The Arkansas banner., 1845-05-28

copious materials, and the valuable printing office in which the Globe has been published are estimated at S35,000 We sbould no hesitate, with equal frankness, if it were ne. cessary or proper, to unvei every scene O our relations with these gentlemen. Butbou can we better manifest our sense of the line. rality which they have displayed. than by quoting the words of Mr. Van Buren himself in his letter to Mir. Rives2
 'slf anything could have added to you credit Tn the transaction, 1t is to be found in the liberal spirit by which it was character. lzed &ou did not higgle for high prices. Q,
 indulge Tn censures of the condnct or tbose whose views you were about to promote, as is too often the case on the part of those who are called upon to postpone their own for inc supposed interests of their party; but won evlnced throughout an earnest and obvionslv sincere desire to carry the arrangement into effect upon terms, and in spirit which would be most likely to enable your highly esteemed successor to sustain himselfin an undertalxino conlessedly not free from hazard In all this' NIT. BlaIr and yourself have acted in perfect consistency with your past characters. and nave shown to all-whathasl long been known to me-that your devotion to the democratic cause was not assumed for the occasion. bu, real, and of nature which made you always ready to postpone your interests to that of your party, regarding the latter as second only to those of your country. For all this you will, Ill time, receive from the democracy ot the nation the credit to which you are so well enlitled0
 But 1t IS time for us to dismiss the mere PerSonaet of the matter. A few words more. and we have done with the subect We take the chair with a determination to dis charge Its duties to the best of our abilities. We were not exactly prepared to commence our labors this evening. We were somewhat weared from the arduous field of the Viroinja election. The soldier would have desired a short iurlough for recreation and repose. But we never finch from our duty. The Globe ceased on the Both April. There shall be no lnterreehum in the office; and though the editor of 'sThe Uniono has not been tWentv- four hours in this city, and is about to tread the boards of new and more conspicuous theatre, without any rehearsal of the charac- ter he is about to fill, yet he throws himself at once upon the generosity of his country men. He is unallectedly conscious of his own deficiencies; he has much to learn; he has new and more extensive alphabet to acquire; he has new characters to study, and new duties to perform; he has scarcely twenty acqnalntances in the city; but he will strive 10 avail himself of all the tights which he can obtain, that he may guide his new bark over the wide ocean that Is spread before him. He has, above all, to study those great foreign relations which are particularly confded, by the theory and the letter of the constitution, to the guardianship of the federal government. We shall at least do the best we can. Our opponents are pleased already to predict Ca splendid failure" in the new enterprise in which we have embarked. It may be so!- '' Man proposes, but Providence dsposes;' but fl an unaagging zeal in the public service can lh any degree supply the place of expe- rlenee or of other qualifications, we shall not be altogether wanting to the task we have assumed. We have no misrust on the score ol age, of which the political critics have so often been kind enough to remind us. We know our capacity for labor, and we are pre- pared to meet any sacrifice but that of our principles. As for the rest, it is in the hands of Propideace and the people. 'sGive us an honest fame, or give us nonen