The true Democrat., 1856-01-15
"A Reniniscenee

'' How fortunate wond 1t have been for this State, If the people had repudiated the name of Esds Y. Conaoay, for Governor, in 1852 as they dil when he was nominated for the same office in lS44.
 We clip this paragraph from the last Gazette for the purpose of branding the falsehocd it contains, and "vindicating the truth of histo- ry." Gov. Conscay acas never repudiated at any time, by the people cf Arkansas.
 In December, 1S43, Gov. Conway, "with. out his connivance and contrary to his expec- tations and wishes," was nominated by very full convention as the democratic candidate for Governor. The nomination was voluntary offering-an unexpected honor for which he had never even so much as reached out his hand. At the time, he was quite a young man far too young to aspire to such position. He accepted the nomination, however. Dr. Borland tells us, through the columns of the Banner that the reason of his accepting it was, because 1t "aoas almost unanimous, end so urged
 on him, at he did not teel ct liberty to decline" l Dr. Borland further says that, after his &C., ceptance, there some murmuring, and that "at the first voice of dissatisfaction he expres- sed his readiness to retire. With his acaui. essence, new convention was called. It was not so large and full as the one that had nomi- hated Gov. Conway, but it proceeded to act Gov. Conway's name was not placed before it. Daniel J. Chapman was nominated without op- position and Gov. Conway not envious of his good fortune gave him warm support until he voluntarily withdrew from the canvass In noticing this substituton by the second con- ventIon, of Chapman for Conway, Dr. Borand said, it was not done because "he ctanqe nqoye tuNy..naet tie ,oisaes cf majority ct Ate pa'ty"
 But this second nomination gave no more satisfaction than Gov. Conway's. Those who were dissatisfied at Conway's nomination were not appeased but, on the contrary, actually put out an independent democratic candidate against Dr. Chapman. Indeed the democratic party at large were pleased with Conway's nomna- ton, and had he continued a candidate, he would have been triumphantly elected
 Commenting upon his acquiescence in the acton of the second convention, and throwing back the sneers of the Gazette, Dr. Borland said:
 l Tn all these transactions such. as we have ind- eated It. has been the conduct ot Elias N G12cqy: and throughout. 1t has been that Of true Ge10cyat high -souted 9Gt,lot, ahd ah haaorable nun. And that he Is all this i'll the fullest and best sense of the terms eie s no hOnet C deny erea to d0ubt He can well afford, elevated he is in every good
 mans respect. to treat with the silence of coutempt and sook down with scorn upon the scuryy CUTS who | have been hired to bark around his hces-thev can never rise any higher, nor even wound him therc"
 Such was the compliment paid to Elias N. Conway by Borlaat in 1844 How differently he no,o speaks of him, it is unnecessary for us to inform our readers. They already know.
 Since then, Conway has been nominated by another convention. He made the race. and was elected Govepor of Arkansas the post he now so worthily and ably fills, ill the face of the strongest opposition that was ever gotten up in the State against a democratic nominee. He was overwhelmingly elected, though, from sickness, he was unable to visit single county Ill the State. The truth is, there is no man to whom the people of Arkansas are more en- dcared. His services to the State have been of the highest benefit, and he is gratefully retaem- bered for them