The Arkansas banner., 1843-12-16
From the BashuiHe Union MIR. KENDALL'S ADDRESS IN FAVOR OF MIR. VAN BUREN.
HIS POPULARITY.

HIS POPULARITY.
 A few politicians are endeavorine to incul- cate the belief that Mr. Van Buren is unpopu- lar They even attribute to him all the dis asters of the parry ill lS40
 The alleged cause is inadequate to the inn puted effect. and is unworthy of the Demo- cratic Party. What would they beat all their best men for State as we'll as National offices, give up all the posts they held, and all hopes of appointment or preferment, merely because they did not like Mr. Van Buren: The idea is preposterous.
 There was another cause and an adequate one. The country had for years labored un- der heavy calamites, the sources of which, being hidden in bank mysteries, were not well understood. powerful combination was formed of politicians, banks and bank rupts, for the purpose of making the people believe that all these evils had their origin in weak and corrupt administration The ob- ject was pursued with skill and persever- ance unsurpassed. Auxiliary to the chief means, all sorts of tales were fabricated and bugbears gotten up. The gold spoons, the standing army, the negro testimony, the En- glish carriage, the Irish driver, corrupt ex- penditures, forty million debt, Treasury Bank, disorder of the currency, census emu meratlon for purposes of taxation, and all .'the hobgoblins and chimeras dire'' which imagination could conjure up, played their part in the drama. A Whig organization in Congress, ramifed into every county and town, by means of funds raised among them selves and throughout the Union, if not in part from foreign bond-holders, and by the abuse of their official franks, inundated every nook and corner of the country, with rivers and oceans of artful misrepresentation, both falsehood, and eloquent denunciation Vast assemblages, maddened by liquor and infuri- ated by songs, by rawlings called speeches, and by senseless yellings, sent forth their well drilled thousands, each as if with torch from Hell, to hindle fire to the Furies upon the altar of every log cabin, and light up flame upon every stump. And the orgies of the canvass were consummated by perjuries and frauds, at which the mind still shudders
 This was not all. The Whig orators and writers made no scruple to promise any thing and every thing which could conduce to suc- cess. To thousands of active partsans, they promised office; to multitudes of editors, va luable patronage; to banks, restoration of all their privileges; to bankrupts, the cancel ment of their debts to the rich, more riches :: to the poor every comfort; and to the coun- try, universal prosperity and peace At the very day break of Whig success, all our evils were to vanish like the shadows, and its ri- sing sun was at once to dry up every tear, like the tiny dew-drop; while glory, and prosperity, and happiness, were to increase as 1t advanced to the meridian.
 Is it necessary, with all this fresh in our recollection, to look for the cause of our de- feat in the imputed unpopularity of Mir. VAN BUREN?
 We'll, the Whig morning came. It was ushered in by storms and conhagrations, signs and portents. New graves yawned, and black palls came moving to their sides The promised sun of prosperity rose not Glaring meteors and comets, with their bloody trains, made darkness visible. No rainbow of hope spanned the gloomy con- cave-not even ray of northern light streamed up from the Whig horizon, to re- assure the wavering faith of the log-cabin converts. The promisers of the preceding campaign met in Congress, but to falsify all their promises, except to few office seekers and bankrupts; and as if to fill the bosoms of the people with disgust as well as disap- pointment, they fell to quarrelling among themselves. The country sunk deeper in distress, private obligations were cancelled, State debts repudiated, and the General Go vernment so disgraced and discredited that it could not get money to carry on its ordinary operations