The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-11
TIE VOICE OF THE STATES.

all who were unable to attend, sent lelteis eA pres sive Of their cordial approval of the meeting their sentiments of glowing Democracy, and their regret at the necessity of being absent Iheaients, char acter, and standing of these distinguished indiFid- uals, afford Unsatisfactory assurance of their knowledge of affairs, and of the state ofpubc sentiment intheif respective States. In our last paper we gave these letters from which the spirit and prospects of De moeracy beam out in rays oflving light, and cheer the heart of every freeman. We copied them from the Nashville Union, in which they were published from the originals They are all excellent-al breathe the spirit and speak the words, patriotism Of one only, we take occasion to remark upon par tcularly--that Is the letter from the Democratic State Central Committee of Rhode Island, Writtenin acknowledgment of the invitation to Gov. DoRR To that we invite particular attention and, inFieW of its contents, we ask our readers to think of the condition of Coy. DoRR-to think of Patriot who abored for the freedom of the people, rewarded fer his labors by imprisonment in the pcnetentiary for life deprived of his personal liberty, shut nirom the free air of heaven, and cut of, nol only from he cety offriends and relatives, but from all knowledge even, of the sympathy of the great body of the peo pie of the Union, in whose hearts he is enshriu2d as martyr in the sacred cause of human rights-as q victim of the insatiate appetite of Tyranny. Is it asked who has done this grievous wrong -Who has committed this outrage upon the rights of man, and the principles of liberty We answer that the wnIGs have done t-the WHIGS have arrayed themselves against the freedom of human action, the the freedom of human thought, the sacred right of the people to a voice in making the constitution and laws under which theyli1e-the WIIIGS the friends and supporters of HENRY CLAY, have done it In his Raleigh speech which all the whig presses laud to the skies, HENRY CLAY declares that the wHfGs, without exception, approve ofthe conviction and imprisonment Of DoRR. while the DEMOCRATS, with equal unanimitY, condemn those proceedings and sustain the patriot DoRR. THIs IS rRUE The Democrats do sustain hin-as the representative of free inciples-and the triumph of tiosc principles even in Rhode Island, will not only liberate him. but elevate him to the highest honors. Thus it has ever been, and will ever be. The principles of the WHO party, legitimately descended from those of monarchy, ever go for concentrating power in the hands of the few 10 the oppression of the many while the principles of DEMOCRACY, arising from the sacred and inaenable rights of man. and resting up on the true interest of the great mass of the people, ever and inevitably tend to uphold and promote the greatest good of the greatest number This is the difference between Whssery and Democracy. Gan ffe PEOPLE hesitate which T5 cR05sC-7777cR cause to espouso? To the PEOPLE we have only to say "choosc ye between theml"
 
 Cor. AsuLEY's circular defeace, after being saltg- gfea ell into the country, some few days before the issuing of the last ..Banner appears in that paper.
 .3r6. Go9etie, SGpt, i. Like many other things which have appeared in the Gazette of late this statement is falsen fact, and intended to deceive The truth of the matteris his Col Ashley,5 circular 1eqg mol readg f6t tie press and moi priated until Thursday the 2zd Au gust, when few hundred copies were hastily struck of, for him to carry with him, as ho left town that evening, in the stage, to be absent several weeks and, betore he i he sent one of the circulars to Mir Borden, inclosed in the following note, which we copy from the Gazette of the tth instant:
 Lille Roc&, Jug P, 1sfl. BeNJ J. BORDEN, Editor Of the Gazetta
 DEAR SIR-The enclosed hand bill issued at the Banner office, will be printed in the next nunbafef the Banner, and contains a temperate defence of my self against the charges made against me- The principal ones you have permitted to be alluded to J YOU, as matter of justice, that my defence shall be pub lished in the Gazette.
 am, sir, very respectfully
 Your ob't seryt,
 CHESTER ASHLEY
 And yet, the face of these facts, which the edi tor of the Gazette had in his own hands, he deiber- ately writes, prints and publishes that the circulars were ''snuggied off into the ccuny several days be- fore the issuing of the last Banner" &c! True. the circulars did go into the country nearly week before the Banner was published but they were carried by Col. Ashley hmsef and not a1l Ae editor Qf he Gaeette had been furnished soith copg. Thus the Gazette was furnished as soon as the Ban ner and could have published it inst as soon; for both issue on the same day. From this il is maniv fest that so far from desirng or attempting to con eea or 'smuggle off, his circular, Col Ashley placed one of the very first copies that were printed as soon as it was printed, in the hands Of his most determined political adversaries accompanied by a request that every newspaper in the State would publish it. The Gazette is welcome to all the @capital'' it canmale bX interpretations which have not even the merit of ingenuity.
 r Gov. YELL reached the city on Monday last and left again, yesterday afternoon, to meet his appoint ments (a list of which publish to-day) to speak at various places, until the day of election He is in fine health, and the most bouyant spirits, as conf dent of his election, and te success of our cause as he is trustiul in the virtue ana intelligence of the people. We were rigllt-he will not be idle: bnt having re-shaIpened his knife, is again .salter fine coonS." He has promised US enough s.coon skins, to carpet our office this winter. We intend to make "hearth rug oi Dary Takers s coRFEcrtoM--2Fes stated. last week. upon what we deemed good authority, that the owners Of tie Gazette were paying s5o month for is slander and scuu!lity. We how learn that the amount k oalv slo. The correction is ehoerlully made.
 "Tbosewho have read the Banner will ramem. her that some time since, he aborel hari 10 create tue impression, that the money of the Real Estate Bank, had beenused ny Messrs. NEWTON and PIKE. to pay the expenses of the Whig convention, which Was called in this city, last January.
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