The Arkansas banner., 1848-05-02

substituted. Notwithstanding the claims of other whiRs, will now restrict myself to saying yenr s9hdEs. lweFs posiponed @ho no one BOW deabts could lave Ben elected, we, ihe whig pariy, all united On yoa. We fought with thc aEdor of bro- Asrheod, and with shs moTaI posrsr of . noble eaupe. Our success seemed certain. Now once more, by that fatality which attends you, you come out in your gazette letter, and dsclain any sympa- thy with emancipation. It Is true there is a BiIe inconsistency in this, inasmuch as yoa had always avowed just the opposite doctrine but as you wrote to me .'gO on goed CaSsiws'" thought at last ali things would come on right This, however. was small affair between me, and our abolition friends. But all at once, you came out in your Alabama let ter; when you would mot reject permanent qaistion of territory account of temporary in- siitutiOn" This was a very different affair. Itay al the foundation of the whole contest. You "changed front" The whigs of the North were disgusted They had nothing left to contend for. The battle was lost. efelt our couniry's wounds in your person. We paid your debts, we condoled with you in your retlTement once more, and raised monuments to your memory! Once more the-ex- cesses ot the democratic party, began to exhibit themselves. The unconstitutional annexation of Texas, and the Presidential war, began to stir the souls of indignant fTeemen. Seeing that were tn a minority, and;~ ithout the sympathies of the people-having experience that peace party can never have the confidence of Republic during raging war-ouT wise whig leaders voted supplies, and the whiga tHrned out to tho war, and more We steadily brought ourselves up from a minority where you had again left us, into majority. The administration had all the responsibility of tho loss of honor, men, and money, by the war; our whig generals reaped all the glory. The success of our party was certain. The public, with unanmity never before seen in this country, looked to our man a man who, growing tho great for the powers af Washington, was left 10 perish with handful men before twenty thousand troops in the enemy's county. Bui Zachary Taylor was not the man to die. to accommodate either President Polk or his ally Santa Anna! The battle of Buena Vista fixed Gen. Taylor ia the heaTls of the people Neither you, nor the wife workers of party, nor the Pres- dent cause him his friends to ''surrender .'' The honest old soldier was generous enough to give apaIty compliment ta your name by saying he would have preferred to himself to lead us once more Co the battle. You have taken him at his word T Immediately your friends ot the "seeret eircuiar" " under the prcience of being "the friends of General Taylor, stab him to the vitals. Then, sharp sigh ted patriots found out tha; Gen. Taylor was not the choice of the whigs--that this willingness oi the grateful heart ot the people was all sham affair in q word, that You would reluctantly consent to run again! am plain spoken man, sir; 1 tell you l know these men: they would not have ventured to take this step without your consent It is true this is hoi fair play! It looks to me like political as- sasinatoR. Nor will it be cured in the eyes of all disinterested men by the spirit of violence which : IuT friends in Frankfort-in Baitimore-in Gin clnnati--a and in New York, have yentured against the friends Of Taylor and ''the liberty of speech " I'he verdict ot jury against your son lately in Kentucky, ought 10 teach you and them, that we are not yet slaves even to Henry Clay.
 lt is true that this is in you deep iaGratitnie 10 Gen. Taylor; but you best play ing out your life long game: for when did ever Henry Clay spare an enemy or a-.frlsnd lcongraiulate you upon your determination at last to denounse the Native Ameri can party, to whom you wrote encouraging letters during the last canvass; and which they were kind enough 10 suppress you can do 20 with impunity The native American patty is dead But whether l the memory of the Irish and other forei yners will be as easy in forgetting rroay as you are in not remembering faror, remains to be seen Space | compels me to pass the long roll o( your self advocacy and conhne myself 10 two specification ! You seem to think that Obio will not go for any "one residing in the Slave States" but you; and that New York would more certainly beslow her vote ! on yon ethan any other candidate"
 Ohio went for yon, by the Western reserve vote, i which assisted m getting for you, because you were suspected oftrah, in declaiming against Sla- very had too much respect for your talents 10 { suppose that you would again attempt the shallow | game No, your Janus faced resolutions ot Lex l ngton. deceive no longer the blindest fanatics Besides, if the free North would not take you then the question Clay and no slars te, rtiory, will they take the issue which you eoverly tender theIn Clay and NO FREE TERRITORY
 With regard 10 New York, you seem strangely ! to have forgotten the fact that the whig members or De Iegisstuie nave declared hat the Slate Will go for any other wbig," to close the mouth of your par;izans here! The city election of democ ratio Mayor in New York, whilst your friends put the l election upon your popularity here, demonstrates that your name is indeed ''al powerful to change 1 a whig majority into minority al least If the i whig party capable of learning, in this, they ! will reach the fdure, know the strength of party < organization, and the desperation of those who have life cstates in your peTson-you may succeed in | pushing Webster and Mclean, and Seward, and , Corwin. and Scott, and others from the track once more-the dagger of your secret committee and your pubi'e inqaisitors may Kill off Gen. Taylor, just nou-but the deceiver may be himself deceived! Yes, Henry Clay can never be President of these States
 have The horror to subscribe myself,
 corr rhiy, and ,our obt servN,
 C. Nj. CLAY. |