Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-02

1 am pc suaded and feel confident that can
 mature system or plan for that purpose the
 details of which l will make known in my
 addresses to my feIow-citizens from the stump
 and through the new~papeis during the can
 vass. And whilst achieving this result--pay- ing the State debt without taxdtion--the sys- tenn or plar will afford material aid and
 assistance to works of internal improvement,
 and the cause of popular education.
 The state debt paid, the tate credit is es- tablished and We would then be in condition
 to contribute State aid to such additional wo ks as may be fornd necessary.
 { Agriculture, alo. needs some assistance and propitiation at the hands of the Government, and if elected should most heartily cooperate in the enactment of such laws as wou consu- mate that result. The most beneficial results in other States flow from ho ding Agl icul ural
 tal s. Why cannot this be done in Arkansas
 The gratifying and unprecedented influx of population and wealth in our State. during the
 several past years, has. under the present rate or taxatioa. produced redundant treasury
 After defrayng the ordinary expenses of the government. there will be several hundred thousand dollars in the treasury, first of Janu- ary'next. 1 cannot perceive solitary good reason for keeping it there. It came on the
 people and ought to go back to them soon
 as possible. in some manner promotlve of their general good.
 It is duty that government owes its peo- pie to educate the rising generations. that they
 may be useful to themselves and an ornament to their country
 In new countries like this, the youth unad dicted to luxni les and accustomed to bodily exercise. attain the greatest mental and physi- cal perfec, ion And from this source we must look in the future, as we have done in l, ptst. fo oar statesmen, heroes. and great
 men gene ally but they must be educated. for the diamond in the rock most see the sun be-
 fore it lends its briliancy, But how can this
 be done without imposing burdens on the peo- pie !? Let the surplus revenue be distributed to the counties. upon the free white basis, as a perpetual fund. using only the accommodating interest
 The State Prison or Penitentiary needs the
 pruning hook decidedly. Its present manage mant is wrong in principle and practice, and
 neither suppre.ses crime nor punishes it after it is committed And instead of being an expense to he State of several thousand dol-
 lars annually. it ought, if P operiy conducted, to yield handsome revenue.
 F have said that was Democrat, and so am; and will add that have been and still am an advocate of the convention system, unless | Iforsooh the gross enormitles recently prac- llticnd i9 the State Convention. which nomi- nated my competitor, MT. Johnson, are en- doesed by the Democratic party. and become hv such endorsement part and parcel of
 Democratic usage. allnde fist to the fact that the vote of Van Buren county was cast mon papers and by authority admitted to be
 fo ga1 and Fraudulent. See True Democrat. ]
 Second. to The fact that the county of Benton
 was wlful'y and knowingly misrepresented, in casting it's vote for MT Johnson. Herce,
 say if these enormities of fand and for errv are not rebuked. but endorsed by the Democratic party. and thereby become part and parcel of the necessary machinery to rnn, operate and carry on conventions. shall feel
 exceedingly inclined in future to denounce
 conventions as an abomniable piece of politi-
 cal iugglerv. meriting the condemnation of Feverv honest man in the community. Demo-
 crat. Whig Know-nothing, Black Republican, if von please.
 That MT. Johnson was cognizant. when he received the nomination. of forged papers
 being used in the convention, do not believe or intimate; but that that fact IS now appa-
 rent to him. and that the vote of Benton county was cast for him against the wishes and protaStations of an overwhe ming ma ftv of the Democratic party, must now also be
 manifest to him.
 Dedncfing these counties from his vote in the convention he did not receive even a m jority of the popular vote cast in said con-
 vention. Besides which, the were eleven
 counties in the State hat were rot represented at all. by proxy or otherwise. l submit then hat Mr. Johnson is no more the nominee of the Democratic party. nor of the State Con- venfion, thar Fletcher. Watkins. .rRoane. Gould or others who were voted for by hat body. Will the country, rhe people, the Democratic party, sustain nomination made under cir cunstanees like these ? Can Mir Johnson do
 90 himseTf? I cannot. will not believe it.
 until the people themselves shall h we been
 heard through the ballot box. to wh oh l con
 6dently submit the issue between us.
 HENRY M. RECTOR.