The Van Buren press., 1871-04-04
Reading Out Of Mr.. Neal.

LITTLE Rock. Ark. Mar. 30th. 1871.
EprroR PREss IL don't know how you
stand with Judge Neal; but as the gazette
attacks him In a manner which think Is al
together I'm njustitiablc, should be glad to be
permitted to make your paper medium OF
some few words in his defense. And in so
doing the truly logical manner would be for
a moment to consider the source" whence
the attacks against him comes. In SO doing
think it will be easily discovered that those
who control the Gdzette have selected Judge
Neal as the scape-goat for their own follies
and loves labor lost in their alliliation with
Mcdonald, Brooks. Hodges d Co Ali its
readers have seen how they have shown their
spirit OF accommodation to "all nastiness,"
or shameless retraction of all they have said
about these worthies-and for what? The
bcwildercd multitude answers-for what?
A decapitatcd radical, one too vile to set on
the stomach of radlcalism, has his head cut
off, and he Immediately appeals to demo-
cratic sympathes. 1t is ever the case: Wit
ness Demby and others Of this place, and
countless number Of Others all over the State.
We may likewise note, when giving them
our honest sympathies in return, whereby
they may acquire a newly discovered value,
they Immediately sell out for the best current
price their quondam associates may see fit to
pay for buying them back. Witness Jas. NJ.
johnson and others. They BRING US moth
ing. 1t is only when they are "cleaned out"
as well as kicked out, that such as they come
to Us. What had McDoSAI to bring us
lie tested his strength and found ito. Still
our friends of the Gazette O, .inued their
afliliation. They may have had some private
"GRIEFs that we know not Off Col. Bob
johnson was under some obligations to Nc
Donald for Macs EFFORT to remove his poiti
cal disabilities in the L. 5. Congress: bid
FOR the democracy when Mac feared that
Clayton "had sold out to the democracy "!
tions to Col. johnson. Adams owns II good
share of the Gdzette--he and Mac are great
bobasheclies; it is reported had mail con-
tracts together. Our friend General Pagan
besides sympathising with his step brother,
John ID. Adams, Is u fond admrer of Colonel
name and influence. These gentlemen con-
troll the course of the Gazette. 1t suited the
private purpose of these gentlemen to praise
Brooks as a statesman and Hodges as a saint,
and denounce Neal as q demon and traitor,
because Neal saw that in hesitating to bully
and abuse Clayton and his friends to no pur-
pose, and was IGNORANT Of the motives that
would lead others claiming to be the friends
Of the people truly, to pursue such course,
he chose to get what he could for his con-
sttuents from those able to give something.
Clayton had SOMETHING to concede in return
for concessions. lie would have conceded
far more than was conceded but for the in
sane war made on him by the Gazette in af-
fliation with expelled members Of the Radi-
cal party. When n mans head has been cut
off what can he do for any organization
He may make a tlounce or two and then
he is still FOREVER. These gentry have made
a new State Committee. The old Committee
was elected by the Democratic State Conven-
ton Of 1867, to hold their places until filled
by new State Convention. And effective
work they did until certain of them began to
nflse the spirit of selfish intrigue which de-
veloped in the purchase of the Gazette. In
stead Of organizing it would seem to me that
they violently ruptured the democratic par
ty. In the same spirit they war on Judge
\aal aud nrata of n.;.. -, 49, -
| susceptible to principles. They are mere par
asites. They all buzz around common OBJ
ject of admiration to a few who haven't yet
learned that all kinds Of slavery are abolish
ed. Nature descends down to infinite small
ness. A "grcat" man has his parasites; and
if you take large buzzins blue-bottle fy
and look at it in a microscope, you may see
twenty or thirty little ugly insects crawling
about it. which doubtless think their fly to
be the bluest, grandcst, most important ami
NAL in the universe; and are convinced the
world would be at an end if it ceased to
buzz. So with the Gazette in spite of the
Thirteenth Amendment.
Yours, &c. BUGoLoGIsT.