Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-30
A SUMMARY STATEMENT,
Of the Feud, Personal and Political, be-
 tween T. C. Hindmau and Qurself.

Rock, this month, to utter in our face the insulting language he has perpetrated be- hind our back, we cannot consent to wait longer before we open this subject to its depths. We have waited long and patient ly for the time of his coming-he volunta- rily pledged himself to come, and he threw out the pledge to cover the baseness of his conduct-yet he now wholly fails.
 In the Old Line Democrat the following letter from him appeared:
 HELENA, Nov. 12, 1859.
 THOMAS C. PEEK-Editor Of the OH Line De rnocrat-DEAR SIR: have just heard of serious accident to my mother, sister and three llttle neces, near Lamar Mississippi, on last Sunday They were returning, in a carriage, from church, and the driver had stopped to shut plantation gate, when the horses started, became alarmed at.the screaming of the children and ran away, breaking the carriage to atoms. All were considerably in- Jured-especially my mother, her collar bone being broken. and she being otherwise badly hurt At her advanced ago. (of seventy years the result may be very serious.
 am her only son, and she is widow. Duty and affection call me to her, and shall leave on the first steamer.
 An improvement in my mothers condition will perhaps enable me to fill the few remaining appoint ments made for me in eastern Arkansas. But there is no probability that I can be at Little Rock on the 24th inst. l regret this as l was especially anxious to be there.
 Please announce the facts in your paper, or pub fish this letter. you think best.
 Your friend truly,
 T. c. HINDMAN."
 In the subsequent issue of the True Demo- crat, we expressed our surprise and our doubts in reference to this letter. The apology was so shallow, we thought it one of his usual subterfuges to throw his ad- versary off of guard, and firmly believed that he would yet come. That he felt his failure would subject him to the merited animadversion of all honorable men, his letter bears ample evidence. The minute detail-the allusion to his aged mother the elaborate apology, where, under other circumstances, none would have been re- quired, go clearly to show that he felt some thing more than ordinary must be offered to exculpate him from the consequences of his failure. What are the facts? If he went to his mother at all he must have re- mained with her but day or two. His letter is dated on the 12th inst at Helena We find in the State Rights Democrat that he was advertised to make a speech at Pearce's Mill on the 18th, and, in subse- quent number of the same paper, that he was there and made it. If then he paid his aged parent the duty he pretended, he must have done it very abruptly. His mother lives in Mississippi-he left to go to her otter the 12th, and he returned to Phillips county Jetore the 18th. The truth is, his old mother was lugged in, and the sacred affection between parent and child was appealed to, to cover the dastardly act he felt he was committing.
 But, if he had truly desired to fulfill his promise to speak in Little Rock, he still had the time, even after his speech at Pearce's Mill on the 18th. Thirty-six hours of travel were all that was required to trans port him here, and he could easily have ac- complished | by the 22nd or the 23rd- the 24th was his appointed day to speak in Little Rock But he chose rather to make other appointments for Phillips county and he was accordingly advertised to speak on the 26th at Richland, and on the 28th at Helena. Why thls sudden anxiety to address the people of Phillips county? Were there reasons more weightv for his doing so than coming to Little Rock? There were none. and none can be imagined, unless 1t be an anxiety to escape a promise that he had not the courage to fulfill. His conduct has been as cowardly, as his excuse for 1t was elaborate and false.
 The feud between Mr. Hindman and our self had an earlier origin than he has had the candor to admit It commenced inst before his nomination in complaints against us for not denouncing the democratic con- vention in Greene county, which instructed against him and for Judge Greenwood.- His animosity however was carefully yelled until after his nomination, when it broke out in audible expression. While he was the State as the democratic nominee, and we were supporting him with an honest zeal, he openly assailed us at Clarhsville and other places, on the subject of railroads, and characterized our posi- ton as contemptible one. We made no reply to these attacks, but continuel our support of him as the democratic nominee for Congress. These attacks he continued not only in his speeches, but in his conver- sations, without any reply from us, up to he meeting of the last legislature. Early n the session he came here as lobby mem per to defeat Senator Sebastian. As he vas confined to his room we did not meet lim for several days, and not until we re- ,eived an invitation from him, through mutual friend, to call at his room; at the earnest desire of our friend, who was the bearer of the invitation, we accompanied nim to Mr. Hindman's room. We found Mir. Hindman in bed, sick. A reconcilia- tion was effected, but it failed of any per manent results. Mir. Hindman sought this reconciliation for no other purpose than to prevail upon us to aid him against Judge Sebastian. That we declined to do. and the reconciliation was, upon his part, as it afterwards appeared, mere hollow, insin- cere truce. It did not produce the point he hoped for, and he accordingly felt free to violate 1t whenever self-interest should prompt him. This is the only interview we had with Mr. Hindman, and the many he has retailed in his speeebes as having occurred between us, are of his own manufacture, and base fabrications
 Sebastian was triumphantly reelected. and Mir. Hindman, baffled, chagrined and enraged by the miserable failure of his lob by-membership, returned to Helena to com