The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-14


 good sense and common proprietv have these leaders brought themselyes Who has given them the right to hold the rod of terror over our heads, and frighten us into terms Where do they derive their authority to bind our actions under ti!eiF sseensent ;, The context of their ''solemnn resolve shows that the words, 'swith our consent.n are mere surplusage, and, that if they mean any thing, they mean to resist, by force. the holding of said conyention-for what other construction can be placed upon the language, .sH shaHl not be held here go Under this plain view, the movers at the club house have shown themselves to be la@less set-as threatening to act without law. What law of the State or of the United States arms them with the power to resist or interfere with the rieht of any portion Of the people to meet and delb- erate peaceably upon the situation of the country--a rightf fully guarantied by the Con- sttutlon These madeaps had better wait till Harry of the West be elected, 10 give us another Sedition act. But at present these madmen threaten to lake the law into their own hands. Even their Mayor, al the head ot his police, has no shadow of authority to prevent any number of citizens from peaco- ably meeting Tn any room they may procure and yet, these Clay leaders would use Mob law, Gag law, Lynch law, to extinguish the right of the people to send delegates from any of the States to deliberate on their common interests; and this move is what induces the Whig triumphantly 10 cry out, ..the Wings of this city are now and for the first lime since ls40 orgdniged.o Suppose these men to be for one moment in earnest, they are snatch Ing power beyond the reach of the law, and the effect of their wild scheme will be to drench the streets of our beautiful city in blood But they are not in earnest. They are playing of their old system of humbug- gery, and cheating the country Ill order 10 screen their s'anointed chieftan'' from the iu- dlgnation justly tue to his shameless deser- ton from duty to propitiate the abolitionists. and to conceal their idolatrous mar worship and their own aboninable desertion of the great interests of their country i'll regard to Texas.
 These rabid charges of 'sdsunion'' come With bad grace from a set of men who would hug to their bosoms, and place at the highest seats of honor, at their public fcsti- vals, the vile fanatic aboltionist, John Quincy Adams, who, with twelve other members of Congress, on the ,3d March, 1913. i'll an ad- dress ssto the free States of the Union,n de- clared that ''the annexation of Texas would be identical with dissolution l. would be all attempt to eternize an institution, and q power of nature so unjust in themselves, so injurious to the interests, and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the free States, as Tn our ltheir) opinion, not only inevitably to result III DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION, BUT FULLY TO JUSTIFY IT; and we (they) not only assert, that the people of the free States ought mol to submit to 1t, but we (they) ) say, with confidence, they oooaa not SUBMIT TO FTP Why do we not hear these zealous s.iriends of the Union,7 in the Clay club, de- nounee, in their fiercest tones, the fanatics of the North, who first threatened ssdIsunionn if Texas be annexed : Oh. no s'Fhe case is altered Adams, and his mad crew, are warm friends of Henry Clay's election, and though he was the first to raise the flag of disunion, we cannot afford to lose his useful services. But we may possibly cheatthe peo- pie into the belief, that the Southern friends of Polk and Texas are in favor of .disunion,' and we will level all our batteries at them, because it may help the great IIamy.'' This 1 is the secret motive of the deep plot these Whig leaders have laid to elevate Clay, and put d0wn Isr1s. But we cannot do better than introduce their own selected chief, Jas Lyons, Esq, the Whig Hector for the whole of Eastern Virginia. His cutting words will sufficiently lash these furious professed zeal ots of the "Union.o Speaking of annexation Mf. 55zeRs- ss4Ia.lke cry of disunion has been raised to damn the whole causen He then goes on to express his disbelief, that the Treaty sprung from any purpose of dsunion, and adds, '.l cannot approve the sentiment, that men are traitors, or should be hung, if they do talk about 1t; and still less can agree, that the friends Of annexation at Me South shall Dc ineolued in one s,eecping de- nunciation as diSunioniSts or rdpacious spec afators No man is more ardently attached l to the Union than am--no man would bear more to preserveitthan would-and wouid not willingly barter the smallest State Tn il for the proudest empire on earth, because that would be disunion. And yet there are greater evils than dispnion.-One of these is the abolition of slapcry in the South, and as,- other is c despotism--ttat morse haa iron mqnisitorial, despotism, that despotism of the mind, arhich shdlt deny men, under tae pcn- dttles of treason, THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS ANr THEIR GoyERNMENT.-O'Con in the Richmond Penitentiary, is more free than the citizens ofsuch q Republic. But why should Hte friends of TeGas, at fhe South be put un- der the ban with the cry of disuaioa 9-Be- cause a few indiscreet men talk of disunion if they failin obtaining Texas, which they do, not because of the loss of Texas merely but because, if lost, il will be by fhe oliec- tioa of Htc aati-slarvy men to fdc ertension q the iaateace of the slarcholding couatry2 Their theat, if understand it.. is not to dis solve, because of the loss of Texas, but be- cause, if lost, 1t will be on anti-slarery grounds. This is FOOLISH AND RASH, aud Eiaures the men ,cho indulge in it-hut Is i any worse than disunion in milder language openly expressed, or broadly intimafed at tht | North Is it not as criminal to talk of dis. union if Texas 6e admittod' and why is it