Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-16

ANYTHING BUT A "NGcE STRATEGEM. "- The following, from the Helena Indepen- dent Southron, shows to what desperate men will descend:
 The Tactics of the State Rights Demo
 orat and it's Bogus Editor.
 In the columns of this paper of the 16th February, there appeared an article headed ''The Order of United Americans, " which article consisted of the address of one Jon athan Pierce |" arch grand sachem" " of the aforesaid order and the comments of Bos- ton paper introducing the address, At the time of the publication of that number of the Southron, MT. Key, the editor, was absent, and the labor of conducting the press fell upon Mr. Bronaugh, who being engaged in his law office had but little time to devote to the paper.
 The article above mentioned was under these circumstances cut out of the Boston paper and handed into the .Soathron office for republication as mere matter of news. and without one word of comment on the part of Mr. Bronaugh, and the article so appeared in the columns of our paper, ger- ddttm etiterattm as 1t was cut from the Bos ton paper. Our printers, however, neglect ed to credit the article to the sheet from which 1t was taken, and Mr. Bronaueh, be-
 ing otherwise busily engaged, overlooked the fact, and said article appeared without being credited. This oversight on our part
 being observed by one of our friends, our attention was called to the matter the even ing after our paper was printed, and af- ter 1t was of course too late to set the mat ter right in that issue. We were further in- formed by the gentleman who did us the kindness to point out the omission. that it was understood that Mr. Thompson, editor of the .State R;gLts Democrat intended to notice the article and reie. to the comments of the Boston paper, as editorial on our part. We were we'll convinced that Thompson could not Honestly do so, even without any explanation on our part, as the matter of comment showed for itself, that It was not from our pen, because the refer ence to the Courier precluded that idea, as there was no such paper in existence in this region of country or in any adjoining State that we know of. Yet to remove all pos sibilitv of mistake or error on the part of Mir. Thompson, Mr. Bronaugh went in per son and got the original article as he had 1t clipped from the Boston paper, out of the Southron office and took 1t to Mr. Thomp- son, together with copy of our paper of the 10th inst, which contained said article and on entering the office of the .State Rights Democrat, informed Mr. Thompson that 1t was understood he would charge the comments of the Boston paper upon us as being editorial, because the article was not credited as it should have been, and Mir Bronaugh then explained to Mir. Thomp- son the cause of the neglect to credit the article, and at the request of Mr. Bronaugh, MT. Thompson took and read the comments of the Boston paper. from the strip which we copied into the Southron and on com parison found them precisely the same, word for word; and thereupon Mir. Thomp- son declared to Mir. Bronaugh that he would have known said comments not to have emanated from the lSoutbron without his attention being called to 1t, in the manner chosen by AIr. Bronaugh, as he confessed it to be perfectly apparent from the laguage of the comment that 1t was not ours. Mir. Thompson then proceeded to remark that he never took unfair or ungentemanly ad- vantage of such oversights, and never had been nor never would be guilty of an at tempt to misconstrue the acts of others or endeavor to place words in the mouth of another which he knew not to be his own, and Mr. Thompson seemed really indig- nant that Mir. Bronaugh could be led to believe him capable of such thing no matter from what source the information sprang. Under these assurances Mr. Bro- naugh left the office of the .SIote Rights Democrat feeling confident that the matter was at rest, and knowing that without mis- representation it would never be mistaken for editorial of the Somhyon.
 And so it did remain at rest for one week, but in the issue of the State Rights Demo- crat of the 26th ult., the matter is revived. and 1t is therein stated that the ''Southron of February 16th, contained an editorial in words and figures following to-wit;" and then comes the identical comment of the Boston paper which we pointed out to Mir. Thompson, and which he said was evident ly not editorial on our part, and then he pro- ceeds in another column upon the faith of one falsehood to perpetrate another by say ingt he southron (by virtue of this falsely imputed editorial directly indorses black republicanism and denounces democracy! approves know nottingham, and sections high protective tarriff' Verify the friends of the State Rights Democrat must be hard up for an editor, when that paper IS thus resigned into the hands of fellow capable of perpetrating and announcing w'HtW and