The true Democrat., 1855-10-16
For the True Democrat. To the Know Nothing Editors of the Gazette & Democrat. Homestead, Arkansas O., Ark., October 9th, 1855.

October 9th, 1855.
 SIRs-In your reply to my note of the 18th ultimo, you stated that instead of my patron. izng you, you had patronized me, inasmuch as you published notice of my passing through Little Rock at my request The notice you mention was not at my request to gain notorie- ty, but was at your option to state that I, as an old resident of this, State, had settled in the swamps of the lower Arkansas, and the pros- pect of enhanced value of labor in reclaimino the swamp lands to encourage settlers to re- move to that sparsely populated section. You stated that you drought me out from the ob- scure drft-wood of the swamp and overHowed lands of the lower Arkansas, and promoted me from simple Jim Smith to Mr., Squire, Captain Major, Colonel and lastly General Smith''-the whole of which l pronounce, what you knew it to be when you stated it, a manifest false hood. 1 have not in Arkansas, either by your or any other authority, filled the appointment of Squire, Captain, Major or General" What purpose the "Junior'' of the Gazette had, in bestowing upon me the gratuitous title of " Ge- neral" is best known to himself. As to the ''rot- ten-drift wood,' have destroyed much of it in my time, and the "rottenest'' of all came down few days ago from Little Rock in the shape of a newspaper called the Gazette and Demo- crat.
 You stated, again, you "have given me mo- toriety as broad as the Union,' and to prove the truth of your assertion, you refer me to several fctcious publications. As fiction and fraud are your torte, do not blameyou for availing your selves of such practices to prove your " rotten position.'' Great as may be the notorlety you are pleased to foist on me, it sinks into insgni- fcance when compared to the reality of the notoriely which has been obtained by the "Se- nior'' of the Gazette and Democrat.
 As specimen; the Mobile Democrat says, "Borland is the drunken blackguard who dis graced his State his party, his station, and his country by his pugilistic encounters in the U $. Senate. His unbecoming and indecent be- havlor made him notorious character After. wards he was sent to Central America as min. ister, and by his impudent conduct got the go. vernment ipto difficulties at Greytown. He came home and took charge of bogrs demo- cratic paper at Little Rock, which relapsed into the sewer of know nottingham which is purify. ing the democracy of its unworthy members.- As Texas repudiated Houston, Alabama Gle. mems, Tennessee the traitor Donaldson, so will Arkansas spea0 out Me apostate Borland" 1 Tho Dallas Tavao Hor,ll c,,o u.1,. zette and Democrat published at Little Rock, Ark, has for sometime past been know noth- ing in disguise. It has at length thrown off the mask and openly renounced the democracy.- This sheet has been for the last ten years en- gagged Tn trultless attempt to disorganize the democratic party in Arkansas It is now edited by the notorious Solon Bor7and, one of the un- fortunate appointees that reflected so much dis credit on President Pierce. Borland dsgracel the Amerc an diplomatic corps by his rufian violence whilst minister to Central America as far as the bad conduct of a single individual could do so. We congratulate the democracy of Arkansas in getting rid of him'
 The Mississippi Free Trader says, "they (the whissl have declared him (Borand) unfit for the offices he has held, if not a disgrace to them-that he was bully, a blackguard, sot and every thing but gentleman,
 The llempstead Democrat says, "the Hon. orable, Major, Doctor Solon Borand the politi- cal censor of the nineteenth century, like the wounded buffalo, pitches into every thing within i ro1 ok gf b;c ,I his own shadow to escape gou u{ng The Hon. Solon Borland and Christopher Coumbu. Daney Co.,, charge every body who do not belong to them body and soul, with being cats paws in the hands of their superiors in Little Rock, whom they term the lousy aristocracv.' .'
 The True Democrat says Arkansas has been for many years cursed with three politi- cal parties, and Borland has succcssively joined and belonged to each and every one of them Borland has betrayed every party and every friend he has had any thing to do with since his advent into Arkansas-how long before he will betray the know nothings we do not know
 The Memphis Appeal called Borland ca sorebached aloState," and has added "hypo- crite"
 Borland, there are but few States in the Un- ion that have not set forth, n the darkest co. lors, your infamous career. You richly meri the indignation of all good men, and should De the last of Gods creation to arraign the char acter of any man, however vile, till at least you could present to the world some tangent hopes of your own conversion.
 Your attemptat being faciteous by the intro duction of the Irshman's anecdote, comes witt a bad grace from either our senior'' or ou junior' for the reprehensibilty of your con- duct has been so glaring that it iastens upor you the imputation that tout here mean nner are nude" Auditor, Captain, Doctor Major, Se nator, Minister, Editor, etc. Truly, with bu slight change (and change is your watchword the poet describes Borland exactly, in thes, lines:
 < A man various that he seems to be
 Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
 Stiff in opinions-aways wrong,
 Is every thing by starts and nothing long;
 Who, in the course of one revolving moon,
 Is doctor, lawyer, editor and butfoon."
 You have gained for yourselves, sirs, both o you, an unenviable notoriety, by your unpro- voked attacks upon every man who refuses tc follow you in your treacherous career; nor car the virus of your spleen conceal from the pub lie the fact that you are liars and slanderers.
 You pronounce it an untruth" that "knoN nottingham was engendered by the federalsts under the elder Adams fostered by the mem bers of the Hartford convention and nutureC by the abolitionists of the north" Yea, might have added, conceived by the old tory George the third, as you yourselves have showr in your paper of the 25th August, 1854, whcr you quoted the Declaration of Independence to wit: /" He (King Georse) has endeavored tc prevent the population of these States, for tha DylrpOse Obstructino the laws for the naturaliza q