Year: 1859

uisoi oiSahiAers. lie has the manliness and courage to think and speak for himself hence one great cause of his unpopularitv among the factionists. He will surv;ve ail thelr denunciations The unterr;fed de- mocracy will sustain him.-Stote R;o1ts Democrm."

 For the True Democrat.

 MEssRs. EDITORS: 1 find the above arti- cie copied into the Fort Smith Herald and as It IS slanderous on the part of the State Rights Democrat to speak in such terms of my young townsman, l hasten to inform you oi the facts, that you may repair the injury SO far as may be in your power. To 'ali NIT. Duval "o certeran Standdrd 69arer;' what nonsense! why has Mr. Hindman's man forgotten that my young friend was called upon to register his age. residence and politics, al the close of the last session oi the legislature, and that that per diem, accidental speaker, thereupon registered himself only thirty years of oge and demo- cr@! The age and politics of the speaker were alike necessary to be proclaimed to the world in order that they might be known, so dubious is his action of late as a politician, and so strange his appearance for one of thirty years of age, that many persons have doubts as to both. Some persons here who seem to be well posted on this matter know he was a voter in November, 1844 and was an applicant for office in thespring of lS45. True, this would make him something over thirty years of age this spring, but that is not my business, and have no doubt that his organ, the Fort Smith Herald, can re- concle these matters and make his registry of age as consistent with truth as his poli- ties and actions are with democracy.

 l regret to say that there are great doubts entertained here as to what are his politics. His professions of democracy so illv concur with his known sympathy for the know nothlngs that some persons say he belongs to that party, while others say he is a soft shell democrat, and others say he is neither; that he Is cariboao, and these latter seem to be better informed than the others. But enough of this, only l think that no better name could be adopted by Col. Duval, Hindman & Co.,, in order to distinguish them and their men (for they have no par ty) from the true democracy than Me cari- Jow 1rkonsos democrocy. IL is true this name was suggested as one applicable to the Crittenden, Bolts anI Bell party, but as they have not yet yetappropriated it 1 would advise Col. Duval and those acting with him to seize upon it forthwith, as it is equal ly applicable to him and his friends, as to Crittenden & Co. They should do this so as to organize, fol as vet they have no or ganization. They should paint the caribow bull upon their banner; the animal made up of all others, having the hoofs of the OK, the hair of the hog, the horns of the goat and the ears of the ass, and rally under it as suitable emblem of their political principles. When they have once done this, they may then speak about disorganizers, if any of their adhcrents trv to create confusion in their party. Out for Duval, Hindman d Co.,, to talk of the True Democrat and dis organizers now reminds me of the man who hung the jury and made bad complaint of his fellows, saying they were eleven of the most contrary men in the world on the jury, or they would agree with him." The bare idea ofcreating Reorganization in Col. Duval and Hindman's party reminds me of the immortal knight and squire of La-Man- chia and the fight with the wind d-mill.

 The cause of Col. Duval's unpopularity is not as the State Rights Democrat would have the people believe ''through speaking for himself" but the fact that he wanted to speak for every body else in terms of dicta- ton. He wanted office and wanted every body to stand from under; until he was satisfied he had been carried so high in hopes of senatoriaI honors, that like the tortoise that had been carried by the crane to q great height forgetting that it was made to crawl and not fly, let go its hold, fell and was killed. So Duval forgetting that he was only V 3O years old and whatever he was. he was indebted to the democratic party for, in an evil hour let go his old friends and in his vain effort 10 iniure his former political associates fell upon per diem and was politically crushed, killed, damned and buried So dead in the grave of political con- demnation, that no sound of the trumpet of resurrection will ever reach him.

 MT. Duval is truly unpopular in this part of the State--per diem sticks to him like his shadow, and like Banquo's ghost keeps ever in his way of entrance to the feast of political preferment in the democratic par ty. Col. Duval is now however preparing plan to organize his friends in this coun. ty preparatory to a race in 1860 for the legislature. The plan is to proclaim the American party defunct and that all per :. sons irrespective of their antecedents are good democrats, and set himself at the head ot the know nothing party in the name of democracy, and in carrying out this plan the Herald is to change hands, and be con troled by the starter of rotation in this county Duval's object is reorganization of the know nothing party in this county with himself at its head and the Herald as as it's organ. This may look like small business, but nevertheless true.

 ALPHA.

 Fort Snuth, May 22d, 1859.

 Van Buren, May 10th, 1859.