The Arkansas banner., 1843-11-18
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

would prefer Mr. Calhoun for the Presidency, gives the following candid rebuke to the more strenuous partizan friends of that gen. tleman:
 TIE CoNvENTIoN-THE CONVENTION In that body must be found our safety and our triumph and on its hearty and harmo- nious support by the whole and by every part, every thing depends. The disaffection towards its anticipated organization, of which we have been made to hear so many threat ening indications, Is the worst disloyality to the party, and the principles which party ai- lords the only means of carrying into prac- tice. If persisted in, it will never be forgot ten or forgiven to those who may be its au- thors. No course could be pursued of more fatal hostility to the true interests even of those ill whose behalf it is manifested Our own sentiments, personally and politically, in relation to MT. Calhoun, are such as en- title our statement to some regard and we do not hesitate to assure those of his pecu- liar friends and partizans to whom the above remark is applicable, that they are daily doing him and his prospects an injury which they may yet have cause to regret. The manner and spirit in which they dictate particular mode for the constitution of the Convention, as the condition of their acqueseence in its action have been calculated to try rather too se- verely the good temper and good feeling oi those who take different view from them, both on this subject, and on that of the pro- per nomination 10 be made. The dissatis- faction is as to the single district (with per capita vote in the Convention) or the gemeral ticket mode of electing the delegates. We have no hesitation in avowing our own pre- ference for the former; yet we are far from seeing in 1t point of such importance ol nature as to justify disafeetion to the Con- vention on that ground. If ever question had two sides, and two good sides, it is this The argument in favor of the single district ! system is, simply, that 1t affords the best mode of ascertaning the preference of the majority of the entire collective mass of the party,-the minorities in each State being allowed their proportionate weight in the Convention, and not being absorbed in the local maIorities so as to be made to count against their own preference. But, on the other hand, there is great deal to be said ill favor of the general ticket mode-on grounds independent of what may or may not seem to be the accidental interests of particular candidates.
 '' In the first place, its analogy with the rule of the Constitution itself, and the usual practice of the whole Union, upon the very subject in questionable mode of counting the electoral votes for the Presidency-consti- tutes powerful reason, which ought to be .t sinister motive against those who take this view and this course. This consideration ad- dresseditselfwith peculiar force to the support CTS of a school of political doctrine which looks with much less favor upon the idea of the domina tion of aggregate national ma ori- ties, than upon the preservation ofdistinctState actions and powers; and which attaches itself to all those features in the Constitution which tend toward the maintenance of State sove reignty and independence. The Constitution does not make the President the representa- tive of the collective national majority, by prescribing the now proposed single-district mode of electing the electors. It is a matter left to the discretion of the States themselves :; discretion which they all have, in point of fact, exercised in such mode as to make the general ticket system the uniform practice throughout the Union. The State of South Carolina allots the appointment of it's presi- dental electors to the Legislature. without any direct action of the people in their elec- ton. Under the Constitution, it may even happen that President may be elected by a national numerical majority, by means of small majorities for the successful candidate ill the States which he carries, and heavy ma jorities, or nearly unanimous votes, for his defeated competitor in the others. In case ot failure to elect by the people, it is scarcely necessary for us to allude to the fact that the Constitution devolves the election upon Congress-voting neither according to population, through per capita vote of the House of Representatives, nor on the mingled basis of population and State sovereignty, by the addition of the two Senators to the dele gatlons In the other House, but simply on that of State sovereignty and equality; each State casting single vote, determined by a majority of its Congressional delegation in the two Houses, In the face of a constitu- tIonal rule so strong and so vital, in the face of practice by the States so uniform and we'll settled, 1t is so absurd as to make 1t diff fcult to believe fully in fairness of motive on the part of those who would make the ana lagous adoption of similar method for the appointment of delegates to the nominating Convention ground for party rebellion, ex- ecuted or threatened against its action, what ever that action may prove to be. We ear nestly hope that this course may not be per sisted in-in spite of all the kind and friendly efforts of the Whig press to stimulate and aggravate it."
 Pennsytrdnid.-Hcr Debt and Resources. The Baltimore American says: The pub lie debt of Pennsylvania amounts to about S40,O00,000. This is a large aggregate, but when her vast resources and mineral treasures are considered, it will seem comparatively small The coal mines of Pennsylvania are surprisingly rich, vast in extent, and mex haustible in quantity. It is computed that her mines of anthracite extend over nearly a thousand square miles; and the area of her