The Arkansas banner., 1845-01-29

theIr policy anu thelf pftllclpitS as d HdHolt and in all that renders a people permanently strong and prosperous, during the last few wears, and more especially during the acci- dental administration of Mr. Tyler. The death of Gen Harrison was indeed in more ways than one national, and more than a national calamity, but we had not ceased to entertain the hope that the party which brought him into office four years ago, would now be strong enough to carry MT. Clay's election ltappears that the evil has already gone too far. By pandering to the passions of the populaee, MT. Tyler has not only let loose, but instigated the worst tendencies of democracy. Tohis Treaty and Texas, which drove Mir. Van Buren from the field, Mir. Polk may be said 10 owe his election. Until that question was brought forward, the name of Polk was unknown except at Almack's
 The Whig candidate has perished in the at tempt to stem this fierce current of misdirec- ted popular excitement. The Whig party have been beaten, when every thing depend- ded on the possibility of restoring modera- ton and probity to the Government of the country by their influence and, it is scarce ly too much to say, that Texas has already biiA adheres to the pledges under which the elec- tors are likely to raise him to the chair, he Is pledged to foreign war. The grounds on which Gen. Jackson and his friends have given their support to Mir. Polk are before the world and we have already cQmbatted their arguments and their assumptions. They amount to the strongest expressions of hos tility against tlre supposed influence and de- signs of Great Britain on the North Amerl- can continent; and either the means they have used to gain the popular sufirages are as sincere as they are false, or they hold that the acquisition, by arms, if necessary, Is the first duty of President of the United States. They can hardly escape from the dilemma
 in which they stand between excessive rash ness and excessive deceit; but we cannot expect that they will have the energy or the power, any more than MT. Tyler has had
 them, to resist or control the populaf excite ment which has brought them into effect.
 It has been observed by the most judieous observer of the institutions of the United States, M de Tocquevilie, that political par ties in America rally around an individual as the symbol of their own theories; and that parties are strongly interested in the election, not so much with view to the triumph ol their principles, under the auspices of the President elect, as to show by the majority which returned him, the strength of the sup porters of those principles. It must not be presumed that the success of the democrat ic party on this occasion IS so complete as at once to have decided in their favor all the great questions of domestic and foreign poli- cy. If the election of President irrevoca- ply decided the policy of the United States Government for the next four years, the coun- try would be not only agitated but eonYulsed by such contest. But the strict limitations
 imposed by the constitution on the power ol the chief magistrate, and more especially the control exercised by the Senate of the Uni ted States over his relations with foreign Powers, render the triumph less signal and the danger less imminent. Be the indscre- ton of President what it may, he can scarcely plunge the country into war or eon- fusion as long as the Senate remains faithful to its trust.
 What, therefore, we chiefly deplore on the present occasion is, the defeat of those men who were most able and most willing to have labored to restore the financial and political credit of their country-would have abstained from rapine, maintained peace and adhered to the doctrines which once shed honor on the characters of American states men. Clay and Webster are still entitled to that name; but, the time IS past when they could guide the destinies of their country, and by casting them off in the hour of trial; the people of the United States have only rendered the vices of their present condition more conspicuous, and prepared the way for the increasing evils and eXcesses of their iu- ture career.
 The following is from the Morning Chron- icle:
 Throughout the struggle it is to be re- mai ked how much more united and able the men and the interests of the South have shown themselves than the men and interests of the North In the slave-holding States there is no hesitation, no division, no split ting of hairs and dispersion into parties. All vote as one man for the principle which is by them cherished above all others. In the middle States the supporters at once of Dem ocracy and slavery showed more address, if the Wings displayed better orators. The partizans of Mr. Polk fully succeeded in pur- s,lading the manufacturers of Pennsylvania that he was a sufficiently staunch prohbi tionist. In New ' ork, on the contrary, where lay the true strength of the Wings, we see that strength frittered away and neu- tralized. The Native Americans had dis guised the Irish party, whilst the too pru- dent deuunciations of Texas Annexation of fended the stieklers for national spirit and national glory, who in the North cry out for conquest, even although that conquest should but increase the slave-holding States of the South.
 Although the election of Mir. Polk cannot but be favorable to the resuSetation of prin- ciples of free trade in America, nevertheless this IS counterbalaneed by other and great disadvantages. He has succeeded i'll great measure by the cry of Texas annexalion.- Now that he has succeeded he cannot play Peel, he cannot prove inconsistent and un- grateful; and he will find in Mir Calhoun a read,- oni an aiaia ,,,iptStnriai tnstru.aant