Year: 1860

Col. k. c. BoUDINoT-It is source of extreme qualification to your numerous friends in Mississippi to see you occupying the commanding and responsible position assigned you by the loyal democracy of Ar kansas. l trust you will not deem it in- trusive in citizen of a sister State, should l present for public consideration, some suggestions connected with our common interest.

 As an impartial observer of events in your State, and feeling deep solicitude in all that concerns her true advancement, I confess that 1t IS source of poignant re- gret that your councils should be divided in the face of an infuriated enemy of no mean proportions, panting for our blood with furor unknown to the wild beasts or the encrimsoned sans culottes. When the name of our own gallant State was men, toned, in the convention that nominated the Machiavellin ticket, at the place where Douglas received an ovation of tens of thousands for his treachery to the consti- tuition, the vipers Mssed Was not this an honor which might be envied by your own proud State

 There is a moral leprosy spreading it's sable wings over the entire north west, as threatning and gloomy to the patriots gaze, as the death dealing sirocco.

 Witness the late degradation of a once patriotic State, in the person of her repre- sentative indulging in language in the Sen ate, alone suited to the taste of dog return ing to his vomit You remember when blood was upon the soul of France, so stain ed that oceans of baptismal waters could not wash out the crimson spot, the French Minister at the court of England, when the news was received of the massacre of the Protestants, went as usual to court, but not a solitary nobleman of the immense throng assembled spoke to him, or returned his salutation. Hundreds of keen and burning eyes were fastened upon him wherever he moved, and they seemed to shrink from his | approach as from moral monster, with such terrible silence and meaning, that his spirit covered within him and he skulk- ed away from court as demon would have fled from the presence of purity.

 Thus should Sumner, in view of his in suit added to the bloody injury received at Harper's Ferry, have been spurned by the nobility of the South and true patriots everywhere.

 l heard Fremont elector in Ohio, while on an excursion made to the North, in the last Presidential contest, in defam- ing the South for throttling rampant abo- litionism, boastfully proclaim, in connec- tion with his advocacy for freedom of speech, that the day was not distant when it would be at the hazard of life for any man. in the Western Reserve, to speak in behalf of our patriarchal system

 And recent political events conclusively demonstrate that the wedge of which Jeffer- son spoke in the sunset of his life, is fast being driven home, as the fulfllment of prophecy, in the triumphs of Northern tanaticism. Fortunately for us, united South has the power to resist the lance of the Saracen, as successfully as the adamant which shivers 1t in pieces.

 Mississippi looks trustingly to her noble sister in this struggle for union and victory Shall it be accorded? If the democracy of Arkansas has ever been recreant to duty, the history has not been written. She has, heretofore, stood immovable, and the names of her lllustrious sons are recorded high Tn the annals of fame The lamented and chivalrous Sevier, I knew him well com manded as much the intellectual homage of the country, as the warm endearment of the social circle. He was to Arkansas what California is to the South-pramus inter pares-the prominent one among the intellectual and moral peers of the Republic.

 And the name of Ashley, who can see 1t or hear it spoken, without throb of south ern exultation? In the retrospect l see a commanding figure, the centre of observa- ton, from whose classic features beams benevoence, and superior manhood point ing heavenward.

 The suggesting of these names will re- mind you of a bright galaxy of which any State might well be proud. And 1 believe, from my knowledge of the living portraits of your State, that in the pending crisis Arkansas will be true to her past history and loyal to her southern sisters.

 was delighted to see the promptness with which your Senator Johnson recently rebuked the clamorous appeals of the North upon the public domain. He nobly sustain ed the President in his justviews of organic law and public policy, in the defeat of a measure truly obnoxious to southern inter- ests and for which he should receive the public thanks.

 You have not only reason to be proud of your able Senator, but the whole country has great cause for graduation in the posi-. tion assigned your favorite, A. B. Green wood, in the department of Indian affairs Those of us who have had dealings with thi: important branch of the public service, car we'll appreciate the advantages secured te the country by the faithful, intelligent and prompt discharge of the duties of the In dian Bureau.

 But at this time Arkansas has stake involved in this department which assumes herculean proportions for the future. What must be your horoscope if the whelps oi Exeter and Fannuel Hall on your western frontier, are suffered to endanger the pub lie safety? Upon the true demo ocracy oi your State rest the hopes of the South for the expansion of her institutions vest Should squatter sovereignty become the watchword of your people, then all is lost It would be surrender of principle de. structive to our rights and as cowardly and base as that of Hull at Detroit But this cannot, will not be. l know the mettle ot some of those chiefs who now beckon youl people on to honor and equality. Their plumes have never yet nodded, aye never will, in base submission to the enemy They will smile at the drawn dagger and defy its point. Your noble standard bearer who bore for so many years, unscathed the shafts of an interruptions enemy, in the strong hold you now occupy, will soon be welcomed by the shouts of your victorious legions. l have it from the lips of my old friend Judge T. Fletcher, who applauds the nomination. as deserving, as honorably made. And the gallant and gifted Col Tebbetts, the veteran war horse. General Mayors, of the Parallel, whose chivalrous bearing in the democratic ranks, makes him to the democracy, what Marat was to the French army.-and the able son of Missis- sippi, whose lips never quivered in the face of our enemies, Josephus Dotson, and hundreds whom I could name, furnish a