Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
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'aih' Is the secret of an else impossible success?-d de Paudace et encore de Pau. dace."
 That audacity, bold, unblushing impu- oence' can effect great deal was proved 4 oy the successful attempts of T. c Hind- man 'o ootain the nomination to Congress. Du' "niie auuaclty may win, vulgarity seldom does. The last number of tho State Rights Democrat is before us and of all filthy sheets that it has ever been our i'll fortune to see, that Is without execution the basest and flthiest. So far as tho personal abuse is concerned, we might let it pass with silent contempt, but it is dueto the press and the people of the State thYt we refer to and condemn the course and language of that paper. Arkansas has an undeserved name abroad for want of intel. ligence and refinement and if unfortunate ly, number of the State Rights Democrat should fall into the hands of stranger he would be tempted to believethat the press of our State was bankrupt in morals and devoid of all decency. We ask any de- cent man who read a dozen lines in that paper in the last two or three issues. Ii 1t IS not a disgrace 10 the State wherein it is printed. To show that we do not exaggerate, we clip two or three sentences from its columns. We spare our readers any more, and excuse ourselves for quoting so much of the backguardism as is necessary to prove what we say. Her9 is one " elegant extract" from one article:
 "To quote staunch old North Arkan- sian, if hell was raked, and the earth scraped, and the sea skimmed,' the pro- duct would not afford such another coilec- tion of base lies and mean islanders. The devil himself must stand aghast at the prolific mendacity of Drunken Dick and his mortgaged chattel, Dummy"
 In another place he falsely fatters him self that the senior editor of this paper has condescended to notice his former slang, and rids himself of a mass of foul and | obscene matter, of which the following is mild specimens:
 "The one addressed to Richard H. Johnson, Esq, late of the Anthony House bar-room and the swillshops of Battle Row, was merely that he was a corrupt liar. Being one of the bravest as well as one of the dlinkingest' of men, Mr. Johnson uses-words in reply, devoting about a column to the subject" etc, etc
 And this is from the pen of a man WhsA is so proud of it, that elsewhere in the pa per he avows himself the author. Lan- guage that would disgrace the veriest drab that walks the streets, so foul that city bar-room or market loafer would be asham- ed of it, is printed and published and sent to the homes and fresides of decent white men, In the name of all that is decent, what kind of an opinion must this man have of the people of Arkansas, when he dares print and publish such disgusting ar ticles as those from which these extracts are taken?
 What must the press of other States think when they see such course pursued by journal here? And, worse than all. persons at distance not knowing how his nomination was obtained and finding such blackguardism was written by one whom the people elected to Congress, will think  the people of our State are like him. Yet for the man who does this, decent and re- spectable men have voted. Such course and such language is a reproach and insult to the people who placed him in situa- tion where he was expected to keep within the bounds of decency. It is disgrace to the State. It is a libel on the ArkansasA press.
 Oh ye Hindman men, where is the vaunted ability of your little giant? Is | this his talent? this his intellectuaitv?- Does his smartness consist in swaggering and when driven to the wall, in uttering curses and pouring out filthy expletives?- A moe specimen truly.
 His course had lost him the respect'of good men before, but it does seem to us that no man who has any regard for the common courtesies of life or respect for de- cency, can take up the number of the State Rights Democrat of April 9th, without feeling of shame that such language should befoul an Arkansas paper and that he who uttered it should be sustained by any num- Der of respectable men. And if he fatters himself that such course will meet the appreciation of the people of Arkansas, or of any intelligent community, he is mar velously mistaken