The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-04-15
AN ARKANSAS HERO.

some tnroe Or-lOur, wears n1tcr I'll
admission of Askansas into the Tn
ion, young man, whom we shall cal
Arthur Granger, native of Ohio
went to Little Rock to set up tn
practice of law. He was then abou
three and twenty years of age, smal
slender and effeminate looking, wit
light hair, almost bcardless face an,
dark blue eyes. His dress tboug
not entirely foppish, was altogethe
too fine, neat, and precise, to suit th
taste OF men who always seemed pre-
pared for roughingit in the backwoo,
as most Of them had done Mt one tim
and another, he was moreover, stran
ger from the North, who had psrhap
come there to display his learning an,
pick mp their money, so that fror
the very first he was regarded wit
contempt and aversion.
The first six or eight months h
got no practice whatever, notwth
standing he was regularly at thei
Office, or the court room. waiting ant
hoping: he was about to give up il
despair, and betalie himself to anotli
er locality, when one dav a tall, lanl
individual came scufIling into hi
apartment. and after surveying hin
kecnlv from head to foot, said, us h,
helped himself to q scat:
"Sec here. Young hop thumb, il
there anything in you?
ayes, my breakfast replied th'
young lawyer.
The other stared at him q lew mo
ments and seemed undetermined
whether to consider the reply n JOKE
or an insult lie finally grinncd ant
proceeded:
Il mean do you know anythine9
"Oh, yes, something" swerct
tho lawyer pleasantly. L know the
difference between q horse and :
horse block ....
"Can You writer
~ have wrote my name before now
The stranger drew a newspaper
from his pocket, opened it deliberate
~, pointed out an article, handed il
to the young man, aud then said;
"Read that!
"Aloud2"
"Ycs''
The young man complied, and read
q trade OF the most scorching, scath
ing nature against one Miles Gregg
ry, the Democratic candidate for the
legislature.
"Well," demanded the stranger
"what do YOU think of that?'
1T is pretty severe"
II believe you. Do you thinl
there is another man in the State o
Arkansas that can write az scorching
n thing agin the Whig candidate?'
"1f there were facts TO justify it,
douhtnot such an article could be pro
duccd."
"To thunder with your facts!' crict
the stranger, cxcitcdly "facts hahn
got nothing to do with politics thar'
no facts in that, it's all lies from be
ginning To end. I'm that Miles Gre
CORY, and ought to know. I'll give
fifty dollars to anybody that viii
write as savage n thing agin Joe Per
rim"
"when do You want it?'
"To- tlav"
"Withont regard to facts9'
They haint got anything to dc
with it, tell you."
"Very well in a couple Of hours i
you will call in Il show you some,
thing to match it."
II you do it, or the half ont.
said Miles Gregory, II II put you IN
Il way to make fortune. "
He went ont and returned at thC
time, and the young lawyer
had the article ready. Without dos
eending rs low us the model in vul
gar epithets, it was even more terri
be in its withering sarcasm, Grcgo-
ry could scarcely contain himscl
while the young 'awyer was reading
it, and rs soon rs he was done, hc
bounded from his seat with q yell o
triumph, and setting the delicate lit
tie hand Of the writer, almost crushet
it between his great, hony fingers.
"You'vc done it T. he cried, with Al
oath land you'll have something tC
do hettcr than staring at Llank walls
Here is your money-thc only differ
pncc is, I've concluded to make it ;
instead of fifty; but that's
my business, so none Of your non
sense"
He rushed ont with triumphan
laugh leaving the young lawyer t.
ruminatc upon his first fee, and tn,
possible consequences of becoming
conspicuous individual in that fight
ing region.
Tho next week the article appear
ed in the Democratic paper, and ere
ated a sensation. One political par
ty was delighted with it, and the 9th
er chacrined. Who was the author
Nobody knew The qued names wer
puzzled. Every known writer's styl
was duly considered but some in tn
article differed from each. Could i
be that n new Junius had come anon:
them. The Democrats were anxious
to find out, to do honor to their cham
pion; and the opposition that the.
might contrive a way to silence him
Nobody suspected the beardless law
We. In fact, if he had openly avowe'
II the chance was that he would hay