The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-30

abuse him Judge White conceived that in- justice had been done him, and he felt show keener than a serpent's tooth IS lngratltude' This Is the source whence sprung that em- bittered feeling which led to the defection of Tennessee from the democratic party.
 The people of Tennessee generally had
 the most unbounded confidence in the integ- rity of Judge White, and the greatest respect for his talents. Ills opinions were regarded among us as oracnlar. He had taught us our political creed and catechism; and these were based upon true democratic principles. When injustice was done him, we felt 1t as a wrong 10 ourselves, and resented 1t ac- cordingly; and held MT. Van Ruren respon- sible for the cruel and vindictive assaults that were made by his partZans upon the motives and character of this upright man. And ] ask, if for these offences, Mr. Van Buren has not been rebuked and punished to the satls- faction of all, except those who are disposed to indulge prosecuting spirit? But shall we, because q man esteemed had private griefs, in which we sympathized, shall the people of the State of Tennessee, for this cause, abandon the principles il was their pride and boast to have maintained unshaken
 for forty years Every principle of honor and consistency forbids 1t; rather let us re-
 turn with unanimity to the policy oi our Jackson, our White, our Grundy, our Polk and a host of other good and able democrats, dead and living to that system which may emphatically be called the Tennessee policy :; and which was always advocated and upheld by the leading whigs of our State, until very lately, for reasons best known to themselves, they have changed their principles and politi- cal associations.
 But it is alleged by the whigs that Judge White, also, had changed. This l do not believe. He never avowed such change and if 1t were true, his best friends should rejoice that he died before he had made any such declaration. Cajoled and fattered by the whigs, who only flattered to betray, and goaded by the incessant misrepfesentatons and vituperation of the presses advocating the cause of Mir. Van Buren, he sometimes took counsel rather from his feelings than his judg- gment, and acted with the opponents of the administration. Butin his last public speech made at Knoxville, in repelling the charge that he and his friends were about to go over to the whig party, he said the idea was fan cliul, it was ridiculous, and spurned 1t as an impuation upon his honor and integrity.
 As one Of the personal and political friends Of Hugh L. White, and one of the electors who gave the vote of Tennessee for him ill 1856, on the ground that he was more un- waVeflng democrat, a more tried and tho fongh Jackson man, an older and better soldier in the cause of democracy, than Mr. Van Buren, l protest against this incessant and unprlncipled invoking of his name in support of principles and measures which qe abhorred, and of men whose contact and as sociation he would have spurned as pollu ton; and l coniure you. fellow-citizens, not to permit yourselves, by appeals made to your sympathies by designing politicians in behalf of one whom you honestly believe to have been an injured man, to be carried away from those principles and maxims which must ever form the basis of demo- cratic republican government.
 The approaching presidential election af- lords an suspicious opportunity for the peo- pie of Tennessee to resume their position in unison with the democratic party of the na- ton. We have as candidate a distinguish cd citizen of laonr- own State, gentleman of splendid ability, of unsuspeced integrity, un- moral character, and whose whole political life has been devoted to the defence and maintenance of the principles and doc trlnes of the true Jefiersonian democratic school In word, such candidate as we should feel proud to elevate to any station. On the other hand, we see man who has f,t,,t, ,l | I. thirst for ollice-who has invariably con- temned the voice of his constituents, when 1t came in conflict with what he supposed to be his own personal interest-whose political integrity Is suspected even by those who sup port hlm-whose moral character IS admitted by his friends not to be as good as 1t should be-whose domineering temper and dispo- slton Is intolerable even to his own party, and who, for his own political aggrandize- ment, has lent himself to carry out the tyran- nlcal and oppressive measures and ruinous policy of the modern whig, alias national republicans, alias old federal party and their selfish allies. The assertion that Mir. Clay is now the head and leader of the old federal party IS established by the fact that, except his own State, and, perhaps, North Carolina, he can claim, with no degree of certainty or confidence, the vote of any except the old federal States and he now advocates the po- lltieal dogmas and repudiated measures of that party
 It Is now apparent that James K. Polk will be elected President without the vote of Ten nessee But few intelligent whigs will deny to him the votes of the following States, viz: Maine, 3; New Hampshire, 6; New Jersey, 6; Pennsylvania, 26: Virginia, r.; Mchi- gan, 6; Indiana, 12; Illinois, 9; Missouri, 2; Arkansas, 3; Louisiana, G., Mississippi, 6; Alabama, 9; Georgia, 10, and South Ca rolina, 9, comprising majority of the whole number. and leaving out of the account the doubtful States; New Y ork, Ohio, and seve- raj others, in which, from present appearances, the chances are nearly equal. Shall Tennes- see, under these circumstances, be found wanting to her own honor and interest," It was not thus that Virginia became the re- nowned mother of statesmen. Elect James K. Polk, aud the Tennesse policy will be-