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correct ! They were the doctrines main
tained by Seward and the Black Republi
can party: that Congress had power tc
abolish slavery in the Territories, and lha
it was its duly to do so. The great evi
apprehended was the expulsion of the
South from the Federal Territories by the
General Government. To allay the, ap
prehensions of the South upon this point
and at her earnest solicitation for protec
tion against free soil aggression, this res
olution was adopted. In a word, it was
simply intended to antagonize the de
mands of Black Republicanism, simply to
meet this phase of the question.
Now let us exarrtirto the resolution in
detail, and see if it does not sustain this
view of the subject; The preamble sets
forth that the ensuing resolution was made
with the view “of meeting the issue on
which a sectional party subsisting exclu
sively on slavery agitation,” which was
of course the Black Republican party,
and therefore it was not made to assert the
peculiar dogmas of any wing of the Dem
ocratic party, as is now asserted by Judge
Do glas. It is declared in the first reso
lution that it was drawn for the express
purpose of repudiating all sectional par
ties and platforms, “ which seek to embroil
the States, and to incite to treason and
armed resistence to laws in the Terri
tories,” and therefore included no part of
the Democratic party, which had passed,
and was then upholding the Kansas-Ne
biaska bill. The abolitionists had repeat
edly charged the Democracy with being
the propogandists of slavery, and their
object was not only to prevent Congress
from excluding slavery but to establish it
in the Territories. To meet this view
the first Resolution declares that the true
aim of the Democracy was “ non-inter
ference by Congress with slavery in State
or Territory or in the District of Colum
bia.” The language of the second and
third resolutions show that this “ non-in
terference ” was a principle to govern
Congress at particular periods only. The
second resolution says that “ this was the
basis rightfully applied to the organiza
tion of Territories in 1854,” and that the
time for the application of this principle
of non-intervention, and the mode of its
application, as illustrated in the Legisla
tion of 1851, is in “ the organization of
Territories.” It is not “ rightfully ap
plied,” therefore, if applied as a rule of
Congressional dutv, when a Territory
violates the equal right of property of a
.:_ ~ AAriiti^
nl force is given to this view of the sub
ject by the last of the series of resolu
tions that recognizes “ the right of the
people of all the Territories” “whenever
the number of their inhabitants justifies
it to form a State Constitntion and to ex
clude slavery or establish it as they may
desire.” Here it is declared that “ when
the number of their inhabitants justifies
is the time,” and through a “constitution”
is tiie manner in which they can settle
this question.
Let us look at it, however, in still an
other light. If “non-interference by Con
gress with slavery in State or Territory,
or in the District of Columbia” means
squatter sovereignty, what is the logical
result? If by "non-interference” is
meant the complete abandonment by Con
gress of all its right to legislate on slavery,
and not even interfere to revise unconsti
tutional legislation ; what is the eflect ? —
Congress is divested of any right to legis
late over slavery in the District of Colum
bia, over which it has “ exclusive jurisdic
tion.” It would also divest Congress of
any power to enforce the Fugitive slave
provision by any additional legislation that
will have a bearing either upon “ State
or Territory.” But as all will admit Con
gress is bound to pass all needful laws on
these subjects, as experience may require,
and as the " non-interference ” described
in the platform, is to be equally a duty
“ in State. Territory or District of Colum
bia,” it follows that this squatter sover
eignty principle has no foundation in
reason, nor in the letter and spirit of the
Cincinnati platform.
But whatever may be tiie meaning of
this document, it may be most confidently
asserted that Southern Democrats never
construed it as favoring this dogma of
popular sovereignty. 1 venture the asser
tion that there was not a Democratic elec
tor in the Souih who did not defend both
his candidate ami platform from squatter
sovereignly. The construction of this
platform entered largely into the canvass
of 1856, and Southern Democrats pursued
the very line of argument I have just left
to prove that it did not endorse Judge
Douglas’ present notion in regard to the i
power of Territorial Legislature. And
when President Buchanan in his inaugu
rat address repudiated mis neresy h was
received with a thrill of joy throughout
the South, and pointed to as a verification
of their promises to the people. Up to a
period immediately preceding the meet
ing of the Charleston Convention the
Southern Democracy was a unit in oppo
sition to squatter sovereignty.
