The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-18
Froa, the Montgomery (.4la.) .Aduertiser ,ELIL,- LIAA IAL L. VA MltEN

city on Friday evening last, before crowded audience. We were never better satisfied by any speech that we have ever heard, than we were by Mir. Yancey's on that occasion, and have come to the conclusion that, young as he is as politician, he is fit to rank with the first men of the Republic. MT. Yancey spoke i for about two hours and Q quarter, yet no man seemed to count the time while he spoke, and you might have heard a pin fall, except every now and again when the feelings of the audience seemed swept away by their sym pathy with the speaker, and burst out in loud, l long and reiterated cheers. It IS utterly im- possible that we could give any thing like correct idea of the character of his speech, by any description that we could give of 1t in a short artiele-we shall not therefore make the attempt. In the conclusion of his speech, after he had most ably and clearly
 discussed the tariff question i'll all its bearings, after he had appealed, in the most animated and burning language, to all our feelings of
 patriotism on tine Texas question, upon which l he shed new light, after he had repelled in
 the most toughing and indignant terms the
 vile and shameless islanders, raked up from
 the ashes of the dead to stgmatize the living, after he had referred to some particular points
 in Mr. Claws public history, and exposed some of the characteristic features ill the pol
 icy of the whig party, he replied to the vain attempts of that party to disparage the public character of the democratic candidate, JAMES l K. POLK. He said they asked, who is James K. Polk They prolessed to be ignorant of his public character, his acknowledged ablli- ties and his high seryices-they sneered at him as too young, and as being entirely unfit as a competitor to match with Henry Clay.
 He said all this reminded him how remarka- ble was the coincidence between great event
 in former days, recorded in the pages of the
 sacred volume, and the selection of Mr. Polk as the democratic candidate, and then pro-
 ceeded to draw a beautiful parallel of the amounting of David by Samuel, and the late
 nomination of the Baltimore ConFenton.-
 He said that the scriptural reader, by referring
 to the 1st book of Samuel, chapter the 18th,
 would there find that the Lord, having be-
 come dissatisfied with Saul, had determined i to reject him as ruler over Isreal, and that he called lis Prophet Samuel and commanded
 him 10 fill his horn with oil, and go to Jesse, the Bethlehemite, for that he had provided him ruler among his sons. And Samuel did that which the Lord spoke, and came to 1 Bethlehem and then to the House of Jesse, and having told Jesse what the Lord had said i to him, he sanctifed him and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. And 1t came to pass, when he had come, he looked on Elihab, and said, surely the Lords anointed Is before him But the Lord said unto Sam Up fllC height of his stature; because have refused hin; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth- For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord loobeth on the heart. Then
 Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel And he said, neither hath i the Lord chosen this And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel And Samuel said unto Jesse, the Lord hath not chosen these And Samuel said unto Jesse, 'are here all thy children And he said, there remaineth yet the youngest, and, be- hold, he keePeth the sheep And Samuel said unto Jesse, send out and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.'- l And he sent out and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful coun- tenance and goodly to lool, on. And she
 Lord said, arise, anoint him; for this is he
 And then Samuel took the horn of oil, and
 anointed him in the midst of his brethren, and
 the spirit oi the Lord came upon David from
 thatday forward" And David, though young and unknown then, became mighty warrior and great statesman in after years. Now
 for the parallel. When the democratic con-
 yention assembled at Baltimore, as the embo- died spirit of the party, for the purpose of nominating a candidate to be voted for by l the people 10 preside over the Republic, seven names were before them, Van Buren, Cal bonn, Buchanan, Cass, Johnson, Benton and Stewart, and seven times they ballotted with out making choice. On the 8th ballotting however, they settled down unanimously, guided by the spirit of harmony and patriot ism, on the name of James K. Polk. the young sheep tender from the hills of Tennessee. Here the cheering from the meeting lasted almost minute. Thus we find in the scrip lures that Saul, though mighty warrior and great man, was rejected, because he was more anxious to consult his own ambitious views than the good of the people of Isreal, | and David, though young, undistinguishcd 1 and unknown, was called because his heart was good and his principles right. But the parallel when carried out, shows the coinci- dence still more remarkable Whenthe spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and he be- came sore troubled in mind, and his servants | sought to comfort him, and they advised that men should be sought after that could play on the llmbrals, and were sllillul on the harp | and couldsing songs. And, said Mir. Yancey. are not the wings d0inr the same2 Uavo they not become alarmed and troubled. and are they not trying to drown their fears with the sound of music Do you not hear inc sound of the Banjo at their meetings, do thev not sing songs, and do you not hear the words, git out of the way, you're all un- lucky" &c.; Here the applause became perlechy y nproarious, and loud cheers, min gled with shrleks of laughter, lasted for some time.
 We do not pretend to oive tbo ,,ord, f