The Arkansas banner., 1844-01-23
Eor the .Arkansas Banner.

fr. Editot:--W are Ill 'iie iiiiast ol d & ,, s.crisis,o and the issue involved, is
 ;,slv above ali considerations of individ-
 ,reierment or personal aggrandizenent.
 no less than the re-establlshment of the
 ,hlican I principles as maintained and ad-
 tod bv the great champions of our creed,
 sson Madison, and Jackson on the one t. .nd the old Federal or Hamiltonian trine on the other.
 1s4O. by coon-skins and cider barrels, < which they are now, themselves, asham- ss tbe whigs succeeded in placing them sos in power. How successfully they
 carried out their promises, let suffer- and oppressed people answer. They at
 ned to force upon the country great
 Pied institution even more dangerous ! Riddles Bank-which fell like Luci- 1 dracging in it's train, thousands of poor 3ows "a and orphans, who had their all in-
 ed in the institution, but thanks to their
 Tyler, he put an end to that abominable
 ruinous system of supporting a few of
 aristoeraey, who live and fatten upon the
 earnings of the industrious portion of
 country. They fastened upon the country
 gh protective Tariff; and worse than all,
 abrogated the obligations of private
 tracts, in the passage of that odious Bank-
 act-which they were compelled by
 ic opinion to repeal the next session of
 gress-and to p-the climax, they have
 lived the government in a national debt
 5 or IS millions; and if they had not been
 ked by an almost universal defeat to the
 ent Congress, we should in few years,
 burthened with debt, that would have
 nately bankrupted the government.
 b all those wild, wicked and Federal
 lures, the Democratic party have been
 psed, and the indignation of an insulted
 deluded community, rose up and hurled
 power and place, those hum-buggers of D. But defeat does not lessen their zeal
 Pgain their ascendancy in the National
 State governments. We now witness Eur own State, their talents, money, and |r means, brought to operate in the ap- 3ching election, and through their hire
 presses, and the unfortunate disunion bur own ranks, they are full of hope,
 sanguine of success? Democrats !-are
 willing to fold your arms and see the tral party triumph in your State, when shave majority of three thousand? Will
 not heal your dissensions and bick- gs amongst your yourselves, and rally Rnd some sound and unhinching demo. who will have boldness and independ- F enough to maintain our principles? Let
 beseech you, preferences for men, as |ers, throw you into the ranks of our (nles. You will repent 1t when too late only gratify for a moment an intempe- feeling of disappointment, which will to the advancement of the whig party, |when 1t is too late, you will be the first to |oaeh yourselves for causing the distrac- and disunion, which seems so gratifying hem and from which they, so certainly |plate on our defeat.
 Principles, not men,o are among the car Y doctrines of the democratic party; and if | are adhered to, we should not abandon party for our opposition to men. No
 soldier and patriot would desert the pee because he was not on good terms h his commander, or because he was not Self selected as the commander-in-chief. | dlsorganizing course would subject Individual to at least reprimand. This fal IS made to the great body of the de- fracy, who are not influenced by any ex- |adon of office, but support the candidates me party, because they are pledged to Y Out the principles which they espouse
 motives are pure and disinterested, and Pgh they may, and do have their partial- for men, they are made to yield for the fess of their principles. And will not e who set themselves up as leaders and fdlans of the party, be as patriotic as the Fes ! will not believe otherwise. l ask opause before you ''cross the Rubicon;n who "raise the whirl wind," may not Pole to direct the storm-and after the Plrs shall have passed to our enemies, De the first to repent in sack-cloth and Fs. The claims of many of the party nave been overlooked or neglected; but sufficient cause to convert Arkansas into |mg state' With full knowledge of the i. ic@ c@dlfferences in the principles of the two Fles' nothing is wanting but to rouse the |gles oi the people, to resist the advance of hpr'y, whose policyis so ruinous to the best Eies's Of our country. The means to eff mat object is the only obstacle to our IEous triumph.
 (laily' ' very many, prefer the present nom Es ol the Democratic Convention-they Peve them entitled to the confidence and p Ppol' oi the party-they are gentlemen of pe.@ole talents, business habits, and un- c..ig ca, Democrats Others, in the west, lp aS ] prefer as their ssfag-bearer," the tal- a Ss speaNer ct the House of Representa- :, - ol Judge Brown, or Gen. Sam'l Adams; s'.", souu men and true. The same feelings are s'd, ! r.,, to the South, they have their Roys- S,na \ aaa,lamsons and Hills, who would rally p,h ,0 uiem the whole democracy of the q, s'' s a'u would be the pride of the demo- I ' .aa o, ,ne U State. In the East, we have the in Dllu ,S fearless Hanly, with the old vete- dene ne cause, Mark w. Izard, around either cent," cetu,iacy would proudly rally. And in mo 'Ie m we have slegions:o such as Sam. ,ley Iempstead, R. W. Johnson, Chester tcb6s,a f J,aacge Caldwell, Wm. Field, Judge |. lu, and eam'l Rutherford, and Byrd; men Id 1 ca".. auu not found wanting, and men who notha :o, us through triumphantly. But all 'Ue fsn selected. And for that reason would