Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-09

The parlisans of Gov. Conway predl- cate his claims to seat in the Senate upon the manner in which he has dis charged the duties of his present office Gan l. be improper to examine his right to the appreciation and applause which he challenges? He has administered the government of Arkansas for the last eight years as though it were a private estate out of which he had a right to manufac. ture political capital for himself and his friends Not content with subserving their political interests, he has prosttuted his office 10 promote their pecuniary for
 tunes. He pumes himself upon bis Bank Policy He and his silly par,isans insult lhe public intelligence when they speak of the :. State debt Gov. Conway has paid off as though he had contributed means out of hls own pocket for that purpose. | He has sacrificed great interests of the State 10 min sler 10 his own selfish ambi. tiou. To make himself reputation, he has squandered the assets ofdthe bank to swell the amount of the public debt ex- linguished under his administration. l. While lands were advancing in value with unprecedented rapidny, in opposition to the judgment and advlce of the late Secretary of State, he has sold or advised and permitted those belonging 10 the real estate bank 10 be sold, whenever pur- chaser presented himself for whatever price was offered, merely tha. his hired eulogists might boast of T another install menl of the public debt that Gov. Con- way had paid off" 1 call upon the Leg isIature abou, to be elected to investigate the administration by Gov Conway of the assets of the real estate bank, outof which so much capital IS sought 10 be made for him. Let them compare the assets he Iiurns over 10 hls successor with those the l chancery court gave him control of during the first term of hls adminlstra,ion Let them examine the record- and witnesses with reference 10 the intrinsic value oi the lands sold, aud the prices for which they were sold, and they will find that he has sacrificed assets belonging to the bank for one-lentn part of the consideration they would now command. The real estate l belonging 10 the bank al the time ot Gov. Conway's inauguration. together with the assets of every other description would today buy every bond issued on accoun, of il; and yet his tools and parasites, in lcontemp of the pubic intelligence, ,prate about the State debt he has paid
 I Every honest man ID the State holds that the debtors and stockholders of the bank, and not the people, should pay the debt contacted by the State on account of it. But every just man will adm't that the stockholders had a right 10 demand of the trustee fanhfuI and judIclous appli- eaton of the assets 10 the exunguishment of the debt for which they were bound, and not as an elecuoneerlng fund 10 ad- vance his political fortunes.
 l While Gov. Conway has affected the most vigilan; watehfulness over the inter- esls of the State, and has lnlerposed the veto power upon trivial occasions, and when of doubtful proprlety, he has per mltlpd the most prof gate legislation with out opposition or relnons,rance, to be con. sulnmaled into law when Il was 10 enufeI Ito the benefit of one ol his favortes am informed that a bill received hls ap- lpToNdl uUutI WilCH u Vit'LeH o' N''S"s " ceived forty or fifty thousand dollars for damages done his planta,lon by State l improvement, when the plantation itself was not worth half that amount.
 l There IS ground for believing that an- other one of the lavorites had assurances from the Governor that, if he. purchased tract ol land belonging 10 a widow and l., ,x,,tth{ ta atfr,pr at the public expense. Certain Il IS that ldIrecily after its purchase. when no greater public necessity existed for the work than before, contract was entered into for di;chng it, amounting to some ten or twelve thousand dollars. to be paid oui o a public fund, administered by the Gov. ernor. The value of the land will be- greatly enhanced by this work. Will no, every magnanmous citlzen admit that, If the public interest required this work, the incidental benefit resulting from lt should have been enjoyed by the widow and her orphan children rather than their assignee, a young man with already a Iprncely estate.
 The offering of improved lands by any of them for sale has been the signal tor the ditching and levying of others belong ing to them by the present complacenl chief executive of the State.
 There is. of course, no injustice, no Ia vor,ism, no parliality in all thls; and l would suggest to the Governor that he abandon all idea of longer serving the Stale, and, like Cincinnaius, Cir he wIll not be offended by the comparison. retire to his farm. which his successor. m ac- acknowledgement of his numerous and i'm portant services 10 himself and his friends. can have enlarged. duched, and cultivated for him al the public expense.
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