Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-22
An Ambush.

few poor devils of know nothings. who have not the sense to perceive that there Is an utter end of that unspeakable "plrty." an,l who still think 1t too dUruct hard that Am ,ri- cans are not to rule America, have last week male theIr last attempt in Tennessee to per Suade themselves that they still live. It is the last wlSgie, we trust, of the tail of the snake. before the sun sets on 1t forever.
 Now in the account we are going to give of the transaction of last week w. apDrize the reader that We mean Do reh ection up)n those men who were really the head and the heart of that party which, while in life, called itself the " American party;' for in fact from th, head the fan5s have been extracted. and from the heart the venom. We refer onlv to inc tail, the wigyng part, which also contains the rattles.
 The case was ths: To fill the vacancy on the supreme bench of the Soate, Thursday last was appolntel q, the election day. No other candidate had been even namei before that day, save Mr. Archibald Wright, of Memphis. to whom the bar Of Tennessee had at once turned as a powerful and dignidcd lawyer who would grace the supreme bench of the State bv hls learning and his virtues Ths election. ai- most by acclamaton. was entirely, as it ought to be, without reference to party We who write this article, mad not be ore that day even known of what "politcs'' MT. Wright was; aud had not had the curiosity to inquire. What we knew was, that all whgs, democrats and know nothlDgs, whose opinions are worth any, thnS m such matter, were resting upon the assured election of Judge Wright
 Thursday morning came; and it appeared that combnel movement had been secretly prepared over the whole Ssate. to run an indi- vldual oi the name of Walker, Ca very poor lawyer, but faithful know nothng) for su- preme u ge of the State, against Archibald Wrg t--whO, as It turns out, is a democrat It was a movement in the nature of an am- buScade: for most citizens of Tennessee being satisfied that Mir. Wright would be elected seeing they had no suspicion of any other can dldate, would be sure to stay at home and not trouble themselves to come to the polls An active gang of whippers-in, therefore, sent out amongst the more ignorant of the farmers might have a chance of bringing up voters enough to turn the scale for the know nothing Tn any one district or even in the whole State Then what jubIlation! With a sound know nothing on the supreme bench, surely impartial justice could not fail to be done.
 One can well imagine the topics urged by Walkers friends to induce voters to leave their
 fodder pulllng," and ride to the polIs.-- here," they would excam, '" is the bogus democracy going to thrust in Mr. Wright, an agent of the J Jesuts-and it is even suspected, Jesuit hmself--on the supreme bench of our otate' to decide on the properties and lives of iree-born Americans. Why of course the voter would put on his coat, saddle his horse, and hasten to deposit his vote against the "Je. suits" and the sag-nichts."
 Now the only reason we have for alluding to the thing at all, is that we may enforce the obvious moral;--namely, that all elections ought to be watched by all cltizens, and that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance Here have we narrowly escaped the disgrace and dnger of elevating into the highest of our Judgment seats man who knows nothing of Iaw, and Is know nothing generally;-aud of stigm itlzlng by rejection the man in our State best qualified to discharge an office so solemn.