The Arkansas banner., 1847-12-06
DICTA ATION.

Tn, editor of the Eldorado Union speaks plainly to the Ashley organ, and in the following article from it will b, found not snly good scnse but the seutuiInts generally of the democra c party through out the Stae. It can scarcely have escaped the ob servatiOn of any who look over the Democrat" @ that attempt is made to rcpudiate the democracy of every county which has gone for Drew and John son. And why is ilt.t Because tey were known to be ti-Ashley men, and for the further reason that the editor had unwisely induged himself In yindictive war upon them, and he is mad and nor tifed that the democracy of any county should brand his charges against these men as ialshoods, and declare his weekly columns of vi,uperation as so much islander. Where meeting hns been held and Drew and Johnson nominated he has en- deayorcd excite the minority to call another to charge nnfairnsss in the proceedings and obtain if possible two parties of delegates from the same coun- ty and thus produce confusion in the convention which will enable him afterwards to deny it's validi- ty and support m independent candidate or go 10 the W ig-. This is the arlic'e:
 From lte ELiot ado In ou
 'Wr publish ihc following extract from an Q to- rial which appeared In the Arknn<as State Demo- crat. of the 18th nst in which the Edi or of that paper has done the democratic pat ty of this county great inlns ice. When he shall have heard more of the character ot the party in Union-ther firmaess intelligence. and indepcnd cnce-he will find they are beyond the reach control of what the Demo crat Is peaSed to term ''ciqne," or he wild and bitter rawlings of the venerable editor himself Is ii true, that in thr Stato dare diff.r in opin- ion with the Democrat in relation to the qualica- | lions of men, without being denounced as a mere tool, controlled ant influenced by cn odinus cqIel | Nay. more: are whole counties tn hs ted to the imputaton of being dnpcd and governed hv i'm proper influences, hcld up before the public and de- cried merc hirengs. without the indepeRdcnce to think and act for thcmsclvcsi We have fallen up- on evil times. if one man is 10 dsurp the right of dictang to whole counties, what they Hnss do. and what they shaH refrain from doing. The people of Union at least will not submit to such an usnrpa- tion. What have the people of Union done 10 sub. lect them to the and abuse of the De- mocrat' Nothing only in supporting the claims of Thomas S. Drew, for Governor, and R. w John for Congress. Could they have failed to do so and been consistent They could not for in the fall of 1s45. at a convention held in this county R. w. Johnson was nominated by aeclamaion-was elected, and has since done nothiGg 10 forfeit the confidence they Teposed in him. Have they no' been both just and consistent
 "sSurcly, the people of this State are not so blind as tO require proof of fact which is plainly mani- fest as ga nose on mans face.'' If they wish to how the ,'abominabe monster exercises its pow CT, let them look and see how 1t reached out one arm to the counties of Union and Lafayette while with the other it stirred up things in Lawrcncc- Let them see it 'strde into Scott and wink at De- sha, and they submit to i,s will" If any further proof of the existence of this clique be required the people have but 10 watch its operations at the county meetings yet to be held in this State Let them keep sharp look -on'. and they will find no difficulty in obtaining sig of the m .er."- Look out for him.