Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-21
The Arkansas Press.

fIlr of that place, where several hundred dollars were raised in aid of the Mount Vernon Association. The Advertiser pours red hot shot into the disorganizers and boldly stands up for the integrity of the democratic party. We clip the following from that paper to show what Arkansas is capable of:
 Our friend Thomas Bryant Esq, of Eleven folnts, sent us last Sunday, hand of tobacco. raised on his farm, which is superior to anything Ill the way or hne tobacco, we have seen. We do not know the variety of tobacco from which this specimen was raised, but it must cer any be a diff ferent species from the common weed generally grown Ill this quarter. We hope our friend may raise many teeming crops of the same sort, and may he never forget to send us a specimen.''
 The Randolph Herald has a correspond ent who reviews the account of the fancy ball given Tn late number of the Old Line Democrat and asks some hard questions The Herald notices a sale of 47O acres of land on Fourche du Mas, for six dollars an acre. Within ten years that same land will sell for sixty dollars an acre. If we have luck, some day we will visit that sec tion of country and see if its natural wealth and capabilities have been exaggerated. If not, possessing the best navigable streams in the west, good water, pure air and rich, black lands, there can be no limit set to its future prosperity. Our State, so long under cloud IS now emerging. Let the democratic policy of the present Governor be carried out, the debt on account of the Real Estate Bank be paid by those who owe 1t, the remaining debt funded and our credit restored; then, in condition to aid and carry on a system of internal improve ments, Arkansas will be among the fore most of the States. Land has doubled in value within a year or two, and all the elc- ments of success are here or entering the State. The Herald says that three negroes are now in the jail at Thomasvile, Oregon county, Mo-, who say that they belong to Mrs. Roxana Butler of Hot Spring county, ArhanSaS. 1Hell HaileS anu ages are, Loudon, 70; Clark, IT, and Mary, 22 The following hard hit is at our neighbor and we hope he will forgive us for copying it as we do it not to be discourteous, but to show that these provincial editors can rap as hard as we "captollians."
 "The Old Line Democrat has not been received tt ent! accomplished their work and gone to final sleep? If they have they had not the same conso- latlon the apostle Paul had, in view of approaching dlssolutlon-with them it is quite the reverse o the contrary but would suggest a true epitaph Tor them. if their paper is defunct-hic jacet-whch We should, in this instance, translate as follows 'HFRE'(s) IIEs.''
 No 6 of the Theocrat, published at liar. mony Springs, Benton county, has been received. This and the first number are all that we have seen. It is edited by J h. Spencer and Martha Spencer and devoted to spiritual, mental and physical reform. We may as well confess, at once, that we >~ere afraid of it. There is a well grounded fear among southern people ofareformers,
  hshed order of things. In the matter of food and raiment there is much room for improvement and the ideas advanced in the | Theocrat concerning them we believe to be correct. As to the religious tanets, we are not qualified to form an opinion. We are | glad to see the editor or editress in the number before us, express the views on the subject of slavery that we give below. We make an extract and wish we had room for the whole article
 "When will wisdom on the subject of slavery stand in human form and wied the sceptrc of uni versal development, agreeable to the order of divine truhl When will the ultraists learn that if | God made servants he made masters also? When will they learn that slave servants are treated bet l ter than hired servants? Who does not know that
 livery renter drives faster and loads heavier than | a livery owner? Who does not know that the | north, especially the eastern States and cities
 Hre tir0 rrhae slGreS mhere the souh has one bark We? Who has seen respectable white families sold almost within sight of the boasted Plymouth Rock to the highest bidder? Has any one seen this 2 Does any one know this to be SO? The united voices of those who clamor for riotous liberty and lynch law toleration, are loud in exclaiming NO no. But do not speak too hastily, for we have lived in the north as well as in the south, and what we say We know tob be true. Who will dispute us, when we say that we have seen many child rent from its mother and virtually sold to the highest bidder until 1t was twenty one years old? Many are the mothers who, after losing the companions of theiI bosoms, have, for the want of an annual assistance oi ten or twenty dollars to meet their necessary expenses, been forced to allow their children to bt bound out (sod) to masters until they were twenty one years old, for nominal value in dollars ant cents. This, the good people of the north will say IS all right; and why? Because it is customary, thing of almost daily occurrence, especially in larg, towns. But let this be done thousand miles iron nome, and published in an exaggerated manner and the city or individuals who would tolerate sucl cruelties as to allow forlorn widow a white wo man ot responsibility, to be subj ected to the painful necessity of having her children sold for a term years to those who would offer the greatest amour Ill dollars and cents, rather than contribute ont dlme each, yearly, to preserve the family circle would be denounced as iliberal and uns nsympathiZn; Tn their natures. Yet perhaps the very persoI who will stand and see the furniture of the idov sold under the hammer and her children sold, O rented out to the highest bidder, rather than giv one dime year to keep them together in peace plenty and happiness-we say that perhaps tn, sympathes of this individual may be so thoroughl aroused as to contribute hundreds of dollars to sist the black servant to escape from his master and take mp his abode in m uncongenial cline destitute of money, destitute of house home destltate of food and clothing, destitute of friends and destitute of mental ability to employ his physica strength for its own support h this condition suf 1erlnS Is the result of wants needs, and wants furnish strong temptation to every species O crime, and crime is the broad way which leads t' the prison and the gallows.''
 Further on, the writer asserts that tho normal condition of the black is servitud and this is compatible with the system o Divine economy. The truth is that siaver. or servitude will always exist. Wher ever there are rich and poor, strong anC weak or even degrees in intellect, some vii command and control others. At the nortl their servants are white-here they art black There they are ridden like hired animals-here as owned ones. There tff object is to get great amount of labor fo the smallest consideraton-her the con sideration is always paid and the object i to make them happy.