The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-21
TAing. nt the Metrop.lis.


 Things at the Metropolis.
 Politics at Washington are rapidly progressing to a. degree of refinement before unknown in the his- tory of cur country.
 By pledges. promises and various other artifces whig president has been elected. The great ob- jsct being secured they sit calmly down to view the troubled waters over which, with much labor aud difficulty. they have successfully passed. fu- ture policy must then Dc adopted which will extend to them every andvantage that has been gained by such means, while 1t will secure the spells of office and gratify their old animosity against their po- ltical enemy. The Guoiine was put into opera. tiOn system of prescription was commenced never before witnessed in this any other country No mercy was shOwn-no quarter given; no cir camstance was deemed sufficiently extenuating to entite democrat to favor; the cries of poverty the appeal of the decrepd old soldier--deyotoA to couniry-a pure and spotless life of patriotic exer- tion--all, all alike have been unheard, or if heard unheeded and neglected. This. too in direct viola ton of solemn promises and reiterated assurances to the contrary. A false policy which has cost them much; it has aroused the sleeping. and brought buck ihe truants to the democratic flock, whils, it has caused the staunehest whigs to recoi with osth l ing and indignation.
 l When Gen. Taylor came into power he was sur rounded with an ephemeral glory that aed him to imagine himself the greatest man of the age |, l A~~-i-I '-'... EEv suOugat no conduct, however Ragiiious or immoral, could bring hm into discredl or detract from his exalted popularity He thought himself foot loose, fancy frss to wonder through the inazes of right and wrong us the qualification of his caprices led him to shape his conduct. Gov eTned by no refined sentiments of morality, and. owing to life in the camp, having no fixed and mutabls principles of integrity, he gave way to the advice of evil councillors violated hs promises and proved every way recreant to his most sacred and oft repeated engagements. Yielding to this strange infaiuation and considering all done that was neces sary 10 secure him bright page in the history of his country he has forsaken the path of honor and virtue. Independent of the wrong principle upon which he acted, he and those around him forgot or overlooked the pendancy of the Congressional eiec- | tions, until by the pursuit of their unhaliowed practices, they irretrievably ruined themselves and their friends. In all human probability they havo lost the majority boasted of In the next Congress l In this dark and gloomy state of things. some- | thing must be done, and that immediately. Re- course was had to their outdoor adviser their ' man of all work" that Pros,ituted Senator, True man Smith, who Is ever ready to do the dirty jobs assigned him.
 TEueman hss been residing at Washington since the inauguration of Taylor, and president of the defnnci whig committee. experimenting, iu gener- era the elections throughout the Union. i Trueman Smith Is an aboitionist.
 | In every shape and form in which the subject came up in the Halls of Congress he voted and ex- sr;ed himself ia behalf of aSsii;isH.sss. Ia ,ho north before the Presidential election he re- ported Taylora Wilmot proviso man, and upon that ground strained every nerve to secure hts triumph
 But what do we 6ad him proniulga,ing now in behalf of the whig President His game lies In different quarter, and accordingly his tactics are changed. He now wishes to bolster up the totter- ing fortunes of his favorie by securing return of %hig members to Congress. He tells the Southern- srsA Ioag s,ory about coalition between abolition ists and Northern democrats This from Trueman Smith. the abolltionist !! It isa well known fact tba la the North al IvA.gs are free soers, and that td Congress there is not one single man iu that party whO stands with us or votes for us. That not only this, but sigAi SsufherH WAgs vcsed against the South whilst a large number of Norta<ra dem oerafs supported usstOod by and in the teeth of the bullying and bravadoing of Northern fanatics. voted with us to the last.
 Had these eight Southern whigs proved constant and faihfal to their constituents, this dsporabie state of things would have been avoided.
 This vexed qusstioa would have been amicsbly set tied and our happy Union weald not now be dis tracted by this existing melancholy division. But 1t is now too late. Ali regrets arc In yain-.he op- perta1ity has been lest and we now find ourselves in hopeless minority. and the South. bound vie ten te be offered up on the altar of misplaced con fdencs. By stroke Of policy. to secare tbe slse- iion of their candidate. these treacherous whias havs blasaed our psacs. Thoss snfinchipg demo- crats who stood by us are9ons. They have been 1 swept away by the aecd of he ssllism. and new | members ansagonlssicai have been returned. and | his is whst Tsssmaa Smith terms cealision bs. 1 ween aboilsionssss and Northern dsaaecrscy.s
 In Iadlaaaa. Tsamas plays different: s.ms There these tales would net do. Ne writes so the