Des Arc citizen., 1860-08-29
For the pes Arc Citizen.l

FRIEND MoRRILL:-The uniform quiet and tranquility of our town was disturbed yesterday, by a Bell & Everett Club Rali fication meeting. The meeting was ad- dressed by JESSIE N. CypERr, a very clever gentleman in his personal relation, who had gained some notorlely in the late canvass by running as an antl-Hindman- Old Line Whig- -Dick-J ohnson-Democrat. for Congress in the First District, and coming out in the end, decidedly, at the little end of the horn.
 MT. Cypert commenced by endorsing,
 in part, President Buchanan's adminislra- ton, and then taking for his textbook, Parson Brownlow's scurrilous old Know Nothing sheet, he proceeded to serve up for his hearers (33 in nrmber) rare dish of pompous pretentions, egotlstical assump- tions, and ridiculous and absurd accusa- tlons. The first of these absurd charges, the gentleman promulgated in these words:
 "It has been the object of the leaders of the Democratic party for the last len years. to dissolve the Union" Rather slow work that, we should say. One would naturally suppose that if the Democratic party had been bent on di,solving the U. ion for the last ten years, that they cer- tainly could have accomplished 1t by this time, as they have had the exclusive con- trol of the government for the last eight years. But, we suppose, 1t is the heroic exertions of such Old Line Whig- Johnson-Democra,s as MT. Cypert that has hitherto prevented the consummation of | I His lls IS -f5f fo5ui att,
 He next asked the grave and solemn question-"Fellow Citizens, did you know there was secret party organized in this State for no other purpose than 10 dissolve the Union?" No, we didn't. We did not know it before MT. Cypert spoke, and we don't know 1t now All that there is 10 substantate such grave charge, is Mir. Cyperts ipse dirH unsubstantiated by any proof whatever. But MT. Cypert did not stop at affirming that there was such a par ty, but he went on to make another still graver and more venomous charge ;'',he leading politicians ofthe Democratic party in this State are members of this secret party, and control its operations" This wholesale islander was like the others, un- supported by any evidence.
 We are here called upon to believe that our leading men whom we have honored with our sufrages and our confidence, are implicated in secret, midnight cabaI, i, whose sole object is to plot treason, slra- tagems, and spoils." Human charity and the law of justice would prompt us to be- lieve these men innocent of such a fiend- ish purpose, until they are proved guilty. MT. Cypert's assertion to the contrary, not withstanding. But let us see what next. Says he, "the men who nominated Breck inridge are the same as those who nomi- hated Lincoln, the Black Republican they are sectional alike" This is the first time it has ever been our lot to listen to pub- lie speaker, who claimed any degree of responsibility, who had the impudence 10 assert that tire Black Republican and Dem- ocratic parties were just alike. And can not account for it, only by supposing that Il was purely the overfowing of the gall of disappointed ambition. But the next wonderful revelation that the gentleman made from his vast store house of political knowledge, was that: "Jef Davis came home in 1850 declaring that he was a dis unionist-proclaimed tbis his doctrine and was defeated by Gov. Foote, the Union candidate for Governor" Now those of us who had formerly lived in Mississippi, were surprised to hear that Jeff Davis ran for Governor in 1850, as the Compromise measures upon which the issue was made were not passed until 1850, and according to our lime the race for Governor was not made until the following year lS5l.- With regard to the value of the Union, MT. Cypert said, ''these men who advo- cate disunion under any circumstances ought to be hung" This is cool. now isn't it. A man ought to be hung for saying that majority of States shall not tyran- nze over minority, and override all their Constitutional rghts A man ought to be hung for asserting that birth-right of self Government bequeathed to him by the fathers of the revolution l! l! Really our friend, though lawyer, seems to be perfect monomaniac on the subject of cap- ital punishment Wouldn't he be so com- passionate as to commute the punishment Ol tue oldttS-ilS Ul-Hieu lu Hdlu idUol lOl life in the "salt river colony" where he and his friend Johnson will soon locate 2 IL looks like this would be the most hu- mane and christianlike treatment.
 Having thus denounced and vllified the Breckinridge s,ates-rght party, he turned his attention to the other wing of the party the Douglasiles, and endeavored to help them up, by saying that Douglas was the regular Democratic nominee" Those Democrats who support Douglas are doing right" ''He Is the soundest man." "The | Cincinnati platform upon which Douglas stands is sound and national" O! SC sac onania--O! that he had always spoken thus? But 10 turn round now before a Presidential election and heap so many fulsome compliments upon one wing of the Democratic parly--lhat wing which they say is the regular organization-does i, not look extremely suspicious? Does il not look like coalition iaa future? To my mind it looks like the leaders of the Bell party were preparing the way for general stampede over to Douglas-drop p,lI Nd fbo mi arf |