Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-07-25
"JUSTITIA.'

anonymous communications in other pa
 pers, but we step aside to notice one in the
 Gazette of last Saturday, signed "Jus-
 titia." The sophistry, reiteration of stock
 phrases, inuendoes, sneaking charges by inn
 plication and the utter disregard of decency and truth which characterize the communi.
 cation, point out it's author as Hessian
 writer who has become family twig.-
 We were somewhat surprised at the appear
 ance of the communication in the Gazette,
 because there is not word of condemna-
 tion in it that does not apply with equal
 force to that paper. Wetook the position that the Military Board should, at once, transfer the arms and military resources of the State to the Confederate authorities-
 We further said that the action of the Board in calling out ten regiments to rem dezvous at different points in the State was an error.
 The very head and front of our offending
 Hath this extent--nO more.'
 We were not alone in these opinions, for at the same time various presses through out the State took the same ground, and nine out of every ten, if not ninety-nine out of hundred persons, with whom we con- versed, were decided in the expression of like opinions. Our cotemporary of the Gazette has ably presented the same views, more elaborately and perhaps more forcibly than we have, and when this maligner, who calls himself "Justitia," tells the editor of the Gazette that his remarks " seem to have been dictated in a proper spirit and with due regard to the public in terests," and then proceeds to attack the True Democrat for saying the same things, he shows he is actuated by malice and spite.
 We proceed briefly to point out few counts in this declaration against us. We are told that our course has been character ized by uniformity and persistency of condemnation of the actions of the Board. This is disproved by the fact that we have found fault with the action of the Board but in two respects: the calling for ten regiments and keeping useless set of boy officers quartered upon the treasury.
 The next charge is that our motives can be explained by the fact that Rector beat the editor of this paper for Goyernor.- Such creatures as Justtia are prone to as- sign motives to others, and such motives as they would be governed by in like cir cumstances. Having no manly principle they cannot conceive of it in others. A noble, generous, or patriotic thought hay ing never affected a Judgment in their breasts, they fail to see and appreciate these qualities in others. When Justitia penned that he wrote an infamous islander. He grossly falsifies when he says that this paper has seized upon every occasion to tra- duce Rector or that 1t has been unsparing | in its censure. On the contrary, not one word of the kind has it published.
 When Arkansas seeded from the old | Union, we wished to present to the world the spectacle of great State changing its orbit without internal jar or derangement We w.shed to keep down all clements of discord and confusion. In view of the great good to be effected by the change in our confederate relations we were willing to suffer miner ills in silence. We saw the money of the people squandered; offices made the reward of political services and not of merit, ridiculous enterprises set on foot at immense cost and other things |. which. in ordinary circumstances, it would have been our duty to condemn. But for the sake of harmony and peace we were silent. It was of vital importance then, as now, that there should be no divisions among us, and after our independence was then we could examine into these abuses, and bring their authors to the bar of public opinion. Besides the discord which would have been produced by dis -ilosure of such things then, we were mind ,u' ' the fact that improper motives would D' ,a' syibutcd to us. We endeavor- 7. e -elf. of all partisan preju-
 ' ,.s. v M ,.s ' ,lings growing out of political differences sstnoa raaav to strike hands with our diresc .a
 if he would stand up for the great ".
 cause in which we are all interested Ssssal further, we were prepared to sustain Gov