A word in regard to the practical re
sults of this doctrine and I am done.—
Aside from the legal absurdity of impu
ting sovereignty to a Territorial govern
ment established and having its existence
as it docs by the sufferance of the Fed
eral government, there is the most mani
fest injustice in permitting a Territorial
Legislature to exercise an unlimited con
trol over private rights. It is as fatal to
the expansion of slavery into the new
Territories as Congressional prohibition
itself, and will as effectually prevent the
South from having an outlet as if the
creed of Mr. Seward should become the
policy of the Government. The disad
vantage to slaveholders and the discour
agements to the introduction of slave
property into new Territories, where this
principle prevails, are almost indefinitely
cumulative. Let Northern competition
be orice authoritively armed with the de
cisive weapon of squatter sovereignty and
it will be mere quixotism, at be^t, for a
Southern slaveholder to make Ins property
the stake of a hopeless conflict. In the
first stage of settlement, there is scarcely
a Territory in which the population of
non-slavebolders does not far outnumber
^ that of slaves and slaveholders combined. •
'Moreover, the Northern capitalist, with)
his fifty laborers, will wield fifty votes,
while tiie Southern capitalist with the
same number of laborers, will count but
one vote. Apply, nt this moment, the!
squatter sovereignty rule, that the major-1
;ty of votes shall decide for or against
the holding of slaves in the Territory, and
j immediately and forever, slave property
is expelled and excluded, in every in
stance, on every soil, under every climate,
as effectually and permanently as though
laid under the ban of Congressional inter
diction. Favorable climatic and geo
graphic considerations might, in a per
fectly normal and healthy stale of public
sentiment, ensure its existence. But the
present condition of public sentiment is
altogether abnormal and ur healthy. There
is in the moral atmosphere a pestilential
influence fur more fatal to the permanent
security of slave property in the Terri
tories, than is the ice-dagger itself whi- h
we are told is home horizontally on the
chill blast of the far north-west. F.very
arrival of an emigrant train from the
north creates an auxiliary of antagonism
to slavery, which, if left unrestrained by
sufficient legal enactment efficiently en
forced, will prove ns noxious in Messilla
Valley, where cotton is indigenous to the
soil as on the shores of Lake Superior.
Under any circumstances, even with a
favorable climate and in a healthy state
of public sentiment, the settlement of
slaves in an unorganized Territory is at
tended with such extraordinary risk that
their introduction at that period is scarcely
prudent. The casualties of travel, the
change of climate, the exposure incident
to new settlement, Indian hostilities, law
less outrages on the part of the t esperate
class of free-voters who risk adventure
and profit with unscrupulous impunity on
our Western wilds, and many such agen
cies exist, any one of which may suffice
to reduce to immediate poverty even the
most opulent slaveholder who proves
sufficiently adventurous to hazard the in
troduction of his property into an unorgan
ized Territory. Thus, it most frequently
happens that the slaveholder who desires
to push his fortune into the far west, leaves
his slaves at home. He goes, liIce the
Northern settler, armed with his rifle and
axe. With his own hand he hews him
self out a home in the wilderness, upheld
by the hope that better days will establish
around him the supremacy and security
of a law of equal justice which will finally
enable him to share the fruit of his toil,
and enjoy the opulence which it procures
him, with the dependants to whom he owes
protection and control. What encourage
ment can such a man find in the assurance
that tho great object of his enterprise and
labor and privation, may be snatched from
him at the hostile fiat of the first band of
abolitionists who may secure the first foot
hold on a now patch of the extended Ter
ritory in which lie has established an in
terest and a property. Is this right? Is
it just ?
Such injustice is not the only evil which
must result from the grab-game of Squat
ter Sovereignty. It is not in the nature
of brave men, who have voluntarily left
their homes to encounter all the dangers
of frontier life, to submit to oppression
like this. Arms are seized, reciprocal
violence ensues, mutual outrages follow,
civil authorities are disregarded by all
parties; laws, good, bad and indifferent,
are overthrown, and the life as well as
the property of the slaveholder becomes a
mere bubble on the whirlpool of anarchy
and blood-shed.
This is no imaginary picture. The
drama has been already performed and
the title of the tragedy is true to life—
“ Squatter Sovereignty and anarchy—one
and indivisible.” W.
Senator Clingman Publicly Repudiates
Douglas.
On Thursday, September 6th, the regu
lar Breckinridge Democracy of Wake
county, North Carolina, had a great dem
onstration and barbacue at Raleigh.—
Among the speakers on the occasion, says
the Memphis Avalanche, were ex-Sena
tor Bedford Brown, Hon. L. O’B. Branch,
M. C., ex-Governor Bragg, Hon. A. W.
Venable and Thos. L. Clingman, of the
United States Senate. Mr. Clingman
made an elaborate speech, which is re
ported in a condensed form in the Wil
mington Journal of Saturday. We ex
tract from the Journal’s report the follow
ing paragraphs, which designate pretty
fully where Mr. Douglas’ former friend,
Senator Clingman, now stands:
‘ THE NEXT SPEAKER INTRO
DUCED WAS HON. T. CLINGMAN,
WHO FULLY ENDORSED EVERY
WORD THAT MR. BROWN HAD
UTTERED, AND EVERY POSITION
HE HAD TAKEN. HE AVOWED
HIMSELF CLEARLY AND UNE
QUIVOCALLY FOR BRECKIN
RIDGE AND LANE.”
