Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-03-07

| nASoiaole iuan ana ms associates have palu the highest human penalty for crime, and were It not for those who were as guilty as himself, but less manly and courageous, hls ashes might rest in peace. But his history remains, and when it IS attempted to invest It with saintly and brave and he rolc virtues the truth should be told, even though we would gladly be spared the re- cital. His course in Kansas was marked by every species of wrong and violence and hls pathway can be traced by bloody foot prints along his whole career from theft to murder He went to the neighborhood of hls exploits under a false name, and gath cred arms and implements wherewith to enable lnfnriated blacks, if he could arouse them, to murder master and mistress and children, and the peaceful, unsuspecting inhabitants generally, and then, at the dark and silent hour of midnight, when not even the pale moon and trembling stars looked out, when honest men were sleeping, when thieves and murderers prowl and evil beasts roam for their prey, the assassin whets his knife and bran'lished his bloody pike, and murdered the unsuspectng and defenceless; and for this his crime Is invested with romance, and sugared over with panegyric, and he is called brave and heroic by those whose evil sentiments urged him on, and by those who furnished the sinews for this un- natural and wicked war;
 w hat would have been a dastardlv murder in others, was heroism in him, and the sentimental struggled for the pri vilege of clasping his hand, yet dripping with the blood of his victims; and anti slavery woman, gentle, kind and virtuous, passed by all other sorrow and destitution and suffering, that she might be permitted to go to the felons cell and nurse the mur- derer who had sought to arm and turn loose at midnight the ignorant, and lawless, and brutal, upon her terrified, shrieking and defenseless sex.
 lie has been canonized by the blasphe- nous orgies of those who demand an anti slavery Bible and an anti-slavery God, as a second St. John in the wilderness of Harper's Ferry, who was to prepare the way for their grim deity, and make his paths straight, by an 'underground rail road" When the uIprit, after fair, i'm partial, and patient trial, had been con demned and was eXpatiating his crimes, bells were tolled, minute guns were fired, and gatherings were invoked, as though the spirit of q patriot or a sage was about to pass from earth to heaven, and it was de- clared that the galows would henceforward be more glorious than the cross and cruel hxion; and could he have been executed 5etween taco of these inStigators and apolo gists, it certainly would have borne one re- semblance to that event and one only.
 His unfortunate family are now made the recipients of a noisy, OstentatlOus and vulgar charity, that the mischief of his ex- ample may be increased anl perpetuated, when had relief to them have been the ob ject, no such paradeday display would have signalized it.
 The people of the southern states have feh and they have felt most severely that the constitution has been outraged, and have right to demand, and will de- mand of us, not mere lip service, but practical fulilment of constitutional igations:-that we retract and repeal our hostile legislation, that we return tugi tives from service, and that we meet them in the true fraternal spirit of constitution al ctludIlN. Illn Wc lluSL uO, anu uO promptly, and when it is done, we shall again witness pacific relations.
 The Federal Government is bound to protect each ot the states against invasion, and if foravs and armed bands from one section, are to hover upon the borders of States for the purpose of invading their | territory, 10 murder their citizens, destroy their property and subvert their govern mcnt, the State thus assailcd, however powerful and ample in her own resources, may demand the security provided, and that with propriety, Mough no amount ot' fore can eoer mointain Me Union.
 This sectional strife, as wicked as it was wanton and disgraceful, ifpermitted to pro ceed, cannot fail to produce more serious consequences than it has ever foreshadowed; ; and, when its votaries shall have subverted all constitutions and laws save such as conform to their own mad standard, they must close their career of blood and vio- lence, with knives at each others throats which have been blunted at the throats of honest men and their wives and children. l have the honor to be, etc D. $. DICKINSON. | SAMUEL L. M BARLOW, one of the Con-