The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-10

M to men,o To compare our peaceful acq,n slloRs ol territory to the conquest of ancien warriors, IS unjust. They left behind then ruined cities, desolated fields, and depopula ted countries. In our conquering footsteps cites spring up as if by magic, cultivated fields extend around us almost as rapidly as the shadows of the clouds pass over them, and innumerable swarms of people full of life and hope, penetrate the forest and overspread i the prairies, whose weapons of war are the axe and the plough Nor shall the ruins of any Babylon or Palmyra, Palenque or UX- mal smoke and bleach in the track of mnr- derous war within the compass of our do- iminions. however extended. until our con siituton has been perverted from its original purposes, and the besthopes of mankind sac rifced 10 inc designs of avarice or ambition, which make deluded man their instruments and their victims.
 Bu there ia q subject which. with every true democrat, ought 10 be considered far more important than the extension of our territory. 4 is tte preservation of tte coa- stilati9a aseif, and ihe predomiaaaee of de- n0cfatic principles jR the administration 0f oRr gorermmtat. What ayails an increase of territory, if we cannot govern what we have en principles which we consider essential 10 tho preservation of liberty and the advance ment of man2 if, while reaching after other territories, We are stripped of all that is pre- cious in our government al home-all that would make their annexation blessing to them or 10 ourselves,- s,-we shall lose the sub stance while grasping at ihe shadow. It is not under the dominion of a national bank that we wish to brinq the people of Texas There is no philanthropy ia the movement which would make them virtually the sub jects of an empire, the products of whose sunny fields are to be forever taxed to sup port an arstocracy in the north, whether moneyed or titled. II, through latitudnous construction or direct usurpation, our Slaies are to become, virtually, consolidated em- pire, within which congress or monarch is to regulate all their local concerns, we do not desire any other portion of the human family 10 share with Us in such a calamity. Rather, if such principles are to prevail in the administration, would we see Texas re- main separate and independen3 that there may be an asylum for us or our children to fly to, when usurPation and oppression have eXtnguished all hope in ssthc land of the free and the home of the braves
 If lho lime shall ever come, when the eer- ruptions of national bank shall deprave a whole country, as thoroughly as they have done great city. once celebrated for it's or der and morality-when riot, with is fire brand, shall rave through the land, and mur- der strike down is victims with impunitY in open day-When libraries of sacred knoWl- edge shall every where become bonfres for blgot mohs--when, from the blackened and crumbli0q walls Of burnt churches, 1.-THE LORD SEEfHn shall he the only voice of consolation 10 houseless and starving thou sands, who came to our shores to find pro lection for life, liberty, property and reli- gious worship; when that disastrous day shall eome-H come t must-We defoudy pray that there may be one spot left on this earth and continent, even if 1t be the region ol the "lone starr where hope may again kindle her fires, and liberty erect her sian dard.
 It is not our purpose to discuss the expe- dleney OF inexpediency of the immediate an neXadon of Texas 10 the United Safes Nor will we consider the justice or policy of ma klngsthat question a test in the coming pre- sidental election. The first question is be- fore the American people, by whom it will be discussed, considered, and decided The second will present itself to the Democratic National Convention, who will undoubt- edly give true expression to the wishes of the democracy of the nation, as far as they ara -l,,4 tt either as to the test or the candidates, we pledge ourselves to abide by it, and to rally around the democratic banner, determined 10 bear t on to victory. Nor will we stop to inquire whether it have upon it a star mere or less, or whether il be borne by an o7d soldier, or young one.
 We will gather to it as the banner of Jef- ferson and of Jackson, of liberty and our country we will plant it in triumph upon our sea coasts and our mountains upon our rivers and our prairies and then, from Tex as and Oregou-perchance in fulness of time from Canada and Mexieo-iae mill spa8gle 4 aH orer rih stars, until it shall become, like the clusters of the milky way, cloud of light, beneath which half mankind, living in peace and happiness, shall admire and re- joce.
 Will not our brother democrats every where make up their minds to receive, in this spirit, the decisions and nominations ea the Baltimore convention It is the only GUARANTY of eietorg; perhaps its ONLY HOPE.
 Resolred, That, in our opinion, inc first object of every true democrat, in the ap- preaching presidential election, should be the aseehdency of democratic principles ia the administration of our government
 Resoiced, That the evils apprehended on the one Sid2 from the annexation of Texas to the United Sia!cs, and the mischiels on the other from a delay of that measure, sink into insigniieance when compared with the dan gers which will inevitably spring from the election of Henry Clay to the presidency, and engraiting upon our constitution the princi- pies now openly ayowed by the whig patty
 Resoleed, That, in our opinion, the only way to prevent so great calamity, is cor fit. t.,t Etf. | as