The Arkansas banner., 1846-05-19
THE FORTHCOMING DIS0RGANIZER

E THE FORTHCOMING DIsoRGANIzER.
 WM. E. WOODRUFF announces, in the Gazette of last week. that he will come before the public, as editor and publisher of paper, to be called the sssqfSaasas Demoefat' the first number of whi;his to be issued early tllis week.
 It is customary with editors and il usually affords Us pleasure, to welcome all accessions to the mum. berof the newspaper press. But, in this instance, we are unable 10 say welcome to H.. VoodruF, or wish him success in his undertaking. And not only so but as Democrats, and honorable men, we feel required to declare that he is seeking to impose hm self upon the people, under false colors, and with unfonnded pretensions, for the unfair, unhallowed, and disreputabe purpose of paadefiag to he ambi- lion, and alcanciag he political fortunes of s1agle adiridlai, by formiag alliance of portion of lte Democrats .ih iAe Whigs and thus, regardless of the proper union and integrity of the Democratic party striking aniGsidious, but, if successful most fatal blow at is continued ascondeney in this State.
 It is painful. in the extreme, for us to say such things of any individual. or any undertaking. But l they are tfVe; and circumstances justify, while our duty to the Democratic party, as its organ and senti ne, and respect for fair dealing mperativey re- quire us 10 say them boldly, and publish them tc the world And fl, in the performance of this duty to onr party, and the manifestation of this respec for the best attributes of human nature, we wount the feelings character of any individual, we fee conscentiousy eXonerated from all blame, and as sign the consequences to those whose misdeed, have made them inevitable.
 Our limited space, this week, forbids more thar d brief allusion to the facts upon which we have founded our opinion of Mir. WoodruiF's forthcoming paper. A statement of those facts, in detail, togeh CT with the inierencas and reflections which so na turally result from them, we shall lay before oul readers in the future numbers of the Banner
 In ls42, I'm. [ IRoodrgf, then proprietor anc publisher of the Arkansas Gazette, the only Demo cratic paper in the State soldt to the WuIGs; d
 topgh good and responsible Democrats offered aal UT | ged bim 10 take, he same price and te same terms rbch he lciaia he aet three days, accepted and re ceired from he wHIGs We have this from the bes authority. By this transaction, the Democratic part, was left without paper in the State; and placed, a was then believed, and exaltingly proclaimed bl the.Whigs, at the mercy of the Nhig party
 If we inquire into the motive which mpeIlet him to the perpetration of such an act we find, il the circumstances of the case, and from ds oca de ciratioa, subsequently. and even recently made that REVENGE was that motive-Rerengc agains the Democratic party, which had nuriured and sus tained him. and given him the very means whicl he, now, used the first opportunity to turn agains itas the ungrateful viper avails of its first acquir ed strength, to sting the generous bosom that hat warmed it into life Revenge-ay, Reeenge! be cause Democratic Legislature refused to volat, ibeir official caths, impose tax upoa an impover ished people, and isb aa exhausted Treasury-fo what Why, for nothing more nor less, in the frs 1 place, than to give Wm F. Woo3feT the sum O THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN SPECIE over and above his stipulated salary of SgO9, Joi one years sersices, as Treasurer of the State: ane in the second place, to pay him sxorbitant price i for the public printing when they could (for the1 did1 have il executed at reasonable price, by an other printer.
 That this is a true statement of the sale of tn, Gazette, y Woodfud, te the whigs; embracing tht main facts of the transaction, and Lis aoiire; ", submit to the familiar knowledge, and candid iudg ment,of the people Of Arkansas.
 Ail this took place abop the close of ls42, or be ginning of isi3. Then. the contest Between ths whig and Democratic parties was swarm and angry che; and, even here in Arkansas. both seemed