Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-04-28
Our Course.

If we were disposed to raise the cry/cf persecution, we certainly could do it%yith d good grace It will be remembered that the feud in the party was gotten up by TIC. Hindman, starting on Senator Sebastian, and extending to every man and journal that would not fall at his feet. As editor and stump orator he poured forth torrent of abuse on every man who opposed him. He nisrepresented acts and attributed base motives. The realm of Billingsgate was ransacked for approbious epithets to hurl at us. Other journals shared the same fate, and where a man was honest and bold enough to express his contempt at such conduct, the whole pack was set upon him. In self-defence they replied to the whole sale islanders against them. The Hind manites now cooy insist that he is the in ured party. The same men who stood by and encouraged him in his assaults upon pure men, are mortified at the idea of men defending themselves. in some counties, where the per diemists have gone home with the peoples money in their pockets, they get up resolutions of censure on the True Democrat We can afford to smile at these pitiable exhibitions of spite and malice. In some cases the very men who did this were whipped into 1t, and soundly berated for having voted for Senator Se- bastian; they put on the collar and wear it. Wear it too, not only meekly, but with great parade, and jingle their letters as if there was music in them. In Crawford county, select few resolved that they were Hndman men, and not only that, but they would vote for no man who was not col larman. Time was when a candidate was judged by his political faith, his honesty and his qualifications All that is done away with there, and the simple test is whether he belongs to certain man.
 These men, not content with lauding their Sultan, abuse us who will not get up on our knees as they do. We have seen this Mohanna stripped of his veil; we have looked into the inside of this whited sepul- chre, of which they have made a shrine.
 They tell us that we have abused Mr. Hindman They forget to tell Us that he commenced this war, that he carried it on with bitterness and unscrupulousness, and that he still continues it. For these mis- guided men who are thus mislead we have no anger, for we know that when the real mottre of this war is understood, when the real dssiqns of the disorganizers are ex- posed, they will come right, But for the men with collars on their necllG anu gyves on their riSts, who seek to win a smile from their chief by making mouths at us, we have no other emotion bnt contempt As men write their shame on the walls so that all men may read, so these folks introduce resolutions of censure against a free and independent press in humble imitation of the sedtion law The true issue has not vet been made; the main battle is to be I fought next winter We had no desire to tritter away our strength in a contest almost personal There are other and weighter stakes at risk.
 Perhaps some of these men who have been led to join in this crusade upon us will, some day, learn that we were their true | r.. ! l,+, tbo,, monied oligarchy which was prepared to crush them, and that we strove to break the letters in which they were seeking to bind the people.
 Meantimc we shall pursue our course firmly, learlessly and confidently. The long day will do justice to us all And these selfmade serls who have put off their manhood and go about boasting of their sale, if it will do them any good, they may pass resolutions of censure of us and other democratic journals. Such things only . show the venom of their authors. We have a duty to perform, and shall perform it honestly and boldly. The threats of the bully, or the sneers of the cowarlly, shall not deter us As of yore, the pilgrim went on his way despite the roar of blasts, the hissing of scrpents, the chattering of apes, and the cries of unseen foes, so we shall walk fcarlassly in the path set before us.
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