The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-15

C ecretary-caict dc chambrc-or in wIisfaver capacity he attended Captain Pike, is only to oe found Tn the secret archives of the Bank Agam: stated Mir. Newtoa's salary to be $ l500 cash, and $500 house-rent; maIlino Sp2UU0. They state 1t to be Sl200, and say nothing of housc-rent Add inc house-rani. winch no one will estimate at less than $500, 10 tleir own statement of the salary. and ii produces 9l700. Here then is difference oi S30O between my statement and theirs. well, admit my mistake It Is one of iigufes, and no one can suppose made il intentionally, especially when detection was so easy. But put the worst construction upon 1t they may, and suppose I desiguedly mlsstated, it does not better their case, and detracts nothing from the force and gravity oi my charge against them-that they are unfairly iattenlng upon the spols which they Heecc from the hand earnings of other people, without rendering any just equivalent in re- turn. stated their lolnt salaries to be S4508; while they make them out to De only s54200! Iialf the amount, admitted by themselves, would fully sustain my charge, of cct0Hjoa. against them. repeat, then, that my mis- take was not material. But 1t has served a material purpose. It has served to elicit their own confession that 1t i5 the 0nIy mistake made, and, consequently, that all the other things l said against them, both generally and ln detail, are strictly true, and they dare not deny them. For no one can suppose, for a moment, that, with all the interest they felt, and still feel to break the force of my charges. and with all the zcal and industry they have manifested to detect errors, they would have found, and rested satisfied to expose, only one mistake-and that an jmmatcrjaI one, if there had been others. To suppose this. would be 10 suppose them as stupid as they are unprincipled. But all who know Albert Bike and Thomas w. Newton, know them to be both able and willing to detect the weak points of an adversary, and make the best of their own bad case. Now, in this instance, if they had attempted no defence at all, 1t might have been inferred that they were invulnefable, and needed no defence But having attempted defence, and stopping short at an immaterial point, the inference is irresistible, and conclusive, that they have no substantial defence, and that my charges are all true.
 So much, then, for what have, heretofore, said of these pure 70 and Pi0as @ men, and for its effect upon them made grave charges upon them, and dared them 10 coll tfoFert or deny them. They have done neither. But they have lodged and sbalked from every material charge, aud made a lame defence upon 0ae point alone, and that d wholly mmatcrial oHe. 1 am warranted, therefore, in taking for confessed, and pro claiming as established, all the allegations, damning as they are, which 1 have made against Pjte, s&Gls'oR, < Co.
 They say l an s.Iuaatic.o No doubt they would be happy to persuade the people tllat l am mad. But if l be, there is ..a method in mf madnesso which gals them as sorelY as the sanest revelations of the truth. They say, also, that ] ought to be confined, ? lest do injury to '.the women and children No doubt they would be glad to have me confined, and eaggcd too But, thank justice, l am yeta liberty to write and 10 write the truth. It isHot for the sale ty of 'the women and children they have so much saliciudc But 1t Is for their own safely. They know that the position Aey occupy enables them to live aal iattenWD6n the substance of Women5and children-and that they have prof1ed by their opportunities. They also know that i is my purpose 10 eX- pose to the public gaze these iniquitous doings, and, fearing this exposure, they tain would have me confined and gagged. But they eaD6ot do either the one or the other. I am free to speak and to write, and l pHl, and that, too, ii the plainest terms of truth. l have by no means done with these indiyidu- als. have many things yet 10 tell. { Imean 10 hold up 10 public indignation these op- pressors of women and children-these yam- pyres who thrive and grow fat and msolent, upon the toll and sweat of an industrious and embarrassed community. demand that these sordid drones in society, who do no useful labor, but prosper upon the mlsior- tunes of the poor and laboring people ol this State, be driven from their prey, be made to disgorge, if possible, what they have greedily swallowed up from the needy, and what should, of right go 10 clothe the naked and feed the hungry. The corrupt and cor rupting institution, which they control to the injury of the people, and the dishonor of the State, and use to advance their own am bilious projects as politicians, and their sor- did selfshncss as men, mean to expose and denounce, until 1t sh2 II stink in the nostrils'' of eve every good man make ihe issue I, with with pie of this State. It shall be seen whether the taX-paying, law-abiding, hard-working people of Arkansas will tolerate in their midst, and allow among them, a monied institution -banIruptfor all good purposes-but under the control of t1oo om5itioas, uasefuFulous, and se5fsb politicians, which laughs the Le- gislature to scorn, bids defiance to the law, lives by robbery of the public purse, and glories in comupting the public morals. This Is the issue make before the people-this is the issue 1 mean to try-and chcerlully abide the verdict of the people.
 Messrs. Pike, ,Ntletoa, $ O., we meet again.
 PULASKI.
 Fol. He 7Ysansas Beaner
 LITTLE Rock, 18th May I844.