Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-09
OFFICIAL INTERFERENCE.

If ever poor people upon the face of the globe had just cause to complain of the interference, intermedling and off cious obtrusiveness of the agents and offi- cials of the government in their private. local and domestic affairs, that people IS certainly the people of Arkansas, and especially that portion of the Democracy of the Statt who are opposed to the cen. tral and concentrated political influence of hereditary families, cliques and dynas- ties.
 Since the inauguration of movement, on the part of the masses of the Demo- caatic party, 10 sheer the Johnson family of that undue and anti-democratic political power and influence which they have so long held and exercised in the government of this State, they have had to contend against the combined hosts of Federal and State office holders, who have not scrupled to use all the power and lnhu- ence which they derived from their official position, to crush down this uprising of the people, and 10 trample upon their rights as well as their will and wishes, by attempting 10 fasten upon them the perpe,uation of a dynasty obnoxious to their feelings and detrimental 10 their interests.
 We could point to many instances of such official interference on the part of both Federal and State officers, in trying to defeat the will and wishes of the peo. pie of the Northern Congressional district in their selection of candidate for Con. gress, who was known to be opposed to the vast concentration of power in the hands of the Johnsons.
 We could point to many instances in which the same officials have used the power of the government, entrusted in their hands ostensibly for the peoples benefit, to the great wrong of the people, by aiding to force upon them, as a candi- date for Governor, the most obnoxious member of that obnoxious dynas,y, against whose influence they are so earnestly opposed.
 We could also point to another instance of this unjust interference of governmental agents in the concerns of the people in the case of United States Marshal using his official position, patronage and influence in favor of Dr. Mitchell, he fansily's can- dida,e for Congress. in the second district, and against E. w. Can't, the peoples choice for the same position ; and used against him simply for no other reason in the world than because Mr. Can't was opposed to the further usurpation of the peoples power by the reigning dynasty, while Dr. Mitchell was in favor of per- petuating their power, and of building up at the seat of government, great mono. pollzing political influence, whose will and wishes should be as they have been the supreme law of the land.
 But the latest and most offensive inter- medling of government officials in the peoples affairs of this State, was that exhibited by one of the clerks from one of the departments at Washington, who was sent as special envoy and minister pleni- potenliary to this State, for the purpose of interfering with the Dover and Arkadel- phia conventions, in respect 10 the action they should take upon Federal politics. This man brought with him duplicate copies of series of resolutions which were to be offered to, and if possible, passed through the two conventions.
 MT. James B. Johnson was re.commis- stoned by the aforesaid Federal clerk to take one copy of said resolutions to Arka- delphia, and the plenipotentlary himself, in person, took the other copy to Dover.
 The copy taken by Mir. Johnson to Philadelphia was submitted to the com mttee on resolutions, and after some alterations were offered to and passed by the convention.
 The copy which was sent. or rather carried, by this MT. Clerk to the Dover Convention, was treated by that body as the people of Arkansas should have treated the said MT. Clerk, that is, t was not d. toaoed 10 pollute hat body dy being re- ceiUed.
 This batch of resolutions, brought on here by this MT. Pension Clerk, from Washington, to be gulled down the throats of the Arkansas Democracy. were nothing more than modified doses of Squalter Sov- ereignty.
 We know not who sent this MT. Clerk from his desk in Washington, 10 come down here and dictate to the intelligent Democracy of Arkansas; but this much we do know, that while in the State, he did not try by any means to conceal his devotion to the interests of the Johnson family, by abusing every man that was in any wise politically opposed to the dy- nasty.-TOl Line Democrat.