The true Democrat., 1855-09-04
Governor Conway.

The following excellent article we take from the South Stamp. It does the Governor noth- ing but sheer justice. We present it as an off, set to the abuse usually heaped upon Gov Conway by the know nothing organs of the State. It tells the truth and tells it we'll The editor of the South Stamp wields a racy and powerful pen:
 It may always be expected that the official administration of public servant will be, to some extent, maligncd and traduced by oppoa- ing political parties and party leaders, however blameless may be that administration. This we were prepared to expect from such during the administration of the present executive; but we were not prepared to expect that unjust cen sure which has been heaped upon Coy. CoN- WAY both as an officer and as an individual, by the whlg press, and by some presses controlled by the mOnied influence of demagogues profess sing to belong to the democratic party, who were envious of the Governors rising popua- rity with the masses. We say we were pre- pared to expect that his official acts would meet with condemnation at the hands of many; but we did indulge the hope that due respect for the dignity of his official position would have protected him against the low vulgar slang and billingsgate which has been, and is now being, belched from the filthy columns of that political nondescript at Little Rock, the Gazette, and echoed by the whig presses of the State, from the cideuant organ at the capitol, even down to the usually dignifed very! staid and sober Ouachita Herald He has been de- rided as "fool," an "idiot," etc., by these pa- pcrs, and others out of the State, whose editors have shown themselves to be not many re- moves from the category in which they would place Gov. Conway. But Gov. Conway has outlived these cowardly attacks, and laughs to derlsion the puerile attempts of these pigmies who are attempting to rob him of his laurels, and even to blacken his private character with foul calumnies and islanders.
 A great reformation has taken place in the minds of the people of Arkansas in regard to the administration of Gov. Conway--for he at one time drew upon his head the censure of large portion of his political friends, by refus- Ing to convene an extra session of the Legsla- ture to dispose of the railroad lands. Fms re- action has not caused the enemies of the gover- nor to be less active in their endeavors to cauln- mate him. Although there cannot now be found an intelligent unprej judiced mind in the State but that agrees that the Governors policy was more wise in the end than the opposite course, still he is not yet free from these insi- QuOuS anu CoWdiuiy InIuStS at nm, even In ms private and social relations.
 Elias N. Conway has, in our opinion, made the best Governor Arkansas ever had. He has devoted himself exclusively to the immediate interests of the State, and guarded its Treasury with jealous eye-thereby bringing down up- on him the anathemas of the political hawks about Little Rock, who are and have been. rea- dy to rounce upon their prey, at any moment when the keepers eyes are turned
 Letus see what Gov. Conway has done for the State:
 When he became Governor of Arkansas, the State Treasury was over- burned with heavy issuance of scrip for the ordinary expenses of the government, which 1t was unable to re- deem. This scrip, then at discount has been redeemed, and there at this moment over S6O,- OOO in the treasury. The State is now paying specie.
 Gov. Roane declared that the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas was Ga SEALED BooK"-a book which had lain upon the executive shelf. covered with dust, for thirteen years, whilst our State debt was allowed to increase-not even the annually accruing interest beingpaid. Gov. Conway has opened that "sealed book" and found therein means to liquidate nearly three quarters of million of dollars of the States indebtedness! Yet the Governor is to receive no credit for having accomplished thus much towards ridding the people of burthen under which they have SO long groaned!