Year: 1859



 G3' "The editor of the True Democrat knows very well that we, sole and exclusive editor of the Old Line Democrat, never approved or indorsed that prospectus: that it has never been published in our columns, but another substituted in its place which reflected our sentiments and indicated the course that aoe would pursue while the paper was under our control As we are in no wise responsi- hle for the appearance of the prospectus to which the True Democrat alludes, submit in all candor that it affords sufficient grounds upon which that paner seeks to justify its resentment against us- Old Line Democrat

 It would be creditable in our neighbor to disavow the prospectus mentioned, were his conduct consistent with the disavowal. We fear, however, that it is not. The whole course of the Old Line Democrat, since its commencement, has been in ad- nlirable keeping with the objects enumerat- ed in that prospectus. Had the editor planned and written 1t himself, doubtless he would have produced different one, but it would have been less candid. Mr. Peek has more judgment and in every way a wiser man than T. c. Hindman, who wrote the prospectus. He, therefore, in writing one, would not have avowed the fierce ob- .iects of the little junto at Helena, but would have cloaked them under decent garb of patriotism and love for a " dear people" :" whom he had never seen and knew nothing about. In his expressions of tenderness for the people, he Is extremely felicitous. On pdper, there is no comparison between his devotion to the people of Arkansas and ours, albert he Is stranger among them, and we were born and reared on the soil- have all Of our interests and hopes here with them, and have no other home to 90 to when Arkansas is ruined, as our neigh bor thinks she will be under the rule of her thick headed monopoly of stock lobbing politicians.

 The editor of the |" "Old Liner" too. is sometimes complimentary to our people, and we have often admired the exceeding delecacv with which he fatters them. He would have them believe they are slaves with collars on their necks; that they are too cringing and spiritless to throw off the yoke imposed upon them by tyrants; that hs has magnanimously come here to do it for them, and in return expects them to ac- cept his yoke which shall be easy, and las burden which shall be light. In the sim plicity of our Arkansaw teaching, it is i'm possible for us to withhold from the man the full measure of our admiration. When we think of his recent introduction into the State, his ignorance of its affairs. and of the interests of the people, his presumption would be insufferable, were it not accompa- nisd with such e courtly bearing and high bred dignity" as absolutely to enchant and disarm us.

 But we wander from the subject Our neighbor's disavowal of that prospectus has raised him :n our good opinion. That pospectus was uncaled for, injudicious, and, as regards the True Democrat, false in all of its statements It is impossible for MT. Hindman, either in speaking or writ ing about the True Democrat, to utter the truth. Its former services to him laid him under heavy obligations--in return he was ungrateful-he now dispises himself for it, and hence the implaeable resentment with which he pursues us. His treacherous con- duct deprived him of his self-respect. as of the respect of all good men-he feels it deeply-regards us as the cause, and conse- quently hates us. After the first step, all that followed is natural. A man capable of ingratitude, will not stop at any atroci- ty. It is unwise to lay some men under obligations.