Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-04-01
Letter from RanaolDA county.
POcAHoSTAs, Ark; March IS. 1851. rfars of A. Rsr,.sK.

NoSAAtoNFAA, hfh-f At@lCh 10, 1901.
 Edstors oftAe Banner.
 GESrLEnS-From the kindly manner in which my previous communications have been received, l once more seek admission 10 your columns, to advise yourselves and your readers of the views entertained in this part of Arkansas. with regard to the reelection of the Hon R. W. Johnson, q gentleman whose devotion to the interests of our State, and to the cause of the South has induced our people to urge his re election, and deserves the warmest support of every truly democratic, Southern press. The democratic Convention will meet at Little Rock, on he 4th Monday of April, and we trust the wishes of the people will then be realized by his nomination.
 It has been said that Mir Johnson would not be candidAte for reelection. and the minds of the people of the whole State are thus brought to a pause, but, sirs, are we to understand that Mr Johnson will not accept the nomination. if con. ferred upon him by the democracy of Arkansas throagh State Conyention1 can ne. think so, his having declined to be a candidate is only another evidence of his firm, unwavegng adheT- ence to the cardinal principles of democracy the oocirne of the apostles of liberty, the rock of our political salvation, which teaches us rot to seek office; but it is not the part of patriotism to decline when called upon by the almost unanimous voice of a sovereign people. MT. Johnson is a democrat tried and true he not only acknow leJges the prn lciples of his party, but has endorsed them and praetised them with proud and lofty bearing as our representative, with honor to his State and with distinction every where; fearless and ardent de- fender of our constitutional rights, firm and un doubted sdherent to fixed principles, a universal favorite throughout his State, we wish once more to bring his name before the people, and to sug gest his nomination by the Convention. Let the nomination be made; he can not, he will not re- fuse, 10 comply with the will of the people thus ex pressed. Ii his name were mentioned in eonnec- ton with the nomination. there would no longer be any lukewanmness among democrats, county conventions would be held. and delegates would be sent up. mea firm and true, with strong hands and hearts devoted to the cause. Hts nomination would indeed be the hamburger of peace and the fore Shadowing dawn of bright and glorious fu- ture. It would give renewed energy to the party throughout the State, 1t would be hailed with en- thusiasm by gallant spirits from the Mississippi to Red river, and old Randolph would send back an echo that will strike terror into the camps of the enemy, and make drunk the craven leaders of the no-party- party, which for some time past has cunningIy endeavored to profit by fermenting dis Senpons among IL would shake from their strong holds the perfdious devotees who are knceI ing s; the shine of demagogueism and have been inoeulated with the whining dog-cry of no-party humbug It will cut out. by the roots this incipi- ent career, destroy it's power and leave it to fester and rot into it's original nothingneSs. It will restore Arkansas to its own proper position and redeem her from the shame into which she was plunged by single act Of the recent Legislature in voting down the resolutions of the committee on Federal Relations, who could have dreamed that Arkan- Sas in her Legislative capacity would thus have abandoned her State rlghtSl It was the hand of Esau and not the vdiee Jacob, that fixed that stain upon the hitherto proud escutcheon of our State IL not the will of the people to prove thus re- creant to their State rights and their own ntelests they are ready at all hazards to maintain their equality in confederaey of equals and demand the compliance with the compact winch made this Union for protection to all and not for the oppres- sion of the weaker by the stronger. Had the South been true to herself from the beginning, had she been more firm and less concluding, we should not now be called upon to combat against Free soil encroachments upon her rights. The struggle
 is not yet ended the anti-slavery agtators only resting from their labors and gathering strength for a more bitter attack upon our institutions The crisis is not far off and we want representa- tive who has been already tried, upon whom we may depend.
 Ia ArEn all 4al heort I hand; Randolph county IS about to hold con vention to send up delegates to the State Conven- ton, she is determined not to be in the rear. The State Convention will be pregnant with impor- tance to the interests of the democracy of the State--the nominee must be suited to the crisis or defeat will be unprecedented and unqueStionable, and on the Southern question he must be true and | firm. No other can carry with him thc people of North Arkansas. This milk and cider work will not do, we are all for the cause and nothing for men. If true to democracy and to the South, we care not what portion of the State the nominee may come from, the North and East will proudly rally round him and give him a hearty support Such a man is Boa JOHNSON, and without dlstac- i tlon or dissention, are for him. No has ever endeared himself so much to any people as this gentleman has to the North and East of Arkan- sas. He IS deeply seated in the affections of all our citizens.
 1 Consider, Srs, how much depends upon the ap- preaching canvass. It will be the opening of the campaign for President of the United States, be- tween the two great political parties of the country, l the friends of equal rights the one hand and the upholders of monopoly on the other We must have leader in the contest upon whom we can readily unite, the lasdious attempts to dema- gogue the State and the party must be crushed at once or our downfall is inevitable.
 1 RANDOLPH. 1 IT. The Legislature of Missouri passed at the session just closed more than $50 acts; but four ffths of these entirely private and local. The