The Arkansas banner., 1846-10-07
Ths tactics of the Ashley and
 Woodruff faction.


 sr'se gentlemen, as weal as against every trns dsmoefsk who declines to yield his con science and his sense of honor sn public and political matters to its guidance.
 Col. Ashley is the head and front, Wood ruh the mere willing instrument of Ashley. oslsss who countenancc them, know no, what they do.- or those others, and pariic- aiarly where they are diSiateresied, we have not onc word to say, beyond tie expression of our regret, that undeniable facts canfoi convince them, how unworthy are these mea--how utterly unworIhy, and how un- wise iiai suppon which would seek io place them at the head of ous party, not to speak iof the a:ssrace to our State, or that which we inflici upon our national councils.
 But of Col. Ashley i. is essential. for the character and honor of our State that we do speak, and of Woodruff, that the character of the tool and the witness may be known.
 How true the adage and how natural that @bir'ls of feather will flock logeiher.'
 Who does not knew. Col. Ashley. Who does not know the character he has built up a,.ii sustained for twenty-five years' wha. are those attributes in him, which lead us to admire and confde in men, Pause here reader, examine those questions again, an- swer to yourself that Is that character, ahd why has he snch' Why through twenty five long and weary years has he borne it steadily on towards the gravei Why has he borne it along without an effort to iusii- y, amend or improve il, until its weight in- 'erfered with his political interest, He knew it was bad; i. was the work of his manhood and his youth of his consuming av- ariceEand his mercenary nature.
 He bore that character to his pariy's feet, and humbly asked of his political associates of lS44, to endorse i. rkiR rash t, saying that he had rendered them some service, tl,a, he had not long to live and he wished it for his future memory.
 It was done; he ras elccied Senator and now forsooth, he is pnriGed from twenty five years of defilemeni, and that seat in the Senate which was asked for, but for d short vacancy, as an endorsement, is his, so com pletely. that if any honorable gentlemen in our State should aspire io it, he is pointed out all over the country, by means of pri- yate letters addressed to utter strangers, as well as to casual acquaintance, and de- nounced as disorganizing the party, and seeking to deprive him, he pnriGed Ssnator, of his sea. in the Senate. This is true, as are many other beliitling and con:emptble acts of this "digni6ed and talented" Senator, and but serves to show, as would the many others of these piti.ul doings. had we space in this article to point j,em out, tha, rIai Col. .ashley was, Senator Ashley IS, and that he considers the life which had resulted in this his present elevation, as the most 'sdignifed and talenied,' the most proper and promising to preserve and sustain him in 1t. Shall we say to gentlemen who sus- tain him, and some who sustain him with so much warmih-gen.lemen we commend him to your embrace: No Not we. We hum- bly hope that all such may escape this error free from the stain of contact so reproach- ing.
 But to the tactics, the practical details and let us forget the disgust we feel f,r the sell fish man who decoys the unwary, purchases the corrnpt. fa,ters the week, deceives the sensible and cheats al!. Le. us forget the loaihing we may feel for being who can play upon the lies of nature, upon human iiy's kindly affections, and mems proud sen timents of elevating honor as hearlessly as a girl would play upon the keys of music box, let us forget our disgust, whilst we yield to the interest inspired in the couiem- plation of game well played, by master machiavel in the arts of deception and punic statagem.
 What is the capital upon which Senator Ashley commences his game for the highes. honor ofthc State. Of his old capital which is expended and that portion which is im- practicable for present use, we have not space to speak a, present It has fulfilled its end and is laid aside. But of the active means, for present and constant use, the des- cription will be eomprehended when we mention his les.er-w1sing facilities, his editor and newspaper, his and all the offices of honor and emolument in the S,are from chief Magistracy down. "'e care not to ennmcrsss those lesser agreeables which dis iinguised his former canvass before the Leg islatare. They are too undignifed, and too generally marked amougs, gentlemen, to be Of any great value aaain. ihough none