The Arkansas banner., 1845-10-22
For Me .fr6'ansaS Runner.

MR EDITOR: In two previous communl- cations written some time since for your pa per, the propriety of holding a convention was discussed, unless Gov. ' ell declined to continue in the position he then occupied. The object of those communications has been accomplished, and Gov. Fell himself has admitted the soundness of the position then taken, by the publication of his late cir cular, and his retalners who write for the Banner, have had 10 swallow the pill with all its bitterness. In those two communications the impropriety ol the tone and style of wri- ting and bringing the merits of two dIstin- gHshed democrats into discussion was sug- gested, and some examples given of it's re- suits. It was.hoped that when this question of convention was settled beyond all con- troversy, the object for which the friends of Gov. Y ell prohessed to write had been ac- complished, that they would have had the good sense to discontinue so unprofitable a discussion, if not for their own sakes, at least for the sake of the democratic party, which they professed to have enshrined in their hearts. They had no excuse for not disseminating, because they commenced this discussion by several communications in the Banner, before any paper in the State had said one word on the subject. Those com munications could not be mistaken ill their object, and of course they were replied to by the friends of Col. Ashley, or those who wished him to continue in his present posi- ton. It was not from any fear of this dis cussion, so far as Col. Ashley was concerned, that the writer hoped it would be discontinu- ed, but because Il will eventually, if continu- ed in the tone that these writers now assume. split the democratic party asunder, and stain its triumphant standard with lasting disgrace. If this state of things occurs who will be re- sponsble for such dsorganization? Gov. YELL, by disdaining to hold the position in which the people have placed him, and his friends who are thus attempting to blacken
 the character of Col. Ashley, by the same areapons that the whigs used against him ill the last election. Such writers as Marius. Macon, and Jefferson, ought to be held re- sponsble for such dsorganisalion. Men who prolessed in the commencement of their writing, to want convention to settle conflicting claims, after the question has been
 settled fully, continue writing for the pur- pose of elevating one democrat at the expense of anotkerl Men who are willing to use any epthet, high or low, vulgar or refined, to darken the escutcheon of one democrat in the hope that it will shed more lustre on that of anolherl Do these writers see the way to office clearly in the wake of him whom they denominated the s'eagie-eyed" and 'sthe only true sandard-bearer of the democratic party22 Do they suppose thata little clique about Little Rock by continually writing full some praises of Gov. Yell, can lead the whole State by the nose, and make the great democratic party of this State think that they 'slive and breathe, and have their being by the power of hiS arm?" Do they suppose that they can make one individual in the whole State believe that Col. Ashley has had or does have any thing to do with the whig party; man who has been identified with the democratic party ever since 1t had exis- tence in the State, and although not seeking office, has been wheel-horse in the cause of democracy? Do they suppose that they can make any body of sense believe in the absurdity of the proposition, that because a whig editor happens to say any thing about this controversy, that Col. Ashley is respon- sble for it2 They have been seeking for something of this kind for some time, and almost in despair have caught up some re- marks made by the editor of the Helena Shield How ridiculous! It certainly comes with very bad grace from men protesting to be democrats, to attempt at this late day to throw odinm upon the character of Colonel Ashley. They most nnequivocaly endorsed his fitness for their confidence at the last eiec- ton, or they have been crafs sailing mde, false colofs. In his circular and on the stump, with his grey hairs under the broat arch of heaven, he deied any of his enemies to impugn his character, and promised tc defend himself in such manner as to stant the test of ''human scrutiny, of talents ant of tme.o None were then made. Whig
 may make them, but 1t would be shameful for democrats now to make the attempt.
 Poor Macon, has had his toes stepped o
 with an iron heel, and aroused in the mids