Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-04-11
From White County.
SEAEcY, ARK, April 3d, 1861.

sEAEcY, ARK, April 3d, 1861. EDIToRs TRUE DEMOCRAT
 Thinking that you would like $ learn the resul of the appointment made by Honi Robt w. Sohn son, to address the citizens of White county a this place yesterday, have concluded for th' nonce to turn reporter and gife you few of th' items. General notice had been given of the ap pointment trous hout the county. and from wha could eaIn, if the weather had permitted, wt would have had the largest assembly here that eve met in our village to hear any publie speaker; but unfortunately, all the night before the speaking was to come of, the rain poured G}wn in torrents thereby rendering the creeks imEassable' and Il continued to rain at intervals untl F o'clock the next day--however, under all thGse uniaVofaDie circumstances, crowd of several pundred people assembled. All persons, whether sicession or un- ion, were anxious to her Col Johnson lie was late from Washington City-had I,ersonaliy min g!ed in all the struggles that there ad taken place in the various efolts made to saye the tottering government, and was fully competeit to show the intentions of the black republicans and the true state oG cur federal affairs; and in addition 10 this, Col. Johnson has in his long political course esab- lished an enyabe reputation for consistency, states manshp and unyieding integrity, that has won for him tie esteem, respect and confidence of men of all parties throughout the whole State. Thus it is that in the day of revolution, of gloom and doubt when the word traitor and abotionisi are banded about from one party to the other, and the minds o <nlany persons are in doubt as to whti their duty at this trying time, and their minds a: full aroused to the importance of that duty, the. with conf Ndence turn to who for fifteen years has served tliem with fidelity and zeal in the highest offices within their gift
 The discussion Was opened by Robert Newton, esq, citizen of your city, who ill a speech of something over an hour, vindicated the position of the secession party-exposed the dangerous ten dencies of the submission party, and the utter hum bugrery of the Frankfort conventiors Mir. New > ton is a young gentleman of brilaI& talents and of fine information.
 Col. Johnson then arose amid rounds of applause, and for an -four and half gagged the rapt atten- ton of the audience. The Colonel fist took uF our state convention and showed that the well drilled forty were determined if possible, to Ire vent the question of secession being submitted directly to the people, to whom all political power properl, bcongs-relusing to adjourn sine die n Crdcr that another convention might be called voting down the question of secession being sub mitted to the people and refusing to d. any ming until they found that the matter would be Airod home to h eir constituents, and their acti' put in its true lght--then it was that they cc Ipromsed, and allowed the people through their >hdescenson to express a preference between operation and secession. While the Colonel .s giving his ex- pose of he action of the p .tal forty, the dele gate from this county bee <fery restive Che hay ing been one of said fori and frequently inter- rupted the speaker; finally Col Johnson demanded of him if in the event that the State voted in favor of secession he would vote for an ordinance imme datelv seeding the Stlte ;he replied th@t he would but if his county voted in favor of it that he would not feel so bound to do-that it was agreed at Little Rock at the time the resolution passed that they were to be governed by the vote of the whole State This should think must have been ex- tremely gratifying to lis constituents thinking honest men, that their delegate was in duty bound to reflect their sentiments and to find out that he was man of such enlarged views, lofty patriotism and towering genius as not to be simply a repre- seutltive of the feelings of the single county of White, but the whole State. Hdppy county to possess such a delegate. Col. Johnson then went on to show the true state of the country -the aims and ends of the admlnisraton-that it Vas of vital Importance to this State that she should attach herself to and become identified with the Confede- rate States at the earliest practicable peFiodthat if she remains in the Union, being the only of the saycholding States remaining tltt affords any outlet for the supelabundant negro population of Kentucky, Virginia, Mary land and Missouri, that as the abolition element in these States in in 5Ia, and being prohibited from sending slaves to the South no territory into which carry them, Ten nessee and North Carolinia being already supplied with as many as can be profttbly employed there, Arkansas as a natural consequence becomes the re ceptical of this vast horde of blacks and as an evidence that this was no ovcldIawn picture he stated the fact that q few years ago in tbe amend ment of the constitution of the State of ientucky that the question of emancipation was discussed in many parts of that State.
 It is useless for me to attempt to even give a synopsis of the whole of Col. Johnson's speech in this sartcle as it is already longer than intended it should bel will only say that Col. iohnson's speech produced deeper impression upon tho mind of the audience than any speech e,.er deliv- cred here It wasplan straight farward and forc Dle-IO dtJeuII 0J ul9l DuI uilcNIlS ltoell u the reason and judgment of the audience; never theless Col. Johnson possesses the true elements Of an orator, for in poItraying the wrongs of tho South and the point to which the efforts of the lea ders of the secessionists were driving our beloved State. saw the eye of the old and young dimmet with tears. It is believed here by all who heard Col. Johnson, that his efforts in the cause of the South will a1s6 tsh infinite good hedoes no convince. q nquestionably cause the peop to investii to reflect, and when they dt tlat.and tn he true issue before them, be Eevirg in tI ] elligence ani patriotism of tn people " loubt tie result?
 urs PINE KNOTT.
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