The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-09

brought upon the people; but we toiled on against an opposition alike formidable for numbers and talents, until we brought order
 out of confusion; restored to the State, all
 the departments of government, and without
 raising the taxes one cent, paid the debis ot
 the State. and expended enough from the
 treasury, in aid of private stockholders, to nearly complete the whole line of the McAd- amised turnpike road from Maysville to Lou-, isville. We did more. We raised the credit of the State Bank paper from less than fifty cents on the dollar, to a par with gold and silver; and when we separated in 1853, we left a surplus fund, exclusive of the public lands, of more than fifteen hundred thousand dollars. At this period, our party strifes, about om State policy, had ceased, and the best relations were established. We left the government, not in the hands of Whigs, but of Democrats, opposed to the Administration of General Jackson. was absent but five years, when | was forced back to the Senate, when found the Senate in the hands of new men, with two exceptions, and that our sue cessors, after squanlering nearly seven mil lions of dollars, over and above the available means we had left, had plunged the State into a debt of nearly five millions of dollars, and the State still sinking in debt on the revenue, sixty thousand dollars annually, to meet the interest on it's debt, and the current expenses of the government, and the party still forcing the broken down credit of the State into market. strove hard for two years 10 serve my country, but all could do was to ehecl, a little the proAigacy in expenditures, and to increase the taxes, so as to cover current ex- penses; for, instead of the friends that once surrounded and honored me with their aflee- ton and confidence, found myself beset by abolitionists, and that the abolition paper at Lexington, and that at Louisville, had each a spy upon me, permitted to a seat within the Senate chamber, whose office 1t was to abuse and villify me, and all that sustained the op- position to the scheme of universal emanci- patton. Though a Senator, and as such, en- titled to protection against the ialsehoods and billingsgate of these libellers, l found that my slaves had more friends than had. The
 Wings had engaged the spies to misreprosent me, and could not appeal 10 the Democratic party, whose power l had contributed so much to break down, to protect me as a Sena- tpis ettlb iOii tiitit tidy to tAiS9 Hdft bGGH the object oi unceasing prosecutions of the negro party. and expect to be so, until the election of l844 shall put an end to their hopes upon the Presidency.
 ! our fathers and mo were not of that party. We were not Wings; we were Democrats. We admitted of no such odious distinction as Whig and Locofoco. We were called anti-relieis, and our adVersaries reliefs. We were called anti-Jaclson, and our adversaries Jackson. We were called Old Court, and our adversares New Court We wore no collars; we put on the livery of no man. But after 1 left public life, the oifice-seekers named you, that you might both wear your collar and put on your livery, to do battle for your chief, as do the poor slaves of power, in the country from whence they derive the name of Whig and Tory. Instead of being what you Wefe-a constitutional body of Democrats-these politlcal jugglers are at= tempting to remould you into d mass of en- thusiasts and worshippers, with which they intend to break down the rampa1ts of the constitution, and trample under foot the Democracy of the country. Hence these reservoirs of crimes and corruption-thc Clay clubs. Hence these bull and heifer festivals
 Hence these stories about the Mill Boy of the Slashes, Harry of the West, and the Western Statesman. ' our ancestors were notidolaters, and trust you are not Then. say, be not deceived. Mr. Clay's very words are caught up, as were the oracles of old, and published by his presses. You are told how he looks when he attends the race course, and when he steps in or out of his corriage, or tavern; when he receives a gives him a hat; all done as the pensioned slaves of monarchy do. They tell the slaves of Victoria, how well the little Queen looks, and your press announces how well Mr. Clay looks. Nietoria's press tells the color of her skirt and gown, and the number Of yards of Brussels lace she wears on her head; and you are well advised of the color of Mir. Clay's coat and pants, and what sort of hat he wears; if the little Queen has her picture taken, it is announced by her collared presses; and Mr. Clay IS even with herhere also. X painter Is sent for, or comes, to take Mr Clay's picture. He sets to work, ard every line the painter draws, is announced in the Clay press, with the minuteness that the slavish press of Victoria announces the progress finer aaeeuchments. At length the picture is done:Ml- it is announced to be us large as life, and true to life itself. All the lovers and admirers of the Mill Boy of the Slashes, of Harry of the West, and the great Western Statesman, are invited to see 1t. They crowd in hundreds to see the wonder of wonders, and throughout the city and country 1t is the wonderful likeles3. 'sOh,'' says Madame to Monsieur, shave you seen MT. Clay's pieture:" ''Oh, yes" Is the re- ply. "And how do you like it ?H .s0h, it is beautiful; 1t is life itself I never saw so perfect liteness.n Like the coffin of Ma homet this picture is not for vulgar eyes, None but the wealthy pilgrim voters can perform pilgrimage to sec it, And, as yet, in this, our land, poor men vote as well as rich men. It seems that the Clayites have determined that myriads of little Clays shall be struck from the great Clay picture, te be sold or given away to the log cabin fOli-G. tO SprVo tl,oi,