The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-18
1TFMpSTFAD. COUNTY.


 We have, already, had occasion to mention that our Democratic friends in Hampstead had been threatened with some trouble, from an individual named Murphy who, protesting to be Democrat [ pet being a -IIhig n realitY--had declared himself eandidate, and was running for the Legislature-- The inquiry has recently been put to as-who and what is Murphy Although we can lily spare the space to do go, yet we will briefly answer.
 Our knowledge of this man, [. \. MtneuY, commenced some years ago (erhaps six or seyen} in the Western District Of Tennes see. where he then claimed residence, prolessed to be Democrat, and was a standing candidate for the Legialatme.- SHch was his low character, as foul mouthed, backguard, loafng butloon. no party individual, eqerconsidercd him of sufficient consequence to in- nuence the result of an election one way or another We have no recollection of the number of votes cast for him at any election, or whether he was really ever voted for at all. But that he never received enough votes to affect, materially, the interest ofe tber party. we are very sure. Indeed, his running was always regarded bHfesqHe upon canyassiHg; and he was sometimes encouraged by few of the mischief loving and ineonsiderae of both parties, on account of certain kind of low vulgar humor, which he was in the habit of indnlging against all the other candidates. Being any thing but respec- table, and wholly irresponsible for any thing he might say, no one cared for his attacks, or eyer thought of repelling them. Neither himself nor any one else, expecting him to get any votes was not even deemed necessary to denounce him. Ifso, it would have been done by the Democratic party for il was 10 that party he would have dore harn if to any, IS he proessad to he Democrat; and it was believed by some, oWselfamons them, that he ope- rated under the advice of certain Tdg leades with the purpose of weakening, to some extent, the De mocratie party. Ne have no doubt this could have been established il 1t had been deemed necessary bat, We repeat, he not enough in the way to ra qnire exposure. On one occasion, only, that NC recollect did he make himself sufficiently trou- blesome and offensive, to elicit notice from any of the candidates; and then, four memory serves us, he was publicly charged from the stump, with hav- ing been publicly leiippea and driven ont of the State of Indiana, for the commission Of some crime, or other grave offence. This, of course, he denied Butupon being challenged to ert5H his bac, 1chere fte mards ottte 1etip might be seea be saeaFed of, and 1ras seen no more. Wenever heard ofhis being candidate in Tennessee, after that Indeed, that was the last we ever heard of Murphy, until the lst day of last June, when we saw him at Washington,
 m HemPsiead county. Then he renewed the speaking appropriateness he had with us in Fen nessee, and sought to engage Us in conYer- sation on politics He commenced by de- claring himself i1 fagor of C Naijoaal BaaE Upon this, we remarked to him that we found he had changed his politics. lie assented, and undertook an argument to justify his change We then left him, and saw him no more This is the amount of our knowledge of Murphy. We, soon after, under stood that he was candidate for the Legislature, calling himself Democrat, but advocating all the Whig measurcs-such as a National Bank, a Pro- tcctive Tariff, SSc. This we were prepared to be- feye from our conversation with him. We were astonshed recently, to learn that he had shifted his ground, and declared himself a Democrat in name and in prineipIa-that is, We were as much aston ished al it we could be at any thing, from such an unprincipled scamp as he is. That he declared himself in favor of Whig measures, no longer ago than last spring, is known not only to us as already mentioned; but we are authorized 10 say that he made similar declarations in presence of DrsIsAAc N.JoNrs and CHARLES k. WirTER, Esq, both of Washington, and both prominent Wings. He de- ciared, in the presence of those gentlemen, and others that he was in favor of National Bank Protective Tariil, and all the Whig measures; and thathe preferred Henry Clay to Martin Van Buren, for the Presidency. This he would deny ifhe could; but hc cannot, for it can be proven upon him. And yet this fellow has the impndenee to call himself a Democrat, and to ask Democrats for their votes! hat is his obeet3 He does not expect to he elect ed-he never did expect it--no one expects it. Why then does he run' It is and can onlY be- for the purpose of injming some other candidate, sby drawing of votes i cannot he a Hhig candidate he desires to injure, else he would eall himself Nhig, and thus seek to make nroads upon the Whig party, which he could the more readily de, upon the faith and credit of the professions of Whiggerv he had already made The only inference. then which can be reasonably drawn from the course he has pursued, is that he desires and seeks to iaiure the Democratic party, by drawing of votes from the regular Democratic candidates, That this is his object, no one can doubt, Who will consider the character of the man, and the circumstances under which he acts That he k secretly encouraged, and perhaps paid, by the Wbig leaders, to pursue his praticol course, under false colors, is as little to be doubted, by those who are at all acquainted with the corrupt, underground ndpactices ofthe Whiglea CTS in Arkansas.
 In this view of the subject which may be relied on as the correct one We wAud inquire of the Democrats of Hampstead county, what course it becomes them 10 pusae-what course they intend to pafsue' Do they intend to be guled, and cheat ed out of their votes, by such shallow trick of the enemy as this We cannot offer such an insult to their understandings as to believe it Let them ra ther rise in theg strength, and strike down such weak and base attempt to impose upon them.
 In another, and the most favorable, view of the subl%t suppose Niaphy to be true Democrat, run ming n good faith, and expecting to be elected All sensible men must know it would be impossible to elPet him; his garing want of qualification, both of mind and morals, must always and inevitably defeat him, even fl he had no eregularopponent This must be 50, from the very nature of things for whatever few reckless and incoasiderate men, of any partv