In reply to Duncan McRae, Esq., the
Senator said:
‘‘HE HAD ALWAYS RESPECTED
j L uul. iy^uuDn.0, i 1110 iviis
CENT MENACES TO THE SOUTH
IN HIS NORFOLK AND RALEIGH
SPEECHES CONVINCE HIM THAT
MR. DOUGLAS IS NOW A DESPE
RATE POLITICAL GAMBLER —
THOSE WHO NOW WENT FOR
MR. DOUGLAS WOULD FIND OUT
THEIR MISTAKE. HE HAD NO
DOUBT MR.McRAE WOULD COME
ALL RIGHT.”
“Mr. McRae, interposing, said lie had
only followed the example of Mr. Cling
tnan at Baltimore, who was strong Doug
las man ”
“MR. CLINGMAN S MD THE
CASES WERE DIFFERENT. MR.
DOUGLAS HAD NOT THEN VOL
UNTARILY OFFERED HIS SERVI
CES TO WHIP JN SOUTHERN
STATES IN THE INTERESTS OF
ABE LINCOLN. HE (MR CLING
MAN) FELT NO DISPOSITION TO
SEND A MESSAGE TO LINCOLN
TO COME ON. AND THAT IIE WAS
READY TO SUBMIT.”
--
Something not Generally Known,—
rhe Southern Churchman says : “The Bish
ips of the Episcopal Church have unanimous
y testified that the Church cannon does not
'orbid the lending of an Episcopal Church to
my respectable denomination of Christians.”
-The Captain-General of Cuba has is
>ued a circular declining it to be his intention,
by every means ?n his power, to prevent the
sontinu&tion of the slave-trade.
-The Victoria* (Texas) Advocate says
hat cotton, in that section, is taking its se
•o;id growth, and promises to do Well.
J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
~DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
WEDNESDAY.SEPT. 26. 1860.
■MHI I I''1 i'IH—■■■llH—q—Wl
t> EJU <> C R .7 TIC T I CK B T.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
GENERAL JO. LANE,
OF OREGON.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
W. W. Floyd, T. F. Sorrells,
<*. W. Taylor, W. W. Leake.
THE CITIZEN
TO BE
ENLARGED!
We have made arrangements to enlarge
the Citizen, and shall in the course of two
weeks present a sheet, in size, inferior to
none in the State.
g£IP“ The first edition of our enlarged
paper will be circulated in every county in
Arkansas, and in every State in the Union.
Advertisers will find a great advantage in
sending in their favors in time for our en
larged edition. We shall issue at least
three thousand copies.
Tiie Mails! the Mails!—Mail fa
cilities are a humbug in Arkansas. Pas
sengers come through from Little llock in
one day. Letters and papers are from
one week to three weeks in reaching us
from the same point. Oh, for a Mail
Agent, to stir up postmasters and contrac
tors, and compel them to do their duty.
--
Dguglasism in Des Arc and Vi
cinity.—Wo publish (by request) the
proceedings of a Douglas meeting, for the
purpose of forming a Club, held in Des
Arc, on Saturday last. It will be seen
that the proceedings of the meeting are
headed as follows: “Proceedings of the
National Democratic Club of Prairie
County.'" We have read of the devil
quoting scripture, but this impertinence of
the Douglas men out-Herod’s Herod him
self. The series of resolutions, number
ing five are a batch of inconsistencies
from beginning to end. The second res
olution closes by calling the supporters of
Major Breckinridge “ Yancey ites.” Cer
tainly, they have forgotten that Hersche!
V. Johnson, their choice for the Vice
Presidency, and such supporters of Doug
las as Soule of Louisiana, Winston of
Alabama, Forsythe of Georgia, with a
host of others, have uttered sentiments that
partake far more of disunion tendencies
than ever emanated from Mr. Yancey.—
Their attempt to justify themselves in their
fifth resolution by classing the names of
Clay, Webster and Cass, with that of
Douglas, is in bad taste and only shows
that they have become desperate in their
determination to (tush Mr. Douglas on the
people of Arkansas.
