The true Democrat., 1856-04-08
Change the Order of the Day.

After an absence of a few weeks we return to our post to tind that several important chau- ges have taken place in the ltics of tic State. Solon Borland, the chamI mIom-in-chicf of Know Nottingham, has withdrawn from the editorial management of the Gazette, and Capt. Pike, the head and front of the order, las denounc- ed the recent platform and nominations These very remarkable and unlocked for changes, as mere matters of fact, afford Us hot the sli 5htest degree of pleasure, for we are indifferent about them, but as atfording positive and ihcortcsta- ble evidence of the waning fortunes of Know Nottingham and of the continued supremacy of the democracy as d national conservative party, we cannot but regarl them as important and significant
 We all remember the flourish of trumpets with which Dr. Borland enterel upon his cdi- toral career last summer-the predictions cur rent of his tliump ph-of the laurels he woud again gather as an cditor-of the consequent prostration of the Arkansas democracy to whom heowed his position his honors and his wealth and of the utter anuhila ion of ourself and the True Democrat newspaper These things are yet green in the memory of the most oblivious, and yet how different the end from the prediction. The democracy is still four ishing and growing, the midnight order has shrunk from all of its original distinctive fea- lures and issues and is HOW broken and Gisorgan- izecs The True Democrat still pursues the even tenor of its way with a subscription list double that of the Gazette, while Dr. Borland has found 1t necessary 10 retire to that privacy from which he so recently and 50 yauntin2ly emerged.
 We aIlude to these facts in no boaating spirit Indeed we feel no eiation oyer them, for they are what we long ago predicted and looked for with confidence. Dr. Borland is no~ forever done-for, and, we presume has made posi- lively his last appearance" upon the political stage of Arkansas. He goes, and, we say, let him ago. He bears with him to the shades of retirement no l-will of oars Our cause we have ever felt to be, not only just, but win ming oue and We are able to be magnanimous to those who have battled against democracy and have fallen.
 Of Capt Pike's position we have but little to say. We believe he is honest in taking it. but it is such that we cannot and do not in- dorse. It is all folly, and for man of his grasp of mnd 1t is truly surprising. So far as he dcnounces and opposes the action of the re- cent Know Nothing council held in PhiIadel.
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 stand how any southern man can do otherwise than he has done. But when his bitterness against the national democracy leads him so far as to decline to cooperate with it, and even to propose the formation of an exclusively south crn party, we must regard him as prejudiced to degree that amounts absolutely to a halluc- nation. The formation of such party as he proposes would be the first step towards dis solution of the Union.
 There is but one national party in the United States. There Is but one party in the republic that knows no north, no south, no east, no west and that party is the democratic. For souther- ners to oppose the democracy, to oppose these national democrats at the north who are stand ing up and battling for the equal rights of the south, is suicidal to the last degree
 We publish this week the circular of Capt Pike. It IS signed only with the initials of his name, A. P. Our return home has been so re- cent that we have not the tme to give it that notice in detail that we intend to do in fu- ture number of our paper.
 Capt. Pike and Dr. Borlands withdrawal from the support of the Know Nothing order in this State leaves the Know Nothings all adrift- leaves them without either head or tail- They have nobody left to plan-they have no- body left to execute They are dead cock in the pit The democratic party are left now al. most without opposition--lcft free to pursue that policy which of late years has elevated our State so high and so ranidlv