The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-15
Progress of the Convention.

an expressive, InouSh SUIT" - comnarison, still, like wounded snake' drags it's slow length along of yes'er- laws forenoon. three very valuable hours were consumed in the tedious, useless dIs- cussion of unimportant technicallties. The thiny is growing absolutely insufferable Hurried onward in a whirlwlnd rush ol events; struggling through the wild confu- sion of q revolution, it is almost criminal in men in the gratifcationI Iof penchant tor snecial pleading, to shut their eyes to the imnortant fact, that in revolution It IS right and properon many occasions to dis- regard mere form if thereby the sotsd sHO- stance of peoples rights may be the bet ter secured; yea, it is very wrong Tn men, to whom people have entrusted thelr des- tiny. to cling with obstinate tenaclty to their notions of strict parliamentary usages, wholly reckless of the number of valuable bours lost in such proftless discussion. Ii centlemen wish to establish reputation as snecial pleaders, as parhamentarians, let them draw up their diploma; it will be wise in the people to sign it without examina- tion at least at such time as this. The people now want you to keep to the man question; to say, and say speedily, will tbev have secession or submission; all other questions, all other decisions they would have VOL understand are now without in terest. Resolution after resolution; amend ment after amendment, have come Tn, until there is matter enough now before the con vention to keep it engaged for months-- Surely this is not right.
 We are tired too of hearing gentlemen give us their biographies; this is not the time and the convention Is not the place for personal matter; another unimportant matter, to which attention is sometimes very affectingly called, is where the fathers, of gentlemen are buried, or are to be bu- ried: these and kindred subjects; apostro- phes to the stars and stripes, to the Ame- rican eagle and the g-e-lorious Union, might be very properly dispensed with just now. Tell us gentlemen, when are we to get out of the Union; or when some of us who have raised our voice and our hands against the government of Lincoln are to be taken and hung for traitors.
 Let us not however, be understood to say that nothing of importance transpired in the hours of the morning. Far otherwise, an expression of vital, of ominous import, was elicited from the Union side. It fell cooly and unfalteringly from Mir. Turner, of Crawford, whose talent and weight of character elevate him to, perhaps, the lea dership among the Union men. It was given in an answer to the direct question of Judge Adams, of Phillips: |" Would you deem the passage of an ordinance of secession rebellion; and those who should vote for it rebels?" MT. Turner replied, that while he acknowledged in all oppress- ed people, the right of revolution, and in the people of Arkansas when oppressed the same right, he held that secession in the contemplation of law was rebellion.
 If this is an orthodox !" Union" senti- ment, and that Mr. Turner proclaims it, is sufficient proof that it is-if secession is rebellion, and if those who advance it by voting, or speaking, or writing, are rebels, then are the Union men of the State of Arkansas, who are all emulous of being law-abiding citizens, bound by their duty to God and their country, to bring these guiltiest of administrator is the high est crime---to the punishment contemplated by law, which is death. Can it be possible that the voters who sent forty or thirty nine Union delegates to this convention, are willing for the sake of maintaining