The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-06

entS has furnished you Wltn the AdufeSS to ..the man in the coon skin cap;o think as a matter of justice, you should give his
 REPLY.
 AIR. COMMITTEE of ONE: Be pleased to bear to the members of the Convention in general, and to the Reuerend President in particular, my warmest thanks for the flat tering compliments they have paid me.
 The President suggests that the days of miracles have, indeed, returned! Under the "old dispensation', Asses spake-noac listen to Cooni
 s.Ilistory is philosophy teaching by exam ple:' and, if in my response l indulge a little in past allusions, may 1t be with as much profit to the Convention as to myself
 Four-y years ago, upon an occasion similar to this, did not
 .sFeel like one who trod alone
 Some banquet hall deserted,
 Whose hts are fled, whose garlands dead,
 find aH but me departedr
 Then the man that wore oae coon skin, was allowed, as special favor, to touch the garment hems of those ministerng at the altar of political humbuggery; but he who robed himself entirely in coon skins-coat, vest, and breeches-who bedecked himself from Stop to toeo with badges and medals-who drank hard cider until he converted himself into walking pickle, and made nightly pil- grinages to some log-cabin, to listen to the oracles there delivered: he was the '.chiel among ten thonsands,o and he was admitted, at once, by exclamation, into the sanctun, sanetoruna of the temple of whiggery, to enjoy all the privileges of the priesthood!
 ''Look on Mat picture and on Hist'
 Four short years have scarcely gone by, and am addressed as '.reic of the past''- Coon skins are sold to the matters! hard cider has given place to whiskeyl badges are es- chewed as .'badges of fraudp' and the log cabins, ay, the revered log-cabins, before which the ssdagons of democracy were said to fall prostrate and powerless, are either kicked to pieces and given to the fire, or turned into chicken pensl 'sTo what base uses may we come at lastn'
 You cried loudly for e4change, change'' and God knows you have ''change,n with a vengeance, nou.
 Mir. Committee of One: am aware that 1t would be an unpleasant task, and, there fore, l will not ask you to account for all this change; neither will l call upon you to state why you covered up your principles, If you had any, beneath coon skin; or why you set up in log-cabin the political image which the people were called upon to wor- ship! Did you think, SIT, that irail coon skin would stand a four years reign, or that the peltings of the democratic storms would not in that time beat out the Clay from the crannies of your cabin, and expose the hide ous god of whiggery to the peoples view!
 Sir, cannot but thank you for the kind notice you have taken of me; but feel that I must be candid with you, and tell yov plainly that though am still that ''same old coon,' cannot any longer consider myself a member of your partyl ] return to my home, to lay aside all the principles of the whig party of '40-al the principles was ever conscious it possessed, viz, coon skins, cider Kegs, Sc. Sc. What the ne,c princi- pies are know not, neither do care But luis do know-that man like myself (who likes to stick to one set of men, and one set of measures till they are either .'put throughn or put down,) is no more in his place in the lVhig party, than an honest man in a coun- cil of thieves SAMIVEL.