Arkansas intelligencer., 1844-02-03
From ,ae "Ir; onsas Banner

"UNITEp WE STAND-DIvIDED WE FALL.
Mr. Editor:-We are in the midst of mi ghty
.'crsis, and the issue involved. is infinitely above
all considerations of individual preferment or per-
sonal grandizemen,. 1t is no less than the re-
establishment of the republican principles as ma in
tanned and advocated by the great clamp ons OF
our creed Jefferson, Madison, Jackson on the one
mainland the old Federal or Hamiltonian doc
trine tho other.
In 1910. by coon.skins and cider barrels (of
which they arc now, themselves, ashamed.) tho
wings succeeded in placing themselves in power.
How successfully they have carried out Their PROM
ises let a suffering and oppressed people answer
They attempted to force upon the country great
monieI institution; even moro dangerous than
Biddle's Bank--which foil like Luciter. dragging
in its train thousand Of poor widows and orphans
who had their all invested IN the institution, but
thanks to their man Tyler, he put an end to that
abominabc and ruinous system of supporting
few of the arstocracy, who live and fatten upoh
the hard rnings Of the industrious portion OF the
country. They fastened upon tho country high
protective Tariff; and worse than all, they abro-
gated the Obligations of private contracts; IN the
passare of that odiou, Bankrupt act-which they
wore conpeled by pu,lic opinion to repeal the
next session of Congress-rnd to cap the climax,
they have involved tho government IN a national
deb, Of Is or Is millions; and if they had not
been checked by an almost universal defeat to the
present Congress, we should in a few years. been
burtfened with debt, that would have ultimate
w bankrupted tho government.
= To all those wild, wicked and Federal measures,
tho Democratic party have been opposed. aud the
INDIGNATION of an nsulted and deuded community,
rose I'D and hurled from power and place, those
hum. burgers of 1910. But defeat does not les
son their zeal to regain their ascendency in the
National and State governments. We now wit
ness in our own State, their talents, money, and
other means, brought to operate in the approach
ing election, and through their hireing persons
and the unfortunate dsunion in our own ranks.
they arc full of hope, and sanguine of SUGGEST
Democrats!-are you willing to fold your arms
and see the Federal party triumph in your State.
when we have a ma jorty of three lhonsand!-
Will you not heal your dlssensions and chickering's
amongst yourselves, and rally around some sound
and unfllnching democrat, who will have holiness
and Independence enough TO maintain our princ-
| ples2 Let not, | beseech sou, preferences for
men, as leaders, throw you into the ranks of our
enemies. You will repent it when too late-you
only crafty for moment an Incorporate feeling
of disappointment, which will tend to the advance.
mont, Of the whig party, and when tits too late
YOU will be the first to reproach yourselves for
causing the distraction and disunon, which seems
so gratifying to them and from which they, so
certainty calculate on our dofcat.
"Princples, not men," arc among the cardinal
doctrines of the democratic party; and if they are
adheored 10, we should not abandon the party for