The Arkansas banner., 1845-02-05

Massachusetts (Mr. Winthrop for whom he had voted in lS40 ? Was 1t not for Harrison and ,lyler2 It would be. an insult 10 the gentleman to doubt it. And when he oave hIs vote to these candidates, did he not do il With the perfect knowledge, that, if it should please Divine Providence to remove one ol these individuals from his high station, thai i the other would be President of the U. States; And now he would put the question to the gentleman--Was the death of Gen. Harrison an accidents Did the gentleman hold thatan event oi that magnitude had not passed under the eyeand control of an all-seeing God Ii ne dld, ms venerable ancestry would burst the tomb and rise and upbraid their recreant son. A Winthrop to deny the particular providence of God No, that event was no accident. It took place by the fiat of that Eternal King. whose ways were not as our ways, and whose thoughts were not as our thouphts. When President Harrison was called to hls account at divine tribunal, Mr. Tyler succeeded. The gentleman knew that this would be the case; and. the gentleman knew thai NIT. Tyler was no accidental, but was both pfovidential and constitutional Pre- sldent But the gentleman said he was hot the choice of the people. Indeed? Then dld the House learn, for the first time. and that from the leaders of the party, that Har- rlson and Tyler were not the choice of the American people! It followed, then, that the Wing party, like the Federal party which had preceded them, ruled the country by the votes of minority. And he should be glad to hear the gentleman state to what he at tflbuted the choice of Mir. Tyler, if not to the votes of the American people. He was constitutionally the President, and, being such, what matter was 1t to that House what secret motives might have guided his public acts Could the gentleman see his heart i? If he could, his eyes were keener than Mr. IS, The act sayored well for the good of the country and he did not envy the gen. tleman the prerogative of sitting in judgment on the motives which gave it birth. He had ever been taught that that was a task unfit for man, and that it belonged to a higher and more awful tribunal.
 But was Il true, that, in annexing Texas, we should take snap-judgement, and get the start of the American people2 Why the measure had been pursued with unremtting efforts for 20 years. Itwas thoroughly known to the whole country and every body in it and more, If there was any thing which had had the main agency in setting aside an old and tried statesman, and setting up com paratlvely new man, 1t was this very aues- tion. This measure of annexation had done more to darken MT. CIay's prospects than any other thing that had ever happened. The tremendous Whig majority which, in 1840, had numbered it's hundreds of thousands, had been overturned and prostrated in 1844 mainly by this Texas question. A snap Judgment! Get the start of the American people! Why, were not twenty years lime enough for the examination of public meas ure2 No; instead of getting the start of the people, Congress was tagging far, far be- hind. The American masses had moved up- on this question long before 1t had been brought into that House. The Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Relations had been blamed for precipitancy The gentle man from Massachusetts (Mr. Winthrop complained that he had not had time to em- body hls views in a written form. Why, what had the gentleman been doing since the last session of Congress- What had he SSSh tHilihiiig VI SlHIC 1000 !. or IdQ llc nPN- CT read the history of the treaty of l803?- No. The minds of the people were made up. They had long been made.up, and Mir. Y.'s only fear was, whether the House should yet be in time at least in yielding to the pop ular will. Whether, in the language of the immortal Jackson, they would take Texas NOW?
 What prevented? The gentleman from Massachusetts had, as he believed, disclosed the true reason. He had pointed the House to the true pivot on which the whole oppo- sltion to this measure turned and rested.- Anf that was: It was consided the guaranty of slavely. The language of the past might tell the gentleman what had been the tone and spirit of the fathers of the Constitution on that subject. And Mr. Y. would ask the gentleman in turn, whether it would not be well for him to have some little remembrance of the opinions of his ancestors on this very question of slavery Was not slavery national question: Was 1t not recognized in the national Constitution And yet the course of the Secretary of State was said to be disgraceful to the nation, because he warred against foreign foe on that question. Mr. ' greatly feared lest we might have do- mestIc traitors among us on more questions than that. It was gentleman from Massa- chusetts who had said, that it yet remained to be seen whether the august and powerful Government of England would quail before the threats of a puny little government like ours. It was the very spirit of the Hartford Convention that spoke in these words. The spirit yet survived it was yet living and moving in the Legislature ofsthe gentleman's State, in the minds and measures of her statesmen, and in the speeches of her mem hers. The gentleman had said, that he dealt not in threats of disunion. It might be SO. But, if Massachusetts uttered 10 threats on that subject, there was no Stale in this Union which had cherished in her bosom more schemes of treason, going dnectly to effect dlsdnion. Ay, and that when the foe was upon us-when our blood was flooding the field, and our towns and hamlets blazing up to Heaven. In those days of trial, when | f .I-