The Arkansas banner., 1848-03-28

= ths Gazette who sppsars ss have psaeAaa, that way.
 The assertion that did, in the presence of the editor, CT of any one elss. either laugh st scoi, or deside she zeal, motives or ends of Mfr Mafitt.
 Is not only Rot frus bat Is the very ysssyss o what actually took place. As my conversation and let. ters. while he was here. viii sbaadantly prove, not only yi~laed ap the Prejudres sgainst him. with which my own mind had been filled, but sought. with earnessness to disabuse the minds of others. And although neither I nor thk comma niy hold him 10 be ianitless, above Sl other mcn, yet am convinced that he left 10 enemy ncE revil CT here ssve the Gazette and Isss than half dosen of the same kidney, the Ersid exhalations of that muddy sheet, 60 poison the public mind to the eoa- trary notwithstanding
 I So far from charging Mir Maflst with irrsvercnt handling of the Bihle tho very opposite is true; for , Il Is well known 10 every one who hearI me, that spoke, invariably, in terms of the highest adnira. son of his manner, in this particular as the finest part of his aished and impressive action, as ar or a'oF; and even farther, acnaiy cited hs example In grateful contrast with the ptactiee of some ministers had seen. who ''shufled the Biade about as pack of cards" In this connection, mentioned, incl dentally, custom, sid tO be observed by the Ma- hcetGas, in handling the Book of their Religion to keep t always above the level of their girdies. As to the Merfcaa Priests, although daily saw them by tke hundred, it was never my festane to see enc Of them with tho Hele in his hands. I have no re- collection OfmenuOniag, to the editor the Gazette, those fostering parasites of semi .barharous Iola- | e.-k1 -r the christian church combined with Indian super stitiOns. And If did speak of them at all, to him, 1t was, probably, because the teEt ensemble of his appearance. including the Onsured crown eons,i,a- tod the "eounteeit presentment' of their besntted sensnalily.
 l Of the fling made by the tsazetts;a Mfr Mai
 fit and his church, upon the scriptural authority of their doctrines and religious exercises have neth- ing to say; nor do suppose any one will deem their grataitous sssaiian worthy of formal reply More since this editor so cooty avows his adder like insensbility to the good impressions felt by almost every one else -bsins. as it were nat merely sAar ded. as supposed last week, but actually Shedled over in obauracy,-i app.ehend it would be as dii- cult 10 awaken his sense of propiety, or turn him from the evil of his couFses as to reach conscience m the cold bocded crawling thing yeepta 7srrapia And particularly, as he repudia'es the Angio.Saxon blood, fear he must, indeed be given over to the still downward procliyity of his nature, whether it shah lead him into Normandy, Neyro-laad or New Soah Wales" "Erhrain Is joined to his Ideas. let him aiOns!' JUSTICE. 1 The Gazette informed us some time since. that Cassias Clay, to lecture in the city of Bllti- more. upen Mexico, and charitlbly hoped that nm less he could do the subject more justice than Prof MsfFitt. he might be prevented by suHdly aches and pains foul punishing his riicncc. From the fol- lowing notice of it. in the Western Continent, pub iished in Baltimore, we inclined to think fl would have been well for him to have been so af. aic'ed, as he not only iell into he 'anglovcd hands, of eGior but provoked misses and rcvilings from these who heard him
 CiSSICS II. CLAY.
 We think that the Mercantic Library Associ iltion committed greatenOr in it's selection of this some- what RotOa ieas individual a lecturer before the refined audience which the well earned reputation of that excellent society fails 10 cali together His arrival, however, created a very decided Sc nsa- ton among the community, and the large rooaa of the UEiversalst Church crow ded that several persons were obliged o stand, during the delivery of a long and tedious haraHgae. We attended 10th from an interest In the subject of his remaFks. and eursosiiy to hear so pFomiiIcHt an AboiioRist. We anticipated lecture at least talented if not brilliant from this psoto martyr ot the Anti-Savesy cause in Kentucky; but tAe result only served to confirm our previous sxperIence, VIZ: that Abolitonism is sim gularly un'oru in the choice of it's martyrs.- Had the ilus,rous E. vERaY, Ex. Ex, given no bet ter account of his adventures while barber of tae Exploring Expedition, than Capt CLAY did of his Mexican travels, should have hlashed or that lndviiaal's reputation. We noticed bat one remarkab peeuliafity about the iustrious Captain, and that Is his remarkable impadenee. That nan should have the hardihood 10 get up before respectable society of intelligent gentlemen, to say nothing oi the large and brilliant audience which wss spreseat and should put them of with such miseI able trash, is to pel fsctly zibg. Such impotence is immense, His alnsst sub lime-we knew nothing which can approach it hus the ignorance which accompanies t. He sommen- eed his retnarks with geographical recitation. which seemed to De very impsrseclly ecramtied to memory from some comnon-sehool introduet ton to the science which descibes the surface of the earth At least. learned ffom him some startling facts such, for example, as that Mexico extepded from twelve degrees Sotlh latitude, 10 forty Noha-thai Vera Cruz was in nineteen degrees -SoEh latitude, with others of a similar character. Then, after lew remarks about the manufacture of pnigue, he launched into an abusive tfade against the South, which was poorly concealed under the Himsy veil of comparison befweea the misealled Republic of Mexico and the Southern States. He expressed his opinion that the Me1icans were superior to our Southern fellow ei.zens in all the arts Of eiyiza- ton. As instances of their superiority in chanics, he brought forward the important facts that there were some buildings in Mexico with walls ten feet thick. and that he never saw handsomer ladies' shoes than those made in the capital oi that county Our readers will st once perceive how very conclusive he was. He seemed 10 think tbat he South owed ali it's eivza- ton 10 the State of Massachusetts, because she is dependent upon that commonwealth for her ncsr shoes and wooden clocks. This brought down ap- piauss from few, while the mass of the audience testified their disPeasare by bis ing long and ioud aud many gentlemen and ladies rose and left the house in disgust
 Not content with his he afI med that soci Il rights were more expected in Mexico than in tbe South- eIR States Q His Mexican pFedilections carried