The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-14
From he Richmond Enquirer of July 23.
 THE MADNESS OF PARTY.

ton than was expressed by every Democrat, on hearing ot the arrogant, preposterous and tdnaticdl proceedings of the Clay Club of Richmond on Thursday night, when. by the most jealous exertion and the loudest drum- ming, they could not collect together more than taco hundred and Gffy, including boys and Democrats. The Resolutions offered by the City Delegate, and s.unanimously adopted,o are filled with the grossest mis- representation, and fatal spirit of mob law
 It is most strange, that, in this orderly metro- polls of a virtuous and law-loving State, even the small number of Wings present at the Clay Club on Thursday night should have been so carried away by the mad spirit of party as to forget all the charities of hfe- all their duties as good citizens-al their prlde as friends Of order and decorun-all re- spect for common sense and propriety, as to have sanctioned these rashmovements, which, III their cooler moments, we are sure they Will blush for having encouraged, and here- after bitterly repent for having assented to with the faintest appreciation. We have not the time to follow up all their false premises andabsurd charges. We will not condescend to notice the wanton accusation, that the Polk party have declared s'that they will dis solvethis Union sooner than abandon I'exasn We pass over their innumerable similar chi meras of the braln excited to desperation as they are by the frowns of the people both upon their bold and dangerous schemes and their sly and deceitful tricks and humbugs
 We come at once to the principle count in the indictment against these madcap leaders of the Clay Club. They alude to a Southern Convention, virtually abandoned, bntwhich was for some time proposed to be held in the city of Richmond, in order, as originally set forth iii the Alabama meeting, sscaImly and dispassionately to deliberate, whether under the compact of the Union, the Congress of the United States have right to violate the spirit of the compromise between the slave holding and non-slayeholding States, by tol- erating discussion of slavery inits delibera- tlons,o thus endangeriDg the safety of some of them. The purpose of said convention was afterwards so modified as to collect to- gether the friends of instrumentation of Texas, who, convened from all parts of the country, would take the proper steps to achieve the great measure of annexation and to cheer Up the people of Ie1as, and invoke them not to yield to the seductive embraces of England and France. Even at the meeting in Russell county, Alabama, General Hamilton, the au- thor of the original proposition, declared so- lemnly that his sole object and desire was to preserve the Union. And it is ilf refefchce to this sscalm and dispassionate' convention that the "grannies0 of the club house resolve,
 sI'hat in the declarations of the Polk Par +I,, than abandon Texas'-that if the Federal au- thorities should fail toratify the Texas Treaty, mo considerations, not euen disuaion itself, IS sufficient to defeat annexation'-tha they must seize the moment when the South is aroused by the rejection of the Treaty, to pro- pose immediate steps towards Southern Conrcntion, and leave disunion to the North that in their proposition for convention of the slave States, for the purpose of re- questing the President to call Congress to- gether immediately, when the FINAL ISSUE shall be made up, and the alternative distinct ly presented to the Free States, either to ad- init Texas into the Union, or to proceed calm ly to arrange the terms of DISSOLUTION of the Union'-or, to assemble convention of the States friendly to annexation'-or any other propositions, which, by arraying one fragment of the Union, upon the assumption of hostile and separate interests and feelings against the rest, tends to enleeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts-we discern the revolting indications of treason and disloyalty to our glorious Union; that we regard these sentiments, and all who utter them, with mingled indignation, contempt and abhorrence and having heard of the proposal to hold some such conclave in our city, we protest against such an act of deseeration to our soil and firesdes, and here solemnly declare that, with our consent, IT SHALL NOT BE HELD HERE"
 (We quote one of these resolutinns exactly as we find it in the Whig of Saturday. .l-T'his charge of s.disunion' is an idle chimera of these Whig leaders. It resolves itself into some few nasty resolutions in South Carolina, which all the coolest statesmen, and the great body of the South Carolinians Memselues, dis approve-whichC Calhoun regrets and repro bates-which McDuf1ie denies and opposes, and which we were the first to hold up to public disapprobation. People of Virginia and of the South, do you not regard these ssgranniesn of the club house as in their last dotage! They set themselves up as a star chamber, and 1t rests with their sound discre- ton to declare whether this or that conven- ton, called to benefit or protect the South, does or does not amount to constructive trea- son! Before the people of the Soulhcan act upon any important question, provided itcon- cerns. the South exclusively, whether 1t be a great agricultural improvement or railroad to knit the South closer together, they must humbly bow their knees to the inquisitorial
 *We copy from the Charleston Courier, (Whig, ) the following passage of sketch of the speech of Mir. Huger, Senator of the United States at pub lie meeting in Charleston: sour Senator, Mr. Hu- 1 ger,) we understand, although he dwelt much and strongly on the unequal burhens of the Tariff, was even more explicit and unequyoca than our Repre- sentative, on the subject of the Union. Nolwith- standing the evils of the protective system, he was
 for cinging to the Lnion with the faith and the love | of true disciple of Washington, and he suggested that the South, instead of seeking relief from the unequal taxation of the Tariff, in the terrible alter natives of dsunion or civil war, might find better | less baZard0us and more complete remedy in turn.