The Van Buren press., 1860-01-06
For Ike yau Buren, Press.
VAN buren,, Dec. 81, 1859.


Mr. EDIrcR: II Ihaye breath sufficient,
after reading the matchless reply OF Gar
Creek, will attempt to answer his very IN
genious arguments and Enthusiastically cor
/ rect statement OF facts.
/ / rely too much upon the intelligence OF
the readers of the Press, to apprehend that
Gar Creek can successfully place me in
f false position. With his mere personali-
ties / shall not deal he is not the man
whom should like to excite to anger, his
f bon suaue, and hints about chivalry,' and
: his "ca,d'' are alarming indications,
and l cannot but take the warning -
, AS to receiving his Z" card" l cannot be
| trapped SO easy after getting possession
, of that valuable document | might find 1t
to be one of the devils own pack. That
"card'' might be decoy duck to get me
"sons of chivalry," and have never eaten
fire. l must beg to be excused from involv-
: ing myself in personality with such fe-
, rocious customer AS Gar Creek and now
beg him to consider that l did not mean
anything personal in my former article and
do not mean anything personal in anything
l shall say in this.
Gar Greek mixes my humble self up
with his other adversaries. have nothing to
do with his CONTROVERSY with Z IL g., b. r.
. and L. B.. or witlf<hat of any of the Bee
family which his g aulous propensties may
involve him. Acce&iing to his own bulle-
tin, he has used up that unfortunate trio of
scribblers but why call upon me to help
bury his dead. 1t should be the nielan-
chcly task of himself. the victor to gather
up the mortal remains of his slain, erect
one grand pyrc and consume them at a sim
gle autodafe l shall dismiss all that part
Of his article, and for brevity's sake, con-
fine myself to his remarks and misrepre-
sentations of myself.
plead guilty of being harsh i'll my Ian
guage in the first charge that excited Gar
Creek. l said it was " Il cowardly attack"
i, for an anonymous scrib!er to attack a gem
, tlcman who was engaged in controversy
over his responsible name. In this | wa,
too harsh and might~havc called it inaprop-
, er coad1ct or unkiAd, or used some other
. phrase equally good natured, and the fact
would still have remained the same. But
Gar Creek makes illogical attempt to in
volve me i'll the same kind of ofense. But
the difference is this. He, an anonymous
scri5ler attacks a gentleman who is ergag-
ed, over his responsible name, i'll a contro.
versy with third party. He gave him the
lie, and made himself ridiculous. l. it is
true, over an assumed name charged Gan
. Creek, another assumed name, with having
made cowarlly attack, He was hidden
behind his assumed name when he attacked
and he was still hill in the same manner,
when [ charged him with his unfairness
The cases are not similar ; we both had
the advantage of assumed names, and were
upon equal grounds but there was no
. equality when you attacked Messrs. Petit
grew d. DouIinot. Gar Creeks comm ents
upon myself are simply little plagiarism
my former remarks which were applicable
TO him not to myself. He lectures me up
on the '' rules OF courtesy" with all the
vehemence of a proselyte and seems to APP
: prcciatc the lesson taught him by his old
adversary, l.. b. In TACT all of that sar-
casm which l.. b. ddalt $50 literally upon
him, he in turn applies to my case which is
unlike his own.
Gar Creek is unfcelngly severe upon
your humble correspondent when he says
, that az Col. Ill. cannot possibly survive youl
(my) opposition, for one great man (and
Haversack is evidently great one intluen-
ces many others" Now, that was the un-
i, kindest cut of ALL for it is well known that
there is but one 'E great man. in all West
ern Arkansas, which Is Gar Creek and who
, will brook no rivalry. He is great man
4 Governor in expectancy, or an embryo
Congressman, but he exhibits rather toe
much impatience to thrust his greatness up.
on the ,,ov. pcvpiv as one oi that unprc
tending class l advise him to &c wait fol
E the wagon
+ Gar Creek wants to know how 1 car
make an issue between d. B. and Col. ii
when the former made charges and the lat,
r ter did not deny them. l have already re-
ferred to q. C's impaticnce. 1t was the
o duty of all other parties to wait and see il
, Col. III. did deny them. Had HE waite
long enough he would have seen the denial
and had lie been little more patient h,
r would have seen the proof Notwithstanding.
that denial. Gar Creek asks me to cnligh;
en- him of the facts of the charge agans
Col. Hiin,lnan. If he is still ignoran
I (Which presume he is not) | have only tc
G refer him to two facts namely that tn,
Niator manuscript III Hindman's hand wr
h ting has been exhibited in this place to thu
citizens. who with one acclaim pronounce
$ Z. & BIS charge undoubtedly established
another. which is a matter of record. tn,
h certificate of thirty-fvc honorable and in
S telligcnt gentlemen of Fayetteville, whicl
e was published in the Arkansian of the %,
v INST If he wants more evidence than tina
4 fear that he can never be convinced, or i
t he is, it will be against his will Bat thi
t may be a gratuitous fntimation which rs
r spectinlly take LAD as Gar Creek ha
4 frankly defined his Position, and has sal,
5 he shall not again offer one word in his de
t tense if the charges are proven.
| feel very much hatterel by Gar Greek
Endorsement Of my humble merits, he say
under certain circumstances, l would max
respectable and worthy opponent
n Coming from such distinguished source
l cannot, fear, place a proper value upol
the compliment and as to his cordescen
: sion in Offering to make my acquaintance
= Is truly noble, and | have no doubt, his pat