The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-27
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 We should hardly do justice to the candi- date for the Presidency whom we prefer, il we did not give some passages from the elo- quent speech delivered by Mir. Bancroft at the great meeting of the friends of Mir. Van Btu ren at Boston, on Monday evening. That gentleman placed the claims of Van Buren to oflice--we use the word claims, because it is customary and convenient term, and not because we hold that any man has any title to the office beyond what she derives from the favor of the people--in,.a a very strong and impressive light. In considering the ob- lections whiclfhave been brought against Mir Van Buren, MT. Bancroft made a remark which we quote here, because it gives US an opportunity to reply to an unfair and unjust imputation in the Gazette of this morning
 'slt IS objected against MT. Van Buren, that he is Northern man, and that therefore he cannot be elected. Against such an argu- ment, would not array Northern feeling Democracy IS the same every where; it has but one voice in Georgia or Missouri or New York. The North have never failed to give votes for the candidate from the South Mas sachnsetts itselc gave its vote once at least for Jefferson. Let us then hope that geo. graphical jeaiousies may still continue to be without influence, should Northern candi- date, the acknowledged fayorite of the de- mocracy of Maine and New Hampshire, of Connecticut and New ork, be named as a canddateo
 The same justice which we claim for Northern candidate, we freely concede to the South. If any of Mr. Calhoun's friends ob- servant of the rapid progress of the North west in population, and of the force of local prejudlces and attachments, have expressed an opinion that their favorite, justly as he is admired throughout the Union, will never be advanced to the Presidency, we do not hold ourself responsible for what they say. It will not be our fault, and we arc sure 1t will not be the fault of Mir. Van Burcn's friends in this quarter, if Mir. Calhoun should be ex- cluded by local prejudices. The Gazette -n,.,sl have surely forgotten it's logic, when it attempts to infer that we countenance such prejudices, merely because we mention the fact that some of the friends of Mr. Calhoun complain of them.
 But we will not withhold our readers from the parts of MT. Bancroft's forcible and concise summary of the merits of his candi- date:
 'sThe policy of Mr. Van Buren in recur- ring to the hard money doctrine of the Con- stituiion, is now almost universally allowed to have been right in principle. In the great public opinion of the world, the character of that policy is established. It was manly, and in it's influence beneicent; at once daring and wise. That policy is the only safeguard of the credit. of the States. When you check the issues of paper, you check the tendency of the States and of the nation to incur debt. In New York, the swelling of the pernicious flood has been stayed by the policy, and by the friends of Mir. Van Buren. Here in Mas sachusetts, we may stand up with. pride, and contend for the sanctity of every obligation which State incurs. The democracy of Massachusetts, in the short period of their power, have restored the value of the prom