The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-25

I of the people to rule in both State and feder- ial relations Tie one party--lhe Federal ipafty-nlade England their great eXempiar. The party opposed to Federal encroachmeRts, and in favor of the rights of tiIc States and the supremacy of the people, were called l Democrats. \ Democracy IS government by the people, and a Democrat IS a iuend 70 I n Democratic administration ot his goyeTll- lment--that Is, that public servants shall, Ill their public acts, consult and pursue the pop lnlar viii. where stieh will Is clearly aseef- It9iaea. and does not conflict with the constl-
 t,ion. The peoples written will in thecon-
 stinlion. is the Democrats supreme rule oi
 action. and the popular will is atall times his
 uolar star in acting for the public good.
 He that opposes this mode of political ac-
 ton. is no Democrat, whether he calls him- l sslf Whig or Tory He that makes war up- on, and that party that is lead to the conflict upon the constitution, the written will of the Ipeople, makes war upon the people them selves. The Statesman, in our government, that acts rreepelfave ol the voice of the peo- pie, is no Democrat; and he that puts the popular will at defiance, and substitutes his own will for lhat of his constituents, and at- Ifempts to force laws against the consent of the people, is both aristocrat and tyant; and, of course, though like Cromwell, or George, Prince of Wales, he may be Whig, he is neither Republican nor Democrat. l \ Whig is a man discontented with his gov eTument; not so with Democrat; andhence the struggle now going on between the Clay Whig party and the Democracy ot the eoan- ltry-the one party contending that the power of Congress shall be omnipotent, and the other, that the constitution, the fundamental law and written will oi the people, shall re- main as it is, and the checks and balances oi power he preserved. Yes, iellow-citizenss [ this issue is now formed between the great body of the laboHng and tax-PayiHg classes. and the stocll-jobbing anu paper atistoefaey and on ifs decision depends, whetler oafr preseutatiyes i'll Congress shall be our mas ters or public sef3ahts-whelher the people, Through their representatives, shali make laws, or whether they (the people, shall aet and obey such laws as their representatives shall dictate, irrespective of their will.
 On this issue, am one of the people. aud 20 with them in defence of constitutional government, against all assaults uponitby the money changers and ndFtock-iohbmgaristocf lis now evident that the Democracy will have 10 contend, Ill the Presidential race, with Ar. Clay and his followers distinct body from the Whig party, as 1t was formed, and was united in the opposition to the admlnls- tration of Gen. Jackson. The party, as has been remarked, has been abandoned by two of its leaders abandoning the third, who has declared war against his colleagues, as well as the Democracy of the country Calhoun first withdrew his forces, assigning as req son for so doing, that fl he remained with Clay, the administration would pass into the l hands of the money changers and Bankites, instead of the cheeks and balances between executive power and legislative dominion, and the rights of the States and the people, being preserved. Webster has withdrawals forces from the field, declaring that the revo- lution he designed, never was intended to ex- tend beyond the overthrow of the Jackson Idynasty, and, least of all, was it part of the confederacy between the Kentucky latitudi- marian, South Carolina restrictionist, and til old school Federalist, to destroy or oVerturn the constitution, but Clay, not dismayed, keeps the field, and declares that whiggefy will not stop short of q change in the form of government which shall prostrate the Ex- ecutive department, and render Congress om- i lnipotent; in other words, until 'he govern ment shall be unit, one and indiylsble.- Nor does his bold innovation stop Nt prescri- bng to the people what changes in the con stimtion they must submit to, before whig- gery will lay down $ arms, but in addition l to a constitution that shall take from the Ex- i ecutive the veto power, and shall limit the of flee of President to oue term, he declares that its demands shall not be satisfied until mann moth Bank shall be established, and inc na- tional or public domains, be divided out a. mong the States. Like General at the head of a powerful and victorious army, he sum mons the enemy to surrender, and prescrhes the terms upon which the surrender is 10 be made. In the temple of Bacchus, and over l exhilirating and inspiring wine-as did the
 victorious Macedonian-lirst promulging his high resolves, and, report be true, his iailh- fRl Followers issued forth from the halls of l Congress, and in the public square, upon ground sacred and halowed to constitution al liberty, before high heaven, earth and men, sworc not to cease their blows until they beat down the constitution, and give it the form and substance of Clay. That none of the faithful shall plead ignorance of theirleader's high behesi. he has spread it large as lileup- on the journals of Congress. This done, RIr, Clay takes the field wilh his followers and inc party, of which he is head, may
 well call themselves Whig, because their pur-
 pose is revolution. They have not only de-
 tennined upon their revolutionary schemes,
 hut on their revolutionary chief; and although
 others may like ordesire 10 be head, or chief.
 in the revolution, all such will find that the cards are stocked, shuilleS and cut upon them,
 and that when they play the political game,
 for the Presidency, that they can't stand two aces and bragger, and the oldest hand in
 the bargain
 Yes, my conutrymen, the McI.eans and the
 Scots had as well at once throw up their , hands; the thing Is out with them; for although
 the Clayites invite theminto convention. the 4 Gluy clubs will ill the convention with none init twrs,f; s,,s, tr,,,.