The true Democrat., 1854-10-11
eT The following paragraph we clip from


 the last issue of the Gazette:
 "The organ of Tuesday charges, that we said of the Cairo road, it could not would not, and ought not to succeed.' We would like to know when and where we ever made such assertion. We hope our neghbor has not gratutousy attempted to put words into our mouth, which we never uttered"
 It is very evident from this that the editor of the Gazette is himself in doubt whether he did not use the language attributed to him. He feels conscience stricken at all events, and very timidly requests to know so1aen and sohere' he made use of it.
 Perhaps he never used it at all, but among the multitude of hard things said by him and his clan about the Cairo road, it should be par donable in us if our memory should be occa- sionally so much at fault as to attribute wrong 1 fully any one of them to him.
 Now that the long-desired session of the Legislature is near at hand, and the favor of the Cairo road with the people is about to be tested, it might not be unproftable to this "gen- tleman of respectable talents" to refresh his memory by few quotations of hard things that he dsd say against the road It might not be improbable, because it may teach him in fu- ture to be more chary of his assaults upon pro- jects devised for the benefit of the State.
 We will quote only from the first number he issued after mounting the tripod of the Ga zette. In an article he intended to be of crush ing force, he said:
 It will be borne in mind that this paper the Ga of Woodrutt,) took the position that the building of the Cairo road was not practicable. The same views are honestly entertained by the present editor He holds the construction of that road entirely 1 chimerical."
 And again he said:
 1.-The idea of Arkansas building road in t1e direc ta0 cf CaarO, tOacards her north eastern boundary. without connection with any other road, as raga- ry too wald tr euen q res eeta6le ananaac. t as uorse ham man's trying to Aold hiaseT out at a,7n's length. IT cANNoT-wILL NOT BE DoNE." And again:
 1.-The Cairo road cannot be carried to the Missis- sippi river and if it be, as not te rofer chdnn or outlet tor Arkansas tade CT frCductaons." We presume the editor of the Gazette will hardly inquire of us "when and where" he used these expressions. They are anathemas against the Cairo and Fulton railroad that he remembers we'll, and prompted by envy, ma- lice and hatred, and thundered against the best interests of the State, they are of character not to be forgotten or easily to be forgiven by the people of Arkansas. No-thev are not of Un- cle Toby's sort which, when reported above by the accusing spirit, are plotted out by the tears of the recording angel as he writes them down. A of tha oft tba oIi nf &l, Gazette upon the subject of the Cairo and Full ton railroad and grant of lands will disgust any one. At first, he assailed the grant as worth less one. He availed himself of every species Of misrepresentation to cover up and detract from its real value. Finding, however, this po- hcy to be truitless one he changed it to an at tack upon the pructicabihty of the construction of the road. He distorted the facts into thou sand shapes conjured up before the public mind supernatural visions of sunken funds. i'm penetrable morasses and numberless other in surmountable obstacles
 But all would not do. The facts were at hand to refute and expose him. Under con- pulsion, then, he changed again. and is now pursuing the policy of extolling the grant of lands, commenting the construction of the road, but denouncng and cxecrating the company who are surveying it.
 Such is and has been his course. Does he hope to deceive as intelligent people as the citizens of Arkansas? Does he think he can disguise, at this late day, the real object of his present attacks? He $ mistaken if he does. Through all the phases of his opposition the leading motive-the destruction of the Cairo and Fulton railroad-is plain and palpahe; and as such will meet with the condemnation it so richly merits.