The Arkansas banner., 1845-11-05

zz.lssezsas1..si zssE.z-E sure we made of his piracy and disorganiza- tion-a trick to divert attention from his own conscious delinquencies-a lodging from consequences dangerous to himself-a pitt ful effort al hiding behind new and wilfully false issue. But the r7tse is too shallow evidently springing from the tortuous (or rather toHi0asJ mazes of a legal triclster's brain. It fails of is object, either to disturb our equanimily, or to change our purpose. Is an edIor, we are fighting for the cause, and not for oursef. When the enemy is on foot, whether in the open plain of whlggery, or in the aabusb of Reorganization, we arc after that enemy, and care but litlle for what may be said of us personally. We carry the war into the cnemy's country, and prove, by inc vigor and efficiency with which We con- duet it, that we arc unhurt by his Parthian darts. But in tHis instance, thanks to life time of uniform, consistent and nciioe De- mocraey, which has known neither ''changc nor shadow of urning,' we need no defence, Orif we do, it is abundantly furnished, alike by the acts, the votes and the written records of our faith and service, pri'ate and public, begning before we reached the age of man. hood, and still continuing.
 But if any man really and honestly have doubt of our Democracy, and would like to solve il, let him inquire in Virginia, where, in 1922, we raised yhe Democratic flag, and boldly insisted that Genl Jackson would, and ought to veto the Bank bill, then pending in Congress, before his determination was known; and when many, who claimed to be Democrats, both doubted the policy and trem- bled for the consequences of that greatest of Executive acts Where, person andin Poli- dcs, were the men and ho master of the Van Burcn Intelligeneer, t4en2 II any honest man doubt our Democracy, let him inquire i'll Tennessee-of the people who were our readers-of the Newspapers, as we'll those with which we acted as coadjutors, as those against which We contended as adyersaries. Or if individual reference be preferred, let him inquire of JAMES K. POLK, We cheer fully abide the response from each and all of these. Can the men and master of the lntol- ligencer say as much of the places and per sons that have known Hem-that have wit messed Heir services in the cause of Democ- racy? And last, though not least, if any
 truthful man entertain doubt of our Democ~ racy, let him inquire, here in Arkansas, of Hc Democratic people, among whom we have lived and in whose service We have labored, for the last two years Let him inquire of the two only Conventions of the Democratic party ever assembled in this State-of the last session of the General Assembly. We eheerlaay abide the response from all of these. Ay! let him inquire the HoN. CHEs- TER ASHLEY, himself. And we pledge ourself to abide lis public response, or to prove it false, in any court of record in tho State of Arkansas.
 And even our JactSonjsnt, which the wr- ter for the Intelligcncer would, also, question, is of t1reaiy-oae gears standing-having or- ginated ill 1892, the memorable year which first gave the name of Andrew Jackson to the American people, as a candidate for the Presi- dency. We were school-boy then; but well do we remember, aud there are others who can hear us witness that we fashioned, with our own hands, a number of Jackson cockades, and persuadmg our sehool-fellows to mount them on their hats, we had the hon. or 10 marshal forth the first regular troop of "Jackson Boys'' that ever trod the soil of North Carolina (the loved home of our youth or made her woods re-echo the shout of the old lIero's praise. Nay, more In the same year, it so fell out that we were required 10 achieve that hardest task of a sehool-boy's experlence-S.wrile a compost tion,n for the first time. Fired with enthu- sasm, as the leader of the "Jackson bovs.n ,Iackson's character was the most prominent subject of our thoughts, and the atlvo- eacv of his claims to the Presidency the theme of our "irst compostion" This may be triile in itself, and is particularly interesting to us, only, as personal reminis- cence; but we mention it, here, to shew that, although we may be "new conner" into the State of Arkansas, we can righttul- ly claim 10 be ..an old setler"-s'a pioneer'' "a cane brcaker," in JackSoaiSm-ay ..an original Jackson mana We were not one of those who opposed and reriled him in the hour of his need; and when the stream of his popularity and power sweled into a mighty river, vain coward aud sycophant- like, fell upon the '.tde that leads on to for tune" and then cried out "how we apples swimr' No! thanks to the principles of true democracy, in which we had been early indoctrinated, we were not, could not be one of that sort The first line we ever wrote the first vote, for any purpose, we ever gave
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