The Arkansas banner., 1849-11-20
Obsolete Issues Revived.

It cannot be denied that the whig party possess some wonderful qualities The cunning facility with which they can assume any disguise calculated 10 deceive the people, is not less astonishing than the plastic elasticity of their principles, by which they are enabled 10 appear all things 10 all men. wild, ianatical aboIitonists in the north and i'm flexible advocates of slavery in the south; beneyo- lent, coneatory no-partyists before the election, and bitter proscriptive parizans their hands have graspcd the sceptre of power. Their boasted humility, most extraordinary and unnatu- ra patriotism, and their loud sounding professions of sympathy for the wants aud welfare of the public, is an appropriate prelude to the pe-me scramble for office, and the unbushing effrontery with which they appropriate to themselves the " loaves and fishes" the goods of the government. But above all others the vice-like tenacity with which they stick to their old and repeatedly condemned meas ures. is characteristic of the feds most 10 be won dered at It will not be forgotten that during the last presidential canvass, these political chameleons positively declared that the tariff and bank questions were ''obsoiete idcas' They canddly aeknowI- edged that the people had set their broad seal oi disapRrobation npon these old federal hobbies and promised most devoutIy that if permitted once more 10 hold the helm of the great ship of State, they would steer clear of all such dangerous aud fright ful institutions. The people believed them, aud placed them in power-wha, Is the resut2 After D. oscribing every democratic office holder of what soever grade from Prime Minister down 10 tie patrols of the custom house. and selling out their places to the highest bidders, or filling them pro- miscuousk with he aunts. uncles, nephews and cousins Of the cabinet cooks, 10 the fortieth degree oi consanguiuity, they preparing to drag forth from their graves and re-anmate the spectral car eases of those obsolete ideas" the bank and the protective tariff. Their purpose is plain. The ePbeineTa popularity that gave them the victory has gone from them amid the ruius of broker pledges ana abused faith There is now lef. them but one way by which they may retain the power that has already been applied to such base uses that is by the establishment of some monster fiscal agen, that will give 10 them the control of the 1 medium of the country, and enable them to specu- late upon the suffering of the great mass of the people
 Il can scarcely be necessary again 10 point oui the evils and nnsfortunes that ever have been, and ever will be attendant upon such institutions The country has but too recently suarted under their influence. the "hard times" are yet fresh in our memories, and the apwonted prosperity consequent upon democratic rule has been everywhere loo visby seen and too plainly frIt for 10 be again wheedled into the support of that were ike letters oi Iron upon the energies fthe people They have already discovered the eoven foot of the Taylor ad- mnsiration, and will beware of any propositions whose only end must be 10 make the rich richer cad the poor poorer,' 10 drain the pockets of inc hard working many 10 iIl the eOiiers of few idle and de iguiug men.