Year: 1860



 From Drew County.

 MONTICELLO, ARK, July 14th, 1860. EDITORS TRUE DEMOCRAT

 The following delicous morceau ap- peared in an egotistic editorial of the Sage of this place in its issue of the l2th inst. "What pity we had not been as keen as the correspondent of the True Democrat from Monticello, and when we moved here pinned ourself to the coat-tail of Johnson. We have no doubt the correspondent is most excellent gentleman. Perhaps. may be too recent an emigrant to know the feel ings of the people of the county, or to be entitled to a vote. But still with a large shingle, he will perhaps have small briefs, and therefore will be able to devote much time to correspondence. He seems to un- derstand the necessity of tieing on to the True Democrat, and therefore, we have much hope of his political prospects,

 1 have no doubt the modest and unas- suming editor thought that one might die with pleasure after having received this thrust, edged with such Keen sarcasm, and inflicted by so distinguished an individual as himself; but can assure him that 1 am neither wounded nor frightened, and hope with our nerves well strung with true de- mocracy to be able, at lesst, to retain our equilibrium in the future. l am rather at a loss to know what could have induced the Sage editor to have reflected so severely upon our political prospects and as for pinning myself to the coat-tail of Johnson, I have to say the Sage man is very much mistaken; this idea was conceived in his own prolific imagination, without any material aid, and being brought forth 1t IS to be hoped will do no serious damage. 1 have never pinned myself to the coat-tail of any man, l prefer Johnson to Rector, for reasons I need not give here, if this is pinning then I am pinned.

 If were disposed to pin to the coat-tail of any man, 1 can assure the editor of the Sage, I would greatly prefer to pin to Johnson's than to the forked coat tail of any tender footed Mississippi union croaker. l never can consent to pin or tie to any man, who with the present lights before him, says he would again support Foote over that gallant, chivalrous warrior and statesman, Jefferson Davis, and then give as a reason, that miserable excuse, that Davis and his party were in favor of seces- sion and disunion, charge which Col. Davis denounced as false throughout the State, and perhaps in the hearing of the editor himself This charge Is the despi cable subterfuge behind which black re- publicanism itself is now crouching, with all other isms, endeavoring to defeat the democratic party. l have no disposition to probe the old sores of the editor but since he has torn up the old scab and let off little of the corruption, 1t IS well enough to advise him to powder the sore and let the body retain the matter that its contaminating influence may not be felt any longer.

 Perhaps he has not been here long enough to know the feelings of the people" Perhaps am unlike the editor, end did not move here to shape and temper my political principles to suit the feelings of the people, have principles of my own, and if every man in Drew county were opposed to them, 1 would hold as tenaciously to these principles as if they were with me, willingly allowing or giving to every man the same privilege. If I had been in search of something to pin to, or had been anxious to have known the feelings of the people, perhaps l would have gone to the columns of the inmaculate Sage, in which, suppose the editor would have given me his exper- fence on these subjects, but as l had imbibed my political principles long before knew the editor hope he will excuse me for not consulting him as to the position l would take in this State.

 "He seems to understand the necessity of tieing on to the True Democrat" This is intended to convey the idea that I in- dorse the True Democrat with view to my political prospects, "of which the gen tleman has so much hope, it is very natu- ral that the editor should make such charge, but l think modesty ought to have restrained him for while longer from making this charge against one so unpre- tending ss ourself; if none of the other higher and more refined qualities, which his friends say he possesses in an eminent degree, could not induce him to believe it was not so; if I had been distinguished politician in another State-had remained there until l had seen my new party just upon the brink of glorious dissolution, and then s.had fled the realm" that editor would have had some show of reason for saying that I had tied on to aid my political prospects"

 I am no politician-profess to be toler- able good lawyer, notwithstanding the size of our shingle; but if I ever should think the good people of Drew needs my political services and they should think so too, and my briefs were not too large, might be induced to turn politician while, some thing though have no idea will happen, nor desire that it should.

 The editor says he has no doubt we are a most excellent gentleman, agree with the editor here, but fear when he penned this he had little of the spirit of Mark Anthony when he oficiated at C@sar's funeral.

 We have written this in justice to our self, and with no intention of getting up correspondence, for as much time as we have to devote in that way we are by no means fond of 1t.