Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-06-22
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abusive of us, which he endeavors to make appear to have been instigated by some in suit offered to him by us, while we were absent on other business. Of course the insult was imaginary, and merely feigned to enable him to vent malice that seems to be part of his nature We have been absent for more than four months past, during which time we have taken no part in politics-have not written an article for a newsparer-have scarcely read news paper, and consequently could have offered no insult to Mir. Hindman. These facts, we feel assured, he was aware of, and hls attacks upon us are without justification.
 With Mr. Hindman we cannot bandy empty epithets. It is game at winch on ly a man of his desperate fortunes could consent to play. It is a rase always re- sorted to in vulnerable cause to draw at tention from the real issue We do not, and cannot, regard Mr. Thomas C. Hind man as gentleman, and feel that insults
 offered by him carry no sting with them. He is a member of Congress, and his posi- tion gives importance to his political acts sufficient to claim notice at our hands; but his political eminence neither adds an iota to his moral worth, nor enhances, in the slightest degree, his standing among honorable men.
 As we have before said, we have given Mir. Hindnan no provocation for his war upon us. It is one of his own making, and his motiTe we can readily comprehend-it lies on the surface of his conduct It is to be found in the simple fact that we did not take part in the effort to sacrifice Judge Sebastian to Mir. Hindman's ambition.- Judge Sebastian and Mr. Hindman, the Senator and the Representative, both re- sided in the county of Phillips, and the re- election of the Judge for six years more, MT. Hindman feared would embarlass him, in all of his future contests, with the ques- tion of locality. This alone was Judge Sebastian's sin. And however atrocious it might have seemed to Mr. Hindman, we think we should be pardoned for viewing it differently, when it is remembered that we knew Judge Sebastian as an honored citi zen of Phillips county, many, many years before we knew the State of Mississippi had even given birth to such a prodigy as Thomas c. Hindman.
 Those who joined Mr. Hindman in his sell fish politics and made war upon Sebastian to please him, are now Mr. Hindman's fol- lowers, while those who declined are made the subjects of his bitterest maledictions. Mr. Hindman has even gone farther.- Reckless of the interests of the democratic party, he has introduced into it an element, the product of which has been nothing but discord and Reorganization. Notwith- standing his recent citizenship among us, he has arrogantly assumed to himself to institute new tests by which old democrats, many of whom have had years of residence in the State, or were born upon the soil. are to be tried, and if they do not sub servlently subscribe to them, he proceeds at once, in his little paper at Helena, to read them out of the party. He treats the democracy of Arkansas as a conqueror treats vanquished people. He forgets they are freemen-he regards them as slaves.
 While in this city last winter he declared, we are told, that, in this warfare which he was then planning, he had burnt his ships and broken down his bridges other words, that he had destroyed the last op- portunity of return to the good feeling and harmony that pervaded the party year ago. It must now be war and war to the knife-a war that could produce no other result than annihilaton for himself or his enemies, if not ruin and destruction to the democratic party. He has thrown reason behind him-he has abandoned principle-and now looks only to personal squabble, to place at his bestowal the highest honors of the State Though he has been honored far beyond his deserts, he is not contented With a seat in the national House of Representatives in his possession, he seeks even to control the election of the United States Senators.- His presumption and ambition know no bounds
 Whether MT. Hindman will accomplish all he has undertaken, or not, remains to he seen. Undoubtedly he has voluntarily inn posed upon himselfa task, the accomplish ment of which will require vast resources. The conquest of a free people by a needy adventurer is no easy matter, and when, by the burning of his ships and the break ing down of his bridges" all chance of re- treat is cut off, 1t will be found to be attend ed with no little risk.