Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-01-05
From the Cincinnati Enquirer. An Old Saying Verified. 1t is a good and trite old sav;no +L.
No rogue ever felt a halter draw
 With good opinion of the law.

No rogue felt a halter draw
 With good opinion of the law
 The truth of this is forciblv illustrated bv MT. Ciapp the defeated black republican candi- uate Tor secretary of State in New York; onhartlng under his defeat and the want of ap- Pec!a'loh when large majority of the people | oi the Empire State have for him and his prin- ciples he cr'es out most lustilv that that major ltv Is composed only of "ignorance and cr;man D and applies to it other divers epithets indicatino hls ueTy small respect for the majority of his fellow citizens Hear the great defeated:-
 The time has come when the opposition to the democratic creed and policy should prepare tor combination of its powers, that the great battle of lo6O may be well and successfully fought against the myrmidons of slavery, isno- rance, religious bigotry and fraud These are the component material out of which comes all the power that the so-called democratic party possesses to-day. But for these combined under Its banner that party would be the feeblest ever known to history. It thrives only where igno- rance revels, and vice and crime hold their court.''
 As Buffalo, the city of MT. Clapp's residence glVeS three thousand majority against him, it must De an exceedingly bad place if Clapp's ! Hypothesis Is correct. In lew York city, which l 'O"C distinguished retormer Brother Greeley. Mr. C!app only got some thirteen thousand votes out ot nearly sixty thousand which were cast ms great metropolis of our country, the seat ot so large share of philanthropc, moral and intellectual enterprises of the day, with its hundreds of churches and benevolent institu- tons, and its hundreds of thousands of readers of the press, must be perfect Sodom in ini- quty and ignorance when judged by the stant- ard oi Mir. Clapp. In fact, wherever the pub- llc mnd was most active-wherever the press circulated the most and the opportunity of con- parSon of oplnlon was greatest-there was roll ed up the largest democratic majorities. In his general abuse and denunciaton of the demo- cracy MT. Clapp IS not alone and pecular- hls language ot dlsparagement and individual reproach has been lndulg lged in by all the defeat ed and dlsSraced factions which the democracy at various times, have defeated in their aspira- tons for power. Such is the peculiarity of hu- man nature, that 1t Is not remark able that these partlsans should seek to hide their hum latiou | by the most violent language against the major | ny oi the people-those whose favor they had failed to obtain. The old federal party was wont to characterize the democracy as the off, sconrngs oi creation, and their successors, the wings, boasted the possession of "all the intel- ligence and all the deceucy."
 The democracy have never deigned to make any other reply to this kind of slang but con- tempt Proud of their history; proud of their past achlevements-ot the great names which have illustrated it's career-of the immense ag- gregatc ot wealth intelligence and patriotism which, at ali periods have enlisted under its llaI, and borne it to victory, they are under no deceNslty to notice slanderous impntations upon their virtue and intelligence. We'll could they afford to compare notes with any other organi- zatlon that ever existed in this nation, for the possession of these attributes In peace and in war, the democratic party has been the main- stay and reliance of the republic. All the great national measures that ever was passed and al- lowed to remain upon the statute-b book were the work ot its statesmen. Alone of all other organlzatlon It has been ever unchanged and permanent, and Is able to trace it's name and history up to the commencement of the govern ment The opposition has been as unstable and shifting, both in its name and principle, as the winds and the tides of the sea. For the broken defeated and choatic opposition, seldom, if ever trusted with power by the people, and always dismissed at the end of one term--whose lack of statesmanship and sense in the past is noto- rous-to call in question the intelligence of the assesof the democracy, would be an amu- sing satire, if it were lot so grossly impudent