The Arkansas banner., 1848-06-27
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ism moved up tS ths sFsss-ths csSrt house was flied with the busy voices sf tte crowd. Hsrk! three taps on Ee hand -bsllths hum Is hnshed. the chairman and secretaries take their places and the bali is opened
 The bombaslic bravAdo of Mexican Prouuncia- mento eould uitsr equal in extsavagance the high sounding professions, empty words and unwsransed assertions wah which the great guns of whiggery endeavord gull tho unsophis,caisd and cheer Inc fainiing coursEe of their partizans. Like the law yeF' who, in defending client for larceny, stated, first, that his tsent had the pot. secondly, 1t was broke when he got it. thirdly that he had taken It home again, they proved that "oldZsck' (who has always been too modest to intrude his private opinOrs uPoa the public was first every thing, se- condIy anything, thirdly nothing at ali. The chair man of the meeting lead of in very appropriate tsering that the meeting was composed of all par tes speech. in which he first asserted thai General Taylor was thorough going wing "died in the wool" this he knew from passing conversation with the old hero, eight years ago. in the rea- ding rvom Of the old ''cfuh of 4o."--afterwards. thinking perhaps that the old Generals remarks up on that occasion might be short lived as the "bar room assertions" of . celebrated M D. who spoke after him, he said that after ail cld Whtey was not such an almigAiy strong whig--in fact that he was "nc-rarty man" aud those therefore who were on the fence might very safely tackle on to his skirts without ha,ting their eonseiencss He was not ca. tisaed wfb abusing the living in the person of Mir
 Polk, but struck horror into the assembly by rat tliag tte dry-bones of the dead and exercising the spirit dfte unfortunate John Tylcrfnord to ana .,safs fe. f..a fs.s- n ty much tse same that General Taylor is. He con cluded hisspeech with an exeerstion "not loud but deep upon Gen Worth for exercising the right of conscience and wearing his coal wrong side out, and immediately invited some tea thousand demo- EcTats to 'godo iihewise While fcrforn' sake the committee had gne out to bring in the resolutions, Ia promising retainer of old Coke was called from among the crowdwhose seats at the great whig table are usually belowihe salt 1t Is not intended 10 dis courage him from displaying his forensic eloqueaee in the political anna, but be evidently wss less fa- miiiar with Gen. Taylor than with old Billy Black sicne-and mucI better versed in the Arkansas ReToris than in the constitution of the U. States
 Af CT 'teanDg Pssion to rags 10 very tatters'' hs portended mighk storm that, like the overAowing of some great rive would drown out the s'yarmint', democrats, and csled upon the people to place them selves under the protection of man, who if elected to the Pfesdenc would never misuse his eonstiiu- ents by the assumption of the responsibility of think
 ing for himself but confident oi his own weak ness would consoiidateihe legislative and judciaIy pow. ers and make the jndges of the supreme court his eonsclence keeper The resolutions were then read by the great dictator--Prince Albert himself Their sub'tanee was that'he people should govern them selves, but that m,ony have no right to make laws that may govern tho minority that the people shalt have bank whenever they want one that il is essn- tal the welfare the union to protect the capital isis and e, the poor take of himself that the President must not use the veto power except, when t is necessaTy that inc of freedom should not be extended; and that no foreigner should be per mtted 10 enter our holy sanctuary of Liberty. Af. ter the adoption of the resolutions dspper little gentleman, known not long since the "potent spir- 1t Of ipeescuauha" responded to a callbe seems 10 have dsregarded the Banner advice of friend and admirer who not long since thus admonished him. "Pack your sarcasm away in pill box. put your eloquence into vial and cork it tight. do up your hugely magnificent smiles into nice '.brown pa- per parcel" and stow them all away into some dark corner, really the three might do you some bodi- ly injury if allowed to unite" A few days ago this mixer of pills and politics was "tiger toothed ard vcnomous" againsl the hero of Buena Vista, but hndhg that he about to be read out of the par- ty in which caseT fr would have 10 exclaim in the language Of the grtat Daniel of the north ''where am 10 gc,' he submitted however ungraciously to the dciation of the irbunes and made "full, free nd nta rf proof of the ab)ufation of his independence he took for his text book, that holy compilation of ro- li'ical truths, the Louisville Journal.
 Then arose in all the might and majesty ofeonsci- superiority, the ,reat al am" of Arkansas whig- gery, to him hstorywas but romance, and facts on- y fit for inc distoro,s ofhe occasion. He took much pains to demonstrat, according to the doctrines of one BeIkiey, an Irih philosopher, that all the un- wonted prosperity fiat we see around us is but ma- ginary, mere dellsion, and that. in reality, the whole country Is in sinking condition, our curreu- cy utterly ruined, our credit entirely gone, our commerce completely destroyed and that the whole people are furnishing, all because Commodore Stock ion introduced a territorial government into Cali iornIa, and the country around Msramoros was ne; placed under the jurisdiction of Texas He argued that the only way to dispei this happy illusion would be 10 embrace the realities that the whig sys- tem afforded us. to -retTace steps" and return to the substances which in times gone by had been eelingy presented tous under whg administrations, to raise up Cromwell or Napoleon to rule Us with the iion rod of military dssposm to lay aside the prosperity that now everywhere giaddens the hearts of our citizens and more revive the de. unei pos of Federalism shin plasters and bro ken banks their high tarifand low ages and all the b"autiu bat too sadly real monopolies of whiggery In word he proved no doubt to his own satisfaction, by hisintimacy with Gen Taylor befOrehe wasa col onel, aud by the fact hathe (the speaker) first saw santa Anna retreatng fom Angosura, that the whole country is going to wreck and thai ,b ,,lx