The Arkansas banner., 1848-02-22
Fer fAe Bsnaer. MaRR NHIG RiNKING.

A0RE WHIe BANNING.
 MR. EpsToa: If sny additional evidence, be. sides the baek ie.sered isi of past offences, were wanting to convict the Ags. as party, of the de- sire and purpose to regaivanire thss pestisnt old corpse of imrndept pseteusioB--so rebuild those modem tbut ncns the less heafaeal "Temples of Mammon"-to mconstruet those old ieaaal castles of the credit systemto restore the times of worthless bank paper and revive the spirit of ruinous speeu- atonin word, to re-establish Banks, with all the evils. which experience reflects, and reason foSe- shadows, their inevitable consequences;I say if any new evidence were wanting to convict the irkgs as party of this mischeivous design which results from their weakness CT their wiekedness, it is to be found in the course rursued by them. whenever they come into possession of "a htte brief authori- ty" For tken, they do "play such fantastic tricks that it they do not make the Angels weep," at least convince every reasonable and observing man, that they are wholly unfit to be trusted with the welfare of society, or the worlds government.
 In proof of this, limit myself. just now to brief notice of the do:nss of the Tennssses VAig Legiss fure,
 In the last Report Of the State Bank. 10 the Le. gisiafare of Tennessee (aow in session, or but recently adjourned) there appears the following:
 ''Thc report shows loss of S777 ,36o es; to which should be be added 10 the sum Of $24s 596 U3 eon- iIngent tund, making the total loss of Ba lking Capital. q .o2I ,ss6. .72'
 Upon this. Demoeyatie editor, justly sneering says:
 "At this rate it will not be long that d.ren sec. tons ot the State are dsPuting for the benefits of "hranehes."
 And in relation to it. the Memphis Enqai,er, a s0hiy paper fearing the disgrace of its State, vet knowing its party thus clearly points out the path of duty, of patriotism and of honor-but despa;r, ot it's being followed by those enlightened represen tives 'of all the talent and all the deceacy Hea, him:
 "Ihe bill to put the Sta'e Bank of Tennessee. in slate of Liquidation was lost by vote of 5S to a4 The legislature ought either to manage this inst;tu ton better, or else wind it up. We don't think they will do either.n
 And the fsreboding of the Enquirer was well founded, and required but day to realizs fur read the following;
 From Ms Na.sriUe W1ig.
 "BASK OF TEvNsssEE.-A bill passed both House, ot the General Assembly authorizing the Bank of Tennessee to issue notes under the denomination of five collars.
 A bill has also passed both Houses restoring the branches al Athens, Ciarksville and Columbia. Ia the House of Representatives it was amended so as to provide for the establishment of new branch at Memphis In that shape it passed the House oa the ayes and noes. But motion has been entered to reconsider the vote by which the bill passed, for the purpose of procuring its rejection. Up to this writing. the motion tcreconsider has not been &C., ted ont
 And from other Tennessee papers, off later date, 1t appears that, upon final vote 1t was not rejected
 So, in Tennessee, soon the Whigs have again, as they suppose, firmly established their do- imitation, among the first things they do is to take a Bank that is already broken, or on the eve of breaking. and instead of having it wound up at the earliest practicable moment,- or cut down at once as ''a cumberer of the earth," and injury to the banisl specie from iheir State, by substituting ''shin-p -plasters' of afS~er denomination than fre dollars, when it has not the ability to redeem the paper 1t had already issued. And more and worse than that re-estabshed three branches which before, n had been found necessary to discontinue, and made one branch de noro'!
 This is a sad spectacle. 1t presents scene at which the patriot shudders, and almost in despair. For, while many States have eschewed Banks and Banking, and all their direful train of ills, and for bidden, even by constitutional provisions, the turn to any such abominations; here Is a State--a great State, that has retrogaded at single step, ai most generation In time. and mofe than eeotnry in public virtue. h contemplation of this dwin. ding lunainary-of this disappearing Peiad, shall lose all hope, and cxelaim-" Ephraim is joined to his Idols, let him alone7' Shall do thisl Or ra- ther, inspiring the cheerful hope which so secords with the spirit of this sge shall not call upon the people of Tennessee to awake. from the lethargy which, like great leaden pail, seems to have been spread over them by the hands of an impure poli- cal faith and to rend assander this heavy ve which shnts out the light of reasOn-coliects the nosome mildews of speculation about the hsart-and weighs down the noblest aspirations of inc sOul7 And in this hope and this spirit shall not also, invoke the people of the whole couniry-of our own broad glorious land, to up to a sense of the danger which thrcste's The serpent has been s'seetehsd, not killed" Aud now, warming into new life in the embraces Of the seAig pdrty he seeks again. to rear his hideous crest in cur lsnd--whie his insidious coils are winding about society. Awake, arouse, 0 my eOuntrymea. Like Laocoon and his sons, yoa and your dearest interests enfolded within the dangerous circles; and the monster shews signs of renewed eJnstrieton. Awake and aroase! ere il be too late Neither slamber longer, in reckless Indf ference, or nglcrous repose nor yet like the iimid iPhiclus. shrink arghted and poweriess at tho dan. ger But, as young Hercules, boldly grAs, the hiieoas reptile, and strange him with your own fearless power,
 And should any man seek, at any time, to lure you back to the errors, and dangers, you have re- nounced, and escaped; remember. the human form but hides the coils of ''the spsekled snake" Then chang him high upon the gibbet Of public iafaIsy, and shsfeet the storm-bast of popular indignation howl through the skeleton of hls character,