tg5-TlIE EXCAVATION OF 1928.
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 In the last Arkansas Gazette, the Aosfenstble'' Editor of that "reekless and prostituted" print. has made his appearance in long and prolix article, in relation to his retantatioa, in 1928, of certain charges preferred against Mr. ROBERT CRITrENDEN, in series ofcom- munications, addressed to the Voters of Arkansas, in the summer of '27, and published in the Gazette, over the sig nature of ".4 Votcr of Pulasks Comty.n If Woodruff had given fair and hon. est history of this ir,fanous transaction, and had not suffered himself to indulge in the most palpable and glariag talse hoods, ii should have passed without a single remark from us. But, his de- fence If such a peurile effort may be 50 termed) is so entirely destitute of even q yestige of truth, that we feel it a duty We owe to the public, and the party concerned, to submit a few re- marks in reply.

 He sets out by remarking, that he is 9glad Mir. Crittenden has come out on this subject" If it gives him pleasure to have his own infamy and degradation of character publishedto the world be itso But, before we have done with him. f we arc not mueh mistaken. we will not only make him sorry that this subject was ever again touched, but that the word REcANTATIoN was ever coined.

 Afterstating, that Sat the time these publications appeared, T poter of Pal- lasks County,] we Incl had no doubt that every charge which they contained could be sustained in court ofjustice; ; he says" one of the charges rested olone on the testimony of the late la mented He,uy v. Conuay; and the late MT. lsaar Watklns was material wit hess on whom we [he] relied to sub stantiate some other of the principal charges If one ofthe charges "rest-

 

 cd alone on the testimony of MT. Con- way Z why. we ask, was not his depo- sition taken before he left here to fight Mr. Crittenden? It was knownto to every person here, that combat between Mir. Conway and MT. Crittenden was to take place; and on this score, he cannot plead ignorance. But, had Mir. Conway been successful, Woodruff situation re- iative to his testimony would have been Precisely the same. When the meeting eookplace betweenthese two gentlemen, Mr. Conway was onhis way to Congress, which was a long session. and would a's have returned until after the ter