Des Arc citizen., 1859-06-15
For the Des Arc Citizen.]
 WHO IS THE KNOw-N0THINGf

understood that, although a man may
 loudly proclaim himself to be one thing,
 while his whole conduct proves that he is
 not what he pretends to be, but something
 else, yet his pretensions are not entitled
 to credit. In fact, it is no uncommon
 thing for those who are really guilty, to
 attempt to avoid detection by accusing
 others of the crimes which they themselves
 have committed. The application is this
 The managers of the " True Democrat
 whom, for the sake of giving them local
 habilation and name,' I will style
 Messrs. Dick Johnson & Co.,, broadly charge all those who choose to differ from
 them in political faith, and more particu- larly in matters of expediency and choice of ofice-holders, with the sin of political
 heresy, and denounce them as Know No,hings and disorganizers- colleagues of Danley, &c.; while Messrs. Dick John
 son & Go. are infallible, and are the only " Simon Pure" Democrats in Arkansas
 We are practically told that unless we think just as Dick Johnson & Go. think, we cannot be Democrats. They are the standard, self-styled and self-constiluted- if not, who created them standard of democratic thought and aclion7 have observed that they are far more tender and sensitive about the choice of men than of
 measures--that it is far greater offence Ito oppose Billy Sebastian, or any other member of the Royal I'll Family, than to be opposed 10 n strict construction of the constitution, or in favor of protective tariff, or of Americans ruling America.
 We are also told further, that all who oppose Dick Johnson & Co.,, in any re- spect, are Know Nothings and disorgan- izers, whose chief glory it is to distract and destroy the Democracy; and it matters not how firmly they believe in and adhere to every principle of the democratic plat form, they are not Democrats unless they are willing to sacrifice those principles when necessary to elect one of the Royal Family to office, but disorganizers We are told that the Uould-be Goyernor and his friends are the only uncontaminated Democrats: all others are disorganizers, Sc. Such, in effect, are the teachings of the True Democrat" Are these things truea Let every Democrat hear, con- sider, and then answer this question, for himself Are the Anti-J Johnson Demo- crats Nothings and disorganizers, who are trying to distrac! the party, as the True Democrat" allegess If so, when and where did they ever ally themselves with Know -Nothings? Was it in that amalgamation caucus of the 9th of Novem. ber? Ireply that they were the very men who spewed the disorganizng and Know Nothing members out of their mouths, and protested agains. their taking seats in a democratic caucus. Not so, however, with Johnson & Go. They, and that arch de- magogue, Sebastian, found great solace and comfort Tn introducing few delectabIe Know Nothings, and few sweet disor- ganizers, into the caucus. A few votes were needed there to help Sebastian beat Gen. Hempstead, in the nomination for United States Senator; and the Know Nothings were dear creatures thens At that crisis, the Know-No,hings were not such frightful and odious objects but that Sebastian and the Johnson collar-men could meet them in a Know -Nothing's room, and hold a secret caucus. 10 devise plans to secure Sebastian's nomination at the legislative caucus to be held on the 9th of November following. This was done on Sunday night, by the ringleaders of the True Democrat" and few dis organizing members of the Legislature, who beat regular democratic nominees for that office, and few Know Nothing mem- bers of the same body, with Sebastian in their midst. Now, with these facts before the people, ask them to say who love the Know Nothings best, and who are in with them. Who but MT. Oaies, Ga Sebastian man, was il that loudly de- clared in the Senatorial caucus, that the rule by which Messrs. Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan were nominated for the Presidency, was " an,i-democratic - that IS, the "two-thirds rule;' thereby asserting that the conventions those men were not composed of Democrats, or else their action was un- democratic. Yet this doctrine is endorsed by the .'True Democrat" by its approval of the course of the majority of that eau cos of the 9th of November. When and where did the opposers of Johnson & Co. ever repudiale national democratic con. seniions Yet, forsooth, Dick and his strikers are the only Democrats in the