The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-15
THE FIR RAITOR.

subject to make the bcst ol IL, and we nave uHdef taken it's di section, as matter of duty and not oi choice. A very brief notice, therefore, will com- plete the operation
 What we said of this traitor, in car paper of the lst instant, is recognized and known to be true by this whole community. The base coin has already
 been nailed ta the counter. We clnch the nail with the following facts.
 We have before stated that the ',rines and Ad- yocate, was under the control ofthc Wbies-a Whig paper in disguise; and that C. ". Weller, its editor was a vrctched instrument employed for the nela rous purpose Of creating dissensions and divisions in the Democratic party. That these are facts is well understood in this city, where the working of
 the machinery apart from the tone and tenor of the paper, is so bunglingIy managed as to be the sub feet of common remark. Up to the adjournmento of the recent Democratic conventions however al though it was well understood that the paper was sustained mainly by the Wings yet policy kept their hands so concealed that they were not actually seen
 to pay in their money while they did not hesitate 10 nat Weller on the back and give him their coun- tenance and encouragement When the Democratic convention adjourned and the said Weller hesiated, fer week, whether he would sink his political fortunes with Gen. Byrd, or come out i6 favor of the nominees of the convention, it became necessary to pay as well as to preaeh-to put money ia his hand, as well as to pat him on the back; for it is well known that he writes for those who pay him most During that week, an arrangement was made, by which it was settled that Gen. Byrd should coll tinuc upon the field as piratcal candidate for Go rcrnor. and that the Hines and Advocate should continue in existence for the purpose of advocating his pretensions, aad thus, and by other viilainous deeds, to dismember and defeat the Democratic party What was that arrangement \ word of expla- nation will unfold it. It well known that the Times and Advocate, printing office was heavily eneum- bered with debts which its nominal propfietors and conductors could not pay but that unless they were paid, the office would be sold out, and the pablica- ton of the paper would cease. N0 time was to be lost The crisis was at hand. The creditors were clamorous for taeir money, and would be delayed no longer; or at any rate they did not consider their debts safe, as they then stood, and insisted upon prompt payment. goodsecuity. Fhe Democratic party could not be induced to touch, coaaleaanee or encourage so vie sheetas the :. Times and AdFo- cate. or sustain in aaV way an individual 90 an# principleI as HaIlar. Thenitwas, at what seemed
 the darkest hoa1 of hls fae-thcn t was fight pfoKe in uponhm uHts gold clinked at his car, and gilt tered in his sordid palm and the opportunity 10 sell himself at the same time flat it gave hia bread. furnished himwih the employment. bastofalI others, suited to his filthy tastes and prostiluted talents requiring o lm the perpetration ol ircqc5cry sI7a- der, and the t59i riiapefatt0a of good men. h this infamous employment, his spirit hopelso thfi4eaad ferel The bargain 44as concluded; and t is well known with what silaiaous fidelity he has, % far, performed his pat of |. But who performed the other parl-,gao paid the money. or become th5 ssourity-tsAo saved tla press from being sold and the paper from being stopped: Ne answer that they were HHigs 44649 did it-ay, Ae feeders o H5e
 TYzig pariy n His ciy! Will they deny it3 Will they deny that one oI their nunber-Afr. JAMES 5. KEArrs went forward, and either paid in cash, or became security for debts, amounting 'o mofe aaa
 $500, to prevent the office from being sold out, and then turned it oyer to Weller and Colby, in order that they might wage their piratcal warfare Hpon Democrats: Ne do not know these taets Of our g.Ap arsoaaI lsaaaladse but we are authorized to s lem by Hose .et0 d9iaotc Them and thattheY san be proven, fl denied. Let such transaction ths be considered by honest men of all parties and what conclusion must they arrive at? Letthe candid good sense of every man answer. Now We have nothing to say against Mir Keats, and do not men ton this transaction in dsrespecto or censure of him. But as he is an active jealous, leading Whg n this eity-a man who tal4s more loc the cause Of Wing gery, and it is said pays more money for the eause. than any other man In the city it is not be believed that he would step forward and use lis money. in these times of scarcity, for the extraordinary purpose of establishing Democratic newspaper, when 1t is well known that the tFdig cause needs more help than 1t has got and more than it can get in the pre- sent contest That he would do such a thing is not believed by any sane man. What then is the neces- saIy yinference-fe inevitable conclusion-the naked truth It is nothing more nor less than that the 'sTmcs & Advocatea has been bought by the TTdigs
 --is under the direction and control of the Hdigs belongs to the tEdig8-andis is published and edited with the sole and exclusive view of advancing the
 Ifhjg cause, and dividing and breaking down the Democratic party in this State. We do not believe
 that there is a man in Little Rock who doubts the
 truth of all this; for here the facts are well known, and the circumstances are papable to observation. 1t is for the information of those at distance from the scene of these iniqaitous proceedings that we now write But liberal as MT. Keats may be- even
 in support of Whiggery, its but justice to say that ona here suspects him of making this large con tribution we have mentioned, outof his own purse. That he contributed something, is not questioned. But 1t is believed, and presume il will n5tbe de- ned, that he was in this transaction but the agent of a number of Whig leaders cubbad together for the purpose and the eontributor of a common purse
 "a political jockey club purse. Is this not trne2 Ii is believed by many. We would like to see listo the contributors and the amount o their several of lerngs at this pure altar of Whig idolatry The names and amounts should be published to the world should be printed in glaring capitals, on every page of the ,Tines aud Advocate, and the Gazette should be made to copy It is at any rate the duty of Mr. Kcatts as we conceive, to let the names of his colleagues b5 known along with his own. He