to trespass upon. your patience
and dignity as a journalist, to respond
through the columns of your paper to
communication which appeared in the
iSouh Arkansas Democrat, over the sig
nature Of +" Justice" the tenor of which
communication was, rs far as | was able
to judge, to uphold Capt. Moss for his
preference for Hampstead for U. 5. Sen
ator instead Of Sebastian, as well as to
stigmatize the power that brought about,
Or sought to bring about, his removal. ]
must beg of you similar indulgence for
the present occasion.
While. as remarked before, l believe
that Capt. Moss was justifable ~ such
preference, if be sincerely believed the
object of his choice filed the desired bill,
I'still avow the fact that the reasons set
forth by Justice, in vindication of such
choice, are utterly futile and ground!ess,
and'place the perSon, whom they were
intended to defend, in a much more
awkward, laushable and ridiculous posi-
ton than if no reason at all had even been
offered. This was my main position. Aud
| venture the assertion that every calm and
unprejudiced reader of the article alluded
to, will bear me out in the belief. But il;
seems that Justice, by his utter silence,
has either admitted the iucouIroyertibie
points Of the response, or has more philo
sophieally concluded TO treat it with
silent contempt; unless the editor him
self be the said Justice, for | see from a
recent issue. Of his paper, that he has
taken the remarks contained in the article
in high dudgron," and veutured re-
ply, which he a. would not have felt called
upon to do, but for the attempted justif-
cation of this Yeritas, of those wire
workers aud schemcrs, who were eudeg yor-
ing to remove Capt. Moss from the Reg
ister's Office in this place." &c, &c.
whilst he, at the same time, most eyre
siyusly betrays himself by converting at
least QUE. halt Uf his editorial iutO TRADE
of vituperation and abuse, in trying to
refutc propositions that were never dream-
ed of, aud much less asserted and even
in distorting tie meaning Of thvse thar
were asserted. All this he does before
he touches the ayowed subject uf his scar
ri.ous editorial. Notwithstanding q. JgiI-
ed 10 eSejfe his surprise IN He feuAf, ar lo
disturb H,e eqaaH.Isity gf his tsmFss."
What Z pity he could not maintain
throughout 50 short au editorial that pAi.J
>Uphicll calniHcss and s;Yic Indifference.
which he - ,auHtiugly and ial.sciuusiy
assumed irt5e outset! And even when
he finally reaches bis subject, he leaves
| It invested with that degree uf satisfiic-
ton aud transparency Is did the ihimJt1-
bic " Justice - So much 50 that VIC are
I forced t. believe tlzt II they are not
| identicslly the same, they are pulcmis,s
Of the same school. IL prove the cor
rectuCss Of his Tciuiati0u vi some Of NV
! former lfgumeuts-OT rather the false pO-
sitiun in which he has placed them ia or
der to combat ttem-listen for a moment
to his statements: - I.siiIs GSsABitS Iat
| "a tie absence II all oHer cGgscs, Mc
friends of Nr. .SeJ1stiaR lgerc j,..hfei
ia dsmua,iiHg the remoU0t IF .Nr. .l,,s
Jor his 'sdyposed' preference cJ' aHofler.
egeA Though that other IraS Qa aCLAOtci-
s,Lyed, true and JJiikjRt D,m5rra' at nn-
QUESTIONED jatey.iiy dAd Aigh Dr,i,r of
faisai; Jo,. reus0as Aud !gr. Hampstead
succeeded" DC.
Did Veritas ever Intimate that Sebas-
tian's friends were the cause Of Captain
Moss remoyall Can aug one, from an
impartial perusal oi the communication.
reasonably iuter any such an ideag No
one can save hun whose mind IS 50 warp
cd with passion, that he Is determined to
vent his ire for some imagiucry wrong
not being able to detect one where he
hoped it really existed. In the first place
| assert that Sebastian. would have proved
very duh and stupid indeed, not to have
known the extent of the opposition man.
ifested tOTard his re election by the divers
newspapers Of the State, without infurna.
tiun on the part ut hIs irieuds-as multi
iaFious and virulent as that opposition
was, too Then | hold that Sebastian
wanted neither advice nor information
from his friends to learn that he had been
re. elected by the Legislature of Arkansas.
rejecting the will ui the voting popula-
tion of sovereign State, that is 5y an
overwhelming majority democra;ic-rc-
elected in opposition to the influence Of
various Journals throughout the State,
rs well as to that Of their friends aud con-
tribu;ors, some Of whom were then hold
ing federal Offices, probably at his will
Journals, too, many of whom from the re-
suit Of their undivided efforts in this in
stance, have justly won ior themselves the
denomination of petty. So | bitterly
deny that Sebasiian's friends urged or
even desired the removal of Capt Moss,
at least as far us know, but assert that
it was done, if done at all, of his own
free will aud choice. And further d, ny
that / asserted, or intended to convey the
idea, as the editor of the South Arkansas
Democrat avows, that such removal was
effected upon the grounds that had