Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-03-14
Tototot to the Old Line Democrat.


 ones. As to being pretty smart fellow' Tototot is sincerely glad to be able to return that compliment with interest, and add' that Mir. Peek, in addition to being smart, is also handsome The editor regrets that Tototot used to write for know nothing pa pers. This is mistake. He wrote for whig papers and especially for the Arkan- sas Whig, of whom one of the publishers of the Old Line Democrat was thenthe pub fisher. Surely, if Mir. Peek can strike hands with the publisher of an opposition paper, Mr. Johnson can, with one who wrote for it occasionally.
 A pecularitv of an old line democrat is his nose-or, to write more properly, his sense of smelling. There is no accounting for tastes or antiquities nor why an old liner should be always snilfing and snutiing like dog hunting for concealed bone, and ever and anon declaring that he smells dark lantern.
 They can take to their bosoms any num- Der with the lanterns still in their hands, yet detect no anti-democratic odor, while one who, five or six years ago saw the Ian tern, is declared to emit an intense odor and his garments to be soilcd with lamp black. In the proceedings of the meetings of these old liners you sec the names of old whigs, pixerinctums and others, yet there Is no snif1ing among the faithful They aver they smell nothing But let one declare their chief is not immaculate, that he is demagogue and not statesman, and they commence snuffing at once. They can sleep in the bed with dark lanternite, hug them to their bosoms and evnce no disgust, but let a man who has had no connection with know nottingham for half dozen wears. but tell them that their idol is a sham and they forthwith "smell sufin." Won derful noses!
 Tototot may be allowed to correct another error Mr. Peek has fallen into. Says he:
 "But really we feel that there is no honor to be oained in breaking a lance with one whose helmet has been so often battered and shattered by those in whose service he is now engaged
 On the contrary, that helmet IS undinted and unindented, and above all there never was blow struck at it by those to whom the editor alludes Tototot is aware that the editor, rubbing his bruised head, trie: to console himself with the fact that they once served TototOt the same way, but h' is sorry to be constrained to deprive him o even this consolation. We know tha when the Occur de Lion of the True Demo crat brings his pondrous mace down on tn head of this Saladin of the old Line Demo crat and cracks the casque, that 1t IS som served the same way. But 1t is not me- In those days, a mere bowman, l kept out of the way of these knights. If you want to find dinted shields and battered helmets go to the Gazette office, where they are hung up for monuments. My armoris new and whole, and though mud bespattered by your chief, is yet without dint or break.
 Says the proverb: "It is a bad rule that will not work both ways" Admit, for the sake of argument, that Tototot once oppos- ed the True Democrat. If that debars him from supporting it ever afterward, 1t follows that he who supported it should not now oppose it. With what grace can the editor, as Hindman's lieutenant, oppose those whom a short time ago. IIindnNn support ed. But few years since Hindman can vassed the northern district and defended Gov. Conway, the True Democrat and the anti bank policy of the democracy Nay more; he actually asked them to indorse him and recommend him to the President for consuship or office of some kind.- | The men and measures he now assails he | once defended with all the energy of his i nature In report he drew up for rail road committee, in which he gives the Mem | phis road particular fits, he lauded Senator Johnson and declared that his measures were for the regeneration of Arkansas .-- How is it that he can defend and then op- pose, laud and then abuse, uphold and then attempt to destroy? Can this king do no wrong? When he wanted office, when thrift might follow Awning" then Hind man could indorse and defend the democra- cy of Arkansas But when other relations were formed, and his former friends stood in his way he swallowed all he had said in their favor and began to denounce them.
 Now, addressing himself directly to Mr. Peek, Tototot says: Sir, you may smile at the prediction, but in less than three years Hindman will be cursing and abusing you. You need not shake your head, for 1t is so. You will either have to obey him in all things; defend him in all his tricks and this do not believe you will do; or ht will turn and spit his spite at you. There never yet was man who rendered him ar essential service whom he does not hate- Those whom he now islanders and calumni ates were his friends when he needed friends and the very men to whom he owes hi. present position.
 The Old Line Democrat advises Mir Johnson to import an editor. Let me ad wise him not to do it. The experiment, a' tried at Helena, is failure. They won stick. They turn out bad. Though th' case here is different, it is only an exception to the general rule. And home editors ar. better posted. Mir. Peek labors under al ignorance of the precedents of his chief enc his advcrsaries. Let me do him the justice to say that I verify believe if he knew the whole truth, instead of continuing this wal upon the true democracy he woul'l be de lending it. And a higher compliment could not pay him. TOTOTOT.
 ES- The following is from the Old Line