Year: 1859

treated you with contempt. You have been both sides of the fence, have sat on it and crawled under it. Your political sum- mersaults have not even the merit of agili- ty. You seldom light on your feet, but have to make two or three efforts before you succeed in turning completely over- The only thing amusing to the spectators is the gravity with which you go through your performance. You seem to think that your next turn will be productive of the most direful consequences to somebody, and set about it as seriously as if it was funeral.

 In reviewing part of your past politi- cal life, 1 have not gone behind the record I have recited facts patent to all Now, bury your head between your hands, re- trospect your past life and seriously ask yourself if you are not the last man in Ar kansas who should attempt to lecture ano- ther upon political consistency. Where now is your pretty phrase of " facile ante cedents?" and to whom is it really appli- | cable?

 You have called me " commodity" and by inference left people to suppose that you are actuated by disinterestcd motives. | We are led to believe that you scorn filthy lucre, that gold is mere dross in your eyes, and that your soul would never condescend to let you weigh the base metals or count the fimsy bank-notes. Immaculate patriot! | Yet you asked and received lucrative of flee from the democracy, and asked one l from the know nothings which they were too cunning or too wise to give you, had they had the power By turning to the first | page of your paper, 1 find that you are, Tn part, proprietor of the Gazette, which you proffer to furnish for four dollars if paid at the end of the year, three dollars if paid within six months, and two dollars and half if paid in advance. In other words, l find that you voluntarily pledge yourself to every man who will pay you two dollars and fifty cents to oppose the democracy that you once supported, or that supported you, and praise the know nottingham that you once examined and condemned. You stand ready, fifty two times in year, to unsay what you said and re-said, when you was, or professed to be a democrat-to praise the whigs you once abused-to call them gallant party, whom you once term ed federalists-to abuse Catholics and fo- reigners whose votes you sought last year ito call liar any decent man who places himself in opposition to you, and to do all this for two dollars and half, strictly in advance. Yet you call me " commodity and talk of marketable principles

 In 1852, when the whig party existed, and 1 was an avowed member of it, the democratic House of Representatives elect ed me as one of the clerks For ten years l was deputy clerk in democratic county where my principal was member of the dominant party, and, in various ways, the democratic party showed me kindness If now, 1 can be of service to them, it is but paying debt of gratitude. The democra- tic party gave you lucrative ofice it heap ed honors upon you, and when you became proprietor of press you drew thousands out of the treasury for mere advertising. Now, with the very press that you were thus enabled to buy, you are stabbing at your former friends and slandering the party that fostered you. At time when every patriot should be at his post-on the eve of contest to which all others have been as mere skirmishes, you are not con tent with abandoning your former friends and the party of the country, but are at tacking them with bitter and savage fury.

 It is a misfortune that you ever became politician or an editor In any of the ordinary pursuits of life you might have passed as a man of fair abilities, coarse tastes and strcng prejudices. Your friends may discern some good qualities in you, but they fear you, for they know that if | the next turn of the wheel should bring you in antagonism to them, that they would have to receive your abuse, and you then would should yourself from personal l chastisement on the score of being a crip- pie and refuse to give them satisfaction by suddenly discovering that your opponent was no gentleman To feed fat an an cient grudge" you bend every thing in that direction. You throw off your friends or knuckle to your enemies, offer insults or make concessions, with a view solely to feed your bitter hatred of one or two men. It IS unfortunate for party that you should edit its organ, for you stand ready to sa- crifice every thing to gratify your spleen. It is pity that the course you have adopt ed should have been taken in any commu- nity. You have succeeded in placing one half of the citizens of Little Rock in hos tility to the other half. Men, alike honor able, whose only difference is in their poli tical views, have been taught to hate each other. Petty quarrels have been fomented for the purpose of adding another to the list of those who oppose certain persons. Sneers, inuendoes and whispers have been freely sown and have produced a rank crop of distrust and hatred. Such is your pie ture as politician and an editor. l care little for your private character, good, bad or indifferent. l will not indulge in per sonalities or bandy epithets with you.- Not that I fear you, albeit I have no big brothers but because I will not descend to that level. The epithets you have applied to me you have applied to others. You have been the guest of honorable men, have known and praised them for years, re- ceived favors from them, yet when they