Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-29
For the True Democrat. MR. EpIToR -Refnre this raaehas -

l VIII, doubtless have seen the published circu lar of Thomas 5. Drew, whlom Governor of this State, wherein that modest and nterestino gentleman announces himself as a candidate for Congress in opposition to Col. Albert Rust advise you to publish it, for it is worthy of preservation as literary curiosity, and by So doing, you will save me the necessity of copy ing il in ertenso
 The first paragraph modestly states that when party influences are permitted to triumph over great principles it is time for men of independ- ent thought, (Drew is one of 'e,n) to proceed to action. Wherefore be it known that Thomas s Drew, being man of ndependen. thought, as indeed he IS, Is about to proceed to action What he intends to act upon, or how he intends to act he does not inform us only that he is going to act in order to arrest the growing evil of the times.
 | The second paragraph is rather muddy. His | idea seems to be, that as the Camden conven- ton attempted to smother every impression of public interest," (which by the bye, will be news to every member of it,) Therefore the nomi- nee entertained sentiments at variance with the great mass of voters and his nomination is bogus For my poor part. I cannot exactly see the logic in this but the idea seems to be elaborated in the next paragraph, wherein he says that they repudiated certain State. rights resolutions and, hseretore pray you mark the hereiore, the said nominee has no claims. and the inference is that Rust was opposed to the Batesville resolutions, which, very probably. neither Col. Rust or he members of the con- vention had seen. Now that is what call laying down premises and drawing conclusions. That is logic-that is
 In the next part he goes on to say that as the convention did not affirm certain things | therefore the nominee is opposed to them, which, you will observe is very conclusive req sonng. Now, if mans silence or the silence of his friends on any point is proof that he is opposed to 1t, Col. Rust is in au awful predra- | ment The convention not being q know nothing concern d.d uot mention the Supreme Being, ergo, the nominee is an nide; it did | day, anl therefore Col Rust must be opposed to all these things. All of which, l bc5 you to observe Is clear as mud.
 1 He next goes to state that he is demo- crat by instinct. Some men are democrats from choice, from reasoning, from desire so do ri sht or from patriotism. Drew mark you is a dem era. by instinct. ue next tells us that he has been democrat for thirty years, which 1 Is, to say the least of il, news to Us all. Whit will his know nothing brethren say 10 th.s?- Can they vote for one .vhJ while iu their ranks was all the time a democrat, by instinct of course and Calhoun democrat at that?
 lie goes on to say, that he Was member ol certain conventions and the nominee ot others, admits that they are d time honored custom oi the party, but that he has recently been struck with the abuses in them.
 The plain English of this is that I, Thomas | 5. Drew, was convention man so lon5 d, 1 was honored in them, but having been preter- mtted-set aside for truer and better men, 1 ind that they are intolerable" 1 have known others besides Drew. to be suddenly struck wi tn such convictions, when they failed to get q nomination. Such strokes are very common among small politicians aho are sheveI. The balance Of his article couslsos of sort of rodJmortade, bluconbc allasiol to the risAta of the south, dislncnaton 10 take upon hm- self the laUors of a canvass gentle iliut that others have demanded that h. should run and a dlsavowaI of all aspirations, all of which We most devoutly believe to be a--nlotaae.
 You will observe that this circular of the to-wlt: modesty, logic aud perspcui.y. We congratulate the country that nan of iude- l pendent thought is about to proceed to acdon, 1 but We nope his friends will not let him act LOO violently. The weather k warm, the excite rnent of local elections and the stirring eyen,s of the day keep Us ali now at fever heat, but if he proceeds to action on the top of all tnis. there will be no telling the result. To the student this address of the Governors will be invaluable as q specimen of logic. Let hm mark the " thereiUres, the " "tanlamount,' aud the "maybe fairly presumed" and see how a man of independent thought can draw deiuc- tions. He will find no such examples in any of the books; the mode here adopted being per fecty original. Finally, to those who like twadle, bathos, and multitude of words grouped around solitary idea, this address will be about as good a specimen as they can find, for it might be all written in these words. ' l am the know nothing or consolidation, or peo- ple's party of the Union candidate for Congress in opposition to the democratic nomnee," which words, hal he used them, would have had the merits of being brief anA true.
 Nonews. We hardly made seed oats. The wheat is somewhat injured by the rust, and the crops are in the grass, but there is every pros- pect Of making enough aud to spare.