The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-23
THE WHIG CANDIDATE FOR THE PRE-
 SIDENCY.

THE WHIG CANDIDATE FOR THE PRE-
 SIDENCY.
 The shrewdest of Mir. Clay's former ad- herents are already casting about, for an available candidate, to supplant the great orator a second time Judge Burnet, pro minent whig, of Ohio, who declares himself a friend to Mir Clay, publishes letter, throw ing out the idea that that State will not go for 4Ir. Clay, on account of his being slave holder, and that Judge Mclean will be her choice
 We have said, and again repeat it, that if Mr. Clay would consult the signs of the times, and exercise a little of his wisdom, he would go into retirement, while he could do so with decency. But let 1t be voluntary act the result of his own free will; or if he is driven into it, let it be done by his politi- cal adyersaries, not by his political friends
 For the whigs to attempt to thrust him aside again, is too ungenerous to pass by, without attracting the anmadyersions of even his opponents. Let the whigs rather initiate his chvalry, and risk every thing on the cast of die; because to abandon him, as rats abandon sinking ship, is a piece of con- sunmate treachery, of which the whigs only could be guilty They did 1t once, but to repeat the experiment, would be to aggravate the enormity of perfdy. Although he is wreck on the political ocean, if they have noble natures, they will remain as long as there is plank to cling to, and when they can hold out no longer, go down with their chief into the oblivion of the deep.
 ltmust be said of Mr. Clay, that although no man could be more vulnerable than he is, yet he is no temporiser, Whatever he does, he does boldly, and never seeks to coneiliate his enemies, Whatever his opinions are, he declares them in strong language. If his purpose is to denounce pre-emptioners, as "iand pirates,o or proclaim the elevation of ANDREW JACKSON to the Presidency to be a worse calamity than "rar, pesfileace, and famiac," he does it without reserve. As corrupt politician as he certainly is, such movements induce us to believe that he is not quite corrupt enough for the whig party, as at present constituted. They want some naa who has been on different sides of the same question, al different perods-a man whose opinions have changed, like q wea- thercock, and who will be every thing or nothing, as circumstances requirc-a man who can be held up as an advocate for a na- tional bank, in one State, and as opposed to it in another; high tariff man in the north, and for only a revenue duty, ill the south; for distribution here, and against it there for the abolition of slavery, in New ' ork, and against 1t, i'll Virginia-in short, they want one of those singular constituted poli- ticians, who, having no settled principles, can espouse every cause, without being in- consistent; and ihis kind of nondescript they call ssan araiiable candidateo
 T. To tilc democratic party, it will be per feetly immaterial who is the whig candidate for the Presidency, since defeat most cer- tainly awaits him; because, to endorse the whig doctrines, would, of itself, be sufficient to overthrow any aspirant for that high sta- tion, even if thousand private virtues should cluster around him, and challenge our admi- ration; and if these he would not endorse, and essay to climb up the ladder of fame un- der the non-committal policy, his overthrow would not be the less certain, because the people will not be duped second time by the same shallow device
 We only speak of this new indication, for the purpose of recording our abhorence of the treachery it displays, and to show, espe- cially, that if the whig party would desert man in his diversity, who has made so ma ny sacrifices for them, they would not pause at any thing, to obtain the possession of pow CT From such disaster, may Providence preserve this country.
 a% We should be extremely glad, if it could be ascertained, with requisite accuracy, whether the Times and Advocate, qriHtout editor or publisher, would not be quite as useful as it is at present. We think so, al though we may be mistaken; and as it is against our creed to condemn any man un- heard, we arc perfectly willing to hear the editor of thai print, on this point.
 AMONG THE CHoCTAws. ErtrGct cf aieiter dutef Fort T6,oioa 4ug. IT, ls4s
 "The Indians are all quiet, and those immediately around us, (he Choctaws,) devote themselves in tustriously to agriculture The temperance cause ] s making rapid strides among them. There was temperance festival at Doalville, (within mile of
 his post,) yesterday, which attended by five or SIX hundred Indians. The soldiers temperance so- 'lety a this post joined the Indians in the eelebra. ion fhoy had the martial music of the post, and q -e e4sFr,rf fr--T1t, ,4i.I I..,.