Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-02

court shall cause the clerk to certify the amount so found to be due to the common school commissioner of the county; Pro- mded, That the counties of Arkansas, Brad ley, Pulaski, Izard, Marion, Poinsett and Fulton, be, and they are hereby exempted from the provisions of this act.
 SEC. 3. Be a further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after it's passage.
 Approved 10th Feb, 1859.
 A true copy from the original on file in my office. D. B. GREER,
 Sec'y of State.
 Per JAS. F. PAGAN, D. Secy of State.
 
 To the Editor of the Gazette.
 SIR:-The abusive article in your last paper, shall not deter me from commenting upon your political life within the last ten or twelve years, nor shall it provoke me into using language so unbecoming as yours. It is an evidence of want of ability or courage for man to use a bludgeon, and he is not entitled to the name of surgeon who prefers to hack off limb with hatch ct, rather than to amputate it with scalpel and saw. If I had your vocabulary and your proclivity to use the terms in it, it would not be necessary just now. In talk ing off your political skin a razor will an swer my purpose far better than would a knife.
 Before entering upon your political his tory. will, as you desire it, state to you that I was born near the Old Locks, on the James River, few miles above the city of Richmond, in Virginia.
 When 1 first saw you, dozen years ago, you was tender-footed democrat, with tangetical tendencies. l was told that, before that time, you had been a regular or orthodox member of that party You had not long returned from Mexico with some honors, which, whether well or i'll l-deserved, matters not. The democratic party in this State was then divided, and the left wing, to which you belonged, though it achieved temporary success by your election and that of others, was believed to be the weakest, and in order to keep the breach open as widely as possible, the wings were disposed to favor your side. You succeed ed in beating Gov Conway, and, like every man whom you ever opposed, hated hlm bitterly, which hatred has so grown as to mould and control every action of your af- ter life You purchased, and, while audi tor, became editor ofthe Gazette. Conway was elected Governor As such he requir- ed you to perform certain duties as auditor, which you refused to do. The courts were appealed to and you was forced to act This embittered you still more, and whe- ther it was this or for other reasons, you resigned the office of auditor. All this time you was in opposition to majority of the party to which you still claimed to belong, and being painfully conscious of your equivocal position, sought to reinstate yourself in the good opinion of the demo- cracy, by abusing the whigs In much the same style as you now abuse democrats you then treated whigs, and, if l am not mistaken, you once attempted to prove that Gen. Taylor, though large shareholder, was an aboitionistl So bitter and outra- geous was your tone towards the whigs, that you drove off those who were disposed to strengthen your hands from motives of policy. As time passed, the whig party died of hamilton, and the know nothing party came into existence Its doctrines spread like wildfre. You, then editor, said that you had examined the subject, and was convinced that it was dangerous, ant-republican society. You wrote arti- cles, called by courtesy arguments, against it, and then joined 1t, or, at least, became it's advocate, and your paper the organ of the know nothing party! Then you turned your weapons against your former friends, and smote democracy hip and thigh. You succeeded in re-electng Gov. Conway by an unprecedented majority Every thing you opposed prospered, and all that you advo- cated withered So you continued, until last August you became a candidate for State Senator, Your paper then called up- on the whigs to vote for you, appealed to the know nothngs to support you, and, notwithstanding your war upon Catholics and men of foreign birth, declared that none but the best feelings existed towards them. You were beatcn-badly beaten. Though your party elected a representative, a clerk, sheriff, and other county officers, they repudiated you in your own county Although the editor of their organ, one of the heads of the party, and at a time when party pride should have induced them to support you, they refused to give you a majority that they gave to others. In re- turn you turned the hose and pipe from your paper on them; told them that they had been bought and sold and gave them a flashing. When you got cool you rejoined them, and are now staying in the party on sufferance. Aware of your anomalous po- sition; rejected of all parties; enjoying the confidence of none vOu are crying beg ging, praying for new party, that will ad- nit you.
 Thus, within dozen years, you have been democrat-a tender-footed ditto, and an anti-democrat. You have been for and against whiggery-for and against know nothingism-for and against foreigners and Catholics. You denounced Mr. Fillmore while he was acting President, and after wards advocated his reelection After