Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-07-21
The Immortal John seldon Roane, Again

The second epi,tle of John to the Old Liner has been presented to an admiring public It is sort of olla podilra; a hash; a medley; or kind of political punch. The poetical vein outcrops occasionally; there are some feeble attempts at sarcasm, and a playfulneSs that is little surprising in so heavy an animal as he. The exGovernor says that the pen is his favorite weapon, and there is nothing he so much delights in as tilt with that weapon. Wea dis posed to huinor him so far as to answer his second epi,tle, but then we drop him. The fact is, Roane was played out, eight years ago, and if 1t was not for his thirst for of flee which leads him to thrust himself for ward, would have been forgotten. There is no threat or connection in the second letter of the ex Governor and it makes but little difference where we begin. In the outset he admits that we have enlightened him somewhat, and this, we confess, leads us to hope that we may succeed in prying open a corner of his mind so as to admit of another ray of light penetrating into its dark recesses. The experiment is worth the trial.
 John Selden, like a great many other weak men, thinks when he has asserted some stupidity it must be believed, and calls 1t demonstrating 1t. He first finds fault with the State convention, or rather it's nominee; though had that convention nominated John Selden Roane, nothing could have been fairer. He bitterly lampnts the fact that the convention indorsed tbe democratic, anti-bank policy of Gov. Con- way anl calls it an individual opinion Con- sidering that it has formed the basis of much of the legislation for eight years, that it is question involving millions, and the prosperity of our State, we rather think a more important subject could not have been treated of by the convention. When we remember that the aforesaid John has Ina l some little transactions with the bank, and that said policy, if carried out, will force him to pay certain sums, his sensitiveness on this point is not to be wondered at.
 He makes th's assertion:
 "I thought that had tenonstr ,ted the ru n. ous tendency of Gov. Gonw y nk policy in the sale of lands, the property O. the Ink, worth $l, 500,0)0 for about two hundred thousand.''
 He labored under great mistake. He never demonstrated but two things in his life, and these wee, that governor may be made out of the smallest material, and that in case of murder, the murdered man may be indicted anl the murderer go free. We know he will take it kindly if we lisabuse his mind on the subject of the sales of these lands. Listen John. Gov. Conway never sold an acre of these lands or had 1t done. Gordon N. Peay. receiver in chancerv of the assets of the Real Estate Bank, acting under the direction of the chancery court, has sold these lands subject to the existing mortgages. lie purchaser does not ac- qnire absolute title. but merely the right of possession. If these lands are released, new bonds issued anl the people swindled, these purchasers geta good bargain. John will open his eyes when he is told that so careful is Mr. Peay in the disposal of these lands, that there is clause inserted in the deed expressly reserving the right of the mortgages on these lands, and that the lia- | bility is in no wise removed. We are as- l snred it will gladden. his heart to know that these lands are as much and as fully 1 bound for the payment of these mortgages as if the State had never parted with her mere right of possession. And by so doing she gets rid of paying taxes. We know that several of these purchasers are insist ing that these lands were sqnandered and the State threw them away. At the same time they are very earnest in advocating the Rector policy of issuing new bonds. Now if these lands are unencumbered, why did they become party to swindling the State by buying them? And why are they so anxious to have the day of pay ment put off twenty-five years? When