The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-18
MR. ANECDOTES LETTER.


 candidate for Governor, by the Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts Here is his letter of acceptance If any thing, seander in doctrine, or finer in spirit and expression, has ever been "rt'ei
 it has never fallen to our lot to read 1t;
 Bosros, August l5 lSi4.
 GryTIENry ::---l regret that the choice of the convention has fallen upon me. It was my earliest personal desire not to be candl- date for any office whatever; and the departure from that wish, must beg leave to say, is wholly the act of the convention. Yeta just sensibility compels me to add. that when call to mind the illusirioUs men for whom the democracy of Massachusetts have given their sufifages, am deeply sensible of the honor done me.
 Still more ought to prize the distinction, as publicly connecting me, byyour confidence and unanimous consent, with the great prln- ciples of civil freedom-a government of men and not of property-the rights of man as possessed of reason and allections--the right of the people to institute government, and, when it becomes destructive of its ends, 10 alter and reform it--equaliy against privi- lege-hostlity to special legislation for the henefit or for the injury Of elasses-the asser- ton of the rights of labor, which include most nearly the rights of allan extension of the triumphs of humanity even to criminal law--free and good schools for the generation that Is to take our plaees-the advancement of moral reform by the increase and diffusion of intelligence.
 Side by side with the principle of EQUALITY, democracy places that other great principle of THE FREEDOM OF THE STATES IN THE FEpERArIvE UNION. The rights of persons and the rights of Sates-the freedom of the individual in the social union, the freedom of the State in the federativc Union ;-these are the two cardinal principles of our glorious1 constitution, of which no words of mine can, in the fainiest manner, shadow forth the inl- porlanee. If 1t be true that either of these Is losing ground in regions hitherto firm in their support, there is the more need that they should be welcomed here
 N or has Massachusetts motive for keeping aloof from supporting the just rights of tue States and corresponding policy. Her con vention that accepted the federal constitution, opposed cearalization. Her institutions and her intelligence may disdain to brook eXIrane- ous interference. The experience of the last years has proved conclusively that Bank off the United States is a costly and corrupting l incumbrance; that instead of regulating cX changes, 1t disturbed them; that the currency can, without il, rise from the most deplorable i condition 10 one, not indeed perfectly good, butfar better than existed before. The thought of charterng another should be abandoned l and the search may safely be given over for the vagrant power which has no resting place Ill the constitution. Every interest of Mas sachusetts is opposed to the distribution off any part of the public revenue; il may be demonstrated that, in every case of such dis tributon, her people must contribute by tax alton more than the quota she receives. Sill less should assumption el State debts find favor here. It is the pride of our ancient Commonwealth that her credits, and deserves to be, untarnished, and that not one, trust, oi It's citzens--certainly not one of it's De mocracy-would ever lalterin fulfilling public obligations once fairly assumed. And us to internal improvements by the general govern ment, while our politicians have been wasting their strength in nnavailing efforts to prove the power of Congress to make them, our people, hot aided and not soliciting aid, are constructing network of iron pathways to the fields and hali-occupe mill-streams of our IN Worth and West, and even on the Atlantic to the very heart of the Old Colony. Still more dc the interests of our manufacturers bind Us | to support the constitution in its integrity The policy oi deriving revenue from imposts | seems fixed for our generation; and the dis crlmination with which the customs will be |. levied gives the manufacturers all desirable | protection, il he can but be assured of steady [ ..f ,l ,,I .l. D Y an unraying currency. With discrimating revenue tariff, and a currency never depre- ciating in the least from the actual specie | basis, our manufacturers, like our farmers, would no longer bound the horizon of their enterprise by the limits of home, but would rapidly take from the question of the tariff it's undue importance, by competing with every nation, and finding markets in every zone.
 The ultefiof interests of our manufactures and our agriculture, as well as other causes, forbid the surrender of our jurisdiction over any portion of our territory. It is fit thatE ihe people which represents the democratic prlnclpleln the great assembly of the nations, should equal the most powerful in resources and prospects. We claim that Oregon shall | everbe American soil. We claim it by cession ! from Spain, by continued discovery, by early [ occupation, by contiguity, by the mdepen- dence of America, as no longer open to for eign colonzaton-and by the manifest pur- pose of Providence, that the light of demo- cratic freedom should be borne from our fires to the domain beyond the Rocky mountains that it's harbors should shelter our commerce, its valleys become homes for our kindred and our adopted citizens. Statesmen who desire q centralization ofpower might consent to dismember our heritage. But Democracy, I which reserves 10 each individual State the E right of development according to its capaci- ties, fearlessly extends the felerative system for t knows that it's principle of ile freedom of the States will insure in the midst of union E that diversity of character, pursuit, and inte-I rest, which arc essential 10 the highest and most comprehensive culture While, there fore, the opponents of democracy shrink from i.,sr | xt., II .I