Des Arc citizen., 1859-03-04

'ehe AAS was sStCStCQ tQt ttidt 1tSDUflSt- bic position by private caucus, held in the room of a Know Nothing member, .afr. Johnson, of N. Francis and presided over by the Speaker of the House, .Mr. Oates, of .Moproe,) on Sunday night, November 7th. The resolution is there fore additionally important. Let us ex- anime it closely.
 RESOLVED, That all questions to be deter mined by this Conventions shall be determined by a majority of those who are present, in person, or by proxy.
 Who were presen. 6. the ,ime2 The printed report ofthe proceedings commen- ces with the statement. that "ihe Demo- cratic members of both Houses met" The Bible tells us that "when the sons of God came 10 present themselves before the Lord, Satan came also among them" So it was in the caucus. At the very first vote taken, the names of Know Nohinrs and Disorganizers appear on the record "The Democratic members were there :: "Satan came also among them, and the resolution 1 have quoted was designed 10 make room for him--in "the family" There seemed 10 be need for his servlcies, and, like a complaisant and obliglng devil, he was ready 10 serve his friends and customers He had been with them, cheek by jowl, in their secret, Sundaynight caucus-that was work suited to his taste and now, as true to them as they had been. to bim, here he was to do their bid ding. His hoof-marks are visible wherey- CT the ayes and noes are afterwards enter ed,and at the climax and finale of nomna- ton, his horns, hoois and tail all ap- pear.
 "IIe is friend indeed,
 Who Is friend in naed.o
 The Griffin resolution would have pass cd at once opening the doors of the eau GUS to all members of the General Assembly, of all politics and no pol i,ics-had t not been opposed by some good and true men, who had not bowed the knee 10 Baal and who remained steadfast in their integrity. Of such there was gallant band, who fought the fusionists with the valor of Leonidas and his Spartans, and, when overpowered by numbers, fell covered with glory and shrouded in the folds of the Democratic flag. One of these champions of the faith (.Mr. Barter, Of L,saspendence,) offered the following resolutions, as T substitute for the one have commented on:
 RESOLVED, That we, as representing the Democracy Of Arkansas, do cordially endorse the well-known principles and policy of our party, and fully approve that ancient well es- tablished and invaluable Democratic usage the Convention System.
 2.-REsoLvED, That none except good and true State ghts Democrats should De admit ted into Democratic convention or caucus, and we refuse to recognize any man as Dem ocrat who was elected in opposition to reg ular Democratic nominee, or who failed--un- less providentsally prevented--to vote for the nominee of his district for Congress at the August election, 1858.
 3.--REsoLvEp, That wk deem this suita able occasion for declaring, that--whatever may be the result of this caucus--we condemn and repudiate any and all appeals, by Demo- cratic aspirants, to Know Nothings or Disor- ganizers foa support.
 4.-RRsoLvEp, That we will not go into the election of Unittd States Senator unti! after a nomination has been made, according to our party usages and precedents.
 5.-REsoLvED, That as to the number Of votes necessary to a nomination, the same rule shall be in force in this caucus that governed the caucus of 1859, which nominated candi date for the Senatorial seat for which this caucus is about to nominate candidate-to wit: the two-thirds rule.
 As will be observed, the last of these resolutions proposed the two-thirds rule. The adoption or non-adoption of that rule was, of course, matter of expediency. In our national convention of lS44, il &C., complished much good, causing Van Bu- ren's defeat and the nomination of James K. Polk, whose administration was em- phatically the "golden era" Of the Repub, lie. Since then, in our conventions of 1S4S, 1852 and 1856, 1t has been recog- nized as an organic rule of our national as- semblies. It's repeal, by the Charleston convention of 1860, would be a triumph of the Douglas faction and crushing de- feat to the South. I trust no such galling calamity Is in store for us, but that the Charleston convention will maintain the old lwo-thrds rule and, under it's operation, place a. the head of our legious the bat tle- scared statesman Of Mississippi, J Ef- PERSON DAVIS, or entrust our standard 10 that lofty patriot. R. M. T. HuNrER, Of Virginia. Sill, as have said before, the application ol the tWO-thiEuS luie u oil Arkansas Senatorial caucus is merely q question of policy, about which difieren- ces ofopinion may reasonably exist among Democrats. must De permitted 10 say however, that opposition 10 that rule by the friends of the aspirant who was nomina- ted by this caucus of November 9th, 1858, l does savor of inconsistency, inasmuch as that gentleman certainly was nominated under the two-thirds rule in 1852. The old adage-'. circumstances being altered, alters the case"-may perhaps account for the change of tactics.
 But as to the balance of these Baxter resolutions, there was not the shade of q justification for any diversity in sentiment or in action. They declared no new fangled doctrine or practce--lhey added | nothing to our established creed and pre- termitled none of it--they changed none of our established usages and ignored none. In the fullest sense of the words, they were right, proper and Democratic. In every Democratic county convention held during the last canvass, they would have passed without dissenting voice.