Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-06-12
Fl IT tIIt JdUh3JI NI shI-5Ip pIltU Arkansas-Eov Rector.

This small man is making strenuous efforts to direct public attention to himself. Like some other gubernatoriai humbugs that We mioht men ti0n he imagines that the salvation of the South ern Confederacy depends upon him, and hence he ever now and then displays his weakness, and makes himself ridiculous by Eliminating foolish paper, yclept proclamation" Gov Rector has been quite noisy since oursruggle for independence be gan. Like all other little men, with minute cali bres, whom circumstances have combined to place in positions they not able to fill, he endeayors to supply the of brains by that sort of special thunder which intended to startle or overawe the unreAactng. In his recent proclamation to the people of Arkansas be talks quite iippantly about erecting " new ark" to prevent the subiugaticn of his State. He intmates that her best friends are those nearest her, and says if the arteries of the Confederate heart do not permeate beyond the east bank of the Mississippi let southern Missouri ans, Arkansians, Texans and the great west know it and urepate for the future. In short, the little Governor of Arkansas stoutly opposes the con- scrpton bill as an unconstitutional measure, and has made prerence of taking the defense of the State into his own hat5s, and calls for all men be tween the ages of eighteen and forty-fv to fly to his standard.
 The little Governor is pestered. He has not had the manage of things all his own wav.- We are informed by all intelligent and distinguish ed citizen Nf Arkansas that hls election was the result of mere accident. The people of the State never had much confidence in him. but voted for him merely to GGeat the Johnson family" of that State. n. cSe meeting Of the Convention which severed the connection of the State with the
 federal union, Rector was deprived of the chief command of the army of the State. This nett ed the little fellow, and he grew somewhat obstrepe- ous. He regarded the action of the Convention uncopsttutionai,' an ntrin cement upon his pre- rogatve. and declared he would not be governed l V nGly ba ho removal of certain arms. The Convention order- ed him 10 brng them back. The small functionary braced himself upon hIs " prerogative" and lid he wouldn't. The Convention met Sunday evening. summoned his excellency before 1t, and gave his excellency to understand distinctly that his excel
 ency might obey the ordinance or be deposed.- - His exeelency succumbei.
 The little Governor of Arkansas ,we do not know what the avoirdupois weight of Governor Rertor is, and wish the reader to understand that We use the worl " little" a. having reference sole
 y to his calbre) has been galing under the action of the Arkansas Convention for a long time, and he has been consequently frettul little Governor He desires the world to know that the Cony cntion of that State was an assemblage of asses, and that he IS the great man of the wcst-the coming maH--the man of destiny--a sort of Noah--to build new ark to ba launched in 6 new waters" Grand conception that! We think we see the wise men of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and the :" Great Vest driving their live stock, two oi kind, into this ' new ark,'' to be poted through the coming flood by the sdgacious Rector
 The truth is, this small executive overleaps himself. He isby far too anxious to figure in an important charactern the grand drama now being enacted He ought to be circumscrioed, or to use an indigenous phrase. it would be well to ' haul in his horns a litte Let him be content to per sonate that part i'll the play which nature fitted him for and he will not give his State so much cause to blush.
 But seriously, we regret that the Governor should have male such demonstration. It will be taken in the North an evidence of diSsentons among ourselves, aud the ultimate results to which an acknow edgment of the principle of secession may lead Us. It gives aid and comforl to the enc my, and Ii Rector represented the true sentiment in Arkansas, or had the popularity the force of character tO mold the minds of evena respectable portion Of her people, it might prove to be daa- geroHs stab to the Contcderacy and powerful inn petus to the invasion. Buttortunatciy for Arkan- Sas and the glorious cause in which she is engaged, Gov. Rector is properly appl leciated, and her peo pie are too patriotic and sensible u be led astray by such wild and romantic visionaries Arkansls knows that her sister States are fighting her bat ties, and that her cause is the alike ot all the Confederate States. If circumstances render 1t impossible for the Confederate army to defend her soil. she is never forgotten shal her suffer ings go unavenged. Every blow struck for the freedom o the Confede ate States, whether it be upon her own or the soil of Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, or Kentucky, is struck much for her liberation as for either of the other States Her p opIe know this--her brave soldiers know it, and right gallanty do they strike for the freedom of their homes and freSides, They are content fight ing by the side of their southern brethern. never dreaming of " new ark'' which has it's existence only in the diseased imagination of one whose am btion overIeaps his intellect and distances his pa triotsm.
 This portion of Governor Rector's proclamation would not desery serious thought if it was not cal culated to place the gallant State of Arkansas in a false position before those who are not acquain- ted with his standing. In justice to the brave Ar kansians now in the field and to her patriotic pop ulation at home, we have deemed it proper to in dte the above.