The Arkansas banner., 1847-04-21

Territory. He was among the fact and reliable, friends of the sdminisiEsiidn. and WIS honoEedin a high degree with the confidence ofthe President.
 When the news reached Washington that thel Mexicans had dared to crass the Rio Granda, anal spill the blOed of our citizens upon their own so he was among the nnst active In bringing fotwafdI measures to place the men and means under thel control of the gallant Taylor and his comrades. tO drive them from our soil and punish their nsoence Itie was tor vigorous prosecution of the war, and |fov carrying 1t into -4ffIcas
 And although he had passed into the "sear dad yei or isaf" of fife. the arior of his youth was rekiu dled; he quit the ease and emolumeRts of seat in Congress, returned home and enlisted among brave land gallant volunteers of our State who had ocked to their eounty standa,d and at their head, leading most brilliant charge, he fell covered with wounds and with imperishable honor!
 And who now will not forget the partizau. and weep over the graveO the soldier and the patriot What Amercan heart does not exuit over the bril- Iancy of his deeds. and shed tear at the remem- braGcc of his fate: < As politician, Col. YELL was devoted to hs sPaSty, and always zeaioas in her service. This made hin political enemies. and some bilt-r ones; but account of h;s sterling integrity, his sincere, and devoted friendship, bis social and benevolent dispositions his smiableness of character, and his yirtuous life, the Bitterness of political enmiiy was much softened. and those of his own party were aF' dentiy attached to hin. In his domestic relations was possessed of all the finer feelings of the heart and as husband. father, kinsman, his habits and dispositions were worthy of all praise.
 Col. YxLL will long be rememberedby the peo-
 e of Arkansas In his death the State has lost one of its brightest ornaments. and most fassl Pablie servants, and whether he shall live in marble or brass, or his deeds shall glow upoa the pages of history. his memory will be long cherished in the hearts of a grateful people
 GEN. TAYLOR AND THE PRESIDENCY.
 "Rough and Ready, {" is said to be the title of a ncw campaign paper. abcat to be started at Nash yille Tenn, intended to urge the claims oi Gen. / Taylor for the next Presidency. The N. Orlean; Bulletin has hoisted the name of the gallant Taylor at its mast-head and the sArkansas State Gazette says-"Evidences are coming up from all quarter: to establish the truth, that nations gratitude will be satisfied with nothing less than his elevation tc the highest post in the land"
 The popular applause that attended Gen. Jack. sons military achievements, during the campaign, of lsl4 and 1915, soon pointed him out as the peo ple's fayori,e yet no real friend of his thought o thrusting his name into the political canvass dur ing his military service. This over. and the hero the citizen soldier having retired to private ife hi civil services were called into requisition by iii, State. by placing him again in the U. $. Senate | was not until about the year 1923, that he wa. named as candidate for the Presidency. The election of Mr. Monroe, which took place aftcl Gen. Jackson had embosomed hims If in the alice tions of the people, preceded his nomination first by the Tennessee Legislature, and next by that ol Pennsylvania.
 This apparent apparent modesty on the part ol Gen. Jackson's friends was met by Mir. Clay and many others, now prominent in the whig ranks with assaults the most violent. Epithets the mos harsh were used and applied to him. He was term ed military ehieftain, whose promotion to the pre- si4aRtis sssAu lAaaA iAs sHall f ss' poleon, a Cromwell, and Cesar; and many will recollect the catastrophe, eloqueny depicted by Mir Clay, when he admonshed us, to avoid the rock, upon which those nations split who in their blind zeal for the promotion of their military men were instrumental in subverting the liberties of their county.
 Does aLy one believe that. in thus thrusting his name before the people premaiurely, whilst he is engaged in foreign country, fighting the battles of his own, Gen. Tsylor's interest. or that of his coun- try, will by such means be at all subserved, even though MT. Clay and all prominent southern whigs who may be compounded upon principles, give in their adhesion.
 Is it the availability of Gen. Taylor's name that has induced these worthy editorial brethren to ap. propriate, exclusively to the whig party and the l swhig cause, all the renown won by this distn- gushed General and his valiant compatriots in four successive yctories' Or is it his reputed opposi- tion to Protective Tariff and National Bank, the primary landmarks of modern whiggery' We, too, profess to be the friend of Gen. Taylor, not politically but nationally. Our affection is of the 3highest order-7we yield to in our admiration Of the man, and the soldier Of his politics, we have less to say, for we know less. Whatever opinion we might entertain in relation to placing men has, lilly in the highest civil offices, who have grown gray in the habitual command of their fellows, un- der the rigid rules and articles of war. we fosbear to apply to the gallant Taylor; we know, however, that in time the people will correctly estimate his worth, and do him most boBor--where he can most Ihonor win.
 But with the promise of an expression of our preference for the next Presidency,-in our next without further remark ia this connection, we furnish cur resders with an extract from the N To. Pieayuaea neutral is politics, but edited by Ivery sensible whig-as being more to the point in Gen. Taylor's case. than any thing we can say. ISee extract in another eoluma.l O. We would call the attention of our fellow |citizens to the communication of correspondent, |oyer the signature of " 76 proposing that meet ing be held on Friday evening next, for the pur-