For the .4rleaasas Banner. DAVID WALKER AND DR. GIBs
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 DEAR SIR As l have been, som from home, 1 have had no opporul knowing how things were conduchl my absence. On my return, howega, that DaUid Walker has made sp# relation to Col. SEVER, in which he only misrepresented our Senator, ,butha also to misrepresent me, as to the par while on the committee that investg foul and false charges against Col Walker said, in his speech, that V members of the committee signed hes but one (alluding to me)-and he d sign it for fear of political decapitatiol He also said that 1 refused to sign the 1 after promising to do so. This pua to be utterly untrue. He further st quote the exact language of the demas that l said-" l am too smart to sId political death warrant-not that the ! Is untrue, but because it may eaectmy larity." Now, l pronounce these as of David Walker to be tissue of mi sentation and falsehoed, from begin end. never agreed to sign the repOt told the author of it-Dr. Gibson conclusions were groundless, and his tlons unwarrantable; and that he oH strike some of them out, as they wsH grace to the committee. He took mt word, and did strike out some of the Walker admits the report was scrutlnn remodelled :; and when the report WI laid before the committee, told him as soon affix my name to my death wan to sign such a document-false and ous as it was. After having as muth report stricken out as could, kno' would be adopted by such materials posed tbe majority of the commlttee, told them l intended to sign the mlm port. This l did; as is publishedlnls nals of the House of Representau'a much for David Walkers misstatena

 l had been convinced, in the ysr[ mencement of the session of the last ture, that an attempt would be made the reputation of Col. Sevier. Itooka part in defending him; knowing tha were a few men in that body who Vs only politically opposed to him, buths personal enemies. And when the hTS was made, 1 was the first to rise in nl and ask for a thorough investigatlon charges. l called upon the frlent Sevier to postpone the election of UnlIa Senator until this investigation could Doctor Gibson asserted in his place 'a failed to prove what he had sad, ne would vote for Col. Sevier. Upon committee was raised (by ballot) lnlns' n and Dr. Gibson was upon 1t ir mittee made a full inUestigation 2, charges, and the result was compn. tation of them ala uaanimo@ favor of Col. Sevier-a brand oi eop .,. ton on all the islanders of this woulu,s ernor, Dr. Gibson. Some two ~sa this committee had been raised, TOT pose of examining into the ehafss. lation to the Real Estate Bank, Ml Walker rose in his place, in the osa, ,,s' said-that nothing had been elscitea% influence ony Senator in the cofe m~ about to giue for United Stafes as, ns The chairman of the committee, 'm made similar remarks in the hoas election come on; and Col. Sewer " ed, almost unanimously. a,d

 After the lapse of some three or IT..s ,vJ and after Col. Sevier had gone to "s ssts Dr. Gibson prepared, and lald '1d Dd committee, las famous report, iou'S St the evidence of three bitter whlgs'Y sJ ting a statement of the facts; anu b, the statement of MT. A. H. Dawes, ,sas dent of the Bank, which fully :, e Col. Sevier from any agency m m ' aa ,h, of the institution; but paying hl'n nlstd J compliment, and saying that lnsltpp e,js the Bank had been 'hs sIIial n t,oenty Mousand dollars, by the sslg M;Ills3 agement of Col. Sevier and Gen '. .h, MT. Davies had further stated tiia'"