The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-25

the minority or to violate the Constitution, and thereby render life and liberty insecure, he has full power to remit fines and to grant pardons to his friends; and, they beng Tn power, there is nothing 10 check or control him but the scarecrow of an lmpeachment.- But who will impeach an executive thatmust soon die a Constitutional death; one who has been brought into power and is sustain ed by the majority, on whom he showers lls fayors. Hence it is, sir, that murderers are released by our Governors without trial and after trial, and the inferior offences pardoned, until the laws assure no security m many cases, and crimes and misdemeanors are trle umphant, so that all men exclaim against the insecurity of life, liberty and property
 In better times, would your own Shelby, with all his revolutionary honors blushing thick upon his head, have dared to appoint his brolher-in-law, wholly unqualified, over the claims of those well deserving the office, to the office of Register of the Land office; or would he dare to appoint his nephew, youth who had scarcely If eyer) opened his mouth in a cause of any kind in court of justice, to the office of Attorney General of one of the most important Judicial Districts in the State. No, sir. If his own magma nimity and sense of propriety did not lead him to disregard the ties of blood, the wants and demands of his family upon his bounty CT his patronage, the press and public oPln- ion would have taught him that his patron- age was given to him for the good of his country, and not 10 make provision out oi. the public offices for his family.
 M y countrymen, rely upon it.that hope and fear are the great springs of human ae- ton, and responsibility to public opinion IS at last, the greatest security that our pubic servants will prove faithful and true; and when people are unWise enough to place an Executive in a condition so degraded as to be creature of hope nor fear, in practice he will prove himself too insignificant for punishment by impeachment. And djustsuch an animal does Mr. CiaY's project propose to mnke the President of the United States. A State may get along, as our State does, with four years lessee. Indeed, we can hold together without an Executive, while all is right in the national government; but to understand, control and manage twenty six soyereigntes and central national pow
  l The United States numbers now nearly or quite eighteen millions, and in time, may num- Der five hundred millions of citizens, and for such mighty people to think of having the vast powers of the Executive vested in a four years loaier and lounger, whose brief exist tence would render him too contemptble for impeachment or for public opinion to act upon, is utterly prePosterous. Such an ire sponsibe being would no doubt suit popular leader desirous of revolution. With the Fe- deral Constitution l am satisfied; under 1t have grown from childhood to old age, and under it the people of the United States have fourished and prospered beyond any other people upon the earth; during its brief exist encea people that numbered but little upwards of three millions at its date, now number nearly eighteen millions. Ithas been tried In war and peace, and proved to be the sheet anchor of our safety. Will the people strike the flag of the constitution, and raise that oi the bold innovator who dooms it to destruc- tion2 Surely not. But Mr. Clay looks te the South (yes, to the South,) to make him President. Asasouthemer, say to the whole South, take heed to what you are about ' ou elect MT. Clay because he promises te break down the peto, and subject the execu- tive department to the legislative. Will in- novasion stop then2 Mir. Clay desires this but what does Mir. Adams, his friend, desire Why, that you should lose your weight in the Congress of the Union, by striking iron the constitution that article which gives you slaves a representation. Worse still--ho wishes to set yonr slaves free, and yet vol are shoulder to shoulder with him and hi, followers in trying to make Mr. Clay Presi dent.