Des Arc citizen., 1859-04-29
For the Des Arc Citizen
 HAVE WE A POPE AMONG USE

uh V E w G h IOE G AmN1AN
 Mn. EDITOR You are well aware that, during the middle ages, it was the practice of the PAPAL SEE to bring the refractory monarchs of Europe into complete obedience to the will of the Holy Father, by the force of ecclesiastical censures. Thus whenever subject or king refused to obey, he was threatened with excommunication, then ex- communicated, and turned over unceremo- niously to the tender mercies of SATAN; and if a king. if he did not then become obedient, his kingdom Ia iaitA tff4AeF aH interdict, and all good Catholics forbidden to obey or have any intercourse with the rebellious monarch or person. So terrible were these pontIfcal censures, that whenever the FATAL BULL, with it's eaden seal, was sent forth, the refractory individual was compelled to succumb, let his his rank be what it might. And yet, strange as it may seem in this republican country and enlightened age, there appears in politics power not unlike that of the Pope, in full operation. At Little Rock sits enthroned pontiff, self-constituted, whose BULLS and IN- PREDICTS are as terrible, as absolute and as arbitrary, in the political world, as those or the Pope were formerly in the ecclesiastical No Democrat may dare to disobey, or enter tain opinions in opposition to those of this ARKANSAS PopE. None may hope or dare to think for themselves, but must think as the Pope thinks. Should one Democrat dare to follow the old lines and landmarks of Democ- racy, and adhere to principles rather than men, against the wish of this MODERN PoPE, he is immediately communicated from the fold of Democracy. The fatal bull, with it's leaden seal, is illuminated against the unlucky mortal. and sent forth upon the wings of the TRUE DEMOCRAT CD Ca prodigious misnomer, by the way,) to the farthest limits of this po- litical popedom. All good Democrats are Tor bldden, under the severest censures, to have any dealings with the excommunic icated wretch Politically, he is cursed from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, in all his mem bers, both now and for all time to come. Should an unlucky Democratic Editor have the presumption to go counter to the will oi this Pope, he is made the subject of excommu- nication, and turned over to the fures and the Know Nothings, as an abandoned political outcast, to wander in the darkness of political degradation and obscurity-a fallen angel, foI whom the political future has not one bright hope.
 l We have lately witnessed the excommuni- nication of one who has done a vast amount for the Democracy of Arkansas; did it in the hour of need, and at great personal sacrifice to himself-one who, while this ARKANSAS PoNTIFT was lying lazily in his " VAT1cAN,' pampered with the pap from the Public Trea- sury, and planning schemes for his own per sonal advancement, was trayersing the State and rousng up the Democracy for the struggle before them; and whose labors contributed largely to the splendid democratic triumph which followed. Yet this one, when called upon to lay down his old democratic principles and usages, and advocate the cause of dema- gogues in preference to principles and meas ures. to thus give the lie to his former teach | ngs, and to contradict the whole course of his life--oh! horrid impiety !-he refused tc do so Yes, Mir. Editor, he refused to endorse the amalgamation caucus of the Eth of Noyem Der, 1858; refused to mingle with Know Nothings and dsorganizers. Hear it, ye Democrats and shun his fate. This was his crme-dsobedienc to the Pope of Arkansas Then commenced the Browning down pro- cess" Then it was that he was required under the pain of communication, to recant The terrible bull was prepared, and suspended over his devoted head. He was threatened but stood firm and yielded not. At length the fearful engine was illuminated against him fraught with eternal, hopeless and inevitable destruction; and Hindman is no more! In the pages of the True Democrat" CD it is an. nounced that henc eforth Hindman is a rene gade, Know Nothing, coadjutor of DANtEx and an outcast forever All Democrats are required at their peril, to hold no converse with the wretch and thus the man most dear to the hearts of the democracy is to be torn from them. Hindman is no longer q Demo crat! Startling intellgence!! Is there nc Martin Luther in Arkansas?
 TALBOT.