The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-28
GEN. BYRD,S CIRCULAR.


 GEN. BYRD's CIRCULAR.
 As this mendaciaus and slanderous efusion has been widely scattered over the State, it is proper that we should direct attention to few points in it. All if needs to insure its condemnation is careful perusal
 He professes to give rcrbatim copy of bis letter to the committee of the April convention. Whether he has done so in every particular, we do notknow But in regard to bs unconditional pledge to support a the neaSme8 of te April contention, he has un- doubtedy told the truth, andluy sustans our charge, long since made, to that effect. The circular itself states the pledge in these words ''I acW also lend zay ed and support 10 all te measures of tte Demo cratic State CoayeatioR noaU a session a htls Pace Now if this be not all unconditional pledge to abide the decision of the convention, and to support its nominees, language is incapable of making such a pledge. And, yet, soon as he found that he hlm- self, could not get the nomination, he withdrew from the convention and denounced 1t as unfairly eonsh- tuted He does not pretend to deny the charge we made against him, and here repeat that he obtained his letter, from Mr. Evans, by aoiBu1 end Pfeaedi- taed tlsehood. In view of such acts as these, aonc we ask, is such man worthy of the respect or the vote of any honest man, for any office
 He says aoae that he is opposed to high Protec- tive Tariff; and yet no longer ago than the Sth of January last, in his speech at the Markethouse he was in far0r of such Tariff But that was only a week before the meeting of the Whig convention, and he was fishing for a nomination. by that body. The Whg convention would not nominate hims so he changes his ground in the hope thatsome Demo- crats may be deceived into voting for him. ltwould be an insult to the intelligence and public virtue, of any true Democrats, to believe that they could be imposed upon by such shallow dishonesty
 No1o he says, in his circular-'I am opposed to a National Bank, believing such an institution would prove to be in the future, what experience proves it to have been in the past, monopolzing, corrupt, mischief-workng, and anti-republican institution. believe a National Bank to be neither constitution al nor expedent, and that Congress ought never to charter such an institution in any contingency what ever, or any emergency however disastrous" These are his words nog when he is begging for Democratic votes, in the hope of drawing off enough to defeat the party, by electing Dr. Gibson. But no longer ago than the 8th of January last he declared, in his speech at the Mar<et-house, that he believed a Ma tional Bank was both constitutional and expedent, and he was warmly in favor oft. His speech was reported in the Gazette to this effect; and Byrd was bold and open mouthed about the streets in proclaim ing himself Bant-man. And to prove that he had long been Bank-mau, he boasted of his vote in the Senate of Arkansas, on the 29th of November Is38, in ftCor of resolution to instruct our Senators in Congress to vote for the establishment of National Bank. Can any one put confidence in the state ments of such man-can any one believe word he says-ean any one, who has any respect for him self, who sets any value upon the elective fran chise, throw away his vote upon individual so ut- terly unprincipled and infamous?
 In conclusion, he strikes, what he evidently con sders, hard blow at auIlifeation and Mir. Calhoun Independently of the facts that notification is not question before the country, and that Nr. Cal houn is not candidate and, therefore, no defence is needed for the measure or the man,-it should be borne in mind that Gen. Byrd has all along declared himself in favor of s'1lr. Calhoun against e 1corid for Presideat.'' Not three months ago, such was h declared preference. Did he not then know MT Cslhoun's views of State Rights, and the TeXa question? If he did not, then he is conlessedy ig norant of the long published and well settled opin ions of the man whom he desired for President. I he did, then where is his candor and consistency, advocating man one day, and opposing him thc next' But to talk of the candor and consistency O such an unprincipIed ''cow-boy," as Byd is pro fanng the use of good words.
 As to his reckless abuse of the Democratic party whose injury the Wings have hired him to attempt have, heretofore so fully exposed and elTectually repeed it, that we have neither time nor inclination to say more about it.