The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-29
pR0yiDENTIAL OBSERVATIONS.
Omens-resuHs cf lsto.


 duct of man and the material creation around him, which causes them to act and react up- on each other, producing concord and peace, or diseord and war. In other words, when the mind of man runs riot, and immortality and crime overspreads the earth, nature her self seems to mbibe the demoralization, and in storms and earthquakes, portents and won ders, overleaps the laws which regulate her operations, and parakes of the disorders which afllict the moral world. It was mans fall, as we are taught Ill the Scriptures, which brought pain and death, disorder and conlu- sion, into the natural world; the death of our Saviour by the hands of wicked men was attended, by darkness and earthquakes, and may not the Christian and the Philosopher, even of our day, without the imputaton of superstition believe that, through some in- visible and nscrutable eonnexion between the moral conduct of man and the creation around him, his gross and general departure from truth, honesty and order, throws nature herself into confusion, and produces appa- rent distress in all her members.
 But as relates to the objects VIC have in view, it Is quite immaterial whether this no torious coincidence between the disorders of the moral and physical world spring from q general law which makes it impossible that one portion of our Makers kingdom can be convulsed without disturbing the other, or be referred to a special Providence. If natural convnlsions and extraordinary portents, regu- larly or usually, follow departures from the principles of morality by masses oi mankind 1t IS immatcrial whether they spring from the Laae of God or the HiH of God-whether they be the result of an unchangeable rnle or of special dispensation. To Inc offender man it is all the same Itisenough for him to know that he cannot violate the moral law without occasioning pain, and suffering, and convul- sions, not 10 himself only, but to his family, his felow-men, and the world around him.
 Who can look back to the falsehood, the fraud, the intemperance, the debaueheries, the shows, the mummeries, and the general demoralization of the whig campaign of lo- 40, and then turn his eyes to the events that i followed, without mentally exclaiming, Il IS Gods law, it is Gods will, 1t is Gods jus ticet If the judgements upon the Egyptians for the oppression of the lsraelltes were more terrible than those which have oyerta- i ken our whig brethren, they were scarcely i less remarkable-The contest had not end- ed when these almost supernatural demon- strations began.
 To welcome the arrival of General ilarr- son at Zanesvile, Ohio, on an electioneer- ing tour, before the election, the flag of the United States, inscribed with the word Tip pecanoe," was displayed upon large pole While the old man was waiting 10 address ] .I. IT ,.Io hnlt 1e thunder rent the flag and shiyered the pole It's echoes had hardly died away, when an express arrived informing the General of the death of a beloved son.
 Upon the front of the Portieo of the Capi- tol above the pillars which sustain it, is a statute of Justice, formerly helding in her right hand scroll, labelled "Constitution.' Prior to the inauguration of General Harri- son, the right arm of the statute broke, and and with the scroll of the Constitution, fell i to her feet, tehere t ao1r lies.
 Over the chair of the President of the Sen ate is a Spread Eagle, which held in it's beak a label, inscribed with the words E Plaribus Unam, ,n-This label, bearing the motto of our Union, about the same time fell from its position, and has nerer been replaced. About the same time a picture of Presi- dent Harrison, i'll an elegant frame, had been procured and hung up with great care in the Congress Library. One evening when ali persons had retired except two gentlemen therein employed, when there was nothing to produce shake or a jar, it fell from lts position, the frame was dashed i'll many pieces and the picture left standing against the wal of the room.
 While President Harrison was on his way to the city of Washington, the Bank of the United States, which for years had been the source of more moral if not physical disease than Pandora's Box of old, stopped payment for the last time, sinking under the weight oi the corruptions it had practised in battle with General Jackson to secure power to the Whig party and new charter to itself The Banks in Baltimore followed the exam pie, almost at the moment of his arrival il that city.
 In the city of Washington, fire after fire by night and by day had kept the people ill con stant agitation storms of unusual violence ravaged city and country, land and sea; thu night proceeding his arrival three alarms 0 fire had broken their slumbers, he entered ] d scarcely in his quarters before another alarn of fire rang through the streets.
 Odiee-seekers, numerous as the frogs o Egypt, beset him in his walks and his house by day and by night; his Cabinet, heartles and ungrateful, commenced the work of pro scription in direct violation of his publi pledges and private wishes and, in one shor month, the kind-hearted old man, worn dowi by numberless settlements and yexations sunk into the arms of death, with his las words, as if in dim and delirious recollection of some real scene, admonishing his errinl friends to carry out Hte true principle of M GoUernnae1t.
 The steamer President had sailed for Eng land with news of Harrison's inauguration having the eloquent Goodman on board who's last sermon had been preached in his pres ence, and the gallant ship has never beel heard of since.