The true Democrat., 1856-05-06
Letter from Senator Cain.
Pocahontas, April 18th, 1856.

S~e1''O'0t EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE
 I have no intention, much less wish to enter upon paper war with one of your gigantic proportions Therefore, after this you are perfectly at liberty to say to your readers that you have annihilated me. In this, how ever, l shall endeavor to enlighten you, as to why It IS that some, perhaps great many de- mocratS in Arkansas, have been slow in coming to acorrect conclusion, as to the merits ordemer- it's of the doctrines of this Know Nothing par tv, which tardiness you seem to regard as crim ina
 The reason is plain to me- Captain. All that is generally nescessary in Arkansas, in order to be about right in State policy or politics, is to ascertain what is your mature and honest opin- ion, and then, if the subject will by possibility admit of another opinion, adopt that other; 1t will approximate what is right You are so prone to the wrong side of every question of State policy and politics that your opposition cratS that the given proposition is right; you, however though generally very calm in con- ing to wrong conclusions, do sometimes in a moment of rashness adopt, or rather in igno- ance fall upon correct one. So it was in the case of your opposition to Know Nothing ism; when you, as we may well suppose, were utterly ignorant of all the abominations of that order or party, but when it held to the princi- ples you now support it for, you took high and bold grounds aginst it. This was before many, if any democrats in Arkansas, had joined the party.
 Now, sir, look to what is stated above as generally correctrule, viz: that your opinions are generally wrong, and that those opposite are generally right
 Do you blame democrats undersuch circum- stances, for saying to each other that there must be something right in Know Nottingham; Danley is opposing it in the Gazette; he is al- ways, or at least generally wrong? If Know Nottingham was wrong, he and his paper would Ie on that side But, Mir. Editor, those demo- crats did not then know that you had still to gope through the labyrinths of Know No. thing council to your" mature and honest opin- ion" of the order, and that when you did so your opinion would be thereby changed as they were. When this happened that is when promul gated and understood, democrats may be supposed to have done as they should at first, that is they may be supposed to have be- gun to examine for themselves, instead of re- ceiyng your opinions as their political barom- eter. By whatever means the result may have been brought about, the fact is, that very soon after the editor of the Gazette hoSted at his masthead the dark lantern, a stampede occur red in the councils throughout the State.
 Do not grieve over this notion among the de- mocracy of your opinions. They do not attribute t to your want of morals, but are satisfied that your errors are of the head.
 will now endeavor to solve the fgurative problem given to me and all of my sort," but you must allow me to do this 6guratively. If blind puppy open his eyes in nine days the editor of the Gazette and Democrat will advo- cate Know Nottingham when every one else can see it to be wrong, and oppose it when nc one initiated can tell that 1t is not right.
 Captain, I must conclude; should have asked place in your paper for this, only that l am candid in saying that wish to cause you TO pecuniary loss, and fear that some of your readers might be so ill-natured as to quit your paper if they were to conclude as many of the democrats have concluded, that to be right they must be Numerically opposed to your teaching. therefore send it to the editor of the True Democrat, knowing that you are un- derstood correctly by the readers of their pa per, and that of course you will sustain no in- jury by its publication. w. R. CAIN.