The true Democrat., 1856-06-17
Letter from Conway County.
 LeaoisJaug, June Sd, 1856
'e'00''' y' 0 '140 00i 4OOO, Col. R. H. JOHNSON

Col. R. Il. JOHNSON
 Dear Sir:-Cn Saturday last portion of the citizens of Conway county met at Spripp. field to hear that tremendous man, Gin his own estmation,) )General James, would be Governor Yell. The meeting was small, but it is due to say that the appointment was not generally known throughout the county The General first endeavored to impress the audience with a due sense of the importance of the person then addressing them, and showed them to hi, own complete satisfaction that he was the nor. sonification of all the talent and wisdom in Arkansas. He attempts to show that the dem. ocratic party north were all abolitionists. and this not by any proof that he produced but by n'y say so and 1 am General Yell-"I ought to know"
 He had the etfrontery to solemny declare that the democratic party was not the same now that It was in l849, when he was canvass ing the State for elec.or, that he had not chang. ed principle but that the democratic party had abandoned all its old principles and killed off all its old leaders and as proof of this he cited us to Wise, Caruthers, Stephens and Ben. jamin, all old whigs, and if you would believe Gen. Yell, now they are the leaders of the democratic party. The General seemed to think that because the Know Nothing party was so odious that these men could not afE. ate with it, and because they had no other party to go to, save the democratic, therefore the de-. mocratic party was the old whig party, or per. haps no party at all. He forgot that Cass Pierce, Douglas, Richardson, Jeff Davis, Quit. man, Conway, and host of other time honor. ed democrats were still "rulers of the people, He asserted that the sag-ragRts, as he was pleas. ed to call them, had hired bullies and ruffans to go about with clubs and pistols to keep the people from going to hear him speak, for they knew--nairoJile dictu, that no honest man could hear him through and not be convinced of tLe truth of what he said. He affirmed that attbs Louisville riots five Americans were killed b. fore single foreigner was injured He told the same old tale about the Real Estate Bank and that the Johnson and Conway family had grown rich out of that rotten institution. He disapproved of the Kansas and Nebraska bll
 He ayowed that Gov. Conway had not paid cent of the State debt, but had only cancesd State bonds with bank bonds or stock belong. ing to the State, and many other humbugs too numerous to mention. He talked as though he was among the most ignorant of the human race, and when man stoops to use the means which Gen. Yell employed to advance his cause his case must be hopeless, utterly hope less for no man but one in the last extremity of despair would take the position occupied by Gen. Yell. After speech of two and half hours, he, like Crockett'S man, event into the same hole that he came out of" and l think that the Generals tale of the calf's tail and the augur hole is more applicable to the General himself than to the democratic party For he Mir. Editor, did most emphatcally caw through an augur hole, and if any part remain. ed out 1t was the one mentioned.
 It is surprising that man who occupies the position and rank of General Yell should make use of such frivolous pretexts in the place Q. | argument; and because there is no one to follow him and show the incorrectness of his state. ments, should try to delude the honest unsus pecting citizens of our country for the sake his own aggrandizement. The democracy d Conway are pretty we'll united, and will carr the election by large majority. The labos of General Yell, who spoke at Springfield and also at Lewisburg on the same day, have ro advanced the cause of Know Nottingham n this county. The campaign is now hr! opened and we hope for triumphant success DEMOS