Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-14
From Desha County.
EDITOR TRUE DEnocRAr--

DeH" "'''' AiS 17t''' ItiCtpi OuI CplI 'liiltf was startled from itsrepos on Monday last, by the posting upon the store doors and posts of our village of an amnouncemeni, that the Hon.
 4. N, Ferguson, democratic candidate for State Senate, ior the district composed of the counties Of ettersor, Arkansas and Desha would address his fellow citizens of R dtork township on the poIit'ca! topics of the day, on Saturday the 27th inst, at this place, and that Judge Fletcher and the balance of mankind were respectfully iu- vited to attend. Having believed that the Hon. TAos. Fletcher was the regular nominee of the party and in consequence the democratic candidate for State Senator from this district, the community was of couse on the "qui ui0s' tp know who this second Hotspur was, and from whom he derived his authority " hch rendered him par excellence the democratic candidate of this people.
 Early on Saturday morning our town was filled to overilowing with the soverigus ready to see the ball put iu motion which was to open the canvass for the season. Judge Fletcher was on the tapis too, lookir as much surprised a3 the rest of us. Among other worheis we noticed several condi,tes for coautv offices '<So obing around for th sm les of ther particular friends, the people, and conspicous among the crowd was our t,leHtel friend Json Johnson, esl., the democratic candidate for the icgsla- ture from this coauey.
 The crpwd, after varias un'jl o'clock NJ, for the appearance If Col Ferguson became clamarou~ in rrpeltet calls for a speech from Judge Fotchcr TAe Jodae mounted the stand, aHd alter a,in5 that he had been called here tn meet C1l Ferguson, aul expc-.el to answer the Col, mol Q address the crowd him self; he stated shae he felt some little deuclcv in pitching into ihe Col. lest some migh. be d'poses to cons der that iu the Co's abs euce. h. had not been allowed fair play, but as i. was <, f'l-t, ,prtld by tlro Col. aud not by him- sell, ne fc,t that ha VoaId be justified in respond in; to tae AVt.r.r5 edl of his friends, and give thom h', views upon the various questions q, issue in the canvass iIe commenced hy assert ing tArt pltl vith1 q l.W 0; two past he had imagined tntt ie vaQIl have 10 walk over the course alone, taviaS ID opponent in the contest That the last conversation he had had with Col. Ferguson, that gentleman had distinct lv stated that he would not again be a couddate That at the De Witt convention the Cols friends had failed to propose his name, and had asserted that he should not be candidate.- That his name had been withdrawn from the columns of the Napoleon Planter, last winter, which paper had hosted his name at its mast head, and that this state of things existed up to l the 2Oyh of this June. When To, Col. F. sud- | denly makes descent upon Redfork, spends a ! night wth a distinguished rotation democrat in this vicinity. lh company they pay a flying visit to Napoleon, and the next day his banner Was flung to the breeze, and himself and the citizens of Redinrk were summoned to appear on I Saturday the 27th inst, and hear Col Ferguson the democratic candidate for State Senator, ad- dress his fellow citizens on the political topics of 1 the day. The Judge sad that he was unable to account for these transmutatiouS, bat upon the one principle that the Col had weakness that way. and was iu the habit ot chaa ,ing hjs 1 opinions poi.ticallv and otherwise. That in 184O, 1 the Col had failed to support the nominees of the democratic party, for President and Vice President and had loudly and boisterously lon- ed in the shont of 'rppecanoe and Tyler too.
 Again, when enjoying the confidence of the democratic party and honored by them with a seat in the State legislature, he had joined in the mad chase after the masses and found him. self baptisng disciples unto Sam. But sudden ly discovering ita whig trick the rcdoub,able Colonel was heard loudly eShorting the very men he had himself initiated into the heresies of know nottingham, to turn from the evil of their ways and again enroll themselves under the banner of good and glorious democracy Knowing these idiosyncracys of the Colonel, he was much surprised to find the Colonel sud. denly resurrected into a champion of anti con ventions, when that convention faile to nomi- nate him, and again sowing the seeds of ,lis,en- ton in the democratic camp. The Judge then stated that he was in favor of general levee law, so constructed as to build good and eff cient levees, and compelling those, and those l only, who were benefited and protected by the levees to bear the burden of bading them.- On the subject of the banks, he said that a con- siderable portion of the bonds of the Real Estat, Bank, through the promptness and fidelity of our Governor, Elias N. Conway has already been canceled aud th4t the assets of the bank in shape of mor.gagei bonds. were more than sufficient te pay she resnainder. He had heard l that the wire workers had endeavored to create
 the impression that he in some way would be in fsvtr of releasing these mortgages. In re