The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-09

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 Deiirefed betore Mass Meeting of He Democracy of
 Kentucky, ct Me H1ae Sulphur Spring, ia he
 county of SeoR, on Ae second day cf September,
 l843
 CONCLUDED
 So ii was with the Cayites in 1872. How is 1t in 1929 When NIr. Clay is requested to vote for Gen. Jackson for President, by the Legislature of Kentucky, he not only dis regards your instructions, but by his example or persuasion. induces a majority of our menl- bers in Congress to refuse to obey mstruc- tions from the Legislature; and when ar- raigned before his country iorit, he pleads to the jurisdiction of the Legislature, ailedging that he was Representative and not Sena- tor. and therefore, not bound to obey the will of the country, through their representatives. But after Mir. Clay has kept Kentucky war ring against the Administrations of the Ma tional Government for nearly.or quite a quar- ter q century, by which her young and chivalrous youth, as well as her matured talents, have been neglected and deprived of their fair proportion of pnbl;c patronage, and the State injured ill her enterprise and re- sources to an incalculable amount. Mr. Clay at last reaches the goal of his ambition, dic- tatorship over the rest of the Union, as well as Kentuckv for if the election of General Harrison did not raise him to the throne, it raised him to the power behind the throne, greater than the throne itself
 Orders are now issued from quarter not to be disobeyed. to your Governor, to order the Legislature to pass resolutions, instruct ing our members Of Congress to pass Bank Bili-to pass the Distribution Bil-to pre- pare for called Congress-all which is promptly oheved by the Governor; and our Legislature knew better than to disobey; and as Harrison might be disposed to hang on 10 the Presidency rather longer than Mr. Clay wished him to do, some of his faithful follow CTS introduced resolution, mstrueting our members in Congress to exert themselves to have the Constitution altered, so as 10 limit the office of President to one tenn. All these orders were transmitted to each branch Of the Legislature, in the stvlein which an over seer delivers the commands of his employer to the slaves under his overseership. Year Governor tells the Legislature to make haste and do all he commanded them to do, as soon as practicable. and ii was no sooner said than done; for believe there was not one man, except myself, fool enough to open his mouth against the high careering of 1Tr Claw and his Governor, over the Legislature of sove- reign people, did. To be sure, beseech the Whigs not 10 ruin and disgrace themselves by warning upon their own President, aud III rushing Congress into a session at a time when it was impossible tiey could do good, but might ruin the Whig partv I did also declare, that as much as had heen acquaiat. ed with legislative tactics, the Wings were the first party that had ever known to pro- pose measures for action, 10 divide and des- troy it's own unity-that the Wings were d bodvcomposed of Bank.and anti-Bank naen- of Distribution and anti Distribution men, and that the moving of those questions was .feIo de se. that no sane party, or party with sane head. would commit-ihat thev would not only divide their own party, but make war upon the President and Vice President, which would end, either in the ruin of the Wings, or that of their President; but all to no purpose. only brought down upon me the maledctions of the Clay press, and was denounced by his satellites for locofocoism. The measures of Mr. Clay passed, and the called session met. The national treasury is l bankrupt, and the credit of the government sinking daily, while our army and navy are suffering for food and clothing. Yei the na- tional credit, the suffering soldier, and bank rupt treasury, aie not the object of this called session; they seem scarcely to enter into the views of Congress. Mir. Clay called Con- gress, or had them called, for other purposes. He had in his minds eye, the limit of the of l flee of Presdent-hs bank friends, and his distribution friends, and his bankrupt friends 4 famous Bankrupt bill passed; such bill before. By il, the liberty and property ol the people of America were literally handed over to the District Judges of the United States.
 To speak of this odious law in all it's de- formities and inGmy, would exhaust my pa tience as well as my strength. Suffice it to say, that il allowed the Judge the power to sequestrate every mans estate, ant deprive every man in the Union of both liberty and pr0perty at his disereton-to take the debt or's property out of both his own hands and that of his creditors, and hand it over to ar assignee whom he might select This ae subjected every trading man and woman O the country. who might owe a hundred dol
 lars, to Federal tyranny. Thus were a fec peope--a people hoasting and proud of con stiutionaI liberty, made the slaves of Fed- eral tyranny, more galling and more corrupt ing in it's influences than that borne by the most absolute government of the world. Mr Clay was the author, or one of the authors of this law. No sooner do the people oI Kentucky meet in their legislative bodies Il than they, through their Representatives unanimously instruct their then Senator tc vote for the repeal of this neiarious act Btu no sooner was this vote of the. Kentucky Legislature announced in the prints, than James Watson Webb, editor of the New orl Courier and Enquirer, Clay man, banl, man, and. no doubt, paper oligarch, an- nounces to Mir. Clay. andto the whole friends of Mr. Clay, that if he Clay votes to repeal the bankrupt act, he never would be Pgesi- dent of the United States. Here was an inn pudent printer, and that printer himself 3 bankrunt. commanding the Senator of a