The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-28

fraud and humbugism, but has not been found wanting in per6dy and base corruphon.- They found the government amply provided with law that constituted the Independent Treasury, to protect the peoples money from the grasp of the government pet, who chose to appropriate the same to his own use, which if he did he was to be amply pun ished. This salutary measure was one amongst the first that was condemned by an intriguing whig Congress, and repealed, that the minions ofpoWer might have fair sweep at the peoples treasury, without punishment. In addition to this, loud complaints were made against the extravaganza of thePresident and the Presidents house and furniture, call ing him aristocrat, and heaping on him every epithet that the inventive imagination of the whigs was capable of, for < his aping monarchy by his gaudy trappings,o Stc. Yet To when the whig party elected their humble log cabin President. who was every thing in every place, those fine things that were used by Martin Van Buren, that belonged to tie the peoples house, were not fine enough and before this great peoples man, to wit, their President, could dwell i'll 1t, the whgs asked Congress for an appropriation of SIX thousand dollars, to make the Presidents House finer an1 more gaudy. And further, they charged the democratic party with hold ing long sessions of Congress, and not do- ing any thing for the public go. .RutNlat do we see? The first whig Congress sat over seventeen months in three sessions :; and the same men doing at one session, and undoing at another to wit, at one session | {lo and unjust Bankrupt Law, and the distribu- ton of the proceeds of the public lands, and at the very next session repeating the same. These, and many other corruptons, we charge upon the perfdous leaders of the whig party, and they well Rowing by what i low intrigue, and deceptive cunning, they succeeded isl iissil iie4a And by this time. the democratic party ought to we'll know how to fight their common political enemy. The battle is again to be fought over, and 1t now behoyes every democrat, good and true, to be at his post. The whig party will again fight, undermany false eolors, in order to throw the unsuspecting off their guard. But the leading measures, for which they fight and combat for, are a great National Bank, with fifty million capital, high protective Tariff, Internal Improvements hv the General Go- vernment, distribution of the proceeds of the sales of pubic lands, and the great scheme of the assumption of the State debts by the General Government. These are some of the leading principles which the whig party wish engrafted upon the institutions of our coun- try The democratic party will have to fight against all these monopolizing and aristo- cratic measures, and more than this, guided by the cunning and deceptive practices of the willy demagouge who leads the Whig party, who has sold himself and his country's inter- est twice, will attempt anything to succeed ill their unholy crusade against those most sa- cred principles that the democratic party have ever fought to sustain. This being our view of the case, 1t Is now time for democrats to be aroused, and gird on their armour for the conflict; for if we supinely fold our arms again, we will have to witness the mortIfica- ton ofanother defeat. Hopiug that the great democratic party will profit and learn wis dom by the past, and always be found ready and at their posts, to do battle in the most glorious of causes, the rights of the peoples; l Therefore,
 ReSolued, That we heartily approve of the plan suggested to hold a .Demoeractic l State Convention, at Little Rock, on the first Monday in December next, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Governor, and a member of Congress, three candidates for Electors for President and Vice President of the United States, as well as selecting three delegates to represent the State of Arkansas in the National Convention, that is to assem- ble on the 4th Monday of May next, in the city of Baltimore, for the purpose of nomi- hating candidates for the President and Vice President of the United States
 l ReSolUed, That we recommend to the democratic party throughout the State, to send up delegates from each county, to at l tend the State Convention, so that fair ex- presslon of the feelings and sentiments of the party may be had :; that unanimity may prevail in the ranks of the party, so that we may be able to present one undivided front to 1 oHr enemies.
 l ReSolred, That we have undiminished confidence in the political honesty and inte- gritty of Martin Van Buren, whose infexible integrity and unremitting prudence, recom- mend him to the affections of the great de- mocratic family. For in him we have a l champion, that comedies no one point or principle of his political faith, to court the favor of any man or party. He is unwayer- ing, which well fits him for the first office within the gift of the American people as such, we recommend his claims to the Presl- dency, to the consideration of both the State and National Conventions.
 Resolred, That while this meeting express their preference for Martin Van Buren, yet they will give their cordial support to any other democrat, who may be the nominee of the National Convention.
 Resolred, That this meeting view with regret, the recent attempt to break down our worthy fellow-citizen Col. Ambrose H. Se- vier. We view it as nothing more than fell stroke made at the democratic party in this State. We are conscious, that the object of the whig party is (their old gan,e) to dis tract and divide the party, and then conquer We feel satisfied, mathis request is reasonable