The Arkansas banner., 1847-05-19
From ihs PisiRdsslv. THE MAN OF PRINCIPLE, AND fHE PRINCIPLE OF MAN.

other day; both men of liberal education, both politicians, and attached Co the federal party; both exemplaey in their deportn.snL and Christians by profession but one is. an and the other is noh Aeon versaiion ensued.
 O&ce-holder.-- We'll, John, the poissesl is opening with fine peosPees lkv US. We shall thrash the locos awfaIly next elecun H' I..$- '
 John,--That is capital news; bu. how are we to do iis
 ORee-AoIder. Why, with Gen. Taylor for our candidate, VIC can oyerwhelm them. As Judge Dayton said, we can ank their ship so deep that nos bubble will raise 10 tel the story of their wreck.
 JoAa.--- Well, Hike the Wsecking pert cf your prophecy very well; bai must conisss have some apprehensiohs that the rock will be s disastrous to US to our opponents. .'hal are the political opinions of General Tsylors
 OEee-hoidsr.--Oh, he's on oui-and-ou, whig; goes all the whig measures entire; so- ted, or meant to vote for Clay at the las, cleo. ton; and is every inch with us.
 yphn.--- Who tells you SO
 0Gce-Aolder.--I saw il in al least dozen whig papers.
 Joha.--Any authority given for i.-or was i, merely the opinion of the editors'
 OEce-holder.-The opinion of one or more of the editors, believe, they had cop. jed from each other pretty much.
 John.--Thal's no authority. Has any respectable man said, or written, that Of his owu knowledge, he knows Gen. Taylor to be whig:
 OGce-hoider.--Nol that know oG.
 John.-Elave any of his family authorized any one to say he is whig1
 OEce-holder.--Not that have heard,
 John To which party do his relations belong. so far as you have learneds
 OEce-hoider.-lt is said that his son-in- law, and his brother are democrats.
 Jodn.-Did the General support Jackson for the presidency:
 OGee-holder.-I understand he did.
 John.-Which of the whig principles has Gen. Taylor expressed himself favorable to, iu any lelter, speech, or conversation of his that you have ever read
 OGce-holder.-Well. can't say have ever seen any expression of political prin- ciples from him.
 John.--Well, is thai being whig;
 Ofcs-holdey.-(drolly.1 .1-lt was, you know, in l840. 'sno principles for the pub- lie eye" was our motto.
 Jahn-Yes, but got enough in l840, and thought you had, too! Is not the general large slaveholder, and southern cotton planter and do you expect he will go for repeal of the odius British tariff of lS46, and for the Wilmot proviso, to which we are pledged,
 OGee-hoider.-There's no use of talking tariff, John, when the farmers are getting the present prices for their grain; and as to sla- very, can't say care great deal about it, after all You know Clay was a slayehol- der, but we never stuck at that.
 John-No! you didn't but great many did and Mr. Clay was beaten.
 OGce-hoIder.-Noi on that ground, for Mr. Polk, who succeeded. was as much of a pro-slavery man as MT. Clay
 John-Just so, but Mr. Folks party did not pretend 10 be otherwise. They express iy refused their sympathy to the an.i-slavery cause; were honest, though blinded; they succeeded while too many of the whig par. ty prolessed one thing and practised another; made promises 10 the ear, and broke them to the hope preached virtue and praclised vice; in word were anything for office, and nothing for principle. Does Taylor hold this most villait oos war to be unjust
 OGee-holder - 'spose so.
 Joha-Well, 'spose he don'r; for be- lieve the general 10 be a man of truth His correspondence with the war department, and his proclamation to the Mexicans upon invading Una. country which his military prowess has crimsoned. made desolate, and filled with wailing, all show that he justified the war in it's fullest extent Indeed, if he did not, slleuld think him the veriest mur- derer in existence. For while hold to the jus,ness of defensive war, deny that in an unjust war, any man SO believing, from the general down to the lowest private, can vol untaIiy become human butcher and plead in defence the orders of his superiors in com mand. If that doctrine is true, then for six thousand Mexicans killed, but one man is re.ponsible-i mean the Presiden,.-I don', believe in that, and therefore am glad to exeulpa,e Gen. Taylor by supposing, as ! certainly do, tha. he jus,i6es the war on our part But if he does this he is no whig.
 OGce koldsr.-John. my dear fellow, you are over nice in these things, and you sur- prise me. You Preshyterians are . fighting sect, ut least you have not entered any special protest agains, war in ihe general. while here are our Quaker friends, whose testimony against all resort to arms is as old as their sect, all going for the general with a perfect rush. Look st James, and Samuel, and Stacy and Ralph, and William, all Of the purest George Fox blood, and see how they scramble to be foremost in shouting for the general.
 John---Aye, eye, what you say of these individuals Is true; they have offices to hold on ,o, like yourself, aud probably DO, much principal to le, 60 from; bat whsn the Wss. Jersey Qoakers vote for . slAveholder, a .-4 sL n r q tt