The true Democrat., 1856-06-24
Personalities.

When Dr. Borland retired from the control of the Gazette we hoped that personalities would be banished from the newspaper discus sions of this city. Personalities are unpleasant to us, as they are to the community, but when forced upon us, we never shrink from them
 The Louisville Journal from which the Ga- zette quotes, says the following was published in the Louisville Democrat:
 "Knoeo Nothingism.-JTe learn t1oos tIe Lfttle Itock True Democ1at, that scarcely maQat pusses tut houses mt 5oen open and ru5braes cenitted in tut caty."
 The offence contained in this against the cit. zens of Little Rock, is not in the contents, but in the caption. The caption, nor the language itself, is taken from the True Democrat. Such charge we never preferred against the citizens of Little Rock
 Presuming the above paragraph to be true the files of the True Democrat to test its truth, the Gazette says:
 'Wc presume the Louisville Democrat quotes right ly from its brother sag ncht of this place. We did not observe the article from which the Louisville De- nocrat extracts It's paragraph, whenit published lore If we had 1t would have been exposed and de- nounced calumnious tssehood at the tilne We now take occasion to denounce it false in it's length and i'll its oreadth'
 This paragraph, under the circumstances, is objectionable and beneath a gentleman. It is low, dirty effort to place us in position that would iniure us in the estimation of the cti- zens of Little Rock With but a moments trouble the editor could have found out the truth, and, if he noticed the article at all-- could have done us the justice that was our due. That, he did not desire to do, but with his usual low cunning, he sought to inhict upon us an injury. As for the Louisville Democrat. we never see it, for itdoes not exchange with us. Whether it ever contained the paragraph, we seriously doubt. We are, at all events, un- willing to take the word of etherthe Louisville Journal or the Gazette for the fact. As for the Gazette's defence of the citizens of Little Rock, it not needed. If their reputation de- manded the defence, they would be too low down ever to be benefited by it.
 In connection with this subject, the Gazette alludes to the alleged breaking open of the door of the secretary of the know nothing lodge of this place, and the theft of the know noth- ing records; and he insjnuates-he does not charge-that the ritual of the K. N's., publish ed ill the True Democrat, last year, was thus obtained. This is the second time this insinua- tion has been made We branded Dr. Borland for making it before. We now brand Capt. Danley as a calumniator and slandercr for re- beating 1t. When he made the usinuaton there was in his heart a cowardly consciousness of the knavery of the act, and to avoid its con- sequences he added this paragraph:
 We ullide to these coincident facts. They can go for what they worth We make no charges against any one"
 The Know Nothing ritual that we published we obtained from the columns of the New Or leans Delta. ltwas got by us in no clandestine manner. Besides, the ritual was printed off, on the outside of our paper, before the robbery was committed.
 If the robbery was ever committed, which we doubt, when the truth is discovered, it will be found that 1t was stolen by some Know Noth-. ing who Was ashamed of his connection with the order and desired to destroy the records No other than a Know Nothing could have known where the records were deposited. The secret was alone with Know Nothings.