Who are the ring-leaders of the Doug
las faction in Prairie county ? First, we
have our townsman, John H. Quisen
derry, Esq., who is a disappointed office
seeker. During the past summer he can
vassed Prairie county as a candidate for
Representative, the second time, (having
run for Sheriff twice previously, and been
defeated,) proclaiming himself a Demo
crat, and boasting that he had voted for
Buchanan and Breckinridge in 1856—
that he was'a Buchanan Democrat. He
bitterly opposed conventions, calling them
sunury nuru uamt's, uuu urjiicuuiu^ ujcn
influence. He never once intimated that
he was for Douglas, but maintained the
principles of Mr. Buchanan’s administra
tion. The people had no confidence in
his political stability and lie was defeated
for the second time for Representative,
and Col. Jno. C. Davie a firm supporter
af Breckinridge and Lane elected over
him. Mr. Quisenberry now supports
Douglas, which had the people known
when he was a candidate for Representa
tive, his vote would have been reduced to
i moiety.
Second on the list comes Benj. Blake
net, Esq., who, two years since, was an
independent candidate for Representative
from Prairie county, and received 133
rotes. Like Mr. Quisenberry, he was
bitterly opposed to Conventions, but pro
cessed to be a Democrat. He is rather a
slow coach, but a mighty man in his par
icular political notions. As both gentle
nen are about to canvass for Douglas, we
lave but little doubt that they will be
inown after the election, as heretofore,
imong the defeated.
But the third on the list is Col. Robert
E Rives, a gentleman of somewhat dif
ferent material from either of his coadju
ors. He is not unlike the Irishman’s flea,
•Put ypur finger on him, and he ’aint
here.” He was President of the Demo
jratic County Convention on the 23d of
\pril last, that nominated Col. Davie for'
the Legislature. Shortly after enjoying
that high privilege, he is said to have fa'
vored the election of Col. P. A. Thoma.
son, who claimed to be an Old-Line Whig
but during the canvass had no particulai
choice for the Presidency. Col. Rive;
finally nbjured Col. Davie and Col. ThO'
mason, and absolutely voted for Quisen'
berry.
Thus we have given an outline of the
three principal leaders, in our county, whc
support Mr. Douglas. If they don’t bolt be
fore the election and go for Bell, we shal
be somewhat disappointed, as they belong
to that class
“Who political ties sunder,
And have full leave to play thunder.”
True, there a few others who “aid anc
abet” in the Douglas movement—they are
good fellows socially, and one, at least
opposes Breckinridge because he has done
“something, he don’t know whatbut we
trust they will take “the sober seconc
thought,” and fall into line in support o
Breckinridge and Lane, the only Denn
ocratic candidates for the Presidency anc
Vice-Presidency of the United States.
Gen. Wm. Walker.—News receiver
at New Orleans on the 17th inst., frotr
Honduras report that the British steamei
Icarius, with a transport and troops unde:
Gen. Alvarez, proceeded to Rio Negro
where Gen. Walker and his army were
encamped. The boats of the Icariou:
proceeded up the river, and captured
Walker, with seventy men. They were
ail brought to Truxillo, and delivered tc
the authorities of Honduras. His mer
were very destitute, and many sick. They
were permitted to return to the United
States, on condition that they would nevei
engage in another expedition againsi
Central America.
We learn, in addition to the foregoing
that Gen. Walker and Col. Rudler have
been tried and shot by the authorities ol
Honduras.
Discussion at West Point, White
.. j_ l _ _
among the audience who listened to a dis
cussion between Capt. Dandridge Mc
Rae in favor of Breckinridge and Lane
and Judge Hicks in favor of Bell anc
Everett. Both gentlemen are residents
of Searcy, and conducted their discussior
in a gentlemanly and agreeable manner
The victory of Capt. McRae was ac
knowledged even by the Bell men. As
our West Point correspondent will give us
a full account of the discussion we refraii:
from any comments.
Ouachita Christian Advocate.—
We are in receipt of the first number o
a new paper bearing the above title, pub
lished at Arkadelphia, Clark county. I
is the organ, we presume, of the Ouachits
Conference of the Methodist Episcopa
Church, South. It is a neat sheet, vvel
filled. James E. Cobb, Editor—John
N. Harris, Publisher.
B@“H. A. Marsh, the Abolitionist, whc
was arrested at Memphis, by Dr. Huey and
Mr. McMahon, and taken back to Cam
den, was tried by the citizens of Camden
on the 11th inst., and escorted from the
town in company with a man by the name
of Kean, with strict orders that they nevei
appear again in the State. Marsh, we
learn, is in Memphis where he has taker
up his residence.
The Hon. Jeff. Davis was tc
address the people of Memphis on Satur
day evening last. Senator Wigfall, ol
Texas was also expected to address the
people. He would either follow Hon.
Jefferson Davis on the same evening
or a separate appointment would be made.
