Washington telegraph., 1856-05-21
GEN. JAMES YELL,

This distinguished gentleman, VINO has
been selected by the American party of Ar
kansas. as their candidate for Governor of
this State is at present. the object of just
such unsparing denunciation and abuse, as
to the unprejudiced mind. affords very good
evidence, that it is by no means his utter
insigni6cance, as his enemies would have all
men believe, which calls forth these attacks;
on the contrary, this vigilant and unceasing
warfare which is waged against him. shows
so plainly that he who runs may read,
that the party in power are forced to the
adoption of this desperate system Of tactics.
in the vain hope that BY securing his defeat,
if such thing be possible, they may for
while prolong the feeble tenure by which
they manage to hold an unsteady seat in
the places, which for the good of Arkansas,
let us hope will soon '.know them no more -
Gen1 YELL has been a citizen of Ar
kansas for number of years. He removed
to Pine Bluff when that place was in its
iufancy-and by steady and resolute pur-
suit of an honorable vocation has achieved
independence, and carved out for himself
a character for ability and trustworthiness,
which is so far above the reach of his ma
ligners that they cannot touch it with their
abuse or sully it with their vituperation.-
An Independent. straightforward, thinking
man Gen'l YELL, in his devotion to his
professional duties-and the faithful dis
charge Of whatever public trusts have been
imposed upon him. for his history is by no
means barren of evidences of the conf
dence in which the very party, who so ca
lumniate him now, held him-has managed
to keep free from the sin of man Worship
and has refused to
@Crook the suppllant hinges of the knee
That thrift might follow fawning"
For these things. and for the unpardona-
able ofence-unpardonable in the eyes of
the party of which be is the fearless opponent
of exercising the freeman right to think
and for daring to refuse to cooperate with
those who would have used him as they use
others-as a convenient tool-Gen'l YELL
is called upon to submit to every species of
opprobrium which these masters of the art
of detraction see fit to couple with his name.
We are very much mistaken if the course
which is pursued towards the candidate of
the American party will have any other ef
fect-than to awaken a spirit Of enquiry
among the people which will result in a
comparison between him and the present
incumbent of the Executive chair of this
State, anything but favorable to the latter
gentleman; fer Gcnl YELL is certainly very
far superior to Governor CONWAY in point
of intelligence and ability, and in every at
tribute which should be found in the char
acter Of public man.
General Yell was one Of the Presiden-
tial Electors in this State in 1913. The
very party now in power were at that time
in the hey day of success, and it is very
improbable that they would have selected
as the representative, in a very important
capacity, of their principles, man so
unfit to figure in public, as they would
now have the same public believe General
Yell to be. The idea that they would
have done so is an absurdity in and of
itself From that time, we assert upon
unquestionable authority, General Yell
stood high in favor with the Democracy
of the State; repeated manifestations of
their belief in his fitness to represent and
vindicate their principles were given him,
until it was found that he, seeing what,
to all, save the wilfully blind, is evident,
that new vital and important issues had
arisen, which demanded the attention of
the people, saw fit to announce his deter
mination to cooperate with the American
Party, and to lend the weight of his in
fuence-which is feared even now by his
reyilers-to the building up of State
policy which might, in some measure, aid
this great State in her proper develop
ment; when, not more suddenly shifts
the chameleon his hue, than shifted and
veered the repeatedly expressed opinions
of the pseudo Democracy of Arkansas
not as to General YelPs sincerity in his
devotion to American principles-but as
to his ability, which, time and again, they
themselves had admitted, and voluntarily
and without any solicitation On his part,
confessed What transparent sham
When the present incumbent of Cub
ernatorlal honors, casting about for some
expedient wherewith to regain lost ground
and gull the people into belief in his
fitness for the Office which holds him, hit
upon the happy idea of a protracted
dabble in the affairs of the Real Estate