The true Democrat., 1855-12-18
Personalities.

When Dr. Borland took charge Of the Gazette as the organ of the Know Nothings, much dissatisfaction was produced among the mem- bers of that party. All the dissatisfied had each his special objection to the Doctor; but the strong opposition to him was on the ground that he would not conduct a discu'sio in a manly and gentleman-like manner; but that by his personal abuse and invective would make enemies, where courtesy and concilation would make friends A large portion of the whg wing of the new party, smarting under the cas- tigations inflicted on them by the Doctor in days past, were loudest and most vehement in their opposition to his being installed as the or gan and arbiter of the Know Nothing party: but fate decreed in favor of the great scandal- naonger, and he became the organ of the new party Upon his accession to the editorial chair, few of his indiscreet friends, with an eye to his established reputation as dealer in scurr- lity and defamation, boastingly proclaimed that Borland has noO got tue Gazette, and Dick Joln- son and the True Democrat a0iU De used up."
 With full knowledge of these antecedents of the Doctor, and with a knowledge of his penchant for mean, low and personal abuse, our self, and the readers of the Gazette, were stu pifed with amazement, when the Doctor an- nounced in the last issue of his paper, that he is not aware of any consideration which re- quired, or conscious of any feeling which prompts him to take notice of the scurrous | parcopolifiac aip L,, +l 1a,+ nf the True Democrat"
 Think of that, people of Arkansas! Solon Borland the personifcaton of islander and vi- tuperation, deprecating the introduction of per- sonalities into newspaper discussious!! Who would have supposed, that the man, whose en- ployment for the last six months, has been the aceekyy abuse of some of the best citizens oi Arkansas, should, when the chaltce IS presented to his oson hps," cry HoLD.!
 | The Doctor complains that our charge against him is indecent, alike in language and aVusioa'' Such hypocritical whinin. cannot shield you, Doctor. You had committed gross outrage against public decency and public virtue in this community, and in speaking of 1t, if we did not use language suitable to your delicacy, our apology is, that terms more dainty could not portray the hideousness of your moral tur- pitude.
 1 The Doctor says that our accusation against him and his schoolmishress, is '',otor1ously false in point of fact." Shame! shame! Doctor, for this denial of what is so familiar here to both your friends and foes! Do you expect to brow beat this community by such d brazen false hood? Why sir, we have not yet alluded to the grand denoumeN of your guilt; and the truth of the charge we brought against you is as well known to the citizens of Little Rock, as that there ever was town in Dallas county called D'ESTEMAUVILLE,
 NEVER GIVE UP.-We have not yet closed the running account we have with Dr. Borland. In vain we ask him for q settlement. He re- fuses even to reply, while, every week, our affairs are growing more complicated and dtli- cult of ad justment.
 Were not our motto "nerer gioe up" we should long since have despaired. But we can not be discouraged. We are determtnet to have a settlcmen of the vexed question. 50 come, Doctor, and tell Us, acere you ever a member of the Baptist church? Are you backslider?- Answer, in mcrcy's name, and let us get through with this catechism. We have a thousand other questions to ask you equally important, butif we make no more progress than we have made heretofore, we fear you will, in your fickleness, quit the editorial life before wo get through. Why are you sileal It is not usual with you to be 50. Come up like man, and "face the music' You claim to lecture all the world upon the subject of religious piety; the public naturally desires to know something about your oa0n past course of life. So tell Us the truth. It is said, sir, that "an honest con fesSion is good for the soul" Let Us have it.