Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-28
Beginning Too Soon.

Politicians and spectators should re- member the memorable motto of Ravens
 wood-3' bide my time.'' They are too
 eager-they begin too soon. They give
 the people too much time to unravel their
 plots and see into their cunningly contrived
 tricks. The Real Estate Bank party have ruined all their hopes by putting in the lead a politician who overdoes things and | who never can wait for the iron to become
 heated As long ago as 1858, combina- ton of spectators was formed with view
 to secure the lands mortgaged for the pay
 ment of bank stock. Of course, Memphis
 was the headquarters of this concern. By combining the capital, making terms with interested parties and attending the sales in body, they could crowd off competi- tion, buy the lands for a song and leave the State to pay the debt. But this game will be blocked by the State having the funds and an agent there to bid on the lands when offered, and make them produce some- thing like their value. A further move was to represent that the mortgages could not be foreclosed and that the lands would bo released by the courts To this end 1t was reported that the best legal talent Tn the south had been secured, and a fee of ten thousand dollars paid to each of seve- ral prominent members of the bar Tn Lou. isiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. One thing is certain:-when the contest comes the State will have opposed to her an i'm posing array of legal talent, not only from our own, but from our sister States. All that human ingenuity and legal skill can do will be brought to bear. The game will be important, for the stakes are millions, while on the one hand are spectators and bank debtors, and on the other, the people of Arkansas.
 It was evident that if an excitement could be created against the democratic party and it split in twain, and Governor Conway and his policy rendered unpopular, the bank party, under the guise of old line democracy, might get control of the State. With legislature under their control they would have "a dead thing" Hence the violent abuse of Gov. Conway, of the True Democrat, that has ever advocated the po-  Hey of making the banks pay their own debts, of prominent democrats throughout the State, and the desperate efforts to di- vide the party. But the very means adopt ed will defeat their ends. They began too soon. They have given time to have their schemes exposed. Instead of blinding the people with their humbugs of caucus.' public printing' and taxation," the people will learn of the great motive at the bottom of this movement Instead of in- timidating us or crppHng our efforts they will find us bolder and more active in de- fence of the rights of the people. With Gods help and the consciousness of duty to perform, 1t will go hard with us if the people are not awakened to a sense of their danger. And, mark our prediction, In 1860, the majority of the members elect to the General Assembly may be.anti John son or anti Sebastian, or ti-Hindman men, but before they can be elected the peo- pie will require full and explicit pledges from them, that they are anti-bank men, The honest yeomanry, the taxpayers of the country will see to it, that men are sent who cannot be bought or bullied into mea- sures for the relief of bank debtors. Not | only will the people resent this foul wrong attempted to be perpetrated on them, but in that day woe to the politician, who, pro fessing to be their friend, prostituted his talents and position to betray them In that day these disorganizers, speculators and sharks will feel the force of our remark that they began too soon.