Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-19
Mr. Simon Tappertit A9ain.

tellght to style the Little Ulant oI Arkahsas,
 out whom we prefer to call by the more truly expressive name of MT. Simon Tappertit, some of those in the plot let the secret leak out. Ii may have been incautiousness in them, or per- haps. from sentiments of compassion for us whom they looked upon as victim prepared
 or the altar, they bid us prepare for the worst. We were told that immediately apon the re-
 urn of MT. Tappertit to that part of our State
 hat he condescends to make his home, he
 sould open battery upon us, that the Fort
 mith Herald, under the control of the. chiei
 the faction, would deliver its fire and until
 hey got a central organ, for which know noth-
 ngs are now the most active canvassers, the
 iazette would strike at us in front. Some o
 he more tender hearted, when certain papers
 we're presented for their signatures, (of which
 ,apers more hereafter,) asked if nothing would
 To but to make us victim? They were told
 hat the absolute safety of Buncombe and the
 lestiny of the immortal Tappertit required that we should be utterly demolished.
 This being decided upon. the more timorous yazed upon us as doomed victim and in ima- ,ination beheld us impaled upon the spear of the immortal knight Simon, sinking beneath the blows from the daggers of dsorganizers, or suffocated to death by the stink-pots hurled from the Gazette. Simon went home to don his armor and now the boldest held his breath and prepared to see his terrible charge. Some, less cruel, like the spectators at the sacrifice of Iphigenia, turned their heads aside and shed sweet drops of pity for us, Singular as it may seem, we had no fears. We knew that Simon's strength was sadly overrated. We were satis fled that he was great failure. We had seen him undertake to do many things, with great bustle, display and footing of horns and fail most miserably. We had seen him go in very often and come out at the same hole he
 vent in. We had known him to invite his
 riends to great feasts and set nothing but empty
 ,lates before them. So we waited patiently
 or the onslaught. Knight Tappertit brides
 himself upon the vigor of his attack and we
 xpected something bold and flashing. At
 ast as he had promised his allies he appeared
 the lists with all his armor on, with plume waving as freely as if it had never trailed in the dust, and his shield newly secured. But to our surprise, instead of putting his lance in rest and charging boldly at us, he halted, hestated, assured us that he liked us, that while pacing certain ramparts, as democratic sentinel, he had smet very large mouse and hoped we would explain. And we did explain fully, whereat the next we saw of the knight his ar nor was off and he said
 "Next week we shall re-publish the True Democrats article on "squatter sovereignty" in reply to an editorial of ours, published two or three weeks ago. We must here, however, do the True Democrat the justice to insert short paragraph from the pen of its editor
 So far as the doctrine of squaher sovereign ty is concerned, the position of the State Rights Democrat agrees so well with our own that we cannot differ thereon. Our views have been so often and elaborately expressed, that we thought they were well known"
 But next week he appears again brim full of wrath and renewS the charge. Our pretended fault was using letter of MT. Butler in an argument which letter contained according to MT. Tappertit ever so much hsresy. Now, we beg our readers to bear in mind that our pretended error was not committed until long aE- ter the threat had been made that Simon ,Ooua attack US. It is very evident that the charge was a blind; something siezed upon 10 cover the real intent. He, himself, was ashamed of it. He made it tremblingly, bunghngly, un- fairly and deprecatngly. He evidently felt that it was too mean trick for man calling himself democratic be guilty of. We will do Simon the justice to say, that if left to himself he would have been satisfied with our explanation. In fact, the extract quoted alone shows that he intended to be. But there were others to urge him on. His part of the con- tract must be fulfilled, and so he again appears in the lists. This time there was no mista- king him. He renewed the charge of heresv, grew excited, furious, laughed in manner meant to be sarcastical but which sounded rather hysterical and ended by shaking his lance at us. Up to this time We had been rather anus ed at the little fellows doings and willing that others should share our amusement, called atten- ton to his antics. Now, if there is anything that Simon devouly believes, it is that he is giant. We spoke truly of him as a small specimen;- n;-rather frothy, funny and disposed to fig when you punctured him. He firmly believes that he is very Titan who can pile mountains upon mountains. Nothing in his estimation is beyond his strength. Is there constable of a township or even a marshal of the town of Helena to be elected? He selects his candidate, cries Tappertt to the rescue, ho., goes in and gets beaten. Is there a United States Senator to be elected? He appears as the champion of one of the contestants, takes the legislature by the throat, threatens, swears, stamps and raves, and finally fails again. He sits down and gravely parcels off districts, and names whom the people must elect for years to come. Is there friend of his who desires to be Register, Receiver, Postmaster or to fill any federal office? Mr. Tappertit assures him that the place is already his. We ventured to hint that perhaps he over-estimated his strength,- that, possibly, the people whom he so utterly ignores might desire to select their own rulers, that legislatures were not in the habit of be- ing dragooned and bullied. We went so far as to advise MT. Tappertit to confne himself to his selfimposel duties of sentinel and we hoped that, with the memory of his splendid failures so recently upon him, he would take our advice. We rebuked him, but he had de- served it. God knows we would rather have seen him do right, have patted him on the head than to have laid him across our knee and spanked him. We hoped our mild cor rection would have done him good but it only makes him worse. A soda-fountan over-charg ed-a bottle of sour beer after it is we'll shaken "a boiler on a one horse ferry boat with ra. ging flame nnder it and rusty safety valve, are but faint illustrations of Mr. Simon Tap pertit when we released him. He boiled, he fumed, he fairly hissed, and it was feared that he would explode. We looked for storm of sentences, and believing that he was great on words that his forte is gab and his strong suit, so to speak, is talk, we looked for some- thinp new and orpinal Alas Simon make