The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-14
From the hdiano State Sentinel.

son was fGCGlNGd diEW udys SllICt by d 0itl- zen of this county. At the request of seve- ral citizens to whom its contents were com municated, we take great pleasure in giving it to the public.
 HERMITAGE, June 24, lS44.
 SIR: l am in receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, and, though in bad health my self, cannot forgo he'pleasure of saying few words in reply to it.
 You request my opinion of the nomina- tions recently made at Baltimore by the De- mocratc Party. l am entirely satisfied with them, and have no doubt, if the gentlemen nominated are elected, that the people will find their administration true to the old Re publican landmarks, and every way worthy of their support.
 MT. Polk was raised in my neighborhood, and went into public life as a Jefersonian Democrat. To the great principles of that illustrious reformer of our system of Govern ment, he has been ever faithful; and has proved himself, on many trying occasions, the able advocate of popular rights, and the sagaclous friend of the measures which were necessary to defeat the machinations of the ] Federal Party. His moral character is pure; his capacity for business great; and, to extra ordinary powers of labor, both mental and l physical, he unites that tact and judgment which are so requisite to the successful direc- ton of such all office as that of Chief Magis- trate of free people.
 With Mr. Dallas, am not so intimately acquainted; but from what l knew of him when he represented Pennsylvania in the Senate of the United States, and was charged with high public trusts in various other im- portant stations at home and abroad, 1t cannot be doubted that he equally deserves the con- fidence and admiration of the people. The faVors that have beenconterred upon him by the Keystone State, whose citizens are dis tinguished for love of order, and for the sup port only Of what is calculated to spread the blessings of equal laws, are proof that he has all the characteristics which are needed in crisis like this, to rally the sound feel Ings ot the country at large.
 thank You, sir, for the solicitude you have expressed formy personal welfare. Ny race Is nearl y run am now not able to attend to the duties of correspondence without thea aid of an amanuensis; but thank God for the privi- lege yet accorded to me, of comprehending the designs of the Federal party. As long as live, will warn my country against the dangers which will attend the success of Mir. Clay's proposition to establish another man. moth Bank; to break. down the security which the people possess in the veto power gwen to the President by the Constitution to change the system of taxation under which we have so long prospered, by admitting the principle claimed in his bill for the distribu- tlon of the proceeds of the public lands and, lastly, to prevent the annexation of Texas to the United States; for it cannot be denied, that his position on this question is utterly at war with the true interests of his country He says, virtually, that Texas ought not to be admitted into the Union, while there IS respectable and considerable DOT ton of our citizens opposed to it. On such a condition, 1t is obvious annexation car never take place. British influence had con. siderable and respectable advocates in this country in our revolutionary war, and in oul second war with her. Will it ever be with out them? Never. As long as there arc fanatics III religion, as long as there are di- versailles and differences in human opinion respecting the forms of government and the rights of the people, such advocacy will be found resisting the advance of institutions like ours, and laboring to incorporate with them the features of an opposite system.
 Who does not see that the people of the United States are competitors with the peo- pie of England in the manufacturing arts. and in the carrying trade of the world? and that the question is soon to be, if 1t be not already, whether Texas and Oregon are to be considered as auxiliaries to the American or British interests? whether these vast and fertile regions arc to be settled and worked by our posterity, blessed by Republican Co., vernment--or are to become the theatre of British enterprise, and thus add another link to the vast colonial chain by which that great Monarchy upholds it's Lords and NobIes, and extracts from suffering millions the earnings of their labor3
 Nor IS the question altered by the alleged interest of Mexico in the Texas territorv.- As far as treaties are concerned, good faith is not involved in our decision. If the promo sition were to annex Mexico with her assent. Texas could not complain But we all know that the treaty argument is not only inappli- cable, but incapable of use in the determina- ton of the question, either as it affects LIS, Mexico, or other powers. Texas is inde- pendent of Mexico-made so by the power of her arms, in the same sense that we be- came independent of Great Britian She is independent of Mexico in another sense. that IS, in never having constituted part of Mexico, except by compact which the latter has violated, and which compact would never have been formed if the United States had performed its duty.
 But without pursuing this view of the subject, 1t IS enough for us to look at the question as 1t IS practically presented to us. Texas tells us she is anxious to come into the Union. Being originally part of our Union, knowing that she cannot exist happily as State without the protection of our laws. that her geographical position, as well as the character and interest of her citizens. neces- sarlly attach them 10 our territory; and feel ing, as we may well suppose she does. n