The Arkansas banner., 1849-06-12

tiaDs, and enabled the invader sack the city, slay the bull, Apis, and feast his soldiers upon the flesh thereof (Ihs is the first evidence that bull beef was ever eaten in any community.) We say 1t with due respect, that the present dynasty. when it attacked the democratic citadel put parcel of de- mocratlc cubs and to1as in the front rank, and, by an artifice us successful it was unhandsome, walked ihe foot lights and sat upon the anx- ious-seat of ihe republic,
 The classic admipistration now in power seems to have made but d sorry advancement in the his- tory of the olden lime. It should have read the account of the scene between Alexander the Great and one of the captive kings of Indostan. and pro- h1ed by it " How shall l treat you7" said the conqueror of the world to the captive monarch " Like a prince." replied the victim; and he was treatedl so accordingly. The " National Whig," however, paper which delight to read, has at length laid aside it's stilts, and come down to common sense and the moral law. It's leader this morning is upon Cheever's new work entitled .'Ihe tiil Of Diiiic uity." This is it should be-. Our friend has that "hih' before him and his party now; and fl he is really anxieas to overcome it. we will loan him our Pilgrims Progress and Edwards on the Aionement-
 But this is an age of glorious events-of giant men and astonishing preteations. The era of qreat taAings, if not of good feei,sgs, has dawned apon us and this nineteenth century, about which so much has been said and sung. is likely 10 turn out something. even if the lntelligencer ahould be set aside on account Ot its responsibility, and the city of New York should murder six and. thirty souls on account of quarrel between two play actors If the days Of Washington are to come again, we wonder whether any more aunaal messages will be sent to Congress in writing, by the hands of Presidents secretary Washington went in person to the Capitol in club wig. well powdered, dressed in suit of black velvet with small clothes knee buckles sboe-buckles and strait sword tipped with silver. He read his messages from the chair of the Speaker-both houses being called together to meet him; and on these occasions he read srith hiS back to he audience. If the second Washing gton Is to bring back the good old days of the Hancocks, the Rutledges, the Lees, and the Pickerings should he not meet the representatives of the people the Father of his Country met them, and not follow the example set by Mir. Jefferson, who, while he could could write like earthquake, could only speak like asucking dove2 Vel long 10 some of the fruits of last Noyember's change-something 10 satisfy the people that all is not vanity and vexaon of spIrt-in presidential elections a, least. We want to sec Mir Ewing's Lancaster explanation of the Allison letter denied sr eathedra by one of the organs about us. We want to know if General Taylor meant that he had no friends to reward enemies 10 pun sh among the Clay and Webster naeH onty and that as for the loeofocos, not man of them was to be kept in power from Passamsquoddy to Brazos St. Jago. If this is the reading of the document, then all we have to say is that four years will pass away, and, with them, the last vestige of the
 HEROIC AGE."