Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-08

Mk- EbiEuk-Ae lfotulscl 70 my olrlm1 | cation, published in your last number ] li's again to the qualifications of Col. Rector to a seat in the United States Senate. And ava as previously remarked, that the sharac,srls and personal history of the man, are mean | blyunknown to the public in some locaEda the State, propose in the present Ertss say something of his origin. early assOaria ' opportunities, etc.; not unmindful at ths sEi time, that under ordinary circumstances, ba this sort might prove dry and uninterest,. i, tail. But the imminently critical cOndhsI which the rights of the south, have fl @ time past, been placed and the hostile inalaa surrounding them in the halls of national s;s lation, makes it necessary and proper thsal people know intimately the man and them terial out of which the man is made, yk proposed to be sent to Washington as thaip credited minister-their sentinel to sOuli approach of the enemy and ward of the b aimed by the northern assassin at the t the prosperity, the freedom, and the ezsiA of the south.
 Col. Rector is by nativity MiSsOu1n Virglnian parentage on either side. His a associations, inculcations, impulses and app1 ments, considering the station to which he aspires, are as they should be.
 For although, many, yea, very many Of T thern extraction are patriotic and deyote.aa institutions of their domicil, coegst1n, non grAa mstant, qua trans mare cu,7uat. Still all N' " proves the mortifying influence of eary as cation; and none are found so true, so unblsAs ing in moments of heated contest between north and the south, as those born on souaai soil, and cradled in the arms of black nus The human heart ne'er fails to beat reSpOa to the impulses of first love, A tathsrS ne'er sought in vain the sympathy of is sa
 Just recall for moment, Mr. Editor thsf nal illustration of this principle, in the shA7 ful history of a Walker in Kansas ThOr northern bred, yet early by adoption he Ssa1 citizen of Mississippi. Ignoring theP Ps' A for the present and future becoming PAla prominent in his southern home, he wS iS tsern Daan loith southern p,iHciPlesl IAsl of superior abilities, obtaining, as he di confidence of the confding southemef @ proteStations in behalf of the south, ws D Senator from that high-toned and PaS State. But alas! for his country and hs z the germ of northernism vegetated in hs r He fell prey to juvenile influences a'a ranks an apostate in the camp of the ens'F True l did not propose to indite the hS0' Mir. Walker, though it might not prove y profitable task for some southerner to doS the history of one man oftmes fors| that of another. Reasoning from anaog example of Gov. Walker might tend exercise of wiser counsels in future.
 Admit then, that southern Senator Y to be southern man, q mean by birth a' cation.) Ifso, thus far, Col. Rector, s0a'1', by birth and resident of ArkansS 'l earliest youth, must be conceded "~ M bil," to meet the exigencies of the case And before I have disposed of ths s']- x will, if l may be permitted to do sO l'" l parallel between some others of hs l'' competitors and himself, touching tnh of the question, when we shall see "n'' my theory, l shall bo borne out in P'"
 adverting to some of the political m''
 have taken root, perhaps unconsc'ous9
 the carcasses of some of the asplrahS
 distinguished station.
 Observing, however, the cardlaN
 truth and brevity' in writing for ns''' I close for the present, hoping to turn '
 at the. advent of your succeeding nu'D' With sentiments of great esteem am very truly, your oo''' THIRTY YEARS IN AhA'