The Arkansas banner., 1848-05-23
pEvOCRlTIc HfpxIL cesyEyfIOy.

Yesterday, the 22d, was ths day fsr the meeting 4 of the Dsmoera'I< Convention st Baltimore. W.
 expect through the ai4 of the aupereas teegraphiS 4 lines to bs able in our nsxt number to announce
 to our readers the result of i,s deiberaiions-os least tEe names oE the statesmen who shall have
 been seIeeted the standard bearers of the party
 in the approaching campaign. We may all have oal
 preferences, yet 1t matters bat little far the
 triumph of car principles s eoneerned, who may
 se the Reminee of the party, 30 that he be sgeod
 Dsn and true" ioyali in his allegiance to ihe sycwed
 doctrines of the party. and rm she faith of the
 fathers Of dsmOeraey-for though all things else
 may De subject to change and innovation, demo
 cratic principles, being founded tn truth. will eyer
 like truth lsseif, remain the same, unchapgng and
 unchanged: The siigibihty ard not the Gruiiibslty
 is the question in eur democratic conventions. IL
 is not for the simple election of the wen that we
 eOntend but for the sneccss of the measures advo-
 ested by ihe party of which they become, for the time, the chosen expohen's and leaders. This is
 the great secret of the complete union of the dem-
 cerstie patty st targe-uPon questions where no
 petty differences of personal friendship or auimosi
 ty, cfoeal policy intervene to created schisms
 and ddiscord.--Ressoning from the rig5t instead of
 the trpsdeney, for have aIready experienced the
 justice ofJsckson's motto that 'the right is always expedient' they invariably come to the sane con
 elasisRs, asd are ever united upon all important
 questions Of National or State policy.
 In May, Isis. the Baltimore Convention adopt
 ted series of resolutions admirably embodying the
 faith of the Democratic party. In that campaign l circumsianees, which can never again occur, until the whigs have once more been long enough in power to iasten uPon tho country those scourges cf our political system-a bank, and a protective tarif-and until they have again brought about disastrous and almost universal bankruptcy like that which immediately preceded the Presidential election of lSi0.-U ndaunted by this defeat, relying upon the good and the better judgment of the "so- bsr second thought' of the people, and indeed not daring 10 iruckIe to the apparent expeiency of the moment by abandoning principles so evidently formed in truth, in justice and in right-the demo- cratic Convention of ls44 again adopted as their articles of faith, the resolutions which had been promulgated by the preceding convention. With these resolutions as their text book, they be- fore the people, and without the aid of eoon-skins log cabins, hard cider, or empty military titles, wiihout taking their stand upon a non-ccmrittal platform, or voeifera;ing the cries vf "no party" they achieved glorious victory aud elected to the Presidency the man of whom, at the time of his nomination, Il was curiously asked from Maine 10 Louisiana "who is James K. Polk" The events of the last three years have answered this question and James K. Polk. the democratic President is now known to every freeman from the Pacific to the Atlantic, as the man, who true to the prine- pies of the party, by which be was elected true to the interests of popular republic, and true the welfare of the people and the government. over whom he has nObly and successfully presided-has proposed and advocated throughout his admnistra- i tion, only those measures which have met the ap- probation of the just and reasonable of his cous,i tuents, has not feared 10 vindcaie even by calling upon the eycEseady militia of the country the honor and the rights, the interests and privileges of our citizens against the insults and unjust agsre<sons of an insolent neighbOr, and who, notwithstanding a foreign war wth power far exceeding us in population if not in resources, has administered the aalrs of State that prosperity and plenty have shed their smiling influence throughout the land, | while it continued without embarrassment to sus- tain the host of heroes, ho gloriously triumph ing upon the plains and in the mountain sorges, of insoieBt but lll-fated Mexico. >
 Guided by the chart of principles furnished him ! by the convention from which he received his no miRation-he has investigated and deciled upon, 10 the satisfaction of every Democrat, all the issues. both old and new, in topics of national iwportance that have beea presented .s his consideration. As in the campaign of lsH the Oregon and Texas l questions presented new issues never previously | canvassed before inc people, in the approaching l election, The monsroas bank and the not less mon- s,rOus tariff having been voluntarily abandoned by the whigs obsolete ideas. the issue will be male uron the ustice injussce, the proprieiy or ipro pFie,y of the war with Mexico-and the acquisition of territory. It behOoses therefore. since new questions may continually b. presented, to select for nominee one who will be in every way com . Pesent to analyse and decide any issues aeeor- ding to the principles oi democracy ani for the well being of the Republic. But among the list of thcse who have been mentioned in connection with the nomination there none who has not by bong public service been already tried and not found wanting-not one under whom We will not conf. den,ly expect to realize faR another great iI amph, which, Is il is Te-echoed from State to State shall be ,ee funeral kBeIi cf whigsery.
 GEN. HiRNEi.
 From the statement below and from Inc letter of the Washington Correspondent of the x. Q. Delta, tx@ leaFa that tho eft