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70 THE DEMOCRACY OF ARKANSAS.

 
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70 THE DEMOCRACY OF ARKANSAS.

 NC. VI.

 The advocates of a convention, from the outset, based the necessity of holding 1t up en the fact that Gov. Yell would decline a reelection to the House of Congress They announced his intention to decline, on the ground that he would be brought forward as d candidate for the Senate, by his KUMER- OUS FRIENDS; and, accordingly,a at time which he deemed proper, he did decline.

 But, forsootl, your correspondent, R, D in his last communication, claims the honor of having forced Gov. Yell to decline, hy two articles which be had written previously !!

 A strong, por,ly, Grecian OK, in the reign of fable and of song, was eating hay at his stall A consequential flea, lighting upon one his horns, and composing himself there with much self complacency, sal for an hour in profound silence. Finally, said the flea lo the OK, '.If my areigdt be oppressive to thee, will do thee the kindness to remove p "Forsooth,n replied the OK, eff you had not Spoten, had not known you were upon my horn ''

 Without designing to disparage the great areight of talent, which R. may be known to possess, must make all application of the fable.

 If e.R', had not b2asted of 1t himself, the presumption is that Gov. Yell would never have known, that his squibs, for the Banner, had any agency in causing him to decliue a reelection, publicly, at the time he did

 "Rn charges that the writers friendly to the election of Gov. ' ell to the Senate, com meneed bringing the merits of him and Col. Ashley into comparison, and that he warned them. of the evil results of such course.

 h this he is al war with the truth, for in bis first number, before q sentence had been written about Col Ashley, he made very iliberal attack upon Gov. I ell; and in his second communication, he drew eompaFi- son between them, in which he represented the former as all ..imelleetual Pyramid" and the latter as ''pygmy" Saying nothing of the talent of Col. Ashley, l much doubt the capacity of 'sR.n to measure, and pass sen- tence upon the mental powers of Gov. Yell. I might say, but will not, that 1t is like measuring some stupendoas Colossus, that towers in majesty above the earth, and bathes its lofty summit in the blue clouds, of heaven, with a six inch gagel No, sir, will not say it, because .'R." may posses intellect and ca pacity for judging of the mental endowmentS of others, which, notwithstanding his anti quty of residence in the State, may have been obscured He may be one of those .gems of purest lay serene,n which is yet to illuminate the State by his brilliancy. He may be far brighter star than that mental prodigy, the sstalented Senator" whose eulo- gist he proclaims himself, will not ques- ton t.