Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-01-11
From Washington County.
F0yeHemUe. Ark. Dee. 15 1S5

fayetteville, Ark., Dec. l5, 1859.
 Dear Sir: The low and blackguard allu- sion of Calhoon, of the State Rights De- mocrat to the fact of Boudinot's Indian de- scent, demonstrates the fact that Hindman's course is indefensible, that Boudinot's pow CTS of controversy are more than equal to his adversaries, and that Calhoon's mind and sentiments approximate to the base and ignoble.
 1 have known Mir. Boudinot we'll ever since his arrival in this State His excel lent morals and high toned sentiments have won him the highest position in this com munity. He Is native of Georgia, was raised and educated in New England, and moved here before he was twenty -one years old. He studied law in this place and has for several years practiced with success in the Stave courts of this circuit, and the U. 5. court al Van Buren. His position and standing as gentleman has been such that Mir Hndman, Calhoon's employer, was proud at one time to claim him as per sonal and political friend.
 Mir. Boudinot is remotely descended from a Cherokee ancestor on his paternal, and from a3revolutionary soldier on his mater nal side. What advantage does that fact give Calhoon in an argument on political matters in this State? There are distin- guished gentlemen of Indian descent in Virginia. Most of the southern States con- tain respectable citizens of Indian descent. In North Carolina, Georgia and Texas are many descendants of Cherokees and Creeks; in Mississippi and Alabama are citizens of Choctaw and ChickaSaw descent; and in all these States they enjoy the same political and social privileges of other citizens; and none but the low and debased who have no other claims than that of being born of white parents, ,sattempt to make that distinction in their own favor.
 Mir. Calhoon is unfortunate in attempting to make that issue, because Boudinot has an established reputation as a gentleman, while his adversary has only the prima facia evidence of being one, and 1t will require time and good conduct to establish char acter like Boudinot's. It will also be nec- essary for Calhoon to do something more than cloim superiority over Boudinot before he can acquire that; or even an equality with B.
 Who is Mir. Calhoon that he should pre- sume to read out of society, man whom the community respect and confde in? He claims to be white man; he is an entire stranger among us and that fact, although admitted, is no, established; and were it es- abolished, it alone would give him no supe- riority. He must show himself something more than mge white man before he need ostracise our lest citizens. A white man may be bad nan for all that, and Cal hoon should molestly wait until his merits are known befoe he undertakes to set in iudgemnt over the elements of society in Arkansas.
 Mr. Boudinot is received and regarded as a gentleman, the community in which he lives, respect and esteem him as such. and will sustain him, Mir. Calhoon's detrae- tion to the contrary notwithstanding; and the latter's ungenerous and unjust allusons will be regarded with contempt by an intel ligent and honorable community.
 DECENCY.