Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-06-16


 of principles which was adopted by the late State convention-whe Col. Can't does-tor that plat form recognizes and insists upon the doctrine of congressional intervention for the protection of slavery in the territories which Dr. Mitchell calls an "extreme southern measure,'' and the Magno- lian rdicules as d doTna .-OM Line Democrat.
 The ingenious attempt made by our CO., temporary to rule Dr. Mitchell off the State platform, and to place Col Can't on it, is more commendable for its shrewaaess than its Honesty. Dr. Mitchell stands, and has stood, upon the State platform of princi- ples, while Col. Can't advocated, and still advocates, for aught we know to the con trarv, the extreme slave-code doctrine of Hon. A. c. Brown. Every sensible man knows, and every honest man will admit that both Mitchell and Can't are true to the South, just as Davis and Ianccy are, and the only question between them is shall the South be content with the conser- vative southern views of the State plat form, or fight for the "extreme southern measures of Brown, Yancey, Can't, & Co. The attempt of Col. Can't and his friends to. steal upon the State plat form after repudiating the action of the State convention is quite amusing. We have no objection to his getting on it as soon as possible, for when wrong, by all means get right. But do not falsfv facts, and attempt to rule Dr. Mitchell off, in order to make room for the champion of Ianceyism in the southern district. Dr. NJ. is more conservative than Col Gantt- age naturally produces this eflect-but we must deprecate in the strongest terms the arti6ce by which his principles are misrep resented. How nwe praise the Old Line Democrat for consistency or honesty when it indorses Can't and in the next breath calls Rust's Douglas address the great cam- paign paper?
 The Note Book says Col. Hndman "waded into the Johnsons," that he denounced the State convention fraud, and pledged himself not to support Col Johnson All this he did, But it l democratic party, and its nominee; that he declared he would not be controlled by the majority of the l democratic party of the State. He did not de- nounce the democratic party; he did not denounce l its nominee for governor, because 1t had nOne A convention, full of men who scrupled at nothing to attain selfish ends, nominated man against the will of the people, by fraud and trickerv by tramplng under foot the rules and usages of the party--by every unjust and dishonest means of which they could avail themselves. Such was the process of Col. Johnson's nomination. The de- mocracy of this district through their representa- tives in the Dover convention, repudiqed them and declared their nomination. not binding upon any member of the party. Col Johnson is not the nominee of the democratic party.-S. R. Demo- crGf
 We quote this to show what is Col. Hindman's position. We wonder what such clever gentlemen as Messrs. Thomp- son and Cleburne think of having their actions repudiated by district convention! If we mistake not they magnanimously voted to make Col. Johnson's nomination unanimous, and, after binding their COT stituents by every honorable obligation to support the nominee 10 have their autho- rity set aside by men influenced by a reck- less craftsmanship, is an insult to them and the democrats of their county.
 Besides this the democracy of the north ern district did not, " through their repre- sentatives in the Dover convention,'' re- pudiate the State convention nor declare its nomination not binding upon the de- mocratic party; but just on the contrary it emphatically and expressly refused to repudiate the State convention, by ma jority of nearly -four Mousandu