Des Arc citizen., 1859-03-04

of isms will be spawned, 10 iced on tue dead body of Democracy. ag
 He would be deemed stupid com mander, indeed, who after series of brIl- liant triumphs, should relax the reigns of discipline and permit strangers to enter his camp unchallenged, on the ground that a still mighlier battle was 10 be fought. Yet this is the policy now recommended to us. Heretofore, under our ancient standard of State Rights, and our time- honored usage of close party communion land straight nominations, we have trl- Iulnphed gloriously over all opposition, whether assailing us openly, as old Whlg- gery did, or attacking us secretly. us Know Noibingsm did, or striking us with the fflh.rib dagger-,hrust of the assassin, as Disorganizaton did. Victory on victory has added strength to our strength. and our name is now the synonym of invinci- bllily. With but here and there an isola- ted exception. our flag floats iriumphantly over every neighborhood in the Slate, and we have popular majority already gl- gantic and fast becoming cumbrous. We are told that 1860 will demand all our strength. We tender t freely, The long array IS counted over--ihe uncon- ouerabe hosts of the Arkansas Democs racy are numbered, man by man. Of all the voters of the Stale, only q few Know Nothings. who hate Democracy, and . clan of laclious Disorganizers, who have betrayed it, are no, enrolled ard do not muster with our troops The next word is that we cannot fight the grcat fight of 1860. without the help of this scattered minority. Our prompt answeris IS thai tney repudale our principles and war on our usages that they are not with us be- cause they are not of us. Then voice comes whispering from a certain quarier,s that we must say nothing Of our old prln- cipes, lest we offend these super-sensl- tive Know Nothings,. and must be silent abou, our old usages, lest we insult these thin skinned nisofga ganizers; ,hatwe must not ask them 10 renounce their errors or to endorse our platform, but must offer them full and equal fellowship in our ranks, on the sole condition that, being unable to cleo, candidates of their own. they will vote for ours. If we by these means ssicaich these few men oi the op. position and chectually bag them, will it repay us for the great outlay oi con, sislency. self respect and principls9 Will not inc lasting injury iot Democracy exls ceed the temporary benefit to Democralicl candidates When the principles oi our party and the supposed interests oi our candidates are in conflict, which onght to- give waya In an issue between our measures and our men, where do we place ourselves
 Fellow-ciizens. the time has been when the bare asking of these questions, would be deemed gross insult by every man n Arkansas, calling himself Democrat That time --alas, that 1t should be so.--ls past and gone. Inthese latter days, many false prophets have arlsens preaching strange doctrines. By their precepts ana practice, they say to us that the end lustl- iies the means, and that men should De preferred over measures; that 1t IS not always expedient to proclaim our prIn- ciples, and is lawful and proper 10 ad- init the unregenerate Know Nothing and the unrepen,ant and traitorous Disor- ganizer into the Democratic sanctuary. Verly, if such teachers and such prose- lyles as these are of the household ot iann, and the Father of Democracy was here Tn person, he could not recognize his own children! ,
 But, dispensing with figures. and illustrations. let us lift the veil and look directly at the unclean thlng which the.e makers of graven images have set up for us to worship. ltis due to you--it is due to the occasion, to truth and myself, that should be clearly understood. I intend that none shall mistake my mean ing, except such as wilfully close the'r ears; that none shall fail to behold the leprous monster allude to, except those who are blind from choice. A
 have reference to the legislative cau- GUS held here on the 9th ol November. 1858. which nominated a candidate for 1 United States Senator. On the afternoon of that day. saw posted, at the street corners in Litle Rock, a haring hand-blll. which announced, under the shade oi the spread eagles wings, that "DEMocRAT- ic CAucus' would be held that night Tn this Hall. came here to witness the pro ceedings. What those proceedings were is set forth. with an accuracy creditabie to the Secretary, in the prined official report
 which hold in my hand. By that report, and by equally authentic facts, let the
 members of the caucus, and politicians out
 side of it, who shaped it's action, be judged
 by the country. Avowing here the kind
 est feelings towards many of those gen
 ,emen, and expressly disclaiming all in
 ten, 10 be personally offensive to any of
 them, shall yet exercise my Democratic
 right and perform my Democratic duty of
 investigating their acts and plainly censu-
 ring what 1 disapprove, be the consequent ces what they may. I freely admit how
 ever thai the responsibility for those acts
 rests on the leaders, not on the rank ana file who are not politicians. With these
 explanations, I have no further preface to
 offer, except that if the truth hurts, the
 fault is not mine.
 The first resolution offered in the cau-
 GUS was the following:
 RESOLVED, That all questions to be deter | H. +h;. Nonvantioa shall he dstermined