Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-12-15

.nesSha'ure oI hhu-rO whose cOmmunica- ton appears in the issue of August Ist thus resolutely disposes of it:
 Tour own city can perhaps furnish name eoual- potent ana lar jess obJectonable-an why not at once give It to the breeze earnest of your deter
 lnatlon to stand by the positions you have taken in support of great progressive principle. He is A gentleman of equal abilities in every respect has i aii s'ock or good common sense; is man of fair iegai and literary acquirements; was reared in the State-hs home Is here and ever has been: his every lacuity Norates with response to the calls of his friends and the demands of the people. He is capa- pe ana ready to take the lead in this great struggle now coming up in support of the strctest definition oi southern rghts-and why not call him at once to his post. First assign it. then call him to take his position. and for one will not permit mv,eh to donot that Col. BenJ. T. Duval will be found equal to the occasion.'
 It will not do in accounting for these incon- slstehcles to plead that there has been a recent cnahge Tn the editorial department of the H Her- aid, as almost all our extracts are from articles written before the change was made, but even that Is matter of indifference as all it's ostensi pie editors have been unit in opinion on the points presented. There have, moreover. occa- slonally appeared in the editorial columns of the Herald, articles whose precision and cohe- renee Of statement-whose flowing and grace fully rounded senteEces-and the grammatical OD. so different from the characteristics of its ordi. nary editorials, leads the careful reader to the conclusion that there Is an unseen hand that attempts to guide the "writing on the wall" These we'll written articles appeared quite fre quently just before the last gubernatoral nomi nation, and at intervals since; from one of the most recent we have made brief extract or two. Viewing these facts we can only wait up. on the future to reveal whether there be any special individual influence exerted over the Herald that will cause 1t to continue, as it has been tor some time past, the particular advocate of the merits and claims of one who has been honorabiy distinguished as par excellence, "a western man." Would it be considered inde- corous to suggest to the Herald in the mean- time, the propriety of the pretermisson of its denunciation of "He family?"
 We have not referred, except incidentally, to the application of the principle of rotation to our congressional delegation. In the Fort smith Herald Of August 1st, appeared a com munlcatlon over the nom de plume of "Toro," Ill which, In urging a change, the writer assumes the following position:
 " Another reason why rotation in office is right is this It IS scarcely possible for who are kept in
 high official stations for long series of years (espe- ciay United States Senators who are elect bv the
 
 feel and understand the wants of the country ike man fresh from his constituency feeling and appre elatlng all their wants in common with his own'
 We submit that this argument could be more pertlnenty applied to the advocacy of a change in the mode of electing, and the time for which United States Senators are elected, than to mere change in the pc, sonnel of the delegation Neither of our Senators will, on the expiration of their present terms, have served but one full and a fraction of another term The ob. jection taken would apply still more fDrcibly to any incumbent hereafter elected to second term by he legislature The term of service beng for six years, should Senator be elected to, and live through, second term, does truly constitute " long series of years" If "Toro," however, means that single term is ia long series of years,' he should advocate the short enlng oi the term; If he approves of its present length then he mustinvarlably oppose a re cleo ton. And so long as the legislature elects the Senators, the second obiection--that the Sena- tors do not minge with the great body of their con'tltuents--wll apply as strongly to the sue cessors of our present delegation to the lat ter themSelves;-nor do we understand Toro'' to imply the contrary. But these points are controlled by the constitution of the United States. Arkansas has delegation of two mem.
 
 tors have no open and official influence in the legislation of the house, the representatives none in the Senate; they can act only in the positions to which elected whatever influence either may possess out of their own chamber is private and personal. Now, as our State has an area of rather over 5000 square miles, each member, in his own chamber, would re- present an area of over 26, ,OUO square miles, and a white constituency of more than SO000 per sons But for the arguments sake conceIing, what cannot be rightfully demanded the full benefit of the numerical strength of the entire delegation, dividing the area of the State and the white population by four, and each mem- Der will represent an area of over l3,OOO square miles, and white constituency of over 10000 souls, passing our figures on the census of 1850, not adding anything for seven years increase. Now, as to locality, 1t is our belief that you might cut the State into four equal portions, and then choose d person living at the precise centre of his fourth, and yet he could not, of himself, know all the local Wants and desires of such a constituency. The interested portion of his constituents must discharge their share of duty by writing and informing him of their pub lie wants and interests There are some per sons in this section of the State that assert that 1t has been shamelessly and shametully neglect ed; in substance that "all the roais run to Little Rock" In the congressional grant of railroad lands the lines cross the entire length and breadth of the State, bsecting each other at Little Rock, the western terminus at Fort Smith. To make the roads of any value to Fort Smith and the west, they must have all outlet at some point, and where better than at Little Rock, thence giving us a connection north, south and east?-whlst our western ter minus is the index finger pointing the route of the great Pacific railroad That we have lain idle, nor made even an effort to avail ourselves of the grant is no fault of the delegation; the opportunity was all they could secure to us; they conld not compel us to go to work. That our brethren in the lower part of the State have been wiser than we and sotton to work, should excite our emulation instead of our envy and spleen. In the matter of expeditions and sur veys, such as Marcy's and W nipples, this DOT ton of the State has had three to the one of any other portion of 1t. Because small wagon road expedition and survey recently passed via Little Rock instead of coming by Fort Smith, there are to be found here and there, "a western man" that would seem to be determined to make it the occasion of going into convulslons or into--Congress. Let the west fully acquaint the delegation with its con-
 
 let it demand that they be attended to faithful ly; and as they act let censure commenda- ton be visited upon them, but let Us at all times be neither more or less than just
 As closing specimen of the variety of state- ment as to the condition of the state indulged in by the Fort Smith Herald, we present the following extract from reply to all article in the True Democrat:
 ' Now if this glorious condition could be clearly traced to the office holders, to any policy of theirs, not held in common with the whole democratic party
 to some exclusive fitness they alone possessed for he administration of State afairs-the argument wt ud indeed be answerabe. But the people must tail to the logic oi the True Democrat, ill this genius attempt to glory the present State officers by to them the prosperous condition of the treasury. They have had little to do with it, and are little entitled to praise for it, they to ensure for the failure in the cotton crop. They have faithfully discharged the duty of collecting and keep ing the revenue but the amount of it is regulated by the rate of taxation, and tie amount of taxable property in the Satc The latter has increased with an amazing ralidity in the last few yeursand it is gratifying to know that amid the wide spread ruin, now expressing and devastating the country, Arkan sas Is in a state of prosperity. We glory in this