The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-25
land. In my schoolboy days we were well drilled in the Westminster

catechism, and our progress was es- timated by the readiness in which q question was properly answered. One day a minister interviewed q little boy who had but shortly been attending school. "Wcll, Willie, l understand you are at school nowy" "Yes, sirr' We'll, how far haze you got in the catechism?" Willie, ea ger to show that he had made some progress, answered clearly and dis tinctly, Beyond redemption and in to the painsof hell forever"
 Now 1 have a certain class in my mind just now, of whom am i'll grave doubts as to whether they are beyond or not beyond redemption, yet one thing is certain, they are not yet into the pains of hell forever. But if the Bible be true they are in a fair way of getting there; for it says all liars have their portion there. And if they are not liars, then they are the most ignorant class of mortals I know of.
 Are you very anxious to know, Mir. Editor, and reader, who this class is that I have in my minds eye? Well it's not that class who visit this State in q railroad car, and once in q while buy peach or watermelon at the numerous stations where ven ders exhibit them; these never get beyond the observatory of the rail road car, therefore their observations are so near sighted nobody cares for what they have to say. So it's not them mean. There IS another class that make it point just as soon as they can discover a saloon to jump off, run up, get driuk, talk q little, the signal bell for all aboard brings them In hurry back to the car. such talk up or down Arkansas from the look of the saloons and the taste of the liquors drunk. I don't meBn these. Another class come to look up Arkansas and step of at ev- cry infant town, and because they don't find streets paved with marble, gas works and street lamps, theatre, and especially the three gold-leaf covered balls, the indispensable sig nal of pawnshop, these report the country too little advanced in .clvili- zation for them. l don't mean these, for they are unworthy the no tice of honest, industrious people.
 But there is yet some more classes we have in vlew. One class that live by the pen, the only instrument they are capable of handling and ev CT ready to write for the highest bld- der, whose object is money, and are the ready tools of malicious, design ing, corrupting, cheating, lying, rob ping men. What about the man who stands in the doorway leading to the newspaper column, who know ingly passes in the slanderer and liar? Why does the northern-radi cal press persist in falsifying, mis- stating and belying the people of Ar kansas? No State in the Union has had so much abuse as although all the southern States have had much more than enough. The man let him be correspondent, Editor, proprietor, or anything else that will strive to wipe out fact, is g fool whose folly hands him over. to con tempt. The man that knows the fact, yet seeks to conceal and works to ignore it, is dishonest, deceitful and unfit for any office where manly integrity is demanded. What are the naked facts concerning thls state? and I speak or rather write from eight months residence and close observation.
 N l. The standard of morals is much higher here than any place 1 found in the North during twelve years residence.
 ?. Drunkenness, theft, robberies, adulteries, abductions and murders are so much less here that comparison would be out of place.
 3. A man is admitted into society for what he personally is, not for the wealth he possesses.
 4. If man is. overtaken by adver- sity here, warm hearts close around him, ready and willing hands help him up, the good and strong stand by hlm. Especially is this true of Pope county, and of Russellville as a town, where I have taken up my residence. He is not kicked further down, and few ready to bounce up- on what little he has and devour it.
 But this letter is already too long and I have just opened on facts. For the present then, Mir. Editor, permit me to say, that if any man tries, he will try in vain to injurc the few facts I have stated out of the many I have in store, and the man who persists in ignoring these facts that are established, must be be- yond redemption and bound for the pains of hell forever If fprayer is of any effect, prayer should be made all over this great State, for these great est of sinners, and greatest of Arkan- sas enemies. May God have mercy upon such miserable sinners, is the prayer of your correspondent
 c. "A. MoFFAT.
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