Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-30
A r.;++1e Hot Tmuudeuce.


 crat, after putting on airs and saying that he desired no controversy with what inc hippantly and in humble imitation of his ally of the Gazette termed |" the chattel, ' the next week, in a strain that no decent man can read without disgust at the words employed and contempt for their author, makes personal attack and among other foul and filthy things, says,
 No one would be justified either in using the cow-hide or the boot to punish a drunken and inpudent deaf and dumb scribbler.''
 These are brave words uttered at safe distance. Nothing is more ridiculous than bravado on paper, and we have theory o1 our own that a man who is ready to tell what he would do in the event of a quarrel is, at heart, either a murderer or coward for he either intends to kill or torun. But we may be excused for, ,remarking that ii the editor of the State Rights Democrat, Or any of his cubs, wish to try the yet mtried experiment of the cow-hide or the boot, no protection will be claimed, all supposed disadvantages will be waived and he, or they fully justified.
 The article from which we have quoted is a type of the man and his mind. Lan- guage so disgusting that it befouls the very ink with which 1t is written and printed; words so hot and venomous that they blis- tered the lips that uttered them; these are the last resort of foiled and desperate political buccaneer. Unable to defend his position and driven to extremities, he utters wall of disappointment that he cannot resort to the favorite arguments of the bull ly and the rufian-the pistol and the bowie knife
 The Herald, though not so coarse, is equally bitter Under an article headed cool impudence' it charges some false things and insinuates more. He says;
 "The columns of the '' Whig" was fl- led with the fouIest abuse of the democra- tic party, from the pen of the now editor of the so-callcd democratic organ"
 This is false and to give the writer a chance to prove it, the surviving publisher of the |" Whig" is requested to point out any and all articles from our pen to any applicant. Then, as now, the democrat: party was most delanel and abuael bv men claiming to be democrats. At that time, the writer ofthe article in the Herald-- for we may as well pierce through the man of straw in front of him and drag him out at that time this same falsely styled demo- crat was abusing democrats, accusing them of corruption, of extravaganza and seryility, and published in this same Herald more foul abuse of the democracy than was pub- lished by all the whigs in the State. They left abuse of their opponents to the disor- ganizers, who were peculiarly fitted for it; for it is fact that from the day he failed to receive that nomination, he turned his arms against his party, slandered and de- famed, misrepresented and abused it, in every possible manner and upon every pos. sible occasion Indeed, we can take art cles from his pen, some of which Scott, of the Traveller, ably answered, and the course of the Herald since unlar his control, and show more attempts at injury, more false or damaging charges against democrats and democracy than can be found ill any opposition paper.
 Echoing now the Washington States, the ayowed opponent of the administla- ton, indorsing the treason of Douglas, giving currency 10 every foul charge Of cor ruption, it presents the cool!y impatient in= stance of an opposition paper calling itself democratic and actually daring to appeal to the party it is endeayoring to destroy. Be- sides revenge for prelerng a better man to him, he has an unsuitable thirst for office. The horse-leach's daughters who cried ''give," "give"-the cormorant that over feeds and yet is ever hungry, are faint types of this hunter for office. If special judge ship, to try some case was not given to him he groaned in agony. Governor eec- tor, senator-nothing was too high-a clerkship ora seat in the legislature, nothing was beneath him, until, finally, he succeed ed in getting one office too many and to get that ruined himself forever And be- cause we were forced to animadvert upon his public acts he calls it impudence, and talks of the |" old guard'' and the sold de mocracy" which, for years, he has labored to destroy. Slowly, patiently, steadily, perseveringly; mining and moiling; work ing underground; beginning afar off; step ping backwards and carefully covering his tracks stealing to the sides of generous confding natures, and whispering into their ears, the slang of :" family-dictation finding a bold, interruptions adventurer and making at once an ally and a tool of him; he has succeeded in creating a divi- sion in the ranks at a time when, of all others, harmony is most needed. As for him, his political fate Is sealed he delibe- rathy cut his own throat; it remains now only for the people to bury him at the cross roads of public opinion with the stake of per diem pay through his body. And his tool, who is permitted to fatter himself that he is the leader of the disorganizers, he too prates of impotence. Let us examine his claims. Coming to the State needy, political adventurer, before he had cast a vote in 1t he announced that he would do the benighted people of Arkansas the dis tinguished honor to represent them in Con- gress With smattering of newspaper politics, an inflated style, the gift of the gab, and an unlimited supply of brass, he sallied forth to cut off the head of the dead Sam. By impotence, by pushing, bully ing and forcing himself upon the people, he gained the office Inflated with his un- ! lr. t1n lon