The Bell Party on the Power of
Congress to Abolish Slavery in the
District of Columbi a.--Mr. Bell's cam
paign organ at Nashville, Tenn. challenges
successful controversion of Mr. Bell’s opin
iuu uu me puwei ui v^uugiess iu ciuunsii
slavery in the District of Columbia, It
says:
There are many respectable lawyers in Ten
nessee, many able ones. If any such believe
that Congress does not possess this power, let
us hear from them. If no respectable lawyer
will pledge himself to such an argument, let us
hear no more complaint of Mr. Bell for hav
ing expressed the contrary opinion. It will
be mockery and hypocrisy.
Does any one doubt now that Mr. Bell
still adheres to his previously expressed
views in favor of the power of Congress
to abolish slavery in the District o( Col
umbia in the face of the endorsement of
them by the campaign paper, edited by his
Executive Committee, and the defiance by
his endorsers of any legal refutation of
them. — [New Orleans Courier.
--
How the Republicans Regard Doug
las’ Speeches. — The Albany (New
York) Evening Journal speaks of Mr.
Douglas’ recent speech there as follows :
“ Mr. Lincoln, if called out by his
friends, would have given expression to
these sentiments. They are the senti
ments of the republican party. In all the
‘slavery agitations’ in Congress, since
1850, republicans have acted on the de
fensive. Slavery has been the aggressor.
“ The ground Judge Douglas is com
pelled to occupy shows where th ings are
drifting. His section of the Democratic
party has ceased to he the pro-slavery
party. It is now in the position (as to
slnvery) of the Democratic freesoil party
of 1840. Whether, like that party, it will
when the election is over, slime back, re
mains to be seen. Probably not. The
census may influence its course. In the
meantime the principles here announced
by Douglas will be vindicated and estab
lished by the election of a Republican
President.”
Proposition to Withdraw the
Douglas Electoral Ticket in Ten
nessee.—We learn from the JV ashvilie
Union and American, that James M. Brit
ton, Jr., and Mr. Malone, Douglas Elec
tors for the First and Second Districts,
have made a proposition to unite both
wings of the party upon Mr. Breckin
ridge, in order to defeat the Black Re
publicans and Opposition, or Bell party.
“ It is addressed to the Breckinridge, and
remaining Douglas electors in the State.
It proposes the withdrawal of the Douglas
ticket, and a union of the Breckinridge
and Douglas men on the remaining Dem
ocratic ticket, provided the electors on that
ticket will agree to cast the vote of the
State, if they are elected, for Mr. Breck
inridge if that will secure his election. If
it will not secure his election, but secure
that of Mr. Douglas, then to be cast for
him. If it will elect neither, and the elec
tion has to go to the House, then to cast it
so as to get both Breckinridge and Doug
las, if possible, into the House to the ex
clusion of Mr. Bell, it being certain that
Lincoln will be one of the contestants
there. We have no hesitancy in saying
that the proposition is one which, in our
opinion, ought to be accepted by every
Breckinridge and Douglas man in the
State. We do not understand the Doug
las men as yielding any of their prefer
ences for Mr. Douglas and his doctrines,
and we certainly do not wish to be under
stood as abating any of our antagonism of
sentiment to Mr. Douglas and his views.
We simply understand both sides as pre
ferring either Breckinridge or Douglas to
Mr. Bell and his position, as established
by his “past history connected with the
public service.” In the first Breckinridge
and Lane ratification meeting held in the
State Gov. Harris, in the first speech made
i/i that meeting, unhesitatingly declared,
in substance, that if the Breckinridge elec
toral candidates were successful in this
Slate, he should favor just such a disposi
tion of the vote of the State as is proposed
by Messrs. Britton and Malone. Messrs.
Ewing and Quarles concurred with him.
We can see no reasonable ground of ob
jection to it by any Democrat who does
not prefer the success of Mr. Bell to
Breckinridge or Douglas.”
“.It is perfectly clear that there is a
large majority of the Democracy of the
State who prefer Mr. Breckinridge. It
is known, also, that a majority of the
candidates on the Breckinridge ticket
were selected by the party before the dis
ruption at Baltimore. It is therefore bnt
fair that the Douglas candidates should be
the ones to withdraw under the proposed
arrangement. If the proposition should
receive a favorable response, the Douglas
men secure the vote of the State for their
candidate, provided it will elect him. As
it now stands, there is not the remotest
hope that he can get it in any event. It
is not possible that Breckinridge and
Douglas will both receive electoral votes
enough for the vote of the State to elect
both or either of them. If one is near
enough an election without the vote of
Tennessee to be successful with it, it is
perfectly certain that the other will not be.
