Des Arc citizen., 1860-09-05

Cor. HINDMAS AND GEN. THOMPSON AT Drs ARc.-Tbese two gentlemen ad dressed the people of our town and adja. cent country on Monday last The audi ence was large, and composed of as atten. tive and intelligent class of people as car be found in the State.
 Cor. HINDMAN led off in a speech oi one and half hours, in which he more than sustained his well established char. acler as an orator and a statesman. He showed that from the very beginning O our present federal system of government there have been but two perfectly distinc and radically different parties, one O which believed and maintained that we were simply an aggregation of as many distinct nations as there are States, with 6 sort of joint attorneyship at Washington to transact certain specified sorts of busi. maintained that we were single nation with an elective chief at Washington that Congress was sovereign parliament and that State boundaries were mere convenient division of the realm for loca purposes. He showed that in the days O old John Adams, when the latter of these two ideas had full sway, the entire Eng 
 fish system of thought and practice wa, inaugurated and forced down the reluctan throats of the Democrats of that period The Alien and Sedition laws were passed by the federal party. These were times tha Congress used to wait on the President 1T a body, and the President, dressed in g ridiculous sort of court dress, used to give them most gracious reception.
 Col. H. showed that all these things have passed away through the combined efforts of the Democracy of the country; The Wings succeeded the Federalists, bu although they only comprehended the Ina. tionap' idea of our system, they never ful. ly carried out the intense snobbery of theil predecessors. The Know Nothings sue. ceeded the Wings in their "Union. at-any. price" twaddle, but they departed still far. ther from the silk-stocking responsibility of their defunct political ancestors. Col H. showed clearly and conclusively tha meanwhile opposed to them all in every form, the great Democracy always exist ed, and always insisted that the cardina idea of our system was formed on State rights, and not on Congressional powers that our government was distributed ovel all the States, each in its own capital, anC did not lie, except for few specified pur poses, at Washington. He fastened upor the Bell and Everett party that they were adhering to the principles of Federalism as exhibited in the early days of the Re public So far as MT. Bell is concerned he proved the following facts incontestiby
 
 petitions, and was the only Southerner wht did.
 k John Bell voted against the repeal of the odi oas Missouri Compromise, when the Soutt was unanimously in favor of it.
 John Bell voted against the admission o Kansas as slave State, when the mass of tn, South thought its rejection cause for the disso lution of the Union.
 John Bell favored the admission of Califor T, wish of the South.
 John Bell favored the abolition of slavery in the District or Columbia, as is shown upor Congressional record.
 He is charged with saying that he would sooner coalesce with the Black Republicans than see this Union dissolved.
 We have thus given but glimpse a the positions occupied by the gallant ane unhinching champion of the BREcKIN RIDGE and LANE ticket.
 Gen. THOMPSON, in his reioinder, ac, knowledged the superiority of Col. Hind man over him. His speech, throughout was made up by reading extracts from the speeches of distinguished men, many O which the audience had previously reac for themselves, and the Generals failure to apply his long extracts caused the frs portion of his hour and half to fall tedi. ously upon the ears of his hearers. The only points he made, worthy of notice, was furious and objectionable onslaught upon the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions ol '9S and '99 and a vociferous praise ol Stephen A. Douglas, which caused the Belltes and Douglasites to join in mot ley unison in praise of their candidates In truth, several gentlemen who took then seats during his speech, enquired, "who is that defending Douglas so fercely ?''
 After Col. Thomson had consumed his time, Col. Hindman occupied half hour and Gen. Thomson occupied less than his half hour in reply.
 The Democracy throughout the State may rest assured that the triumph of Col. Hindman was complete. Gen. Thoma- s.~.> ,.Kaa Ir,uar. t1 tha II r.oaataI