Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-07-28
LITTLE ROCK, JULY :5, 1860:
The Meanest and Most Dastardly Trick
 of which the Old Line Democrat has vet been Guilty. |

Below we publish card which Col. Johnson left for publication, If the silly slander referred to, should appear in the Old Line Democrat.
 The course of that paper has been das- tardly in the extreme; it invariably. ap- pears the evening before the day upon which it is dated; the last paper IS dated on Tuesday morning, July 24th, and should have appeared Monday evening July 23d; a did not appear anta Wednesday, morning, July 25th, though it was printed Monday night. Why this delay? Simply because the editor of that paper had conspired and colluted with others in the perpetration of willful apd malicious slander against Richard H. Johnson; they knew he was in the city Monday evening and Tuesday, and that his appointment at Benton made 1t necessary for him to leave this place very early Wednesday morning or Tuesday night; the editor of the Old Line Demo- crat knowing it to be islander was either ashamed or afraid to let the paper be seen before Mr. Johnson left, and so held 1t back, hoping to influence some honest men against him before it could be corrected. How contemptible! How dastardly! How disgraceful! Who can place any conf- dence in anything that paper publishes after this evidence of its mesnness and falsehood. Is there lower deep" in political depravity to which itcan descend?
 Such contemptible charge is not only malicious attempt to injure Col. Johnson, but it is an insui. to the intelligence and responsibility of every mechanic in the State, and will be so regarded.
 "Icalled on Mir. Trumpler and asked him about this report-he said he heard me say to J lanes B. Moore that could buy the vote of any mechanic in town with drink of whisky. I called up Mir. Moore, and Mir. Moore said publicly, in front of James A. Henry's store door, in large crowd, that he never heard me or any other man make use of any such expression, or say anything approaching to the sort, of the mechanics.
 Thus MT. Trumpler was confronted by his own witness, and his assertions proved to be false.
 He even acknowledged that he might have been mistaken and expressed himself satisfied to me, and went his way. In halt an hour after, he came back to me and sad he was told by two men that l had sad intended to cowhide him. 1 told him If he would go with me to see the two men would give them the He in his presence.- He said he could not do so, as hewas under pledge not to divulge their names. ltold kim then to go and see them, and say to them, I authorized him to tell them for me they were dastardly liars. He returned to me in the afternoon and said he had deli vered my message, and the two men had swallowed the lie. He saw then that hls friends were making a tool of him and skulking like towards themselves. l thought this was the last of the matter, until I learned the whole affair was to be brought out to-day in the Old Line Demo. crat. I will say here that Trumpler was drinking-was made drunk on purpose and when he gave the certificate, which, l understand, is to appear in the Old Line Democrat, he was too much intoxicated to know what he was doing, and those who procured the certificate knew 1t. The Old Line Democrat ought to have been issued this morning. l have waited all day to see and reply to it, but have waited in vain-to-morrow l have to speak in Sa- line county. Whether the paper has been held back purposely until l leave, or not, l do not know It seems to me as though it had. R. Ii. JOHNSON.
 LiHle Rock, July A, 1860.