The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-21
AN ARKANSAS HERO.

Some three or four years after the adj
mission of Arkansas injO the Union. a
young man, whom we shall call Arthur
Granger, a native of Ohio, went to Little
Rock, to set up the practice of law. He
was then about twenty-three years Of age,
small, slender and etfeminate looking,
with light hair, almost beardless face, and
dark blue eyes. His dress, though not
exactly foppish, was altogether too fine,
neat and precise to suit the taste of men
who always seemed prepared for roughing
it in the backwOOds, as most of them had
done at one time and another; and he
was, moreover, stranger from the North,
who had perhaps come there to display
his learning and pick up their money; so
that, from the very first, he was regarded
with suspicion, aversion and contempt.
The first six or eight months he got no
practice whatever, Notwithstanding he was
regularly at his office, or the courtroom,
watching, waiting and hoping; and he
was about to give up in despair, and be-
take himself to another locality, when one
day, tall, lank individual came shuffiing
into bis apartment, and, after surveying
him keenly from head to foot, said, as he
helped himself to a seat:
"See here, young hop thumb, is there
anything in you?''
eyes - inS breakfast replied the
with a. quiet smile.
} Tile other >NtareQ at him a few moments
and seAned undetermined whether to con-
sHSC&Neply a joke or an insult He
grinMed at it and proceeded:
81 mean, do you know anything:"
"Oh, yes, something" answered the
lawyer, pleasantly. 81 know the differ
eAce between chalk and cheese "a horse
and>a horse-block.'
"Can you write?"
Il have written my name before now"
The stranger drew a newspaper from
his pocket, opened it deliberately, pointed
out al article, handed it to the Young
man, and said:
Read that" "
- Aloud?'
Yes"
The young lawyer complied ana read h
TRADE, of the most scand.lous and
scathing nature, against one Miles Greg
ory, the Democratic candidate for the
State Legislature
"Well," demanded the stranger, when
he had finished the article. "what do you
think of that?"
" 1t is pretty severe"
"I believe you. DO you 'Spect thars IS
another man in the State of Arkansas that
can write as scorching thing agin the
Whig candidate?"
eff there We're facts to justify it,
doubt not such an article might be pro-
duced,," replied the young lawyer.
''TOthunder with your facts " cried
the stranger excitedly; facts ha'nt moth
ing to do with politics; thar's no facts in
that; its all lies, from beginning to end.
Pm Miles Gregory, and l ought to know.
Ill give fifty dollars to anybody that II
write as savage as that thing agi'n Joe
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"When do you want it,"
NOw-to-day.
without regard to tacts?''
"They han'r got nothing to do with it,
l tell you
&Very well, if you can call in couple
of hours, I will show .you something to
match it,
eff you'll do it or the half On't," said
!, Miles Gregory, ssing to leave, "Ill pu,
you in the way of making Il fortune"
He. went out and returned at the ap.
pointed time, and the young lawyer had
the article ready. Without descending as
low as the model in vulgar epithets, il
was even more terrible in its whitening
sarcasm. Gregory could scarcely contain
himself while the young lawyer was read.
ing it. and as soon as he had done he
bounded from his seat with yell of tri.
umph, and seiZing the delicate little hand
of the writer, almost crushed it between
his great bony fingers.
"You've done it, young man, he cried
with an oath, "and you'll soon have some.
thing better to do than sit here staring al
blank walls. Here's your money-the
only difference is, I've concluded to make
it hundred instead of fifty-but that.
my business, so none of your nonsense. ,
He rushed out with triumphant laugh
leaving the young lawyer to ruminate upo1
bis first fee, and the possible consequence
of becoming conspicuous individual i1
that fighting region.
The next week the article appeared il
the Democratic paper, and created grea
sensation. One political party was de-
lighted, and the other chagrined. Wht
was the author? Nobody knew. Tn,
quid mumcs were puzzled. Every know
writer's style was duly considered, bu
something in the article differed from each
Could it be that new Junius had com
among them? The Democrats were anx
ions to find out, to do honor to their cham
pion; and the Wings, that they might con
trive way to silence him. Nobody sus
pected the beardless lawyer. In fact,
he had openly avowed it, the chances wer
that he would have been kicked for boast
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