Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-26


 them yet, by far more dun than Baalam,s ass opened not ther months. What valiant defapdors of southern rights! Wonder if Mir. Peek would not gve them an occasional interest in his editorial tnpodi Verify! their disinterested devotion to thelr dear country, entities them to some dstin. guished honors! He says, Owe are told that inc author of the resolutions can see in secession naught but civil war" You understand the author anght President Buchanan is of the same opin. ion. In his message he says:
 Let us look the danger fairly in the face-se- cesslon Is neither more nor less than revolution = IL may, or It may not be justifabe-but still it is feVoluuon." And what is revolution in the Uni. ted States but civil war; South Carolina, we thought, would be the only state that would se- cede Would she after declaring herself an jnde pendent sovereignty. suffer the United States to naNe anu hl,ihIaln custom house, and collect revenue m Charleston7 There we fear a collision would take place. The first gun fired, and forth with this land would brstle with the weapons of death from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico.
 AS to the extinction of slavery-so soon as war assumes the rens, the hordes of vile aboltionsts ol tne north will inslnuate themselves amongst us Tn disguse, secretly arm and fortify our slaves with their internal agents of death, who would enact-Oniy on thousand fold more extensive and fatal scale-such scenes as have recentlv transplred in Texas. What will be the conse quencel The total extrpation, and that by our nand, of our slaves. The heart sicken and recois from the contemplation; but it is the part of wise men to look the danger fairly in the face that we may the better meet it. Does, then the author see too much 'n civil war? This is the only areu ment we tnd in the letters much of it's sentiment Is taken from our resolutions; with that we of course, agree.
 They suggest "that in future Union meetings we so irame our resolutions so that they can vote for them," etc.
 HOW are we to arrive at knowledge of their Vie"s' unless we get them to express them by an anonynous letter through the Old Line Democrat? These intelligent and leading politicians" :" when our resolutions were read although they now say they approved of part of them, whilst they disap- proved of others had too great respect for public opnlon to call for division of the resolutions or lnterpose single objection, and by their own con fesslon, were not sufficiently popular with their own friends to be called for a speech. How long have these leading politicians'' been demo- crats! Noophytes are always more Jealous than | wise.
 observer,' again, says: "Iet every man to the manor born, come up and take solemn oath on his countrys altar" etc. These deIectahle worthles once took such an oath on a know notbno altar, to vote for none but ''Amcricans believe both were " branded and turned out'' the same nlSht-espoused the Breckinridge wing of the ueihocrauc party at the same time and, as have reason to believe, together digested the letter un der considerations. know not how to account for
 
 uof ol men ot an opposite party unless it be from the fact that they have lost all in their own.- When the vote was called by division on the reso lutlons It stood at least tco huadyed and fffu to SEVEN And thus 1t stands throughout the county as lar as we cap learn. We challenge Mr. Peek ana "Ooserver'' to the test. Should we elect delegates to convention, we possibly will be able to modify somewhat the gentleman's "belief.o
 Our young friends charge us with proxtv and lack Of unity. find am running into the same error again; and although my articles may be lon ger than the decaogue, I trust they do not, like that oi "ObServer,' lack the other more important attributes of the moral law The only anolooy We have to offer is, Luck Of experience. not beng lawyer or pedagogue, and never having written hait a dozen articles for publication
 iyro auIhois, like young sportSmen, prefer shoot Ing with ''scatter gum" and alas! too often like them, ritter away their time and ammunition on Sina'! game, that IS wholly worthless when secur- GU. "lil our kind reader pardon our long spun eWstIe, and as we do not ,oish to obtrude ourself aghn upon the patient public; permit us, before closing to pay our compliments to Hon. Nr Terry oi our senate. We congratulate the gentleman on the result Of his first lesson. He shows Il inst an pfecanoh Of true kindness, and VIC accept it as an acknowledgement that he has discovered who are ms True tr'ends, by time selectiaq as auqrdian ttoSs oi hIs o1a Stdte. That was sensible reso- lUtioh the gentleman offered, to remove the capi- 1ol, ana douot not would be greatly beneficial to the interests of the state. But from d press of more reputable business than legislation has be- come' We must beg leave, on the part of Benton county, to decline the profered honor-for the pre- sent. If the legislature should insist upon Is re 1 moIal, we must protest against it. Should she stiH so far forget her duty to her subjects as to force it on us ''noens volens"
 Although all the horrors of negro equality lihlhea to our afriShted vision by the prophetic | pen of "ObServer' has failed to make us be);eye secession Iegal,' yet the forcing upon us against our will, such an incubus as the Arkansas legisla- ture, would prove the " "culmination of ali our wrongs, upset our conservatism, and driven to desperation, we would repadate from that '.tedera 0o3"'a' anu would certainly secede from the com monweath of Arkansas-'' seceae peaceoblg il nos s'bL3, but aooutd secede at at hazayds."
 The distinguished statesmen" of Benton would never nave enacted laws to squander the magni6 cent prnceiy donations made our state by that government, which some of our legislators are try protesting to love her-very much such affection as daughter would manifest by m king wind Ing sheet in the sight of that affectionate mother who had given her existence, nourished her. and "lth gentle hand reared her to maturity, when stricken by disease not necessarily mortal- They would not elect to office of trust man guilty ot appropriating to his own use funds be- longing to the state. They would not have given by homestead, one hundred and sixty acres of land to all men ndiscriminatey, but would have secur- GU ioi'y acres to poor widows, orphans and day % %lahorers. They would have appropriated the 800, Uoo acre grant-the magnificent swamp land dona- tion' and the seminary fund to the objects for which they were given and intended. Our swamp lands would have furnished our state with aslstem of railroads. The ''statesmen of Ben tom would do many other things that we have no hopes our present legislature will. Since we will not suffer the capital to come here, and since we cannot go to Little Rock, from the fact that we have more conGenal-more proftabIe and as we conceive, more Honorable business at home, We do not know how to supply the deficiency UNLESS we send you the twin correspondents "Observer," we know of none we could more conveniently spare
 Yours, respectfully,
 A. w. DINSMORE.