Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-29
.,e Voters of the Second conversational District.

ont physician there to abstain from such
 .od exercise of my vocal organs as I
 nscessarily undergo in canvassing the
 By care and prudence I hope to re-.
 ,,,irelv from a disease which I am as-
 will otherwise prove permanent and
 tualls fatal.
 ..,ey desired to visit and address my
 atsens in every county in the district.
 ,,. nr purpose to have done so. This pur-
 sb extreme regret and reluctance I am
 Had to abandon; have deferred making
 .oouncement until now, with the hope
 .;,bt be otherwise. Though an obscure
 =, ustending to have acted very con-
 ,., part in the politics of my adopted
 .f which I have been citizen for more
 tventy-one years, or of the nation, I
 r;.hout incurring the charge of vanity.
 bo nermitted to presume, from the fact.
 in inc absence of any electioneering on my
 dssiled majority of all the voters in the
 mot at their primary meetings, instructed
 :. delegates to the Camden convention to
 ,beir votes and use their influence to place 1 in tbe position which I now occupy, my ,.oaents personal and political are known
 onproved by you. l have always been a ,.ocrat From my boyhood to the present +nent. through sunshine and through storm, ronoh good and through evil report, my zeal Ia aevotion always awakened and increased len its prospects, were most gloomy, and dan ], seemed to threaten its overthrow, I have
 atsringly supported the candidates, and de- ied the principles of my party.
 |T am informed that some one has assumed Et am opposed to a Pacific railroad, a wagon kd upon the 35ih parallel of latitude to Cali Fna, and to affording aid and encouragement |General or President, or Bandit, and Pirate lillian Walker. With regard to the two first ppastons the person so assuming has been iltv of very violent presumption. While ,tterlv deny the right of the general govern mi, under the constitution, to embark in a tem of internal improvement in the States, eclared myself, in canvassing the district r years ago, in favor of the great works in ,stion, as a means of military defence in time  war, and upon the principle of economy to government in performing and discharging tain duties and obligations civil and military our States and territories upon the Pacific s and those between the Mississippi river and !. Rocky Mountains in time of peace. While. lecte.l, I shall do all and contribute all in my wer to promote the construction of these great rks, I cannot promise you by myunaided ef- ts, to build ether of them, and having jour. yed this far on my political way without the of hobby horse 1 must be excused from untng either Of these as such, at this late frankly avow that for Gen. William Walk have never felt either sympathy or respect. ig1g his charac,er from his pablic career, s vain. selfish, egotstical, cruel and reent- to the last degree To gratly an ignoble, ause selfish, ambition, he seems willing to urb the peace of the world, and 10 wade to city dominion over a poor, weak, unoifeal- and semi barbarous people through seas ol d Thousands of the brave, generous and hlsastic but misguided and infatuated youh h our own country have fallen in his uuholy sade against one or perhaps more of the Gen. American s ates As man and as poli- n what do at all, prefer to do directly, akirg from none of the responsibility which fly attaches to my conduct.
 The right of self preservation is an inherent nt T. is written by God upon the hearts of n and of nations, and is higher than, and we all rights derived from written laws and stutions If thn public safety requires | we should have Cuba, or Central America, my other territory lying contiguous to or ' our present possessions, in the name of great nation, after failing in every other ms. let us take it by force. If the national or demands tha. we should senl our fleets the Thames or before Coustradt, or an army nvade Fra cc, though every vessel should lessroved, and every man should perish, we do it! Because, 1t has been well and truly that there is one calamity greater thaD h, that can belall free people; and thiS is onor. But towards our feeble, our harm ard defenceless meighhors, let us religiously rye all of our treaty stipulations; let us be yea, forbearing; because these are qualities oh become great nation, and a brave and unanimous people. + is particularly the in- st and the duty of the southern States at iuncture in our domestic affairs, to culi- these sentiments. The are the weaker ion of confederacv threatened with wrong aggression by the stronger. Let them pre- -e clean hands and aa unbotted record. Ii crisis should come, which seem to be impend- over the slave States, let ( cry son of the th be able to say to our yet brethren of the -th, I've have dealt justly by every people have abstained as studiously from infiicting ng and injury upon the weak and powerless upon the strong. And we are ready to re- t and repel any aggression, any wrong or llt, or outrage, or injustice, any invasion oi constitutional rights at your hands, to the extremity, even until every southern State D unpeopled desert"
 The limits of a circular will not allow me to 'uss the questions upon which I have per s, too frankly, for policy, expressed my lions, and many others which now engage public attention.
 Ii conclusion, my fellow citizens. I will pro- @ you that every measure intended and cal ted to advance the national interests, tc ect the national honor or increase the ma al renown; every measure intended to pre- se the equality of the southern States, o elop the almost incalculabe resources oI
 own young but growing and prosperou, te, will receive my cordial and jealous SUD- t. On the other hand, any measure en aching by a hairs breadth upon the rights an,