The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-21

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 is another evidence that the ship is in danger whe the cook and the Jack of tae Dpa are promoted | the quarter-deck. and posts below are filled b means of lottery from the foreessile--when hon esty and capacity are sneeringy alluded to as word used during the canvass, for the purpose of catch ing gulls, and fidelity is by-we asd TeProaeh well may the good man Iemble. and tine good vii, turn over and ask, in hurried accents. "what is th mai,er;' IL is currently reported tEat the grea OAioGn the immortal Secretary of the Interior, whc knows how to give and how to take away con tract for stationery-see the case of Wheeler & Co t--is about to go to Russia after court polish ane bears oil, and fit himself to run for the presidency 1 in 1852. But it all won't do.
 ''You may wash him and brush him, and do whal | you will,
 The scent of the rose will cling to him still.''
 The Secretary of the Interior has just removed the following clerks from the General Land Office Dr. Frailey, Mir. Foster. Mt Cunningham, Mir, Causin, MT. Minnix. Mr. Flood, MT. Frazier, M. 1. D. Vedder, Mir. Bestor, Mir. Penny packer. Mr. Parker. MT. Curran, Mr. Greenieaf, Mir. Whi,acre, Dr. Brown, Mir. Slade, Mr. Ashton, and MT. Hun gerford.
 This removal of some of the very best clerks in Washington, without the slightest csuse-in a man. ner contrary to law-is on par with all the otter official acts of the HaHisohian Butcher. Mir. Ewing turned out two of the gentlemen above named before, when he was in othce. He, however, was shortly afterwards ejectee neck and heels hm. self, and, with the blessing ot God and reasonable urk ha Naifi ha .d in of fha next session of Congress, and the American people will say amen.
 Zachery Washington, we would say to you as Tom Pipes said 10 old Commodore TFunnion when he wanted him 10 marry Miss Pckle--
 "Zachary Washington, get up and be saved,
 Or lie still and be d--d.'
 You cannot sleep with dogs without being troub- led with feas. You must clear your skirts of all leeehes before the Amoresn people can implicitly trust you after dark. Then wake up, old soldier, gfasp the sword of power and helm of state: send your council of administration to their aw-calf and their back-leiter again. be yourself the President; act as your own good judgment, if you have any to speak of, iInpels you to act; do wrong little il you cannot help it-much will be pardoned to the spirit of liberty; let us have government strong and resPectable and if it must be FIz let it be a prettysbig one, and the devil iake the hindmost.
 The Uessel nay yet be sarsd but it must be done by those who are out of commission. How past ages look down upon us! how Europe looks at us how Mrs Franklin honors us! how Russia loves us how Austria who is hungary for liberty reioces in our smiles, and courts our good opinion!-we, who could aid the Greeks by building frigates in New York barbor for them; aid Brazil by building the fngate Hudson, in Brookin; we who could, by our Oiays anu N~vL-'~'-, s.-I- d. i-;t of ~hlVahy for Greece, South America, and Poland; we who could present coors to the Polish legion on Boston Common. in presence of the United States troops from Fort Independence, brought some four miles to assist at the ceremony; we who permit foreign officers to do duty on board ships of war, while we are at peace with their enemies; we who suffer. ed the troops Of old to be mustered on our soil and to march into Texas, who suffered lately regiment to be raised in New Orleans for Yucatan, who fur nished food for the Suiote and the Aibanion and cherished the Russian rebel and the French traitor Oh yes! we, now we have a military man at the head of the government, must strangle liberty ir Germany, and become the willing tools of the ty. rants of the Old World in fastening on the letters the bondman and the slave in the nineteenth cen,u. Iry.
 l We'll, Ego it boots,'' as they say in classic Man tau; and when you feel soIry sneeze. that mAnkiDC may be aware of your conversion, and rejoice ove you as they did over the ninety niith sheep of old when honesty, fidelity. and capacity existed withou the presence of the HEROIC AGE."