The Arkansas banner., 1847-05-12

 faith, bY the United States aad the etizens thefsu
 In witness wavssvss, T have hsFeanio set ny haEGi and caused the seel q the United States to De ss ed.
 Done at the city cf Washington, slis ninth day f
 September. in the year of our Lord css r., thousand eight hundred and forty -sif, and of the Independence of the Unitsi
 JAMES K. POLK
 By the President: iS
 MP. TRssr. .actiag Sscrriasy ef stats
 Essn sss Asesas Rssser
 Gcns Taylor.
 The nonaisation of Gsn Taylor as ths party can didste of the saAigs is making qnise astis within that party. of which the external symptoms though manifest. fhe motives with which t was made are transparent 10 deprive tem of all charae- ter as spontaneous tribute 10 exalted merit. They are clearly merely selfish calculations for political profit, and are 90 confessed in some quarters. The New Orleans Bulletin, which took the ieaa. Asa took it upon consultation with its political friends was taunted by the Pieaynne. whose editor is whole -souled, high-hearted whg of the Henry Clay school. with the purpose. less of doing honor to Gea. Taylor than of serving objects of psstsanshp and the Bulletin, in reply, innocenty admitted the charge, without seeming to understand the import of it's confessions. Among its undivulged reasons for hastenlng the movement the following are par italy revealed 10 its own reluctant friends that t is important to eoanteract certain political movements = that the rrssiige of Gen. Taylof'S name will be powerful in the ensuing congressional elections and that unless whigery apprOpsiatss at onee the democrats were preparing to get ahead of them.- Therefore the nomination of Gen. Taylor is good electioneering material for she summers elections The great merits asd lustffoits works of Gen. Fay Tor are thus undisgaisedly sezed upon as the prop erty of party-and the sel6shness and hypocrisy with which the attempt is carried on elsewhere, the appropriation of all the sores of the war to the uses of party which has proclaimed il unjust, un- necessary, and wicked, afford new pfoofs If any were needed, that whigcry, as party. has no prin ciple that il is not willing to abandon for the acqui siiion ofpower It viii throw aside all its leaders whose principles have been known; even in the long tried and passoassely loved Ciay 1t will re- soanee the horror which 1t professed for bong years to feel the first of its instincts against the eieva ton of even the greatest of military men to the highes. civil office; it will treat all questions of civil policy as not worth Inquiry; and it will sanction the war policy which t has most vehem. enty resisted. merely to secure chance of getting into office. This coid-hearted tralScking with national impulses, and this caieles abandonment of everything heretofore pronounced to be of the high. est importance to domestic interests and the virtue of the people and the durability of the government are utterly alien to thoee sentiments upon which Gen, Taylor will be supported. if candidate, by the honest and disinterestea people We are lock ing on quietly while these movements are going On: and though we take no present part in them. we are whiting for developments of more of those reasoas of whigery which the Bulletin retains yet undiyu- ged Noccurs to us, from good many signs that the whig anxiety to get ost the commander of an army in Mexico as candidate for the presidency. while he is in the field and the war yet raging may | 2 him. than from the desire to keep down the arrange ments which were evidently in progress. for gen. eral demonstration in favor of MT. Clay for another trial-a fear lest that movement might niure the current elections by committing the party too soon to that unfortunate chief.
 The Tropc of New Or leans has a good many misgivings about the wisdom of this Taylor an. nunciation. IL has its doubts of Tayors sufficient whgery-talks solemnly of the duty of eleyaiiny to the presidency such men are in fayog of pare mount whig principles, aud none others--Aeciares that protective tariff is "eardinal whig principls
 and tiat 1t will support no man diving or dedd who is not protective tariff man and then inti- mates that it has heard that Gen. l sylor is free- trade" maa. Thls is one ehsu already upon the elecfioneerng fever; another is expected from the New England whigs who refused to vote sunuIies 10 the army and declined rejoicing their victories because the war is wicked and damnable one. which il is high crime to aid os prosecute in any form.
 From tss .vS0 Orleans Picryuae ef .9priI II. LETTER FROM GEN. TAyIoa.--We have been placed in possession of private letter. addressed 10 Gen F G. W Butler, of the parish of IberyiIe hy Gen. Taylor, which will be read with the great. est avidity. Whatever relates to the battle of Brena Vista, of anthen ntc character, must possess an absorbing interest IL will be at once seen that inc letter was not intended for the press but we make no apology for publishing such portions Of iN as are efpubhe concern. The distinguished gentIetnan te whom if was addressed has been moved by desire to contribute to the knowledge of the public upon expressing subject, to submit this letter for our use. We do not admit that there would be any improprieiy in tbs under any circumstances bat st the present moment, and al time when a very un. authorized use is sought to be made Of Gen. Tay- lcr's name, we think the publication sppropriate, and indeed. necessary to the rghi understanding ei his great character.
 A paragraph in relation to the presidency will al once create attention. We coninrc those who would Inappropriate Gen. Taylor for party purposes to pom der what is there written. If they pat him for ward as party nominee they must run him on par ty issnes. Will they eateehise him upon the vari- ous topics which form the creed of any party' Will they subject ham to the surveillance of party cuhs oer him up for he susten2nce of stump oratorss little reflection will teach them better Let him be the nominee of the Republic, or no nominee We have laid before our readers several Of Santa ABnas letters in regard to the battles of the 92d and 23d of Fehrazry--oae of them elaborate in de- tail. and complete in description. The letter of Gen. Taylor. which now fer the first time sees the light does not profess to be minute description of the events oi tose days bat it presents in clearer and more authentic shape the grandeur of the resis- tanee made tothe cvershelmiag forces of the enemy and the vastness of the responsibility assumed in giving and maintaining the battle. Stripped of bis most effective men, surrounded by armies greater than his own, and in the heart of the eaemy eoaa trys the gallant old soldier maintained his ground and obtained victory when even his own officers coaaselied retreat.
 IL will be observed also that Gen Taylor begins to espy the spires of the city of sfexieo from the Businesses of the Sierra Msare. But enough Of in tfcdueticn. When the good people of ike coan- try read this letter fsia believe that the hope .. the auihor wiIl not he dsepei unreasonable when he trusts 'shey vii be satished with what he di, on thai oecasion.''
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