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f' Assume virtue, if you have il not.''

 You have been cndcayoring for the last four years 10 impose yourself upon the public as a man of truth, and of honorable standing inthe society among whom you arc permitted 10 minglc al Little Rock; and you have succeeded in distant parts of the Territory in i'm pressing that belief upon some who have not had opportunity of knowing how totally devoid you are Of every quality that is meritorous, and how contempti- ply you are viewed by all who have had opportunity of knowing the base ingre- dients of which you are the compound.

 Selfconscious as you must be, that you have forfeited every claim 10 cred ibilty, you assume t.ah as virtue still inherent within you, although four years ago you parted with it for less thar a 'mcss of pottagc; and you parted with il under such circumstances as forever 10 preclude you from the hope of being again believed, by any one who was knowing 10 tho moral depravity then displayed by you-evcn he, through whose influence and by whose dipIo- macy you barefacedIy and without cause adopted course which must have sunk you in your own estimation, and which has branded you with infamy, co-cxten- sive with the base deed--eyen he must hold you in sovereign contempt-al- though, as in duty bound, he espouses your cause, and by his high commenda- lions endeavors to atone for the guilt committed on his suggestions.

 Ply has hitherto. screened you from public exposure-and pity, mot for your self, but for your family, should still in terpose, were you to conduct yourself as man desirous of regaining, by hon orable means, the reputation which you have wantonly disregarded and feloni ously forfeited. But, as under the as. s'tn'ea pirtae of truth, you have. under taken to denounce every ono, as Aars

 who hold opinions adverse to you and your frielads and IS strangers in the country may be induced, through igno rance of your true character, to give credit to your denunciatious, I deem i proper to propound 10 you the following queries, and to urge q true ai1swel

 thereto.

 In older to let the public have a ful opportunity of understanding the ob leet of the queries, 1t will be necessary

 premise, that, on the l7th of Janua

 Y, 1928, a.yoV.g man, highly excited against Chester Ashley, went into ths