The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-27
A DEMOCRAT OF '9s.
For the Arkansas Banner

"CIAY CLUBS AND THE REAL ESl l.
 BANK.
 ssWe ordered and directed that State Conven- .stion should assemble and straightway acentyone sscounMs obeyed and sanctioned our decrees"
 Mir. EDrToR-By this piece of machinery, the freemen of Arkansas are attempted to be controlled by juato at Little Rock. The Club has issued orders to every county III the State to organize Clay Club--and with view to secure the doubtful votes, they re- quire them to sign pledge to support"Har- " of the West" and such other tickets as may be given them, it matters not whether the candidate is Bank or Anti Bank, Tariff or Anti-Tariff; "saim or sinner" they must swallow all, and without murmur, and Ii any should have the impotence to thlnk for himself, he is to be read out of the church without ceremony. It is whispered about, that summons has been issued to JEFFER- SON COUNTY, to put on trial some distinguish ed free thinkers, in that quarter. It IS prob able those cases may 20 off upon denaurrers to the jurisdiction of the "juato,7 of that however, am not sufficiently informed? Has it come to that--that the freemen of Arkansas are to be told by those recruiting snbdlterns that they are not to be trusted, without their executing an obligation to obey their man. dates How humliating 1t must be to many an honest good meaning whig, when he learns that he has to support a ticket that IS for Repudation or direct taxation to pay the Bonds now due, amounting to more than a million of dollars-and finally the Bonds themselves
 A great question of public interest some times becomes a question of public morals and none can be of more vital importance to all classes, than that of our State debts, and without stopping to inquire who introduced them, or who has received the greatest ben eft from this money power. desire to be informed Esholc and who' is to pay the State debts and interest2 That question must be answered sooner or later, and if direct fa1a- lion is to be levied to pay the debt and inte- rest-I fear it will be amidst the laundering tempest of a revolution such a taxation would br ag abject poverty and wretchedness upon the poorer and middling classes of the 1 community. without, at any time, having re- ceived one dollars benefit from those abom- inable corporations.
 As this great Moloch of destruction, is in i the hands, and under the control and man. agement of the leaders of the whig party III 1 this State, and ''some of them'' seeking pub lie favor, for place and station, to which we look for 'sweal or wo''-and as the Bank has thrown the responsibility upon the State to pay the interest, or violate her fdith,-it will not be out of place, or considered presump- tuous, hope, to ask their leaders what pol icy will you adopt, if placed in power, ir regard to sustaining the honor and credit oi the State Will you repadiafe tue interest or will you levy tax upon the people to pay it
 This question of taxation is above all par ty consderations-and deserves serious and sober investigation, and candid and frank avowal of the policy that is likely to be pur- sued, if the whigs ahould by "accident'' come into power.
 lou shall again hear from
 JOHN JONES.