The Arkansas banner., 1847-11-08
A Chnpier on ..Cliqncs.'

An effort has been made oy the bditof oi me ASH ! ley organ to s.igmstse certain Democrats, opposed 10 his disorganizing course. afd the mistakes" of his patron, as the "cligus." He represents in, at east twenty places, in each number of his paper. the acts of this intangible and unapproachable body. as vile and monstrous. In column. he will tell you that i; is ruling the State and running the De- mocraiic party and another, that the people know its character will soon annihilate it. and that li has lost all power Try aud find who and what make up this clique, and ne tells you it is the "famiiy Clique" ;he " Little Rock Cliqne,' the Vile Clique" the "Ofice Holding Clique" the "Yell Clique" &c.. and that it is aboninabe monster, which can reach arm to the counties of Union and Lafayette, and compel them to send delegates for Drew and Johnson, te the January Convention. stretches to Randolph and creates the same Tesult it puts hand in Lawrence, strides into Scott, and winks a, Desha, aud they submit 10 its will. Who etFec, all this' The people! They are the real -cique." Tbe strong handed Democracy, the staunch old farmers form the clique, and every is chased as member of it, who dare oppose the dictdton ot Col. Ashley or th~art the machnations of his satellite of the Democrat. Were yoG opposed to Ashley's re election o the Senate. if you were, your "one of the clique" Do you take the "Democrat:' Ifyou do not, you condemned!
 We can remember. very well, when the name bore with il the utmost odum and contempt, and that was when there existed well known con- spiracy to rule or ruin every thing, called, throughout the Sttae, the "Ashley and Woodruff clique" This seIfsh- concern became haeful to the Democracy and Ashley was repudiated and the fN~ .K .o l -su and aIl," to the Whigs, and the term became ex tinct. Not until its identity, with slch men. was entirely lost, has il had popular meaning, Hence, the frequent use of the name by the Editor of the Democrat, who hopes to revive the slumbering pre- judices against It. His prototype, in disorganiza ton, Cyrus W. Weller, attempted the same stroke of policy, when editing the Times and Advocate, and quite fathessly as his successor. To show that we righ, in this, We will repeat ex- tracts, both from the Democrat and Times & Advo- ca,e, which we made some time snce 10 prove the similarity of language used by these two worthies and the determination to avail themselves of the odium which then hung round the very name
 WOODRUFF WELLER
 Dfm0erGt. Tfiass t .79gocah
 "The Banner clique "Fhe Aigerines despair who have determined of Drews election; their rule or ruin tbe Democrat motto is rule ruin" ic party" Sept. l. "The clique have, by
 '.rhe true character ofthe nomination of Drew, the rule rHia clique, decsifed war against the who now control the CO Democracy" umns of the disorganik- Sept. 9, IelI. ing Banner" Sept 9.
 "The apos.ate Whig, "Solon, the spostate whose name stands whig and efigy- burner" at its tthe Bsnnef,sl July I5. isi
 .sThe dsorganizing Ban "wbo is solon, and ner "clique" al Little what is the Banner, but Rock" the vile tools of family
 "The Banner 'cliqUe' clique" of dSorsanizers"
 August 2i
 "The Banner faction "Tte Algarne Banner are di3oI ganzers" faction" July l, lSI.
 July sl
 To these we tight add half column mora. but we do not believe any further comparison would be necessary. Our readers will now understand why those two Editors have struggled to afix the name to ali who oppose Reorganization.
 While he classes the clique with sueb men as Se- vier, Drew, Johnson, Armstrong, Yell, and others who have aided in exposing eorrup; men, donbt very much, iF his own friends do not strongly coa- demn the vindctivc malice with which the Editor assails 1t.
 '"'' DNthON'ot, III 7tsuNiHS AV NlS ArCAihS ih Pulaski, tells us "thai figures can't lie"
 We wish the Editor would sometimes make a "6gure" of himslf although we do not believe. if he were converted into whole multiplication table, that he would eli he truth in relation 10 our couu. ty convention. We have shown bim tha, we pub. lished the call for meeting on the 20,h September from Many Democrats" proposing thai the first day of court would hiring mere of the people together iAsa any ,lircr. that he ssh of October would be the most suitable tlnc This was assented 10 in the Detnoc'at and repeated in paper. Yet in one mortal eolussn of twaddle and abuse, the last Democrat tries to make its readers believe that be tween the 20th Of September and 18th of October ! (when the meeting was held), that there vas bui ''sevsH days aoiies." There to be very wide difference between those 'hgures that can't Iie," and the Democrat.
 A letter from Capt. J, Banks Anthony of the 25th l uit informs us, that he had arrived at Nashville l with 90 recruits, but the prospect for getting | more st that place was quite du he had deterInin- cd to make his headquarters at Lebanon, Ten. lie ! says, ''oar family, part of the l2,h Regt., had serious difficulty with the volunteers, and several on both sides wounded. and one or two killed | The citizens in six hours after tho aay forced one company to leave, but ss am ordered to Nashville and 1t Is our home, l do no, think they can run us