Year: 1860

III anoIner coluhn we puDllSn com munication from Maj. PETER T. CRuTcH- FIELD, chairman of the executive commit tee appointed by the last State democratic convention, for the purpose of selecting and fixing the time and place of holding the next State democratic convention. The committee have performed the duty, and have selected Little Rock as the place, and the Jfrst Monday in April as the tinae of holding the convention.

 Heretofore the first Monday in May has been the time selected, but as the national democratic convention meets at Charles ton, South Carolina, on the fourth Monday in April, it becomes imperative that the different State conventions should be held sooner. The next national democratic convention will be the most important convention ever held in the history of the country, and it is matter of the utmost importance that the State should be fully represented. To have representation there we must have State convention, and have it appoint delegates in full time to enable them to get to Charleston by the 4th Monday in April. The first Monday in April Is the latest day that could be selected to afford such time to our dele gates.

 

 The next State democratic convention is an important one, and the democracy of every county in the State should be repre- sented in it. That convention has to nomi- nate candidate for Governor, Electors for President and Vice President, and dele gates to the national convention.

 The necessity of promptness upon the part of the democracy throughout the State will be readily seen. Notice of time and place ofholding county meetings should be given at once, and ample time allowed that such notice might reach the remotest parts of the county. Delegates to the dis trict conventions to nominate candidates for Congress in both the first and second districts should also be appointed.

 It is important that we have full and fair democratic State convention, and it is earnestly to be hoped that every county in the State will be represented. Gov. Elias N. Conway having served out the consti- tutional term of which he is eligible, it will devolve upon the State democratic conven- tion to select his successor. His admins tration of eight years will be brought to close next November, crowned with degree of success that we do not believe has ever before attended any administra- tion in the history of any State in the. Union. We know this is high praise, but 1t is our honest conviction, and we believe the almost unanimous award of the people of Arkansas. With an eye single to the best interests of the State, and an untiring, unwearied devotion, in the face of the most interruptions opposition, and under the bit terest denunciation and abuse, be has toiled and labored uncomplainingly for results that he has accomplished, which, if they had been predicted seven or eight years ago, would have been listened to with scorn and laughter. When he was elected Gov ernor of the State he found the treasury without dollar, and thousands of dollars of outstanding and unredeemed treasury war rants issued to defray the ordinary expen- ses of the government; he found the State flooded with shin plasters and paper money of the banks of other States which involved a loss annually to our people of thousands of dollars; and he found the credit of the State depressed to the lowest degree, with the prospect of public debt of millions of dollars to be saddled upon her on account of the State banks.

 But thanks to the wisdom of his policy, and the constancy with which he has fol- lowed it up, our State is now enjoying degree of prosperity unexampled in the south. For a currency we have scarcely anything but gold and silver and we have that in abundance; our treasury is full of specie, and yet the State tax has been re- duced from one fourth to one sixth of one per cent; the banks have been investigated and put in a fair way to be wound up and the State thus relieved of the prospect of the heavy public debt with which she was threatened when he was installed as her chief executive.

 So much for Gov. Conway-it is the duty of the state democratic convention, on the first Monday of April next, to nomi- nate candidate as his successor. Let the democracy reflect upon the subject-let them think of the StaH and its best inter ests, and choose the right kind of man for Governor, and pledge him to the policy that has achieved so much for us within the last eight years.