Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-07-07

SlanQcr men dS SUOil dS uc CduiO oo 'he State, with whose record he could not possi' bly be familiar, when his paper had been convicted of political lying so often-tha' throughout the length and breadth Of the land, the Old Line Democrat is quoted as the sublime in the way of wholesale mis- representations and falsehoods. That pa per is meeting it's just reward. So long as it confined its misstatements and libels to probabilities, men could be found here and there to believe it, but when the ut most confines of imagination were explor- ed for charges which even Roger Le Strange would have blushed to make, 1t has lost caste with all except few lying under strappers who have staked their political hopes on the turn of Fortunes wheel, which shall exalt l" selfish oligarchy" to the domination of Arkansas, and give them license to fatten on a country that has only in the last eight years, under the be- nign influence of prudent Governor, re- covered from the misrule of just such spectators and political adventurers.
 A brief review of the origin and career of the Old Line Democrat will show how insincere are its pretensions to honesty and patriotism, how cowardly it has done every thing which it has falsely charged to have been done by the True Democrat, how it has basely deserted the few honest men who assisted in starting it, and become the pliant tool of one " family" how guilty it is of perverting facts, contradicting it. self and descending to the most degrading species of man-wsrship, how sedulously it has labored for the disorganization of the party in order to build up an imposing and crushing " oligarchy," which will parcel out the entire State to its various satraps from Ben DuVal, would-be United States Senator, down to L. D. Harvey, embryo prosecuting attorney, and A. H. McKissick, hanger-on generally, and aspirant for Uni ted States Marshal as reward for play ing Titus Oates, to the Benton county bo- gus convention.
 The Old Line Democrat was baptized in wh;sky, yet it saeers at gentleman for their social habits, when it well knows that they are as free from the vice of drunkenness as any men in the State. The idea of start ing our cotemporary first burst upon the benighted visions of the per diensists when the True Democrat thundered forth the just indignation of the people against the virtual robbery of the treasury. Those who presided over its conception were then boarding at house in this town. In inn agination they beheld the young bantling coming forth with the garlands of victory to deck their intellectual brows. Their ardent fancies glowing under the influence of champaign (polite name for gut" in deference to our cotemporary) rushed down the vista of the future, and portion ed out the fattest offices to the camp-fol- lowers of the newborn coalition. A cir cuar was drawn up, and the subscription list headed by the writer with the round sum of one thousand dollars. We under stand he has since repudiated this subscrip- tion, which may account for the mrtuol yepudiation of the State debts which that immaculate sheet advocates under the eu- phonious title of Rector's policy" So high did the enthusiasm run that it is said these progenitors of the Old Line Demo- crat got on riproareous bender, and the next morning were politely dismissed by their landlord. This we suppose was theil first lesson in courtesy, which explains the great stress laid upon that virtue.
 We now come to the history of the coa- lition. It is useless for us to designate the ringleaders of this odious conspiracy.- The mark of flAud is branded on their A
 foreheads and there it will burn forever.- They are and should be damned politically for putting the State up at auction, par ceiling out its offices in drunken caucuses, and selling for political influence, like Wall street brokers, or fish-women huckstering in the shambles, the inalienable right of suffrage which belongs to the people. It is no apology that they have thus been guilty of robbery. forgery and fraud, be- cause these crimes have been perpetrated under the cover of false charges preferred against innocent men, and are sought to be justified by exhuming islanders invented for the canvass by the know nothings ir '56. and then denounced as such by tho very men who now unscrupulously circu late them. They have convicted them selves of insincerity, selfshness and cor ruption, inasmuch as they refuted and de nied the very charges in 1856, which they now anblushing,y assert, and thus merl and receive the contempt not only of th' unfinching democracy, but of the opposi tion itself.
 But we want no better evidence of frauo than the programme laid down by tht disorganizers. A silly State policy laid out by T. c. Hindman, couched in mys' terious language, and confessed by admis sions wrung from the Old Line Democrat to be impracticable, is the ostensiblt pretext upon which Judge Rector runs, when it is well known that many who now favor him voted for the Conway policy in the State convention and that it was adopt ed unanimously. If they can repudiate the nominees on the silly pretext that .