In our view, neither has anything to lose
by such an agreement, and the certainty
of getting the vote of the State where it
may be given to the one that may need it.
will be materially increased. We cannot
see how the proposal can be rejected by
any Breckinridge man unless he prefers
Bell to Douglas. We cannot see how
the proposal can be rejected by any Doug
las man unless he prefers Bell to Breck
inridge. Let it be promptly acceded to by
both sides, and our batteries turned against
a common enemy. We have been too
long fighting John Bell and his policy to
again allow Tennessee to get under his
control.”
r>mce me proposition has been re
ceived by us we have consulted with as
many of our Democratic friends as pos
sible, and we have not yet found one to
object to it. It meets the approval of
Senators Johnson, Nicholson, Gov, Harris,
Mr. Ewing, and all of our Central Com
mittee that we have had an opportunity of
consulting. It is desirable that the vari
ous electors should respond to it as early
as possible.”
-4- • >
g@“The Boston Post says, the absurd
report that the venerable Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court has expressed senti
! mems favoiable to the election of Dougles
thus stultifying his own decision, if it need
any denial, is utterly unfounded. Judge
Taney takes no part in the canvass, but he
is in favor of Breckenridge and Lane, and
has freely expressed himself to that effect
in private.
-Maj. Culbertson, who has just come
! from the Rocky Monntains, says that the
i head waters of the Columbia and Missouri
| rivers are so near together that he at one time
! drank from the Missouri on the east side of
the Rocky Mountains, and half an hour after
; wards from the Columbia, on the Pacific.
-Garibaldi has two hundred and fifty
men, selected for being good shots, armed
with Colt’s revolver rilles. which were de
livered in Sicily at one hundred and nienty
six francs each, and are described by an En
glishman, who has used one of them, as the
very best weapon he has ever fired.
-—Tischendorf, the learned biblical
scholar and orientialist, who collected so
many valuable MSS. in his Eastern travels,
has been recently appointed honorary mem
ber of the Scientific Association of London,
and of the Egyptian Society of Alexandria.
--
-Georgia is said to bo one of the most
flourishing States in the Union, and ouc of the
! best governed in the Sou'h.
1
The Duplicity of Douglas.—Hon.
S. S. Cox, who is running a race for Con
gress against Ht>n. Samuel Galloway .late
ly made a speech in Columbus (Ohio) in
the course of which he showed up the
treachery of Douglas in anything but an
enviable light. We quote from the Co
lumbus (Ohio) Fact:
“Mr. Cox said he had been blamed by
some for his vote on the English bill; but
he stated distinctly that he had consulted
with Judge Douglas, and that he advised
and approved of the vote. Judge Douglas
himself, when the bill came to the Senate,
voted against it, although it was in exact
ly the shape in which he had advised his
friend Cox to support it. Here is testi
mony against Judge Douglas, which Mr.
Cox got from his own mouth, to show that
a demagogue can play upon both sides of
the same question. Douglas knew that
the vote of Cox would be necessary to car
ry the bill through the House, nnd there
fore instructed him how to vote. When it
came to the Senate he knew that it would
pass without his vote, and he voted against
it, thus playing upon both sides of the
question.”
The Fact adds that Mr. Cox has re
peated these assertions in various places
throughout Ohio. Of course their truth
cannot be denied.
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g*sp“ The Memphis Avalanche, of Sat
urday, contains the following. The at
tempt of certain Douglas and Bell men to
place Col. Hindman as the inferior of ex
Governor Foote in their recent discussion
is all bosh. Bell men who heard them as
sure us that Col. Hindman achieved a
complete victory over Foote, and that many
Douglas men in Memphis “acknowledged
the corn.” But read what the Avalanche
says:
Ex-Govf.rxor Foote.—If the people of any
place learn that they are to have a speech in
flicted upon them by this inexorable bore,they
can easily preclude the insnfferableoppression
by publishing, a day or so in advance, that the
Hon. Thomas C. Hindman, of Arkansas, is on
hand to reply. Foote will no more place him
self at the mercy of Hindman than lie would
suffer punishment by the bastinado. He fears
trie Dicing ana eloquent saicasiu ul mu Aiivaii
sas Representative; and where he is the ex
Governor will never appear.
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-Among the distinguished visitors at the
United States Agricultural Fair in Cincinnati
is Gen. Joseph Lane. It is stated that the
General has a farm of about a thousand acres
in Oregon, and that upon the farm are about
a thousand head of cattle.
-A fight took place at Fort Smith, Ark.,
on Wednesday, the 19th instant, between a
party of Cherokees. The encounter was bloody.
