Year: 1859

tor only for the nonce, and not very digni- fled at best, we may be permitted to notice a communication in the last number of the Old Line Democrat, under the classical, patriotic and spread eagle signature Of

 " E Pluribus Unum.'' If another excuse

 is needed, it is the author, who is T. c.

 Hindman. Of course this will be denied and the little political juggler may have procured some person to copy 1t and call himself the author, but Hindman sticks out all over it. It is his manner and hls matter, his style and his song. At all events, as it is the burden of his speeches and diatribes for the past year 1t may be worth while to notice it.

 E Pluribus opens rich. He fixes hls whereabouts in the northwest. There IS an attempt to grow eloquent anent noun tains and rivers, which we commend to school boys hard up for "a composition. y" Next, we are told the democracy of Car roll, Madison and Newton counties were fast asleep until E Pluribus, alias Viator, alias Tommy, came and opened their eyes; which compliment, the gallant, true demo- cracy of that section of country will fully appreciate. Next he pnffs the O. L. D. as man has a right to do in this free coun- try, for if a man has trumpet why should he not blow it? After a while he comes to his stereotyped charges against the de- mocracy, all of which were paraded before. This is headed, in capitals, "Keep it be- fore the people," The object of this is to induce some people to believe one or more of them, and is carrying out the principle that "a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth" First, as usual comes the caucus. In this, his well known slashing style, he throws the boomerang which comes back and hits himself He says the True De- mocrat refused to condemn the senatorial caucus, which trampled under foot the usages of the party, repudiated the Cincin- natl platform and voted to admit unrepent. ant know nothings into democratic caucus.

 We wonder, if by unrepentant know nothings," he means Baxter, Mcconnell and West? Now for fact or two. On the first day of the session democratic cau- cuses were held to nominate officers. These men whom he styled disorganizers were then admitted and never word did little Tommy say. The majority rule prevailed there, and no usage was trampled Nav, wonderful to tell, little Tommy did not have the Cincinnati platform indorsed - Now these were democratic caucuses and if these things were wrong in one case they were in the other There are some men so stupid as not to know, or so cunning as to affect to disbelieve, that caucus is no place to build or indorse platforms The object of the caucus was to agree upon some man for whom they should vote for United States Senator. That accomplished their labor was done. More than this, if they did it, was all outside work. They had nothing to do with the ten commandments, the Gin cinnati platform, or the declaration of inde- pendence. To refuse to.vote on either of these was not affecting them, and they are just as sacred as if no caucus had "voted them down." We will go further, and give it as our opinion that if the caucus had resolved the ten commandments to be un- worthy of keeping, the Cincinnati platform to be false in theory, and the declaration to be a falsehood; still these things would have existed uninlured and the democratic party not been responsible therefor. The caucus had nothing to do with platforms. It is time that men who profess to have common sense, cease their humbug about the caucus. It was not convention, nor even mass meeting of democracy-theira action bound nobody but themselves, and q journal or politician has very little to do, if he steps aside to scan the actions of caucuses or in- formal meetings.

 One thing more; when we referred to the action of the legislature on the subject of per diem-the public acts of public men, and a legitimate subject of comment, this same Tommy got up resolutions of censure. Now, if the True Democrat had no right to express its opinions of the acts of the legislature, how, in the name of God, is it to be blamed for not giving its opinions of mere caucus? All this stuff about the caucus is the veriest humbuggery, by which a miserable demagogue ever sought to blind the eyes of honest men to the enor- mity of his course.

 The next is a hit at us particularly and employed editors generally. We are cal led ''pensioned scribbler, which is trife milder than some of the Gazette epithets. We are informed that for filthy lucre we sold ourself to the Johnsonians. InlS54. we think it was, when Tommy made his first tour, he came to Clarksville. Tommy then congratulated us upon our becoming a democrat and was exceedingly well pleas ed at the idea of our being able to give him a vote As he did not get the nomination that load of poles," we were spared cast ing that vote and gave it for Mir. Green wood. It was all right then. No odor of the lamp black of the dark lanterns then It was not until we refused to wear the Hindman collar, that Tommy "smelt sufin." As to the filthy lucre, it is need less to say again that 1t is false That we were a whig once and for two or three months know nothing, is not denied.- That we became democrat in good faith we claim and have worked with what slen- der ability we possess for democratic prin- ciples for five years or more Nor, have we been so overburdened with modestv as to be ashamed to confess that we were a democrat. The communication we are re- viewing proves to be from Tommy by his