The true Democrat., 1855-08-28

z1lzdalsEalz lieve 1t 20 contrauention cf tue plainest princa pies of our constitution; at oar aoih the spirit O our gouernment, and fraugM aoih danger to th. cOuntry.'
 Such is the present position of the editors o the Gazette Out cf uteir o,on mouths we con- demn them.
 What then is the cause nf their sudden con. version to know nottingham? Some few months ago, subscription list was going the rounds 1T this city to raise funds for the purpose of esta blishing know nothing press. What became of the money thus raised? No press has beer established and none will be. Is it to this fund thus raised, that we are to attribute the conver sion of the editors of the Gazette? In oul mind there is not the slightest doubt on tho subject. We are of the firm belief that Bor land and Danley have sold themselves to the know nsthing order
 The Summer of l85O-A Reminis.
 / cence.
 Every citizen of Arkansas-indeed every ci- tizen of the south-will remember the sum- mer of 1850 The Congress then in session. its great eXcitement-the great issues depend ing before l--the importance of its action-the deep and intense anxiety of the south--car hardly ever be effaced from the memory of any southern man now living. The rights of south eners in the territory acquired by southern chvary, by southern blood and treasure, were invaded in Congress and were in a fair way to be forever sacrificed.
 In that Congress, memorable in the annals o1 the Union, Arkansas had three representatives -0nly three--two Senators and one member oi the Lower House. They were Senators SEBAs- THAN and BoRLAND, and Representative RoBr | w. JOHNSON.
 The struggle between the north. and the south-the south contendng for her dearest rights and almost for her cxisteI c9--was a long and bitter one, and only closed with the close of the session. Of the Arkansas allegation three in number-two of them were true to their constituents and to the south; but the third IlON GU ulLlScli d tIdljUT. l WI Ol lLSIIl SlOOu firm and true at their posts and maintained the struggle for southern rights, night and day, dur ing the most intense excitement, to the last; but the Mard deserted in the heat of tke action and basely fled from the field of battle.
 This IS not too strongly drawn picture- Every one will remember the intense excite. ment--the vital issues at stake-the great dan. ger of the very disruption of the Unon Dur ing all this time VIM. K. SEBASTIAN was in his place in the Senate and ROBERT w. JOHNSON in the House. During the whole struggle they were both at their posts, steadily and firmly maintaining the constitution and the constitu tional rights of Arkansas and the south
 But lVhe'e was Dr. Borland2 He had fled. He had deserted his colleagues. He had left the interests of Arkansas and the south to tak care of themselves, and had returned to his quiet hom at Little Rock, Such was the as tonlshlng conduct of a southern Senator. at T time, when southern rights were invaded and in great jeopardy!
 Dr. Borland arrived here during the great est of the excitement, about the last Of June or the first of July. He came home and re- nallal he Joianee cf hie s1tn4me,--the taAance of tte session, lclich htstei Mro~gl Julb Augua and c part cf Septe1aLer. lie would neither % back nor resign. He held on to the oifice but ialicd and refused to perform his dutiesl lie renamed here making speeches to our citizens telling them of the dangers of the south, when both his voice and his vote were needed It Washington city,,
 Such was the conduct of Borlaud in inc greatest crisis the south ever passed through. Happily for the south there were true southern men enough, who stood at their posts, and by their influence and votes succeeded in ,rlssiDg the fugitive slave law and in carrying out the great principle that Congress Aas TO po,ger ore, he sugct y szarery in Me .States o,. Is17ito- 1Tes
 And Borand is still belraying his rccklessness of southern rights. He has now deserted the democratic party and joined the know nothings who, at the north, have beat down the national democracy and elected an abolition House of Representatives, and elected to the United States Senate, Hoze, Seward, Wilson, BeU and others, aN GJolitioniSts. He is certainly consis tent, but oh! what traitorous consistency, He deserted the south in 1850, and left his seat in the Senate at most critical juncture, and he has how become one of the leaders of a secret polItlca! organization, which originated at the north, and whose every victory Meye has been an abolition triumph over the south.
 Such is Borland, the apostatc democrat and the leader of the know nothinss! The leader Of the party whose President, Capt Pike, de- clarcd they intended to instruct our present de- mocratic Senators out of the Senate at the next Legislature. Instruct out WM K. SEBAs. THAN and ROBERT w. JOHNSON, who stood by the south and remained true to their constitu ents, and.put in, we suppose, Capt. Pike oaa S0lon B0rland /!
 Such is the entertainment to which know no-