Des Arc citizen., 1859-05-18

ifsF The editor of the " Des Arc CitiZenV in answer to an article from correspondent of ours, reioices in his red-headedneSs, inas-
 much as there Is no danger of his ever being
 mistaken for runaway negro, as was the case, as he says, of C certain contributor to the Echo," with whom our correspondent asso- ciated. Now, we must confess that we are not so we'll posted in C runaway nigger" affairs as
 the editor of the Citizen pretends to be, and would suggest to him that to tell the whole joke, even if he himself was mostly implicated, it would be in better taste than throwing out
 unnecessary hints.
 Apropos-we think the editor of the Citizen was brought up" too far down east' to have any great antipathy for "runaway nig-
 gers :'' and we would not at all be astonished fo hear of another "down-easter," some day, being arrested or mobbed for assisting runa-
 ways to escape over Mason and Dlxon's
 Line,' where they will be safe, and in no danger of being taken up, even though said
 " down easter" should have red head-and a blue nose.
 The above is from the {" Brownsville Echo''
 of the 11th inst. As to the "nigger affair.""
 adverted to in the first paragraph, we have
 only to refer all interested to the junior of the
 " Echo',--i. e., tAe dark complected portion of the firm: he can tell that joke better than
 any man living. twas good one, Ben, and you ought to acknowledge the corn" As to the second paragraph, we will reply
 by informing the Echos men that we were born in the State of Maine at nine years Of
 age our parents emigrated to Wheeling, Vir- ginia. We were raised, until nearly twenty
 one years of age, in Western Virginia and
 Eastern Ohio; and during the last nineteen hou baop of of
 nessee, North Mississippi, and Arkansas.
 True, we were born north ,of " Mason and
 Dixon's Line ;'' so were Gen. JOHN A. QUIT-
 MAN and Hon. SERGEANT S. PRENTIss; and
 these men were none the less the able defend-
 CTS of the South and the {" heaven ordained in- of their birlh. There is far more danger of an individual we wot of being arrested as runaway negro, than of our fealty to the South being doubted. Our name, on both sides of the house of our progenitors, rendered good service in the days of the Revolution; while not dissimilar to those of the editors of the ]" Echo" were chased by Marion and his men through portions of South Carolina, as ene- mics to their country.
 The editors of the Echo" must be lacking in knowledge, when they intimate that red headed men could be guilty of " assisting run aways to escape over Mason and Dixon's Line" A red-headed abolitionist we have never heard of; but we have heard of aboli- tionists having very dark skin and curly hair and it is shrewdly intimated that such men go upon the principle that Ca fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind," and are ever ready to furnish runaway negro with pass-such as we, in company with one of our townsmen, took from runaway on White river, some few weeks since, and committed him to jail. The negro stated that he got his pass "'bout twenty-seben miles from Des Arc, near whar dar was big brick house." We acknowledge the red head, gentlemen of the Echo," but disclaim the |" blue nose," as we have not taken a drink of Brownsville mixed "bust- | head" for nearly six months.