Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-08
Correspondence between Col. c. A. Car
 roll and Mir. E.. Baxter.
25th of ,Januarv 1S6O

Lewisburg, 25th of January, 1860. EDITOR OF THE TRUE DEMOCRAT
 Dear Sr: Ireceived to-day letter from Mr' Baxter. of Independence county, which nope you will publish, as it refers tors statement. made by me in recent com munlcatlon to your paper. The statement was, that "Mr. Baxter. of Indenendance county, was the leader in fact of the anti Sebastian forces in the last legislature. Col. Hlndman says he was not their selected leader. and don't know how it happened he made the platform on which they were to stand. Whether appointed or not he was their acknowledged champion which is enough for my present purpose. lCol. Hindman acknowledges Mir. Baxter was an old line whig; afterwards know nothing. initiated by George D. Prentice. of the Louisville Journal; that he remained con- slstent member of the know nothing party tor about t,oo years; that he was caniidaie Jor frosecuttng attorney during Me tiDae of h's offliation acith Me Anaerican party. and "as deteated." In MT. Baxter's letter which l inclose you for publication, he uehies his having been memher of the AheIlcan party for a longer time than six nn; n,onths; he denies having been defeated for bo asou'lng rg attorney at any time, and states nor. ao'ef asked office of the know nolbjne pn d. ms srtement, first made by me boora :. mp,'was from hearsav-having Col u;u1 oi many occasions and I suppose
 " ii'nuinan having heard it in tho somo way was the reason he d;d rot ao,t,o'I..t- It. am glad, as I used tbo stoton ,""lv the stump, It was mcornorotod ;r .i'1 ','o'i' Ii llcatlon, as thereby Mr Ravtor ' '"T p,,o al, am opportunity of setting himself riebt. Ihe lacV was not stated as one within my own knoWledge, and certainly can not be viewed as reflection on Mr. Baxter for immediately afterthe statement as published IS this: Now 1 make no point against Mr. Baxter; if his views changed, he had A right to change his party aililation. fla man finds he is in error and changes. it is. in my opinion, to his credit, and he at least should not be blamed by those whose cause he espouses." l of course regret having stated more than was so, relative to Mir. Baxter's connection with the Amer ican party. l merely wished to show the inconsistency of men, who afiliating with Mir. Baxter, objected to others afiliatino with Mr. Woodward The record is stiff sufficient to show this. Mr. Baxter ac- knowledges he was member of the Ameri- can party not more than six months. and does not deny having been an old line whig-making the cases parallel Mr. Baxter does not deny the introduction of the resolutions, which of course show the position he occupied relative to those who so much questioned the democracy of Dfk Johnson, on account of Mir. WoodwarNs political record. Mr. Baxter says Che protests against the use of his name by political todtes or newspaper editors in con. nection with Col. Hindman or any other man with view indirectly to attach blame to him, for introducing the Baxter resold. tions." In the first place, no blame was attached to Mir. Baxter directly or indi- rectly at the time; nor can 1 see how such an inference can be drawn. As l am no ".editor" suppose, according to Mr. Bax- ter's view, 1 am todie." I am certainly not political toad, for not having been a political tadpole, could not turn to a politi- cal frog-I have always been democrat. Webster defines toady to be one who eats toads. hope Mir. Baxter when he insinu- ates 1 am political "toadie,' does not intend to say 1 feed upon political frogs; if he does l hope he will allow me to choose among the have-been tadpoles, for some of them l must say are too " slimy " for even my palate. If he means by the term "toadie "a hanger-on to great men, must say hope to hang to men as long as they hang to principles, not longer. All men who do not think Johnson, Conway, Sebastian, etc., should be read out of the party, and styled by some one "todie parasite, . anl so general has been its ap- pllcation, that from dorisivo term it has got to be an honor.
 Ar. Baxter in conclusion, hopes I will not find occasion to take offence at any re- marks my communication called forth. and will have it published. 1 certainly am pleased at the reception of Mir. Baxter's letter, and I am glad to atone for any in. justice done him, by asking you to publish his letter.
 Your ob't. serv't.,
 CHAS. A. CARROLL.