The Arkansas banner., 1849-09-25
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 Prime Ministers all the world over, have the same failings, whether patching up the crumbling power of Female royalty, or working the wires for the president of free and enlightened republic. They adopt the old rale of the game of whist. "whsn you den't know what else to play, play trump and with them. hHnbug is always trumps. The British ministry. unwilling to grant the just re- quests and heart rendug suppIicaslOns of the fam lshing people of Ireland, have otted out the Queen They think. by momentary qualification of the pride and love of pageantry inherent In the breast of all Irishmen. and appeal to that loyalty with which they were oace so blindIy zealous, to make them forget their wrongs and to drown in empty exclamation the sound of the clauking of their fet- ters. For this purpose the Qusen has been dragged from the retirement and spIcndorr of Windsor Pal ace, and attended by all tho pomp and rars show of royalty, paraded and exhibited among the cabins and sheebeens of Ireland The loud acclaim and the thunder of artillery may greet her coming among the aristocrats of Dublin and the serving, lde walters of Cork. but the great heart of the Irish people will beat with indignation at this new mock cry of their misery The patriots of the county of Clare and their fellows the horny palned yeornan- " of the North and the half famlshed turf cutters in tho South, win in all this display of splendid power, only the greater contrast with the want and suffering that surrounds them, and generations not loud but deep. and not soon to be forgotten, will follow the young Queen and her fawning cOurtiers throughout her tour.
 While this game is played off on the other side of the water, Butcher Ewing and his co-adjntors, hav- ing become dissatisfied with the signs of the times indicated by the recent state elections, and finding that the popularity of their automaton executive is decidedly on the wane, have started him out upon similar errand, to amuse the people by an exhibi- ton of their "hero president" In this they have entirely mistaken their role. They have presum- ed too far upon the guIlibility of the masses The people of the United States have peculiar faculty which they sometimes exercise, of thinking for themselves. They are ever ready to do homage to true merit, and to add radiance to the halo of go- rious achievements, but when the General comes among them sirp of his soldier clothes, not the hero of Buena Vista but as the Chief Magistrate of the Union, they must regard him only for what he is really worth, and wonder at the litteness of the man, whom they have so bindly placed in so responsible station. or all the Presidents tEa ever sent out to win the admiration of the people by personal intercourse with them, General Taylor is the least fitted succeed. either by per sona appearance, manners, or abilities. Blunt and abrupt. and sometimes even harsh and forbiddiug in address, he will make bat few converts by his in tercourse with his fellow Ietizens, and, taking hi: Baltimore speech for an example, he only open, mouth to betray his entire ignorance of all State affairs. We wonder that his keepers did not con. fine him to the purlleus of the White House. or. il they have some proclamations to get up, or somt specuatons to concoct that require his absence they could have sent him down privately 10 tho plantation. As it is, however, are very willing that they should have their swn way. We take grea pleasure iu observing them thus, like pigs swim ming, cut their own throats.