Knives and pistols were used with murderous
energy on both sides. Two men were killed
and two others mortally wounded. The affray
grew out of a family fued, which nothing but
blood could reconcile.
-One of the Douglas clubs in St. Charles,
Cane county, Illinois,numbers among its mem
bers at least thirty men who voted for Fre
mont in 1856. In the Douglas club at Clin
ton, in the same county, there are sixty men
who voted for Fremont.
-The San Antonio (Texas) Express men
tions the arrival of a caravan of camels in
that town from the Pacific.
Partner SI 'anted.
rriO engage in a lucrative business at Dos
L Arc. A small capital only required. Ad
dress ‘‘X,” Citizen office. £sep201t
FALL & WINTER GOODS' !
It. C. McCARLEY & ( O..
DES ABC,. AKSi*
Are in receipt of
A NEW STOCK
—OF—
FALL & WINTER
GOODS,
CONSISTING OF A COMPLETE STOCK
OF ALL ARTICLES USUALLY
KEPT IN DRY GOODS
HOUSES.
Their Goods
have been selected
expressly for this Market,
and great care has
as to
QUALITY AND DURABILITY
They flatter thpmseives that all who give
them their custom will he satisfied, as they
are determined to PLEASE.
Give them a call, and satisfy yourselves.
Sept. 26—tf.
GREAT
PUBLIC SALE
OF
Des Arc Property and Lands,
MO.VDAY, OCT. ‘29,1«60,
X»os Arc, Arls.au.sas.
1WILL SELL at Auction, for the owners,
on Monday, the 29th of October, 1860, the
following LANDS, HOCSES^nd LOTS:
Six lots adjoining the town of Des Arc on the
South, containing 1| to 1J acres each, high
and dry, well suited for family residences;
also 480 acres of Land east of White river,
one to one and a half miles northeast of Des
Arc; numbered N. E. 12, S. E. 1, E. ^ S, W. 1.
and S. \ N. W. 1, T. 4, N. 5, W. Also S. fr’l
^ of S. E. 30, T. 4, N. 4 W., on the east bank
of White river, 3 miles below Des Arc, con
taining 51 89-100 acres. Terms of Sale.—
One-fourth cash, balance in four, six, twelve
and eighteen months, with 10 per cent, inter
est from due until paid.
ALSO, the large new framed house and six
lots, now occupied by Isaac Gair, on the Pub
lic Square in Des Arc ; also, a new framed
bouse, well arranged, and 2 lots on the corner
of Anderson and Thornhill streets, occupied
by Mr. Edmonds; also, a houso and three lots
adjoining the Erwin Survey, south of Levin
Harrison’s dwelling; also 6 vacant lots in
block 3, north part of town. Terms made
known on day of Sale. Other Property will
be added to this list, making it one of the most
Important Sales of Property
we: held in Des Arc. Parties anywhere will
bnd this to be one of the best opportunities for
profitable investment ever offered in this sec
don of country.
CO tlEOJTE, CO.lfE .SEE,
Lo this large sale of valuable property. For
Further particulars address or see the under
*igned Agent, Des Arc. Arkansas.
j. ii. <uusi:i%rni:iiftY,
Auction, Commission Merchant, and Real
Estate Agent. [sep 20—4t
Town Lots for Sale !
ONE TO FOUR HUNDRED LOTS,
in Dps Arc, to suit purchasers, for sale
W feblitf FRITH h CATLIN.
PUBLIC SPEAKINfr
Rev. James T. Morris, on the side nf
and Everett, and R. S. Gantt, or B. (j r ?
on the side of Breckinridge and Lane ’
address such of their fellow-citizens a! * '
choose to give Ibem a hearing, at the f
ing times and places. Gen. W. B. Spink '
also expected and invited to attend and '
ticipate in these discussions:
Cleat Lake, Wednesday, Seut
Rich Woods, Thursday, u *5
Hamilton, Friday, « ft
Brownsville, Saturday, « *•
Nathan Trotter’s, Saturday, Qct 22
Atlanta, Monday, «' 5
Hickory Plain, Tuesday, « l
Walter’s Chapel, Wednesday, « *
Des Arc, Friday, «
Buck’s Landing, Saturday, « “
Devall’s Bluff, Monday, tt
La Grew, Tuesday, «
Sept 19, 1800. U
It ! ! AK TIOV !
GOING, GOING, GOING!
ON WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
24th and 25th Oct., I860, I will M’|i!
auction to the highest bidder, positively Jo*
out reserve, at my Store in Des Arc, aL,,
assortment of Dry Goods, Ready Made Cloth
ing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Bonnets Ha d
ware, Saddlery, China, Glass and Queens#,,,'
Books, Stationery, Castings, Nails, Wind..
