Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-07
LITTLE ROCK, Dec. l, 1859.

LITTLE ROCK, Dec. l, 1859.
 W. l.. MARTIN, ESQ
 Sir: When great men, like you and me, address each other, we can afford to dis pense with these little formalities that en- cumber the correspondence of ordinary peo- ple In to-day's Old Line Democrat, you propound question, and hasten to an- swer it. You praise Hindman, one John Govan whom your familiarity enables you to call Jack" and dinner and add:
 "The dinner being discussed the crowd dispersed to their homes, declaring their determination to vote the Oid Line State Rights Democratic ticket straight out. What do you say Mir. Toot-e- tootF' Has Hindman no supporters in Phillips county"
 answer, yes. There never yet was a heresy, political or religious, that had not followers. He has followers who are pay ing him for the work he is doing; monied men who would give him thousands to break down Gov. Conway and the demo- cratic policy of the State. Let that pass for the present, while 1 seize this the first opportunity, my dear w. L., to write to you. l have thousand questions to ask you,-a thousand things to say to you, and regret l have not time to write them all l- But there are some things 1 am very anx- iouS to find out-in fact, as the women say, l am dying to know We are both great men by reason of our connection with little Tommy. Had he not visited the benighted region of Arkansas, we would have been unknown. To this great Cesar you are the Pompey and l the Brutus 1 am q candid man, Mir. Martin, frank and plain spoken. So, you will understand me when l tell you that l am afraid your growing greatness will overshadow me- You are becoming great-or notorious, which is the same thing, and before certain persons in North Arkansas are done with you, will become more so. Yet the world is wide, dear w. L., with the alias, and why should envy grow up twixt you and me? To show you how 1 can dismiss all such feelings from my mind, let me bear witness to some of your admirable qualities. But while l think of it, what the deuce is an ''Oll Line State Rights democratic ticket?" Wherein does it differ from democratic ticket?- What do all these prelixes mean? What is the difference between an old line and a new line? WTho drew MeSe Hnes? By what authority were they drawn? Is it ticket to be voted for? Or is it ticket of admis- sion somewhere. Perhaps, 1t Is ticket for soup! But for fear l annoy you with my questions, hasten to embrace this opportu- nifty to express my admiration for you You are fortunate man, Mr. Martin, you are indeed. They tell me you went the rounds with Tommy What an honorl- And you had an opportunity of listening to all those glorious speeches, to sit under the sound of his melodious voice. to be thrilled by his eloquent appeals, appalled, at his denunciations and awed by his frowns. But he never drowned on you. Oh, mol You were his Boswell, his Achatcs, his herald and his trumpeter. Happy mortal, what honors were yours? But allow me to ask, who paid expenses? You have read of men travelling on their muscle, or fighting their way along; others on their beauty, or coaxing their progress, but in this matter of fact State of Arkansas, mo- ney is necessary. Heretofore, Tommy made his friends pay. He would take others with him and when the bills were present. ed give them to understand that they must be paid or the Helena delegation" would be disgraced Sometimes he would tell his friends at different points on the route, that the cause demanded sacrifices and require them to furnish him with V an X, or a saw horse. Smart fellow, that Tommy l hope, dear Martin, you did not bear ex- penses. I'll tell you why. am afraid if you did, that Tommy will throw you off. We remember when he first wer t to Bates. vile he introduced gentleman. (we wont call names but say Brown or Smith, ] as a most excellent, clever fellow. "perfect gen tleman sir" "my friend sir,'' "a good democrat sir" This friend having a good supply of spondulicks, paid all expenses. Now mark; in year or two he was de- nouncing the same man as periured scoun- drel, defaulter, and drew pistol on him. Again, when he wanted to start paper other gentlemen took stock and advanced money to Tommy. He told us they were upright, honorable men. But they refused to transfer tho stock to Tommy. Now he says they are corrupt scoundrels. So of many others. Itis a singular fact that thoso who have fed him, who have furnished him money, or who have saved his life, these very men he seeks opportunity to defame and denounce If you paid expenses you are gone Martin. I'll just be blamed if he don't curse you in less than year. But I do not believe you did. IMhe first place you are too smart. l know 1t sounds like fattery, but you are shrewd Your eye teeth are we'll cut no doubt. Ihave not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance, but by reputation, l know youwell. The expenses of that tour as we'll as some other heavy ex- penses were not paid by you or Tommy Others who had more at stake furnished funds. Had been in your place l would have lived well, Martin. Did you splurge