The Arkansas banner., 1845-10-15
THE VAN BuREN INTELLiGENCER.

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 The "Intelligencer' in its last number, was still spiping hot'' in opposition to d Demo- cratic Convention, and in it's denunciation of us, because we have not been a resident of Arkansas quite as long as some other people. We regret this-not that it hurts our feelings, or does us harm, for 1t docs neither; but be- cause the ''Intelligencer," protesting 10 be dcmocratic, is, thus, occupying the same ground, and engeged in the same ssdirty work" as are the 'sFrontier Whig," the IIe- lena Shield," the "Abolition-repudating- Whig Batesvile correspondent of the Gazette, and, indeed, of every other arhig in the State. Now, as to what the '.Intelligencer," per sc, may choose to think or do, or what company 1t may prefer to keep, we have no care or concern. But we have the right, and it is our duty, as Democrat, to censure any man or any paper wearing democratic coiors, that so far foreets or so grossly violates it's duty, as to engage with whigs, abolitionists and repudiators, in the infamous work of try ing to disorganize, and thereby destroy the Democratic party. We say ''infdmous work; D for while it is the natur.l maybe thc appropri- ate-and therefore laudable employment of our adversaries, of all kinds and colors, it surely is 'infamousn in one who abides in the Democratic camp, and wears the uniform of it's soldiers. If the sIntelligencer" has been blinded, guled and led astray-or, like poor G0ugh, the unfortunate temperance lec- mrer, ''druggedo into ''lapse of morals" it IS time its eyes were opened, and 1t were brought back into the true line of duty. But if, contrary to our hopes, it has ''taken the Chiltern IIundreds,o and with it's eyes open, gone bodily over to the support of particular men, regardless of the welfare of the party, it should, at once, ssdoT the Lion-skn'' of Democracy, and sneak forth the JackaU of a piratical faction. We say ''piratical, D and we mean it, in the odious sense in which it was used to stigmatise the diSorgaaizers of last yGdi lOl Vt Have HOl TWO UdinOS TOT the same thing, and no soft words for such char acters
 Whether we have been in the State two years or twenty years, or whether our shoes be new or old, circumstances which seem to fill the measure of the ssIntelligencer'sn in- telligence, has nothing to do with the pro priety of preserving the organization, and, by consequence, maintaining the ascendancv of the Democratic party. This is our object, for tEe accomplishment of which we have struck more blows, than the lnteligencer ever had wishes; and to this, our measures are directed, not by any narrow deGles or devious by-paths, but by the broad, open, and estab- lished roadway of Democratic practice, marked out by Democratic principles. And as 10 the "lntelligeneer'sn intimation that we ''have not mixed with the peope,n we. would suggest for the information of that concern, that we not only know, but are known by, more people, even in Arkansas, than ever heard of either or both of the individuals whose names stand at the head of its columns The men that really know who are he edi- tors of the "Inteligencer," are believed to be of the smallest possible number.