Glass, Tobacco, Dog Irons, Plantation ,!!
Negro Goods, as well as a great varietv 1
articles too numerous to enumerate. Tekms
All sums over S10 in one day, credit until be
January; under $10, cash. 1 will continue to
sell at auction every Wednesday and Thursday
thereafter, as well as at private sale at all
times, at a very small advance on cost, andJ
the usual credit. J. H. QUISENBERRy "
Auction, Commission Merchant, and R«|
Estate Agent. [sep26t(
dissolution!
rpHE Partnership heretofore existing bt
_L tween the undersigned, in the practice ol
Dentistry, was dissolved by mutual consent®
the 13th inst. E. T. Sweyer is alone author,
ized to settle the business of the firm
H. H. HARRISON
E. T. SWEYER. '
Des Arc, Sept. 19, 1860.—4t
E. T. SWEYER,
DENTIST, DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
WILL continue the businessii
all its branches, including contia.
U-rT-LXjJuous Gum Work.
Uliicc oil nuena v isca-screct, np-stair;
Jackson’s new building.
Sept. 19—tf.
FALL AND WINTER GOODS!
McLaren & jackson,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
ion ASSORTED PACKAGES
of goods in their line.
ALSO,
Star Candles, Soaps, &c.
All of which they intend selling as cheap
as the cheapest,
ESPECIALLY FOR CASH.
Persons visiting our town for the purposed
purchasing, will please give us a call beton
buying elsewhere,
Hes Arc, Ark., Sept. 19, 1869.
P. H. II AY LEY.A. 8. IRWU.
HAYLEY & ERWIN,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
ARE NOW RECEIVING THEIR LARGE
STOCK OF
FALL & WINTER I
GOODS,
TNCLUDING every article usually foundu
a Dry Goods House. Their Goods hsu
been selected with care at the best New York
Houses. They are grateful for the libenl
patronage heretofore extended them, and >!•
sure their friends and the public genersllr
t lat their selections comprise a full and con
plete assortment. As heretofore they arede
termined to keep
A GOOD STOCK AND AT LIVING
PRICES!
We say to our patrons, that in filling orderi,
all goods sent them not proving satisfactorj
can be returned.
Des Arc, September 12. I860, tf
S. L. NOCK. G. w. WICKS. L. L. NOCI.
Nock, Wicks, & Co.,
.AND.
Commission Merchants*
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
AND DEALERS IN
Foreign 4* Domestic Liquors, Cigars,
ALSO AGENTS FOR
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri Tobacco,
AND AGENTS FOR
Maysville Cotton Yarns, Twine,
No. 511 Unin 3d &4tli,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
sep5-tf ___
F. M. ROBINSON.. J. al'A''<a'
Robinson &' Branch,
(Successors to G. W. Vaden,)
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
DEALERS IN
Groceries and Produce,
ALSO — RECEIVING, FORWARD
ING AND COMMISSION MER
CHANTS,
scpt5] »es Arc, Arkansas.
Best Route.
PERSONS traveling Eastwad from v
Arc, will find it to their interest aR,
traveling about ten miles, to take t
hand where the road forks and cro-1* ,i(jt
river at the Upper Ferry, which is tne ,
and best road, and Ferry clear of cause J j
mud. They can get Ferried at half PJ j,
will get printed instructions to travel
Memphis, which will save trouble J
pense. Plenty corn and fodder. *
ferrymen always at hand. . |(#.
(Zgr There is a Spring House, and a ^
spring of pure water, two hundred y*™ el,
of the river. There is a sign SrniN
GEORGE W. MAYBERRV
aug29-tf. pwprwt^
JUST RECEIVED
McLaren & jackson,
Bes .ire, Arkansas'
8 DOZEN silk, cassimere and soft f«r „ufj
assorted. Also, li gross Garrett ^
Turpentino in bottles ; Quinine a
Tonic; Star Candles; Soda; Stare ,
stone: Bar Seap. &c., &c.
Aug. 22. I860'.___"
N'OTMCE ,.
TS HEREBY GIVEN, that I will as
L tor of the Estate of George A. n- b(,
deceased, made application at t t0[
term A.’ D. 18t>0, of the Prob*bf?“|lo*
Prairie county for an order to sell A geor»<
ing real estate, as the property of s ^jr*
A. H. Smart, for a division among J4
to-wit: The S • of the N E i of se„
township 5 north, range 7 west, . J
80 acres. Also, the N W J of m jci(!
sec. 31 town 5 north, r«nf5* r'veeutor
.1 AMES SMART, Eapcu
September I860.- lm