Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-05-11
.Mal0S02 HAaas alOs9 Il
 April Z9tbx 1859.

t,- .92@AS A aEDfTons oF-srnf ,Nhqk .DEnbcsar4-asuoH Sae n n ss ss0alf s0alf paper of eth published aibriefi adswhat appeared tome to be a perfectly ainoffensive card, giving a -N si40Slsft 1T Fl 70 fstt'7 my reaso'a (lnlangnaga as modest as I could command for resigning the office of re- ceiver of public moneys for tbis land dis 1 trict
 In that card l simply stated that feel ings of so unkind character existed be- tween Mir. Moss and myself, as made me unwilling to serve as his colleague, with out Tn the least intimating who was to blame tor the existence of such unpleasant feelings.
 Dat Mir Moss, we'll knowing upon whom rests the responsibility of the difficulty be- tween us, much as he pretends to dread a newspaper controversy, and fears to engen- der bad feelings in the democratic party, ieeis called upon to make lengthy response to my brief publication. He and myself are alike too unimportant and undistin- gulshed for our private bickerings to dis turb Tn the least, the peace and harmony Of the democratic party, even of our little village, and plain unpreiudiced statement on his part of the occurrences that led to the unkind feelings between us, would have obvlated all danger of newspaper contro- versy with me-
 Mr. Moss states in his response to my card, that he was appointed register of the land office at this place sometime in June last, and that he and myself got along kindly and pleasantly in our official rela- tions, until about the 26th of December. at which time Ae learned an effort was being made to remove him. since which time. al though he still entertained kind feelings for me, in our official intercourse, I treated him harshly.
 He says he called upon me on the 1st day of January, in a mild and pleasant manner, and as he supposed, in the line of his duty, and asked to count the public funds in my hands, to which polite and req sonable request, I returned an angry and insulting refusal
 Now is there man in the State who knows or ever saw me who can believe for and instant that | would return an angry an insulting answer to polite and legiti- mate request?
 The assertion Is simply ridiculous, and to prove its absurdity, it is only necessary to mention the fact that served as receiver four years with pr. B. P. Jett as register, and 1 look back with unaffected pleasure upon our official intercourse; he is a gen tleman, and feel Indebted to him for many acts of official knowledge and courtesy, and l can confidently appeal to him to sus- tain me in the assertion, that he always found me ready to yield prompt, polite and cheerful obedience to all the require ments of my office
 Between Col. H. P. Johnson and my self, the same uninterrupted kind feelings existed during the twelve months or more he acted as register. The truth of the whole matter is simply this: within two or three days after the expiration of each month during the time Mir. Moss has been in office, as soon as l could make the neces- sary calculations, l made out statement of the amount of public moneys in my hands and repaired with it to his office, and requested him to verify it by his cer- tifcates as was my duty to do.
 Mr. Moss knew at such times that it was both his privilege and duty to examine the public funds in my hands, but enter taining for me Mese kind feelings, and hay ing as l supposed confidence in my honesty and integrity he omitted to perform this part of his official duty, which after the 26th of December, (the time he learned an effort was being made to remove him) be- came so important and imperative in his eyes as to make him entirely disregard the courtesy due from one gentleman to ano- ther. And on the lst day of January, be- fore 1 had made out any abstract of the sales of lands for December, or any calcu- lation of the amount of money that had been received-before l had made my monthly statement for the use of the go- vernment, or asked his certificate to verify it, he accosted me on the street, (and not in the mild and pleasant way by which he speaks but in peremptory manner, de- manded my safe key.
 Believing then, as I do now, that Mr. Moss pursued this very unusual course from no wish to perform his official duty, | (for he knew an opportunity would be of fered him in day or two to do so) but with a view to insult me, 1 returned to this ill-timed request a prompt, angry and in sulting refusal, informing him in language neither kind or courteous if he were re- tained in office, l would resign, just the reply Mr. Moss expected and desired from me.
 NIr. Moss very well knows up to that time l always yielded cheerful compliance to any courteous or reasonable request he ever made of me, connected with our off cial business.
 Mir. Moss asserts that the assumption that he was opposed to MT. Sebastian re- election is wholly untrue.
 Although the position of any man in re- gard to that gentleman election has ceased to be matter of importance to any body, Gas in his self satisfed feelings engendered by his success he has long ere this forgiyen his enemies, and forgotten his friends, but