Year: 1859

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 is speech or blow -up-spoutlng or eA-

 plosion. So these double engine orators | let off volume of steam and then subside

 for while. While the speeches do nobody

 any harm, except to take up valuable tlme'

 they are matter of necessity with the

 speaker Knowing this, he would be lack

 ing in charity who would find fault "

 speech making. We do not.

 The last State Rights Democrat contains

 a glowing, in fact white heat description

 of the speech of T. C. Hindman, at Helena

 lately It enumerates the points touched | upon by S our eloquent and able champion. | From it we gather that the aforesaid cham I pion is persecuted innocent. 1t IS very

 singular, that all his life he has been com

 bined against, censured and persecuted. From the day he landed on Arkansas | soil he has been a hunted victim. So that

 it has been absolutely necessary that he

 should shoot somebody, kill somebody, as

 sault somebody, or make a speech at peri

 odic intervals They keep him defining

 his position, setting himself right and de- lending his course We gather from the

 report of his speech that the caucus perse cuted him. How les lslative caucus could

 affect the principles of the democratic par ty; how it concerned him, or how it came to attack him, is not clear. At all events,

 the majority in the caucus refused to be | dictated to; voted down all resolutions of

 fered by the minority, good, bad and indif-

 ferent, as they had right to, and so per secuted him. Next, the True Democrat

 persecuted him by saying that majority of his own county were opposed to him. He ayers that he would not represent an unwilling constituency We do not wish to persecute him or we might write the un palatable truth that if he should resign to run the race over there is not democrat ill his district who could not beat him five to one. Next Senator Sebastian persecuted him. By being elected. And Senator Johnson persecutes him. By taking no notice of him. And Gov. Conway perse- cuted him. By vetoing his bill to gerryman7 der the State by throwing off several coun1 ties in the first district where gentlemen lived who might run against him and by alter ing the time of election. Next the people prosecute him by refusing to sustain the members who drew per diem pay during the recess, though he urged and induced many to do so.

 It will be rather difficult to make the people see why the representative should have the power to select the Senator, to district the State and generally to have things his own way But in all these things he failed and hence he Is persecuted. It becomes necessary to defend Small men, like Cass, or Hunter, or Breckenridge, are content to put their views on record and endure persecution in silence. Not so with great men. They must address their fel- low citizens-they must speak-they must spout or die The views of a small man like Hunter or Breckenridge on some small national question will do to amuse us, but the views of Col. Hindman on one of the legislative caucuses must be periodically promulgated.

 True, the people may get tired of this and be apt to think it sheer humbuggery. But duty prompts him and it must be done. Patriotism burns in his "buzzum" and must find vent. No democrat is bound by any action of mere legislative caucus, whether it did right or wrong, but that is not the point. They refused to obey in. structions and so persecuted |" the champi- on, " the standard bearer,' etc.

 Looking at it all seriously, we begin to think this interesting young gentleman may be a persecuted individual after all His speech has aroused our sympathies We are tempted to go in for the bottom dog in the fight" The caucus is past and gone, so we cannot address that body, but surely Senators Sebastian and Johnson might re- sign and let the little giant appoint their successors. And Gov. Conway could shut his eyes and try to forget his oath of office and sign the Co.'s little bills And the people might indorse the per diemists and swear it was eminently proper and just to take pay for services not rendered. But a doubt crosses our mind that perhaps this persecution is all fancied. Suppose, after all, there should be no snakes in his boots? Suppose '' the man with the poker" should not exist in reality? Suppose the people should not care copper for his views on the caucus and all this speech making and blowing off steam is an endeavor of a frog to assume the proportions of an OK? Sup pose, instead of duty prompting to this it should be spite? Suppose instead of pa triotism it should be malice? Suppose in- stead of love of democracy it should be determination to rule or ruin? Suppose all this speechifying, calling meetings and pass ing cut and dried resolutions should turn out to be the sheerest, veriest and lowest kind of humbuggery?

 These are grave doubts and we must pom der them awhile In the meantime we hope they will cease prosecuting the little giant. Let him sleep o'nights, we pray you. A string kept at it's utmost tension will some day snap in twain A boiler always heated will explode. The safety valve of speech is not always to be de- pended upon. We sincerely hope that certain newspapers and politicians in his own district and elsewhere, " will stop polk ing sticks in his cage to make him roar- Let him rest, boys-let him rest

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