Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-06-30
PUBLICO.
From Drew County.
MONTICELLO, ARK, June 18th, 1860.

| the 2nd district met agreeable to appointment; quite a number of the citizens of Drew collected at this place, all bouyant and good humored in anticipation of the fine crops which the fields at present promise, and in the enjoyment of the almost uninterrupted good health prevailing the. county, and with good relish for the somewhat novel entertainment here, of political discussion.
 The crowd convened at one o'clock P. M at the court house, when that biggest and best of good fellows, Bob Dedman of Dallas, who had during the morning been making himself generally useful and ornamental among the white male portion of our population twenty one, took the floor and an- nounced that he was neither Can't or Mitchell, and that notwithstanding he was by empt from the imperlections common to tral hu- manty he hadn't yet got down to running for Congress; :but a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of the 2nd judicial circuit and made in his happiest manner, very happy speech in behalf of his claims for that position; which was highly appreciated and well received by every body.
 Col. Edward w. Can't next came forward, and opened the third discussion of the Congressional canvass by regretting that he should have to speak with the disadvantage of hoarseness with which he was suffering; and then with voice pitched to the highest key in reach of little vocal apparatus only intended to subserve the purposes of a vocal dmin utive mental organization with which it is connect ed, he commenced a strain of something that aspired to be buncombe and demagogueism; but the shallowness and transparency of which stamped it unmistakably as only second rate twaddle.
 We have often heard it from the disorganizers about here that Col. Can't is one of the most re markabe young men of the country, and it is un- doubtedly true-he says he is only 2S years old and yet his face carries those premature marks of age and decay, which great desparity in abili ties compared with his aspirations to produces besides 'he has no hair on the top of his head the place where the hair ought to grow" But it is speaker that he is particularly remarkable, for lie unquesfionably possesses the knack of mak- ing speech out of as few ideas any man liv ing-indeed ideas so far from being requisite with him with ordinary speakers would seem to be not only superfous but an absolute encumbrance
 The broadess and vaguest generalites, and most common place platitudes all that he requires on which to drape the labored and loud, far fetched and ridiculous expressions which compose his eff forts. He seems to think that the very finest flights of oratory consist in exhibiting to his audi ence, all the different modes fguratve other wise in which he is able to give expression to an | insqnifcancy. He declares that he is " stand,ng on the democratic platform,' and at the same time that he is ' marchng under the democratic banner !" that he is in the democratic ship--on the demo- cratic ocean-wafted by democratic breezes into a democratic port, etc. Then in order not to be misunderstood says he is "not on corner of the democratic platform ''-he is standing right in the middle of it' "planted firmly on the centre of it," and thus having materialized the party plat form and thrust himself on to its geometrica centre it brought in magnation Buchanan, Davis Breck- enridge, Benjamin, and other such small lights gravitating round and stealing the elfugence of the great democratic orb fthe nation E. ". Cunt, esq. He wasn't fighting under Dick Johnson's little banner. no sir! he would scorn it-he wasn't in a ship with squattcr sovereign crew. not at all nor by any means. Hehad advocated democracy when he was boy in Tennessee-had'nt done anything elsewas still standing on the democratic platform fighting in the democratic ranks-marching under the democratic flag, etc.,--from all of which we got the I'm reSSlOn, that ne desired It should be understood that he democrat, but that knowing his political course beed the assertion he couldn't screw up his courage to say so in sensible way.
 The ridculousness of MT. G's positions are only equalIed by the desperation and recklessnsss of his assertions in endeavorng either to maintain, or ex- trcate himself from them, for instance, after assert | o,,d ;,t h;f ways (without giving the least proof of it) that Dick Johnson had persecuted him nearly to death in placing the communications of his Can't 's) friends recommending him suitable candidate for Congress in obscure portions of the True Democrat. and repeating those sterotyped and silly charges against the State convention until they were doubly stale and contemptble, he seemed to feel well he is capable of feeling that he had fell far, far short of making the most ptiful apolo gy for being dsorganizer; and with an effrontery assuming that the people were as ignorant as him self, asserted that all he required to have gotten the nomination of the Philadelphia convention was the mere formality of ballot, and that therefore Dick Johnson, the True Democrat and those who did not support him were disorganizers.
 l getting out of the political mre into which he has ventured and stuck, seems to derive some consola ton from the vain endeavor to bcspatter his com petitor with the green slime with which he himself is surrounded And therefore the absurd, unsup ported and base charge against Dr. Mitchell o squatter sovereignty. Why does not Mir. Can't and his friends charge Dr. Mitchel with being ir favor of the union of church and state or of beno opposed to freedom of speechl or anything else which their imagination and unfairness would sug gest? Certainly those trumped up certificates would prove anything as well if not better thar that Dr. Mitchell is or ever was in favor of souat. ter sovereignty. l have neither the time. the in clination nor in fact the ability, to review Mir Gantts hour and half of rodomontade. moon shine, balderdash and fummery, but sincerely hope that every man in this district will hear him before next August.
 He closed by modesuy informing us that he had made an excellent prosecuting attorney and to us. his own language "having been faithful over q few things he thought that nov he ought to bt given to rule over many; also declared his inten. tion of being sober in he got to Congress- and if his political actions were not so inconsstent his professions one would be led to suppose tha he really had some aspirations to be decent.
 The democratic candidate for Congress nex took the floor; and venture to assert that ther, never was people more disappointed in speake, than those of Drew county were to-day in hearing pr. Charles B. Mitchell. Hewas personally amos entirely unknown here. He had the reputation O being plain, matter of fact, sensible gentleman in an old fashioned way first rate argument in