To the Ediior of tie arkansas Slate Gazette:
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Sill herewith hand you a copy of letter
which addressed to the Editor of the Banuer on
the 23I ul,., and which was handed to hun on the
same day. but to which have. as yet, received
no answer, notwithstanding the proposition con.
taned in it, was reduced TO writing by his request
1t is a matter of indifference to me, whether the
! answer be in private letter to me-. Oh through
the columns Of his paper provided if be through
the latter medium, my et,cr be permitted to nc.
company it. But, as ho has issued two papers
since ii has been in his hands, without replying or
aIluding 10 it in his columns, and has also failed
to reply to note addressed to him on the ilh
inst, desiring n speedy answer 10 my proposition
have arrived at the very rational conclusion
that he has ehhor changed his mind since he in.
vtcd me to reduce tho proposition to writing, or
tia, his "Committee" has prohibited him from
entertaining or ncceding to my proposition. |
an, therefore. under tho necessity of requesting
you 10 publish my letter, together with this note
as presume. from his refusal to publish my com.
munca,ion of the 23d ul,., that a request for him
10 publish it in the Banner, would meet with q
similar refusal. This conclusion is justified, bv
the tenor of labored editorial in his paper Of The
ls, inst, in which he strives hard to prove him.
self a very patient man, but complains that had
exhausted his patience by the great length of my
refulations Of the serious and unprovoked ISLANDERS
promulgated against me, by himself and m anony.
nous writer, through the medium of his paper, nd
which the rules of editorial courtesy gave me the
right of responding to through the same medium


II he had been disposed to do mo justice, he would
have reflected, before attempting 10 read me out
of the democ raIic church, or permitting an anony
nous scrbbIer to assail my character, through
his columns, that my responses could no, be re-
duced 10 small space; and that no ough, not
therefore, to have admitted the accusations against
nc, unless he could conveniently spare the neces
sury room in his columns for my refilaIon OF them.


But, presume, ii was not so much The space
occupied in his columns, as i, was my exposure
Of certain vulnerable points in Gov. YeIls poIiti.
cal character, ihs propensity to eoqueiie rah ihe
9higs, and to rote for and appoint them 10 Office.
in preference to demoera,s), and tho fear tha, /
would. through his own columns, produce convic
ton on the minds Of his readers, that Gov. Yell
is not as purea democrat US lie processes 10 bo--
that The BANNER is NOT THE ORGAN OF The Demo.
CRATIC PARTY-that the polltica fidelity of il, Edi
Tor is not "asore 'u,ri.iOn," nor tho m4tcs, which