The Arkansas banner., 1849-04-24
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 1 The fsesst election in ceahsesesi is pseef q whai nay bs sOns by unsty sssseassfd. Ws bays nevss bsss able to bsllsvs the, 4ha sRsaea of ths WsimSa pFovssO QuestsOn eosld s1sctssiiy ef per. msnendy divide domoessra They gre bound tugether by DO common ties Prvfssaisg the ssuss principles, hslissine tho same truths. sdyOesting the came msasures and dssrine the ssms cad. - the grs.test good to he greaasss number" thS welfare ssd happiness sf the wAess eeunuy, they are coC- pellsd to walk hand tn hand in the same path. Allursd by the glitter of false and s2eeioas promises infected with the fansiieism of few iDfatuased dsmsgogues, they may for . moment swsrvs from the path of duiy. and even mingls with thOse who are guided only by the odor of" lhe esh pots. bat spon reflection wheu the whisperiogs of the sober. second thought" arc needed, they will invariably zee their error and return more stsubch than ever io their Principles.and their parry.
 Connecticut is an example Last fall Van Buren received there S005 votes. In the recent election Niles, the freesoi candidate for governor, received but 2500. The democracy had abandoned liseAr disssnsions sno rallied again their standard, The ! Consequence was. that they elected three cut of feur members of Congress, where before they had none. shs may well say to her sister States. % taos and do hIewiss''
 The following portion Of the address of the Bay State Democratic Central Committee is stamped with parity of principle, Iibera,y and patriotism
 We have snly one fhing more to sny before closing ,his bEief sddressdesigned to call yesr at ieniiOn to The speedy approach of the day of cleo Mon. Tbe reeeaf acquisition Of territory 10 which we have alluded has evolved succession of irrita- ting discussion on a subject which long sgo came near dssselsisg this Union: and which, when frs, ruised in 1920. startled Mir Jefferson as he forciby expressed himself in a letter to John Holmes of Maiue. hke fre-kcA in iAs night.' He considered It the 'kueIl of ihe Union; and In his eeirbFsted letter in regard ts that matter those who now naae the same subject ground Of geographical dissen- sioBs Wai fad the rebuke o( their conduct ithout entering into discussion or slavery in any of its forms of evil, refrsiDing altogether from considering Inc immediate or remote settlement of 'se territorial questea, with or without the ''Pro- Siss,S we call upon the democracy of Connecticut to frown down every attempt to discor in their ranks, by scattering the seeds of sectional eaouses and distrust amOog them. The lands, far and wide which our fathers purchased with their beod, are all free soil. or yet the property of Great Br,aa We have 10 sympatiies with those who see nothing precious is the history of Virginia or Carolina no glorious memories clustering around Mount Yer non or Monticello; no footprints of heroic men by broad Santee and along the path of Aiarion's meR but only free soil through that tongue of land witch is cs'led New England, in the Middle States, 1 and north of the Ohio, and norAere eise! If we cannot bring ourselves to believe that we are one peopfs; that we have one country, sud ancestry and common destiny; and that there are ties of con- sanguinity binding us together wherever under the flag of the Union lot may be cast: if these con- alterations are nothing. then are prepared, for soo,h' miserable patriots indeed. for the doctrines of faction whose leaders have declared the Union to be league with death and covenant with hell