The Arkansas banner., 1848-06-20
.Puhllc SsntImtni Lstt.rs.

Our neigl.bor of the Democrat has oPened Fs masked baitery Of "Democsaiie ktiess' from va Iious quarters, which. ns matter of course always go io prove that the lbsn be supports are decidedly the strongest in the section from which the letter Is written, and that all others are repudiated.
 There was time whea ons neighbov edited the ouly paper in Arkansas, and whatever appear ed in its columns was considered authentic and de- serving full credence. There were but lew mail facilities, and bat titiie opportunity occurred of interchange of sentiment snd consequently an ex- pressiOa Of opinion Itpm the distant counties, Peciaiy when in print, exercised no little influence npon the political. movements of the day. The Gazette of that lime had but ,o inseiths letter of ''an intelligent and influential friend'' stating that certain county would go for particular individu al, and t was believed. But alas for the degenera cy of tho lines, the people understand us all so well that. manufacture letters ss we may, they will judge for themselves There are now twelve news papers published in ths State. seven of which pro- fess to bo democratic and would certainly prove much ,nore reliable exponent of the public scn-
 meht in their respective sections than letters writ
 ten (even suppose they are not home maHufacture) by any other individual. Yeiby this means bare faced attempts to prejudice the popularity of one man and prop up that of another, iasi as though every man who reads such epistIes does not know that any man could sit down and manufacture a dozen of them in all hour The,e Is no name re- quired, nobody is responsible, and yet it is pre- sumed that people Se gullible enough to be hi- asscd in forming an opinon of men's chances of success by such squibs.
 We were more fully confirmed in out opinion in relation to the utity of such attempts to bend pub lic opinion to one point, by looking over the last years files of the Democrat From the first of De- tober to ihe first of December every paper contains number of these ''sentimenta letters" by which it have had no friends in the convention, '.thst the north would never submit to the small spirit or the family man'' that "the south almost to man were against the cliqueites that sthe west had taken up Roane, Oldham and Thornton, or any body before Drew and Johnson" These quotations are the sub stance of column afteF column of letters from "in- telligent and influential gentlemen living in diff
 eren, counties of the States and gravey put forth as an expression of public sentiment. we need not remind readers. SO recently has 1t been tested that all these expostions o public sentiment proved utterly false, and that about fifty pusc sentiment letter writers were utterly mistaken. Rather a strange coincidence when they all wrote upon the same subject. The day of gullitility by such means has passed away from Arkansas and we won der that neighbor of the Democrat don't see if. We arc always pleasd to hear from different por- tions of the State and we solicit information upon all subjecs but cant manuf facure it fo1 the benc- fit of our readers or friends.