Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-08-18
From Washita County

CAMDEN, ARK, Aug. 6.b II
 Mir. EDIToR-Yoa will see by ca,os.n ing over the election returns for Wash. ty, that the democratic vote was neara :, and the know nothing vote about 55o theless, three of the nominees of ou convention were beaten-that is to so minees for sheriff, tax-collector and soI missioner. All the other nominee, Wan. that is to say, the nominees for Conc. Senate, representatives, county tre,su,.. ty surveyor, county judge, and inter- provement commissioner. But vor that although We carried so many of tho nees and had this clear majority of .h yet that some of our candidates n. only by few votes.
 For circuit judge, clerk and corona. no nominee in the field. There va,
 ton for clerk made, but the nomins. fused to accept it, and then afterwaa, ed to do so, but in the canvass wo.
 toOtecp' that many of the best denoc,' ferred an open disorganizer to ncb
 the result was that he withdrew from tb. before the election day and left ths .,. walked over by his competitor, who b.s \ coming disorganizer was a regular L. ing, but professed two years ago to b,v. and sought re-admission into the ,,nL democratic party.
 This weak. brother was no doub+
 the noise made by the disoyganizers .,I nothingS for some weeks after the n,,; which grew beautifully less" and k, the day of the election.
 For the office of State Senate, ,h two candidates, one recommeaisd h ,1. by the convention of this county pb;.. tifcation by Calhoun county; the o.Bs, 4 minee of the democratic conventor ., named county as " hrSt' last and only cho
 Abbott you will see beat Furgo.n Is votes for the House of RepreseB,-. though as we have seen, there ws,! mocradc majority in the county of ,.. votes, and Aboott's personal popular,, toriously great. Furguson, however b, Il | personal popularity-is a connection o Warren's by marriage, and is the m.,.. partner of Byra Warren, the brother api Foster, the brotber-in-l law of Col Wars, first, from the "noise and confusion :. time, aud for short time after Fur,r,,, come a candidate, it was supposed by man his election was beyond all question; aud i, that time, another know nothing broths,., of Col. Warren was called out thDD, newspaper, but he did not consent to run
 These circumstances together with ii. that know nothings were from time otn.s ing out for most of the other offices o,. the eyes of many of our friends, who hi h lending too ready ear to instinc,irs convention, independent and ether pg Ag. democrats; and caused them to fall into "a aud face the enemy, many of whom WEI our camps, in the garb of friends.
 Hence you will see, that under all azl stances, although our victory has not bee, together complete, we have done mnysa well; aad we intend to fight on until the. organizers, whatever they may profess, 6 know them welD shall work kindly r ranks with us, or openly against us in tAsi of our old enemy. Neither our priucips usages are hew, but both are as old as ibel itself. New principles and new ua,a peculiarly within the province of our sar with us, "whlt is new is not true" Ibst of our enemies, however, are not new br almost as "old as the hills" Pindsa usages are all and all with us; men alEu condary to both Hence it is, that mar creant democrats, find to their astonis1 that their desertion affects the even tenMt way, scarcely any-at-all, and come la back, to await better opportunity to belg cause. OLD-Sl