Year: 1861

State-r1gntS, loyal peopio, anu yS'

 ally seem willing and anxious to exercise the "Jrief authorty'' with which they ind themselves clothed, to the utter destruction of the fondest hopes of those whose will they pretend to reflect. Many ran as con- diionol secessionists, pledged themselves from the stump to favor the withdrawal of the State from the Union if such an adjust ment of difficulties had not been effected by the 4th of March, as would allow her to re- main in that Union with honor and safety to herself. and who vowed, above all other things, that whatever the convention might do. should be submitted to the people for Meir consideration. Upon these pledges and with these promises upon thelr hps' these men were elected to the convention, came to Little Rock, unfortunately fell into the hands of shrewd and crafty politicians, and by a system of hocus-pocuS wholly un- intelligibe to the initiated, they have been drilled into utter oblivion of their plighted faith, made to forget the solemn vows which have thus far kept their confiding constituents in silence and prevented de- monstration of Meir disapprobation of the puerile course the convention has pursued. It was even the understanding in this coun- ty, produced by the repeated declaration of one of the delegates particularly, that the action of the convention, whatever it might be, should be submitted to the people for their ratification The surest plan to de- termine the views and wishes of our people in regard to the questions now convulslng this once great and glorious government, Is to present to them an ordinance of seces- sion, as was done in Texas, and let them vote for or against it.

 The enquiry is no doubt often made by the honest farmer, who is at home attend ing to his own business and trusting to thls convention for such action as will vindicate the fair name of our State, as to wherefore it is that these men are so much averse to letting the potent voice of the people be heard in regard to their own destiny and the hopes and fortunes of those who are to come after them.

 With what astonishment will the honest and unsuspectng masses of the people who, unused to arts, and opposed to chicanery and deception learn the fact that the squad of delegates who term themselves Union- ists, and who have small majority in the convention, have organized and drilled and disciplined until there is not question comes up or any motion made, however minor and unimportant, but what the en- tire vote of the party (yes, party, for such they have made it, ] is cast for or agai nst it, as suits the peculiar whimS or fancy of a few of their chosen leaders. Sent here for the purpose of considering the political status of great and free people, they have forgotten duty and all other conside- rations of worthy nature, and look only to thorough organization of the party, that success in future may be certain in the little contemptible squabbles for office, which have already disgraced our country, and contributed largely towards bringing upon us the unfortunate state of affairs un der which we are now sorely suffering.- Yea, verify, so fondly attached have they thus soon become to their newborn parti- gan organization, that coercion itself-with all its attendant horrors. and the civil war which will unayoidably result therefrom- has no terrors for many of their number, and the naughty rejection by the black re- publicans of all propositions for an honora ble peace, has worked no change in the sen ments of single member of tho party.

 We have patiently waited for some ac ton on the part of those who control ;he