The Arkansas banner., 1845-12-31

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 bargain and corruption affair, this n,onstrosity,
 which owes it's paternity 10 your correspon-
 dent @JefIefson''-and can make IL as plain 10 those who are not w:!iully blind, as the , noseo on your face; and it is simply this: No proposition af shs kind, in my opinion. was ever made by Col. AshIey-cerlainIy not
 seriously, and Hat se understood, by any one. l. is uadenably tfue, that, at the commence men; of the last session of oar General As
 sembIv, large proportion of the members
 came here proposed ia favor ol Col. Ashley,
 to fill lha vacancy in the U. $. Senate caused
 by the death of the lameued Gov. Fulton,
 aad many of them instructed t0 vote for him. IL is equaIiY true, that. SO soon as this was
 discovered bv some of the friends of Gov
 Yell. they sal themselves to work to defeat
 Col A., and they could devise no plan that
 was likely 10 promise them success, un-
 less they could induce Gov. ' eli to resign
 the seat in Congress to which he had just
 been elected by all overwhelming majority, f and become a candidate for the u. $. Senate. They thought lis influence so overpo~eHng, that he could command any office in the gill
 of an infatuated people or their Representa-
 lives, and that he could resign an office and
 aspire to others, ah and be elecletl, too, al
 will, or whenever t suited lis caprice to dc
 SO Whether the Gov. thought so too, or
 waked at the acts and doings of some ot his
 friends. will not pretend to say. But eer-
 aa il s, system of log g-rolng was kept up,
 for more than week, during which time Il
 was asceriained Hai He plan acoa3d mol takr
 that a good many of Goy. Yell's old friends, who were not al-worShiPperS, could not be induced to join in what they called child's play-and then, and not till then, did Gov. Yell come to the wise determination mol 10 Ge candidate.
 Still the Iog.rollings were kept up, among the friends of Gov. Y ell, and efforts constant ly made, to bging out some othsr candidate
 to defeat Col. Ashley. Every aftlilce they could devise was resorted to. One oi the strongest arguments was used against him that was ever used by sensible men-''tha, :, if Gok .4shleY should Dc eiected, they 'r0ald
 Hof Dc able 10 gcI him oui t''-the plain Eng
 fish of which k, that the people would be so
 well satisfied with hlm, that they would ln-
 ssl on re-electing hlm so long as he was tfne to his trust and their interests.
 I have heard, but will not voach for the
 truth of it-bul nevertheless 6eiieUe it 10 be
 True that Col. Ashley was asked, by some , one CT more ol Gov. eli's friends, (and, Tor aueht know, by some of the very witness es referred to by your correspondent,l WIFE TIER. IF ELECTED, HE WOULD PLEDGE HIM.
 SELF MOTTO BE 4 CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELEc- , rIoN, AND PARTICULARLY AGAINST HGOV YELL. But Col. Ashley was too old fox to be caught in such a trap His an- . swer was ust such Roa-co9t1atttat one, as
 l would have expected from man oi his age and shfewelness was substantially tais. and was said in that iocularly manner which he knows SD well how to assume when he i, wishes to evade direct answer: 'sY oa can perceive, gentlemen, by my silyery locks, , that old age ls creeping on apace, and Il E
 therefore hardly probable, that, Il elected, al
 ter serving three sessions iA the Senate, shall a be in acondition to wish for reelection And f besides. YOU know, 1t is said that am very a unpopular, and Gov. ell, We all know, IS i very popular Therefore, ilis not very pro- a bable that Gov ' ell will find me in his way Q This, Mir Editor, think, will be found to be . the sum and substance of the PLEDGE which Q is said tq have been given by Col. Ashley; - and, mind you, the proposition, if propoSi- D ton il can be called, came from the friends of F Gov ell; not from Col. Ashley. If they can D make any capital out of it, they are welcome i to all the profits. If the witnesses referred , to, can testify to a different slate ol facts, ;. showing fraud or dupliciiy on the part Of ,. Col. Ashley, let them de SO. Isha}l not en- . " them the pro6tS which they will reap, in
 = the estimation of the honest part of their de - mocra,ic bYejhegn, by the exposition.
 r, But, Mr. Editor, do not care ig, wheth-
 CT Gel. Ashley did, or did not, giyea pledge, t that, if elected, he would not be candidate c for reelection against Gov. Yell He had = no right to give such a pledge, and Gov. + Yell and his friends had no right to require. ng or receive, such a pledge from him. llevol- or nn,arily became a candidate for the U. States a- Senale-he was elected-he is in the hands l. of the people, and, if they will that he be re- - elected. he hasn0 right-pledge or no pledge Il, --to decline serving them. This is doctrine l. believe, that no democrat will gainsay. 1 Y an opinion may be yenured, from the numer
 ous resolutions, passed at recent county n meetings, recommending his reelection, q Ia to what the will of the people Is, believe ,- may s'dely say that the people have 1ei{tee ic his re-eleelion-pledge or no Pledge-and D. do not believe that all the sycophantlc scrb I. hlers who have yied with each other in heap r. ing abuse on Col. Ashley, thro' the column, n of the Banner" for months past, can change l. that will. Meetings have been held in somC I. twenty or thirty counties, for the purpose o Ii selecting Delegates to attend the Democratic V State Convention, at this place, on the ever P memorable Sth of January next, to nominate t candidate for the House of Representatives or V the expiration oi Gov lell's term. All, ex- l. cept two or three, believe, have expresset ,r their preference in relation to U. s. Senator ,r Two only, believe, have expressed then ,e preference for Gov. ell. All the residue have expressed their preference for the reelection at of Col. Ashley. If this may be taken as al e indication of public opinion, the fiat is pro V nounced in tones of thunder, and Col. Ashley d will be re-elected--pledge or no pledge.
 : AN OLD SETTLER.