The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-30

eldW any olheF Inference from your manage ment with John c. Adams, than that of bar gam and sale for, sir, you well knew atthe very moment that you made John Q. Adams President, that large majority ol the people ef tae United States preferred Andrew Jack son, and there was not any man that knew better than yourself that you made minority President; and there was not any man, oi any political party, of slight political cacu- latlon, but whaJ knew the same Was that. SIT, In you, an honorable act Was it doing the greatest good to the greatest number:- On! sir, was 1t not the six thonsad dollars a year that you could secure to yourself for a lew years, that caused you to commit that act of treachefy-committed with hope that the Secretary's office would be one of the mann leading strings to your advancement to the Presidency Alter the next Presidential election you found, sir, that yourselfand John \. were leit Tn nleagre minority. Since that time there have been many factions gosup, and generally very spirited and they have been very ungenerous and unhalowed. and those factions have all originated in your partv -l mean the federal party. If amnot mis- taken we will see at the time that you run against general Jackson, what was the state ol your party. Were not you divided into two formidable parties The majority party ol the two, did not you call yourselves Ma tlonal Republicans2 The minority pafiy. were they not called Antimasons Ton. sir. stood at the head and was the leader of both those parties, and their only object was to elevate you to the Presidency. You, sir, no doubt, well reeolleet the pretensions of quar- rel you had amongst yourselves on the ground Of your being Freemason-the Antimasonic committee that wrote to you requiring you 10 fenoHnce masonry-yOur answer to them Wm Wlrt's pretending to renounee one de- gree, and by that means come into the field asan antimasonic candidate, and bvan agree ment between you and him, and other lead- ing Nationals and Antics, and then carry the tcke; as all unpledged ticket; so that those Antics that had resolved not to support ma son for any office whatever, might have some excuse for so doing when the trick came to be exposed to the world The eastern and northern States were set To quarrelling- lies, neighbors, and churches, lared the same fate members of different churches persecu- ted, and their church privileges taken from them, without discipline or order-both sea and land were comPasseti to make proselytes to federalism-and you, sir, no doubt, looked on with an inward hope that that hellish fire would carry you into the Presidential chair O. sir, had you been an honest-hearted mason YOU never would have had hand in such q disgracelul plot. ' ou never would have seen your eastern and northern brethren and com panions perseeuted and sacrificed as they were by the federalist, for the aggrandizement of yourself and many other office seekers, many of whom got their ends answered-but have no doubt 1t was great blessing to the nation that yon failed in your attempts.
 When the final vote was cast, the federal ists saw that their accession to power had failed yet you found that through the means of persecution, downright lying, and every base and wicked project that could be invent ed, you had gained i'll numbers. For the next campaign il was concluded that you must eontriye some plan to gain more stfength.- 4 good name was assumed. The name of whig, you concluded, would, in a measure, cover up your former iniquities; but with all the putting and blowing Of whig, you did not gain you. hfeet-yet you gained in strength.
 Your next campaign opened with bright prospects of success. No doubt, sir, but yourself and many of your leading men, when in council made calculations something like the folloWng--W ould 1t not be fair to sup- pose that you would make your calculations on your success amongst tine Christian churches? In New England, the Presbyte- rians were generally federalists. Them you had safe, any how. The Baptists had been generally democratic. So had the bIelhodsts. But, sir, yourself, with your calculators, now found that, through the means of anti-mason- ", which had largely distracted both of these churches, and had brought thousands of them into the federal ranks with the above mention- ed Presbyterians, youlound that abolionism had taken strong ground amongst the federal Christians in the northern and eastern S.ates; and how to save them all i'll tie federal ranks, was a matter of some consideration. How ever, looking the matter all over, you found that their prejudices run so high that truth was of noavail with them, They would believe, any how, that masons and slavehold- CTS were all scoundrels Masons and slave holders were generally considered by them as
 
 captions, and yourself one of the excepted. General Harrison being considered by the lederalss under all of those factional preju- dices, to be the most available man for on him you eould play two games. Ton could declare him to the north and east to be al aboltionist, and to the south to be in favor ot slavery. You, no doubt, sir, reeolleet that, at the Harrisburg Convention, all of those miserable distracted. factions were carried up under Harrison's availability. Tohis availa- bility was attached the building ol log cabins and great use of hard cider. The cabins being ornamented with coon and other skins and other things equally ridiculous. No gov ernment principles set forth for the consider ation of the people, other than the change ol administrations for better times-two dollars day and roast beef, a high price for produce &c According 10 the expectations of the federal party, you are now, sir, brought into the field as candidate for the Presidency
 and with all of those factions and promises na1e in 19An bainp attached 10 y0u, ou