Des Arc citizen., 1859-03-04

spring with their enemies, may after
 wards stalk, with brazen front, into a eau
 GUS called for Democratic purposes, and
 impudenty constitute himself the !" agent"
 of betrayed and outraged Democracy.
 Here also il is unblushingly affirmed, that
 a Know Nothing, who has trumphed
 over the Democracy of lis county, who
 has torn their flag from its bearers and
 tramplcd it in the dust, who has spit upon
 their platform and covered il with deiam-
 ation and contumely, may yet take his seat
 at their council board and patronizngy
 christen himself their " agent" Did nor
 tai man ever see, hear, read or dream of
 such effrontery as this It absolutely ex-
 ceeds belief. They whom it suits may
 call it " Democracy do not, and God
 forbid that 1 ever should! When the
 :" hard-fsted yeomunry," the honest Demo
 cratic masses, come 10 test 1t, what will be
 their judgment? They will spurn it as
 base counterfeit, and the men who attempt
 to pass il for genuine will be lashed, with
 a whip of scorpions, naked, around the
 State.
 The proceedings have commented on transpred before my own eyes. As an
 Arkansas Democrat felt indignant, and
 so expressed myself. Thereby l have
 drawn on myself the most concentrated
 wrath of the small managers of the cau-
 GUS, and of certain outside high-p priests
 who manage them. They have sent
 thousand many-tongued rumors throughout
 the State, all of the ominous purport, that
 my defeat, as a candidate for re- election
 to Congress, Is already an irrevocable cer-
 tainty. To accomplish that result, it is
 said that conferences have been he'd and
 propositions made, 10 devise ways and
 means for separating me from my pres
 ent constituents, or for adding to my dis trict counties in which am supposed 10
 be unknown and where embryo competi- tors are ready to burst the chrysalis. For the same purpose, the bill to provide for eleclng Representatives to Congress in the year in which they take their seats instead of sixteen months in advance, as at present, was kept so long between the upper and neither millstones of delay and secret opposition, against the known will of a majority of the people, and in order to bring on the election when I will be in Congress, unable to canvass. For the same purpose, the Jefersonian rule of q honesty, capacity and fidelity" has been nulified, and the rule of ''political neces- sity" substituted for 1t, under which man notoriously incompetent and convicted, by formal report of Legislative committee, of swindlng the State and plunderng her citizens, has been elected to the Hele- na Land Agency, located in my own coun- ". For the same purpose, rabble of oficial panders and vile place-seekers, have been bounded on me, and yelp and snari, lke mangy CUTS, at my heels-pro- claiming that ought now to resign, at the bidding of their masters, an honor con ferred on me by eighteen thousand free men.
 Why should I resign, as these base Hessians insist Have I been faithless to my constituents, in my official position? Not so, because my official life has not yet commenced, and unless a special ses- sion be called, cannot take my seat in Congress until next December. Have l, as private person, sinned against prin- ciple, or violated one tenet of Democracy! Have I been lulsewarm in defence of the | cause, or untrue to 1t ever, in thought, in | word, or in deed The self-sold hirelings of an over-fed and mendacious newspa- per may say so, but the honorable man does not live who has made or will make 1 such an assertion or insinuatIon. At all | times and under all circumstances through good and through evil report-I have been working, out-spoken, unfinch- | ing Democrat. have never stopped to count the cost of laboring for our party, nor have ever hesilated to do battle for it. Misfortune, incurred iD it's behalf, has made me the limping cripple you see be- fore you, Blood, taken from near the heart, has sealed my devotion to it.
 It is not because of any lukewarmness or disioyaIty, that am fore doomed to de- struclon. The crime imputed to me is kat have been and am over-zealous as I Democrat--that 1 was not sufficiently | | conservative" to shut my eyes, and close my ears, and fold my arms, and doube-locls ny mouth, while the sacred principles of Democracy and all it's tune honored usa- ges were peddled out and huckstered away by the amalgnmation caucus of November 9th. That IS the sin for which am to be crucified. l glory in the oC- ence and repeat it continually. When lonors are so cheapened in Arkansas us only to be had by lowing down before a hing of brass and clay like that, then 1 shall scorniully refuse to ask office. IL will have lost all it's attractions. Let the result be what 1t may, here affirm that am neither 10 be coaxed nor driven into in the precedent set by that ,aucus, much less into approval of it. The drowning down" process may be attempted, but if ever efiicacious, its day las passed. The guillo,ine of political leca pitation-with it's bloody knife and all is horrld paraphernalia may loom up in he distance, and be grimly pointed at by he bloa,ed Jacobins of Arkansas. But he reign of terror is ended and the threats ,f the terrorists no longer freeze the blood ,r palsy the arm. know not what olh- ITS may do, but as for me. come veal or come woe, will adhere 10 the old prin.