The Arkansas banner., 1848-11-28
4 Sublime Speetaele.


 The London Times, Ia article on the app preaching Presidential election in this country. says that of the three millions of voters scareey one knows hie own principles ' This remark shews how gnoran. the T'ms Ia Of the people of the United States.
 We know no more sublime moral spectacle than that which presents itself in this rernbhc.-- the spectacle of three millions of voters about to choose their President for the next four years In Europe such an event would be accompanied with the most violent canvulsons in the Poltieai fabric When Poland was kisgdom, the monarchy there was elective, and from the death of one pFince to the installation of another intrigue aud disorder reiRned triumphant in the State. The hostile fac.
 ons frequently resofted to civil war; assassinatiou was . common occurrence; and the entire social and political fabric rocked t3 it's centre, like a volcano when its pent-uP fires cannot find vent Even at this day, France scarcely holds au election that does not lead to slaughter even if not attended by it. The expulsion of Louis Philippe was oniy achieved by revantion: the elevation of Cavag gnae was through torrents of blood; and the choice of a President, whether that choice falls Lamartine, Cavaignac, or Bonaparte, may, for all VIC know, lead to another desperate struggle between parties
 What contrast to all this does Pr sIdentiai election here present. Within four months from this time the chief executive of this mighty republ will quietly lay down the insignia Of office. retire to private life, and perhaps resnme his profession in order 10 obtain livelihood. Within eight days from this three millions of votes will have peaceaby decided who shall be his successor. or this three millions, the triumphant party will, in all proba- biiity, outnumber their opponents by only few thousand; while it may happen, in consequence of the indirect method of the election, that the sue cessiu side may really have minority of the pop usr vote. Yet no man anticipates even a street siot, or the slightest commotion of any other kind When it is once known who is the peoples choice, the three parties will submit without a word: the Ana aF..1 .l. l.. IT. ! the whole population, forgetting all past dissensions will treat him, from that day up to the expiration of his term with the honor due 10 the first officer of fthemIghtiest republic on the globe.
 Even now, when the community appears to be occupied with nothing but the election:-when the political journals tecm with abuse--when mass meeting are daily held-when processons make the town flame at nght--and when the whole staple of conversation, whether on the street at the ex- change, or in the parlor. is ths election, and the election ony:eyen at this crisis, the great wheels of society revolve undisturbed. It is the surface only that is ruffled bclow, the tide of industry and commerce rolls onward unchecked The merchant sells his goods; the mechanic builds houses the far mer drives his team to market the lawyer harangucs for his client the pleasure follows his idle | but bewildering dream; and every thing moves ou so regularly that stranger who did not under stand the language, and consequently could mol hear the expressing theme of conversation. woulS never KNOW that any matter ot i'm tortance Wal trausacting And yet, within the next eight days 1t is 10 be decided whether our national policy is be changed for the next four years or is 10 remair as il has been during the last four years.
 Nor are the three millions of votes who arc {, play this great prama ths ignorant beings the Lon don 1tnes asserts There may be few anon. them who are blinded by prejudice, led by basa interest or controlled by others but the great body ninety mine out of every hundred at least, will vot conscentously aud after mature drliberai:on - From earliest childhood the American is taught t think oa political matters. He reads the pnblj journals and he hears the speeches of great me.l and these set him to examining for himself so Una he soon acquires habits of thought ia pc;tical af 1 tairs. An knglishman who has never travelled ii the United States, no matter how well educated h. may be, can form conception of the politics knoWlcdg the most ordinary ahorcr here posse sses We are, therefore. not much suFprtSei at what tl, 1 Iimes says. I hat journal thinkmg of tn British popuace, gross. ignorant, brutal and uu 1 princiried and not of the inte ligcnt frecmen o l these United States.
 1 Three millions of people about to deciJe how the will be governed for the four years and decid 1 this without drawing a sword, sheediug a drop 0 | blood, or indulging even in q single riot! What ! glorious moral spectacle, What commentary 0 l the wars of succession, as they are called, wit which the world has been deuged; and all in orde to determine whether some gouty Guelph, or epilep lie Bourbon was to rule millions of better men tha | themselves. -AeoFs Gazette.