Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

tenant ana ne walks to ms Ideal ScafIOId like tragedy hero. It is all very pretty;
 but unfortunately that is not the sin. He
 knows and so does every man in western
 Arkansas, that for years, he was the un- tiring opponent of the True Democrat and
 of Governor Conway, that he never lost an
 opportunity to asperse, defame and injure either. He knows too that we were aware
 of all this, that his machinatons were felt and often traced directly to him. When
 he or any other man choses to take ground against us, he has perfect right to do so and we would have our hands full were we to attempt to notice them all. There are
 hundreds of good democrats in Arkansas
 who have been taught to believe in raw
 head and bloody bones sort of clique or
 junto here, of which the True Democrat is the head. Some have been afraid of being accused of being "collar men," of "be- longing to the family" or by some other absurd cry kept aloof from us There are good, sound democrats who do not know us, take our paper or have any friendly feeling towards us. But the body of the democracy is with us, and those who have been deceived by these humbugs will even- tually see that our course has been unsel- fish, that these stories of iuntos and cliques are mere humbugs invented by designing politicians, who cannot command us So long as Col. Duval chose to tilt against us or Governor Conway, he went unnoticed and unquestioned. For a number of years he did this and no word was spoken. But when he struck at the party, when his op- position to the Governor and to US, led him to throw open the doors of the public treasury and his public acts became so fla grant as to call down the almost united voice of the State, then we took ground against him. Not for opposing us. but for other acts, the people, and not we, have pronounced sentence against him.
 Mir. Duval dropped stitch in the thread of his argument when he asserts at one time that our pets were so numerous as to defeat a measure and at another time shows that we had not strength enough to keep the members from committing the suicidal act of voting themselves money. It is a favorite trick with him, and others, to swear that we were so potent as to defeat any measure that we wanted to. If a good measure Is lost our pets or ourselves de- teated 1t. On the contrary, if a good mea- sure is passed they tell the people that it was passed in spite of our opposition.- At one time we are all powerful-at ano- ther all powerlesS. So far from slandering the House, we think the slanderer is Mir. Duval himself, when he accuses majority of doing wrong and sneers at them as our "pets." In writing an article like the one we are reviewing the author should be care ful to preserve consistency.
 Were we disposed to recriminate we could show him that while he was vocifer- ously in favor of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad, he was doing the very things to cripple and destroy it. We have no desire to harrass the last moments ofa dy- ing man. Wise men pity him--the light hearted laugh at him-all condemn him. He was so cager-so fevershly anxious to get majority of the legislature in oppos- tion to Gov Conway, that he made one step too many He fell and now wants to attribute his death to us. He might have saved himself the trouble of writing this in- genious article. We have no desire to provoke him into efforts that will exhaust him. Like the husband at the bedside of an expiring wife, we tell will him not to worry himself by talking, but go on with his dying.
 We must notice another evident slip of his pen. He says.
 "It is already proclaimed in the bar rooms and pot-houses, that l am doomed"
 The question arises how does he know | what is the sentiment in those places?
 That is assuredly the sentiment outside of those rooms and houses and goes to show with what unanimity people condemn him.
 To his personalitie. we lave very little to reply. What his opinion of us may be we care not. As lawyer he is said to be a good one-in all his social relations he IS, we hope, gentleman. As politician solely we have to do with him: as a pub llc man, his public acts are liable to ap- proval or censure according to their merits or demerlts. As politician then, we know him to be cunning, interruptions and | deceptive; actuated by personal feelings and pursuing his ends by underground or round about ways, and yet careful to pre- serve a semblance of consistency. After years of patient, untiring effort he succeed ed in achieving triumph, but in the mo- ment of victory found that his own polit- ical existence was the forfeit He cannot | obtain sympathy by saying that we killed him. It is the people-the outraged demo- cracy in whose great name he perpetrateda a great wrong who have stricken him, and we now say to him:
 "Shake not thy gory locks at me,
 Thou canst not say did it.'
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