Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-30
Per Diem Pay.


 Per Diem Pay. We are in receipt of a number of com munications on this subject, some of which we make room for this week We give them as evidences of public sentiment, with out indorsing them, only so far as they agree with our views, heretofore expressed. Those views, as we expected, are misrepre- sented, and the Fort Smith Herald says that we endeavor to excuse our friends on the score of their imbecility The writer of that article, who is seen behind the men of straw he sets up before him, first tried to cover himself with the action of the Senate. Finding that this left him still exposed, he crept behind his brother members and tries to intercept the blows by using them as shield. Now, he swears it was the Go- vernon, and on him should rest the odium All this twisting, turning and holding up of shield will not, shall not save him. From the day that he lost the nomination for certain office and vowed vengeance, he has opposed every act of Governor Conway; has made it a nightly study and daily acts. There are not a dozen men in the State acquainted with the relations between the parties, who do not believe that if the Governor had refused to adjourn the Gen eral Assembly; if he had done what they now say he should have done, the same men would have sworn, Justify and round- ly that he had refused to do a plain duty and that, by his negligence, the State had lost thousands of dollars. He says he op- posed the action of the Governor When did he ever approve of one of his acts?-. We repeat, that some of the members hon estly and earnestly believed that they were entitled to their daily pay during the recess; so believing took t and are ready to an swer their constituents. And to such men, we again declare, the epithets of dishonest | and venal do not apply. Others didnot so believe, but were induced, coaxed, misled and deceived into it. We assert, unhesi- tatingly. that on the 17th of January, the resolution that forced Mir Oats to resign, could not have passed But, after days of intrigue, of persistent striving, and manu- veling, enough were persuaded to vote for it, to carry 1t. And this was done prinei- pally by the agency of one man, who kept behind and directed the movements. There the odium should attach and there it shall attach. Like the pigtail that hung to the head of the old man, so this thing shall hang to him, though he turn and twist like an india rubber man:
 There lived sage in days of yore,
 And lie handsome pigtaii wore;
 But wondered much and sorrowed more,
 Because it hung behind him.
 He unused upon this curious case
 And swore he'd change the pgtail's place,
 And have it hanging at his face,
 Not dangling there behind him.
 Says he sThe mystery I've found;
 Ii turn meround.' He turned him round,
 But still it hung behind him.
 Then round and round, and out and in, All day the puzzled sage did spin;
 In Van-it mattered not pin
 The piGtail hung behind him.
 And right and left, anl round about,
 Anlup and down, and iu and out,
 lie turned; bur still the ;igtlii stout
 Hung steadily behMd him.
 And though his efforts never slack, Aul though he twist, and twi.l and tack, Alas! still lithlid to his back,
 Tine pgail hangs hehnd him.