The true Democrat., 1854-04-25
From the Helena Democratic Star. Memphis and the Call Session.


 gislature has employed much unnecessary tenn per, too much unbecoming personality, and by far too much printers ink. The discussion on the subject = if indeed miserable sophistry, coarse invective, and unbecoming Reclamation, can be called dscussion-arose in the bitterness of petty sectionalisms; and having at first worn donment of blind ill-temper let fall even its dressing gown of flimsey pretert. The Gazette on one side and the True Democrat on the other, fighting as bravely as the dying Ceaser with his writing pen, have presented the ques- ton on the points of their weapons with the summons of Shakspeare's partisans.
 Under which King, Barsanio? Speak or die! and as natural consequence, the editorial rank and-file of the State at large have been con- pelled to take sides in the ,0ind-mill tilting of these metropolitan Quixotes. Sitting in our easy chair, calm as ones Grandsire cut in the Alabaster,'' we have looked from afar off at this pretty quarrel; and from this ground of cool indifference shall, after smoking a meditative " Hayannah, make general sketch of the re- taOoa1e of this warfare.
 In the address issued by that gentleman pre- vious to his election, Governor Conway holds the following language:
 Having an ardent desire for the progress and improvement of this State, in accordance with the spirit of the age, for the details of plans and the enactment of laws to embody and car " out the wishes of the people in relation there- to, If elected Governor Is)s0N look to tbe Geae- roI Assembly, coming fresh from the people ef fevery county ln tue State as the constitutional and most competent erposltors cf Naeir aciz"
 This is sound doctrine; and as one of the public pledges under which he had been elect ed must be regarded by Gov. Conway as his rule of conduct. Under the propagation of his office, we find the Governor in his message (Nov. 27th, l052,) make the following suggestion to the Legislature then assembled at Little Rock:
 eff the bill which passed the House of Re- presentatiyes, at the last session of Congress, should become law, granting lands to aid in constructing railroad from point in Missouri, opposite the mouth of the Ohio river, by Lit tie Rock, to Fulton on Red river in this State; and to aid i'll constructing branches-one from Little Rock to Fort Smith, and the other from Little Rock to some point on the Mississippi river, before the route could be surveyed, and the lands selected on this branch of the road, it would be necessary to know the terminus on the Mississippi river. 1, therefore, recommend that law be passed designating the route and the terminus as nearly as shall be deemed prac- ticable."
 The Legislature refused to adopt the recom- mendation to locate the Mississippi branch of the Calro and Fulton railroad; and in accordance With the foregoing pledge made in his address to the people, and also in accordance with the true republican doctrine of the case Gov. Con- way IS bound not only as man of honor, but as an honest agent for the people, toregard this leiusal of the Legislature to endorse the SUD- posed importance of the immediate location of the Mississlppi branch as the constitutional and comt'eee1 n1 exposition e tue popular scsN On the l@th o1 oan., 1858, the Legislature adjourned; ana duily aware that in three weeks thereafter the Oalro grant would have become law. their relectlon oi the Governors recommendation was made knowingly; and as no other anthem. tic expression of the public sentiment has heen made in the case, the action of the leo;slat,,ra leads rresistably to the conclusion that tbe ;,,, mediate location of the Mississippi branch of the Cairo and Fulton railroad was not at tbot time a subject of State emergency.
 Subsequently to the adjournment of the Le. gislature, new cause is alleged to have arisen in the case. The city of Memphis after hav- ing failed in the most strenuous efforts to defeat the Cairo and Fulton road in Congress, had the cool effrontery to attempt by delegation sent to the Governor to obtain the assembling of the Legislature for the purpose of influencing the location of the Mississippi branch. The action of Memphis on this matter has been the first act in this call session. comedy. As we pre- fer in all such disputes to speak by the record, we subjoin here an authentic copy of the do- cumants recorded on this subject in the office of the Mayor of Memphis:
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 70 tue Hon. Mayor and Aldermen cf tue csty cf Memphis:
 GENTLEMEN-The undersigned commissio-