Washington telegraph., 1855-09-12
For the Telegraph.l
MURFREEsBoRo', ARK's, !
August 2Sth, 1855.


MIR ErrER-It is not often [ trouble
the newspapers with an effusion from my
pen. but cannot resist the temptation to
chronicle q few items, to keep you and your
readers advised of the turn things are TAX
ing and the aspect they assume under cer-
tain circumstances.
Yesterday was the day fixed by law, for
the holding of our Circuit Court, but which,
owing to the illness of the Judge, was not
held. Notwithstanding the previous notice.
that there would be no court, and the incle-
mency of the wcather-(it was raining)-
a goodly number Of the sovereigns were in
attendance. and seemed very much in need
of some general theme of conversation,
which, reckon they thank their stars
they were not long without, for about ten
o'clock E. w. CAN'T, Esq, Prosecuting
Attorney for this district, made his appear
ance, in company with an old gentleman on
big white horse. wearing a broad brimmed
hat. 1t did not take long to have it gener-
ally circulated that Mr. CAN'T would make
a speech at. what we are forced to call the
| Court House, and that the aforesaid Solicitor
would handle certain organization, better
known as the q Know Nothings. - d" without
gloves" Pursuant to notice, the crowd
collected, and Mr. CAN'T commenced by
stating that it was the time for Court, and as
there was none, and he was always in the
habit of saying something at such times, he
could not now resist the temptation to say
something to his dear fcIio1o citizens
With this the speaker launched out in an
eloquent strain upon the liberty of opinion
and speech, upon any and all topics. wheth
! er political or religious, and with lofty
panegyric upon the Democratic party and
old line Whigs-upon JACKSON, CALHOUN,
CLAY. WEBSTER and Others those patri-
OTIS, whose history is their country's, he very
i ingeniously introduced what proved to be
the burden of his speech-an attack upon
turned historian, and gave what purported to
be. genealogical history of a certain indi-
vidual known as SAM" from his concep-
tion to his present colossal stature. He
said that SAM was conceived amid the hot
beds of Northern Abolitionism,-tha he
came polluted with the stencil of Abolition
ism and treason-that he owed his birth to
the repeated defeats of that party in Con-
grcss, and the prevailing of measures favor
able to the South>carried by the Democratic
party He followed him through his va11-
Gus triumphs, and heraldcd forth, to gap
| ing auditory, the ominous fact, that his sue
cess had been the success of the Abolition
lists and Frcesoilers That tie Wig party
having been completely routed in the last
general election, and finding that it never
could resuscitate. had allied themselves to
/ SAM, hoping to lure themselves into power
I by having everything " American that
in every instance an Abolition Governor or
United States Senator was the result of his
sand that these were in favor, and
/ had severally recommended the policy of
! permitting free negroes to vOte-repcallng
the fugitive slave law, and were generally
in favor Of placing the negro and white
man on an equality in every PARTICULAR
that the whole sum and substance of it was
cnmity to the South and Southern institu-
tions-never failing to remind US of the
workings and doings of the Abolitionists
and Free Sellers, which were all, haze M
douJt anaaoce1.tly, attributed to the evil
Vaccinations of SAM. As an offset to the
statement that the Wings had allied them
selves with SAM, he said there was not
respectable Wing paper in the South sus
tanning the American Party, and that those
| of respectable character that did embrace
the new doctrines, abandoned them the mo-
ment their eyes were opened and so it was
with the better and more intelligent Wings.
who were honest enough to avow their SEN
timents The statements differ materially,
but the latter bears testimony that it is not
a &c Wing trick
Could | Just now be struck with vein of
poesy. and turn to verse his requiem upon
the defeat of Gen. SHIELDS, by the Amer
ican party, it, | doubt not, would bring tears
to your eyes 4; but alas the muses. refuse
my embrace when | court them, and you
must Just imagine what it was But the
speaker did not fully display the power and
beauty of oratory which he so eminently
possesses until he came TO the election of
WISE in Virginia-and more particularly
the election in Tennessee. Tennessee was
the land of his birth-the home of his child
hood he loved her rocks and mountains
her brooks and wales; she was the nursery
of heroes and of orators and you, sir, will
have to imagine. for [ can by no means de-
pict, with what cxultation he announced the
election Of JOHNSON, and the defeat OF SAM
He didn't say much about Kentucky
From Tennessee he came to Arkansas
patriotic, Democratic Arkansas She was
the land of his adOptiOn-that she had been
true to herself and the cauSe-that whatev-
er might be the efforts of the ''insidious