The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-17

1 1t ''no matter i'll what words or language those instructions were giycn," feclhimself ..5ound to comply teiM Meir scishes aus conlmunica- led %
 No, no. While every other member from the Stale yielded to tue popular will, Henry Clay alone hanghtily replied fo the almost unanimous demand of his State, ~ casanot, l WILL NOT do u.n Yes, HIS wW was to govern, instead of that of his constituents He made himself the MASTER, instead of the serpant; the MONARCH and the TY- RANT, wlIose mill pas 1a1c Emphaticallys the lrH oi Henry Clay, in. this case, was LAW The Bankrupt act had not yet gone lnlo operation. The bill to. repeal t had passedthe House of Representatives twas the 18th of January, and ti.s act was 10 90 into operation on the lst of Febrtiary. With- out NIT. Clay the Senate was equally divided If Mr. Clay had conformed to s.fhe lrishes and wii17 of his constituents, and voted on the other side, the Bankrupt law would have been repealed, and the wholesale repudiation of private debts, witnessed in IS42, would have been prevented The Bankrupt law was, therefore, hIr. Clay's law His WILL passed and preserved it, in deGanee of fhe tciH of lis constituents. HIS WILL WAS LAW.
 But this stman Charles,n who would not regard either lhe word '.iasf,aet,n noF the word ''requesf.o nor any other evidence of the will of his master, did not confine hm- self to mere disobedience. He turned round and told his master, that it was ..ieork of 1 iahuaaaifg aad eraelig'' which he required him to do; so inhuman and cruel that he had nt ssthn baar. ,,I,k hoI If,Jf ,1te tfIe hand to do it,'' so atrocious, that (says he) CANNOT, WILL NOT do u.''
 But lest we should be charged with mis- representing him, we give q literal extract from his speech on the occasion IS rerisgd by hia,seY,-viz:
 ''Should the work of destruction be ac- complished, they will not be days of mercy but of cruelty and inhunanitv.
 'sTheir condition [the debtoFsE resembles
 that of innocent and unfortunate nau, long and unjustly inearcerated in the dark walls of a jail. It's door is half open they are rush.
 ing towards 1t, pde emaeiated, and exhaust
 ed; the light of heaven has once more beam
 cd upon their haggard faces, and once more they begin to breathe thc cool and pure air of an gncontaminated atmosphere. At this
 instant of time, the Senate IS called upon to drive them back to their gloomy aud loath
 some cells, and to fling back that door upon it's grating hinges. And am invited 10 unite
 in this work of inhumanty and cruelty |
 have not the hand to do it caunol will not do itl'-see App to Cong Globe ISll-
 :, naue 92
 Who is it that Henry Clay thus eharac- terizes as MONSTERS of !" iidamaaity and
 crnedg2n
 His colleague in the Senate 7He entire deiegatioa from keaucty n the Houses of Representatives
 TnE ENTIRE LEGISLATURE OF kESreeKYli
 FOUR FIFFlIS OF THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY ,ti
 He not only disobeys his constituents but he INSULTS them They arc loo heaHicss , and cruel to he obeyed by sergala SD tender [ hedried and so gemie -handed as Henry Clay !! . Henry Glay's WILL in defiance of his con stltuents, gave President To the nation I Henry Clay's WILL in defiance of his con
 stituents, has once given a Bankrupt Law to Kentucky and the nation
 Q Kentucky and the nation punished him for r the first offence; he is now on trial for the o second. Itremans to be seen. whether Ken i, lucky will reward with her support, q SER
 WANT mho disobcys and insuits her; whether , the nation will place at it's head. q man whose , STUBBORN WILL, regardless of the most
 sacred obligations of public servant, has once given it q President to distract it, and a , Bankrupt Law to demoralize it. If his WILL
 IS LAW when in subordinate station, what 2 may it not be with the kegs of fte Treasury in lis haad and He Army and .tary af his command