The Arkansas banner., 1849-04-03
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 jealous care, not only from the encroaehments of legislative power, but from the insidious and far more dangerous attacks of deluding demsgogne-. whe, pretending to a superior and more intimate knowledge of the wants and, wishes Of "the dear people, are continually tndeavoring. by system of persuasion and aliuring humbuggery, "to make the worse appear the better part" to mould the minds of those upon whom they can thus operate to suit their own views. and to accomplish their owa selfish ends and interests To think for ourselves in politics as we'll as in regona glorious privileges secured to each and every citizen of oar republic by the immutsblr, but often disregarcd, provisions of the constitu,ion,--is not only right that We may exercise, but duty that we owe to ourselves, to country. and to those who may cone ailer us, to bless or 10 curse for the government we may have transmitted to them. The stigma, it is true, will attack itself to such wantony inconsiderately have neglected to perform this solemn duty, have permitted themselves, by empty psgeanis and false promises, to be beguised into the support of men whose qualifications they do not know, and of mea- sures whose effects they cannot foresee but the con- sequences of their weakness or their peIfdy fall with equal weight upon all. and the innocent suffer with the guilty.
 Although the experience of every year has been
 whitening rebuke to those who have listened tc the doctrines of demagogues and plaeemen. and has taught them that all their gttering pageantIy was but tinsel, their seductive promises but wind, and their magnificent measures mere faliseies or cor ruption, yet there are always some among us who will not heed the lessons of experience who ever ready to catch at the gilded bait, and be- come the noisy patrons of every new, high-sound- ing bauhle that, under inc name of patriotism and love of country. is held out to entice them ftom their allegiance to principles The history and event of the last presidential campaign are humiIia,ing example of the instability of popular opinion, and do not fear to predict that the consequences will be disastrous. and the lesson taught The people bitter any that have invariably eusued upon every departure fiOm fixed principles to follow atier the visionary schemes of ambitious ofiice-seekers. We have seen the masses desertng he standard of de- mocracy, oi that party whose aim has ever been to increase and give permaneney to the prosperity of the country, to perpetnate those institutions ihat have been held up to the world as an example of freedom to secure by its weIi-organized policy ''ths greatest good to the greatest numbeT and to benefit the interests of the whole people When the smiles of national prosperity were beaming upon us, and our flag was freshly wreathed with the lsureIs of military success, we have seen the reereant to those principles which have ever been openly and fearlessiy proclaimed which, founded in truth, are as unchanging as truth itself; and for wbatf To gray an ererrestless desire for change, to follow after the empty bauble of military rencwn, and to elevate 10 power those who, Proteus like, have so often sought their favor in newly invented and gilt tering disguses, but often, by their inefficient and corrupt measures, have proved themselves the real enemies Of the people.
 At the time when the ofl-tried and as often con- demned whig measures had become obsolete and abandoned. their advocates longer trusted, they have sought one oihcr their last "arful dodge," and we have elected no-pariy President; yet we all ready see that he has summoned to his side as ad- vsers asd assistants in his executive duties, none but the most faithful and bitteres whigs. Al time when crisis had arrived in which an almost super. human effort is requisite to resis, the attempt of northern fanatics 10 eneroach upon and circumscrbe the limits and privileges of the souh have elected southern man; yet he has chosen the greater part of his cabinet from among those who have been the most uneompromising enemies 10 the lavorite institution of the south.
 These are but the faint foreshadowings of what is yet to come the guiiiotin has not yet been fairly set to york; the mantle of mystery has not Yet been laid aside; but, ere the echoes of the promisfuI speeches of the last campaign shall have died upon our ears, the sad reality will stare in the face. When the terms of high tariff, to make the rich richer and the poor poorer shall again be eanvassed when the ghost Of once powerful national bank shall be dragged forth from its resting place with all the cersments and habimens of the grave about ii, and an open and unblushing attempt shall be made to revive and re-enact the odious and now almost forgotten measures of former whig administrations; when the dazzling veil that has hitherto concealed its defornities shall be rent away and the true fea- t1res of the late "no-pr,cipled' ''no- party" party shall be exposed to the scrutiny of the people those who, like the deiuded followers of Mokanna, have been losdest in its praise will be disgusted with the hideoasness of their idol, and awakened to the de- captions that have been practlsed upon them.
 It is then, and t will not be long, that the party with principles will again triumph, and the victims of deiusiou will turn to the democracy for aid in their distress. We should be firm, and faithful, and form nueiens around which the reeresnt may rally when time and experience have convinced them ol their error. Then. cured of foolish dependence upon our own invncibility, there will be no more iukewsrmness. more divisions and deieetions, and victory will again be on the side of truth and justice.
 general Taylor never snrrenders.~
 This was the war cry of the whigs during the late canvass. and was enrolled upon banners, shouted in songs, and equal~i. in popular estimation. that far famed humbug, the order 10 Captain Bragg. Ladies lisned it t0 the General and un6edged snnn nrafnrs