The Arkansas banner., 1843-12-09

which IS ever eager for variety, by making experiment, for al least a single term, wheth- CT there was really any relief to be found, in all the tempting promises and professions of the wings, from the maddening agonies re- sultlng iroma great national disease for which party was not responsible-the trial has been made; and unless the Democratic party now justly forfeit, by their own misconduct, their own selfish and unpatriotic animosites, the old confidence 10 which the popular heart has reverted with renewed attachment, it will be long before they will be very anxious 10 make it again. If the whigs could denounce the imputed greed of Democratic ofiice-hold-
 CTS, and claim for themselves on that score a
 virtuous disinterestedness ofpatriotism which
 could not be disproyed, however disbelieyed.
 they can do so no longer, while the memory IS yet untorgotten of those days when the
 earth fairly shook beneath the worn pave
 ments of Pennsylvania Avenue, as the bun
 gry leglons of oflice-seekers shufl1ed alono
 between the two houses, to and fro-when
 they swarmed throughout Washington. not
 less numerous, and more voracious. than the locusts which were the last and worst plague
 of the land of Egypt-when the oyertasked
 horses scarcely staggered on beneath the bur
 then of the mail bags bursting with letters of
 application and entreaty--and when the still
 more over-tasked old man whom in an evil
 hour for himself they had succeeded in mak-
 ing President of, was driven at last into
 the only asylum safe from the unsparng per
 secuton. This prejudice at least against the
 party to which time had before seemed to
 have given almost a life monopoly of public f,fis T xT T ..l.. .I.- l days of the reformed regime; and not few Wings, at the spectacle then exhibited by
 their own party, already then expressed the disgust of which it was less graceful for us,
 the defeated, to be the interpreters. If they
 could denounee the Debt forced upon the
 Admlnistraton by causes no fault of its | own, Its huge progressive augmentation on 1 hands turns all these weapons back against their own breasts. The whoop and the war rifle arc now silent through the everglades, and | that widest of "Wild Cats" is now comfort 1 ably domestieated beyond the Father of Wa ters. The once terrible Standing Army has vanished like the ghostly legions which are sad still on dark nights to muster on the Champ de Mars, to pass in review before the shadow of little man in grey surtout and thgee-cornered hat The great Gold Spoon has been melted down, and is supposed to be flowing up the Mississippi The Bankrupts, honest and dishonest, have been '.relieyed,n and the moment the immortality of the act had been consummated in its rctrospeetire application, the benefit which would have attended its prospective action was hastily | shut of. And the fallacy has been fully | proved, of all the expectations of possible reconstruction of the ruin of the old Credit | System, which was 10 be wrought in some way by the proposed change of Mr. Webster himself has set down 8 national bank as an s.obsolete idea;" and even at the time when it's adop- ton was urged on the Vice President, who | signed all the other bills of his party, and who at first quarrelled with them only on triiling points of detail in this measure, it was very generally conceded that 1t would not have been possible to get its stock sub- scnbed, so as to carry 1t into execution.
 The issue between the two parties is now, therefore, cleared of all the entanglements and perplexities in which it was involved by these and various other questions which were complicated into 1t the last time. This elect!onist be, more than any which the coun- try has witnessedfora long period, one ofgene- ral principle The Siate-Rights and the Fed eral panios-the two opposite schools of limited and latltudnarian constructon-are now to meet in more simple and direct an- tagonism than perhaps ever before since 1S00 Of the one, Mir. Clay is as complete a repre- sentative as could be desired; the other finds It's expression satisfactorily in either of the prominent candidates for the Democratic mo- The country is in condition of calm, suitable to. an intelligent and relecting choice between the two Ii 1t should be in avor of Clay and all that is included in the name of Clayism, thea can there De no pre- tension that it is not deliberate and conclu- ilve Judgment, and that 1t does not go to the ull length of the formal adoption of com olete system of principles and corresponding | neasures-an allegation which could not be made with truth, though 1t was by Mir. Clay l himself without a visible blush, respecting the election of Harrison and Tyler, the one a nondescript and the other a Null(er. If 1t should be in favor of Clay, then was it all in vain that the struggles were made which | expelled both the elder and the younger Ad- l ans from the direction of the government,- all Ill vain that by which General Jackson, Ill his reelection, was so glorously sustain ed in the policy of which his great internal improvement and bank vetoes were the chief measures. If 1t should be in favor of Clay,
 then will the perpetuation of the Constitu-
 ton, and of the Union of which 1t is the ex
 pression, have received deeper and dead
 Her wound than has ever been dealt upon it
 before.
 For il will be the formal, not to say, final, repudiation of the State-Rights Principle as the governing rule of interpretation for the Constitution. twill be to pronounce so- lemnly that whole policy at an end to declare the country tired of it, and anxious to fall back into the old abandoned track of its opposite. It will be that which the tri- umph of the whigs in 1840 was not, for they did not then dare to venture on such an issue, nor to avow Clay as the exponent of their principles and meditated measures