The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-01
To De continued nert ,reeb,.
A TRAITOR IN THE CAMP,

A TRAITOR IN THE CAMP
 "Dof Me Lions hide, and hang c Holf stin on M
 recfeoat iimbs!"
 To suffer while evils are sufferable" :" is polio,
 which has ever been accordant with our feelings
 And, our friends and readers will bear us witness
 we have pursued that policy toward the "Time
 and Advocate" newspaper, published in this city
 But there is point, at which l" "forbearance cease
 to be virtue;" and that point, we conceive, ha
 been reached by that print
 It is no private grief have against it for it.
 vile insnuations against us, should and ever shal
 pass by us, as the idle wind the hissing of tooth
 less viper. For them we have no concern, and nc
 reply, in our personal relations and interests Bu
 the Democratic party has placed us as sentinel up.
 on the battlements, and made it our duty to watch
 the approach of the enemy from every quarter, and
 to detect and expose him in whatever form, or dis
 guise, his cunning may prompt him to assume We
 should be false to a sacred trust to which we are
 solemniy pledged, if we failed to perform this duty
 sswthout fear favor or affection however repue-
 nant to our personal feelings Our way then is
 clear before us. It is no "Lion in the path '' but
 skulking ,co!f that has stolen Lions hide It is our duty to strip him of his false covering, and ex- pose him in all his native hideousne.s
 The position which the sTimes and Advocate has assumed before the country is so false, it's mo- lives treacherous, the means which sustain it SO insdious and its objects, if possibly successful, SO injurious to the Democratic party,-that it becomes our imperative and urgent duty to expose such a pretended frend but real oe to the gaze of an out ragged people, in order that they may work their Just indignation into lash of Scorpions and scourge the traitor from the camp into which he has crept'S like thief in the night and would betray to the enemy. These are harsh words, we know but Truth, outraged as she is by such an offender, will speak of him in no milder terms
 That such we have indicated, is the position and character of the "Times and Advocate" none, we think, can doubt who know any thing of it's his tory or have observed its course And that such as we have suggested will be its fate there can be as little doubt, in the minds of those who understand the principles and feelings of the Democratic party The motto of every wise and honest party, ever has been, and ever must be, support to friends respect to enemies, death to traitors''
 To sustain all we have said, let us inquire. what has been the course of the "Times and Advocate ,, since its present conductors have struck it's respec- table Whig colors and pretended to raise those of Democracy instead,
 With the exception of the names of oMartin Van Buren and James K. Polk" at the head of its col umns, there has been no good nor trustworthy sign of Democracy about it. From its first number on he 25th. of March, to the number of last Monday, it's columns have teemed with the most unscrupu- ous charges, atrocious calumnies and foul personal abuse, against prominent members of the Democrat c party-men whom the Democracy of Arkansas have ever trusted and honored. Next in point of prominence in its columns, have been laudatory no- hces of the Clay Club, and fulsome fattery of Whig candidates. In fne what Democrat in office or out of office, has found favor in its eyes or what Dem- ocratlc measure has been aught than ssdamned with aint praise, in its columns Even the ample space If its first page, which might serve to multiply the excellent Democratic speeches and other valuable political documents with which cotemporares are illeo, is made worse than empty, by being crammed with the dull and pointless vagares of disempered ,rain, which few read, and fewer find inteligible- Ne repeat the question, where, in its columns, has erviee been rendered, or even attempted? No one, lot even the editor himself point to an instance because 1t does not exist And for the very best of easons-because 1t is not Democratic paper either n spirit, or effort, design But because it is phg paper in design, bearing false colors with the purpose to deceive the unwary, and after gaining heir confidence, to poison their minds first against he men, and finally against the measures of Democ- acy; and all this, that the great object which it is mployed to odvance, may be accomplished: and that to so weaken the Democratic party, as to make it n easy prey to Whiggery. The Whig party well ,now, and many ofthem openly confess it. that they lave chance of success in this State upon their 'wn strength, before the people Their plan of war are, then, is to divide the Democracy-sow discord lmong ihem-disgrace and degrade, and thus weak n them if they can and thus in, not on their wn merits, but the misortunes of their adversa- ies, and atten the spells from sef-destroy- d majority. The 'sTmes and Advocate" is one of he wretched instruments with which they are seek ng to work out their nefarious schemes.
 This is we'll known in this city. It is the theme f common talk And the course of the editor as n individual, has been in keeping with the course f his paper, as we have described it. To go back