Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-28

VI "i'H any ihlluence Col. Hlndman mipht exert with the President. Hisreplv wonld DC, ne had right to ask what he consider ed the most reliable information. he had more confidence in them (and this inc reSo1 luton presumes) he was responsible to the people for the manner in which ofY; COG ,,o,,o hIied-and It was absurd to sunnoOo So ;,,, Portant channel of information could be l3sed' whether it was designed to oct Col aiindman's friends place or to give him a hctitlous stand in the opinion of the Pre- sdent 'i'0 io-
 Ool. Hlndman's second reason for the resolution must, of course, fall to the pround with the first; for if they had no right to instruct the President and Senators absolute. ly' the fact of recommending or appointing Iol' Jacoway gave them no greater right. nave no doubt the resolution passed the convention without due notice or conside ration. The responsibility of the war is therefore on the progenitor of the resolu- tion
 Did the Senators act criminally, as in tered from one of Hindman's reasons for the resolution, in recommending the ap- continent of Col. Jacoway and the occu- pant of the Helena post office? 1 think not, and for these reasons: There is no tenet Tn the democratic platform opposing men politically because they have not al ways been democrats There is no. law or custom prohibiting it-and it would seem not only strange but unjust to condemn men for doing what the party has been do- ing since its organization. Col. Hindman claims great erclusiUe credit for the death of Sam m the first congressional district. His friends claim great credit for him on the same account, although his Herculcan labor was confined to the congressional district where so gallant knight was least needed Ii 1t had been simply the death of Sam and the glory attaching because of his death the presumption is, his gallantry would have carried him into " the thckest of the fight''-but if seat in Congress was in his minds eye as the result of this glory then, ot course, he was right for confning him. self to the first congressional district, as by law, living in the first, he could not repre. sent the second district.
 But for the present admit, "with his bow and arrow he killed cock robin" The great credit claimed for him-implies that he not only killed Sam, but sam had a for midable existence. Without the enemy were formidable, certainly the glory could not be sufficient to give man life estate Tn Congress; then if formidable, how were they defeated and what became of them?- Coi. Hindman, we must suppose, lifted the flood gates of his eloquence and poured it on them. He convinced them of their CT TOT, and they abandoned the teachings of their order. What became of those pize- rlnctums? They were invited into the de- mocratic party, they entered. Was it to make hewcrs of wood and drawers of water" ofthem? One of the blanks in the know nothing platform was to permit for elgners to come to this country and remain longer than under the existing laws before belpg naturalized. Another was that no man of foreign birth should be supported for any office of honor or'profit They could come, pay taxes and fight for the country. and. alter so long time, vote, but under no state ot facts or circumstances could they be al- lowed to hold any office; |" intense Ameri- canlSm forbid" The democratic party. with Col. Hindman as its self-installed champion, warred upon this as anti-demo- cratic, taking and maintaining the position before the people that it was unjust to in vlte citizens to our shores and make infe- riors of them; that all white men, under the constitution of the United States. were equals, and 1t was warning upon republican, Ism itself to attempt thus to make grades between free white men, that after the natu- ralization of foreigner he should come under and be tried by the Jefferson stan- dard-" honesty, capacity and fdelity"- And in support of his position, went on to show what advantage they had been to the countly-had done our fighting, had paid our taxes, built our cities, and had aided C in making the wilderness to blossom as the rose" "Look here upon this picture and on this"-Col. Hindman condemned Senators for recommending a man to office because the individual had been a member of the know nothing party.
 If 1t IS wrong to place foreigners in an inferior position, is it less so to thus treat natives? Is it correct in principle or in policy? Are not all precedents in favor of giving them all equality ofposition? It is true some men may, and doubtless did, join the know nothing party for other than pure motives and quit it for similar req son. 1hIs still Is no argument against this entire class of citizens. Such as thus dishonesty acted would be excluded by q more just rule, for if they acted from such a motive they would be guilty of dishonesty politically, and the Jellersonan rule would exclude them. But when a man, under misapprehension as to the real object of the order, or at first flush approved their principles and thereby got wrong-t the only thing he could do, after discovering the error, would be to get right. Is 1t good policy? Suppose every man who has ever professed different opinion. should be ex- cluded from the democratic party, how much strength would the party have? Not enough to elect any one to office or make one of its principles respected; con sequently the party would lose many of the stiff necked politicians who now eulo- calamity, in this view, would be worked to the party and to the country!
 The history of all parties in this country snow, when they make proselyte they do not thereby make an underling or serf, but give him white mans position. The goodness and charity of the American citi- zen would render nothing but equality; the pride, goodness and independence of the American citizen would accept nothing short of it.
 If, by the effort of Col. Hindman, great many of the democratic party were killed, and killed by getting its members to quit the organization and join the demo- cratic party-the same argument used against know nottingham, that is, that foreigners aided in winning our victo. ries, might be used now, for, by com ing to us they turned the tide of battle and thereby won for us the victory, which gives to Col Hindman so much renown. The spokes in the wheel that bore up this mon- strous load should not be lost entirely how often the ladder which bears us aloft is kicked down with disgust at the means of our ascent.
 think then, it is shown, the war com menced by the act of Col. Hindman, in
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