The Arkansas banner., 1845-09-10
REpUDhTI0N.

REPUTATION.
 It affords US great pleasure to publish th5 communication of "JUsrUs,n in another column. He thinks and feels as a straight forward, cleaF-headed, honest man His style and spirit are such that, while they meet 8 proud and cordial response in the bosom o every other honest man, they deal a heavy, and we trust, crushing blow of Febake, uP- on the guilty head of him who would arnish the escuteheon Of our State with the crime oI repadiation.
 We hope, however, for the credit of ha- man nature, that .'Jusus,o in the warmth of his just indignation, may have allowed un- due importance to the rumors he has heard, and to the signs given outby the Gazette and its abolition correspondent;" the latter ol whom, seemingly not satisfied with his tant of abolition, is deepening il, with the kindred, yet even darker, hue of repadiationi For the reputation of our State and people, we trust it will be found that he stands as near ly '.alono in his infamy, in the one case Us III the other.
 But what means the last Gazette? What is to be understood by the almost total yield ing up of its editorial space to a writer sign ing himself ''Montcelo:" Whats the ten dency of the edtor's disparaging the resour- ees and character of the State, by striving to prove that she never will be able to pay 3- The editor owes t to himself, to his renders, to the Newspaper Press, to the State which feeds and shelters him, from every consider alton that may become man, 10 answer these interrogatorias; and, in doing so, to say, can, 'didy and unequyoealy, whether he layors or opposes epudiation-ihat is, whether he is for or against sustaining the character of Arkansas for common honesty We assure him that we put these inteuoratories in no party spirit or levity of feeling; but in good faith, in kind feeling, in total oblivion of all political party relations, and in the anxious desire to find him standing by the character of our State, upholding it from dishonor at home, and defending 1t against insult from abroad In this connection, let him but read the letter of ''Fred, Huh & Co., which he has published in his columns; and, even there find lesson of faith in the honor of Arkan- sas, and an abiding confidence in her ultimate ability, because of her ,rU, to pay. Viii he dare he--dare any son of Arkansas-sulier himself to be exceeded in loyalty to her honor and fair fame, by London Baaber :; Let any State be ashamed of such son, and disown him for he who is false to his coun- try, would, if occasion offered, be false to the wife of lis bosom-ay 10 the very Mother who bore him. That Arkansas is not, now able to pay her bonds, or even the interest on them, and will not be able to do so for several, perhaps many, years to come, we are reluctantly compelled to admit; yet we are very far from admitting that, in time to come, she will lack either the ability or the will to pay We believe, we feel sure, in- deed, that she noto has the ,ciH, and, even in the language of the London Banker. "at no distant day." will have the ample means which will be sacredly applied to that pur- pose. As many an honest man, whose hearl bleeds at his present inability to pay his debts, with brave spirit and firm purpose, goes maniully to work, and nobly despising toll and danger, and disappointment, preser- yes his will to do right, and ultimately obtains the means, so the State of Arkansas will pre- ! serve the honor of an upright will, and final i ly p~y-ayl pay, not repudate, herself out of the thraldom of debt.
 Would any know the grounds of this be- lief, on our part2 Thsy,are, first, oar abid- ing, almost religious, lailh in ihe ia4earueG- 6ic ririue of the people; which, however much, and frequently, il may be perverted and obseured, by the machinations oi few. interested and dishonest individuals, will ul- timately shine oui with redoubled and redeem-.