The Arkansas banner., 1849-07-03


 ~ho wss so prescribe no man for opinions sake. Many, no dOab,, helissed ii. They had been ham, bugged, bambOozled and swindlcd by the numerous pscdgrs and presessasioss bf ebs z old Hero aad his strikers, into beltf In the honesty and incor ruPtibility of the man whose life had been spent l in the camP-fOt whom t was only cIsimed tlat his ignorance of staesmanshiP. and plain, old
 shIOned honesty woud entirely obIissrate all party lines and amaigamase ths wtOls people into one confused, unineaning mass of no-Partyism, with cutone measure 10 gutae. one principle to govern them. They did not reject that this vas miracle, as impossible as to make two hiIls without valley; that long there existed goverunSent patronage, long therD were offices to be filled and salaries so be received. thsrs would always Do two parties- call thsm by 'Vhat O,hernames you may--that there will always be the rNs and the OUTS.
 This no-party party, which swept the country like flight of Egyptian iOcusts was not composed entirely of whigs; there were In it's ranks many recreant democrats. Beluded men. They could hot perceive the weIf h sbeeps clothing, bni were led away from the faith of their fathers by the gilt tsfing promises of new sra-A heroic age, which was to be 'spure ns tle snows Of Zembla, v but, alas. 1t has proved to taem "as Fepulslve and as cold"
 | On the fourth of March last, how stood the SC. count between Gen. Taylor and the two parties that have 50 long divided, and, by their very division, sustained the Unon7 The whgs had nominated him as a candidate for President After stormy session, the Philadelphia luded thai under any of their former leaders, under any one who had either the frankBess or the honesty to aFow himself a whig, defeat certain. They therefore determined sink their whigery, for the time being; to disown the " old issues " which tho people had already pronounced obsolete, and, as forlorn hope, to adopt the hero of Buena Vista g fortheir candidate. What then, have the democrats done for the hero Presldent7
 ! From the beginning almost till the end of the Mexican war. when the whigs were abusing and denouncing it as nefariOus and iniqnitous," and Gen. Taylor as an unPrincipled and blood thirsty murderer. the democracy, prompted by the generous impulses dictated by ueir principles, defended and sustained hisn. Tue democrats gave to him his reputation a soldier. They made him the hero of the campaign, and, (ei the truth bs tOId) they elected him President
 1 We have, from time to time, carefully stored up some of these very speciOus promises and profess l sions, which before the election were so succesu- fully used gull aad beguils Inc honest yeomanry l of the country. They have since been seiulousiy kept out Of sight, lest like Banquo's ghost, they should rise in condemnation of their guilty author and frigbten him from his tame submission to the dictates of the tyraunous executive octave" They will be readily recognized as the same that were ers,-while paraded before the people as the sayings of him, "who never surrenders,'' aud wers the texts and catch-words of every no-party orator. Many of them are supposed to have been dictated by the wire-pullers that have since beea promoted to become ihe organs of the new adIHia- istration. We insert few of the most prominent:
 "In Ro case can permit myself io be the candi- date oi aay party or yield myself to party schemes" Letter 10 Jdmes ". Taytor.
 will not be the candidate of any party or clique and should the nation at large seek 10 place me in the chair oi the chief lnagstracy the good of all parties, and the national good would be my great and absorbing aim"-LsReT iod eifi=en of Laast,sg burg.
 "Sbould ever occupy the White House, il must be by the spontaneous move ot the people, and by no act of mine, that could 90 into the office ut rammeled, and be thr Chief Magistrate of the peo- pie, and not of party Leiifr so Eftcard Deiones
 'ti ever fiii that high office, it mus, be untrau- meled with party obligations or interests of any kind, and under none but those which the constitu ton and the high interests of the nation at large most seriously and sOlemny demand. .'-Letter fo Peier Sksa SmiiA
 "l an no. willing to be the candidate of any par ty, to pledge myself 10 any political eed save tha, which springs directly from he constitution and the hest md inta ..f inc i which they soemOly demand. IT elected 10 the presidential office, it must be without any agency Of my own, ct will be at variance with my own cherished asprations;) and 10 those duties mus, go nntiammeled by party pledges of every eharae- ter."-Let-ieT to J. .f. Bukey. s--.. "l need hardly add, that I cannot. in any ease permit myself 10 be brought before the people ex csiveiy by any of the political parties that now 50 unfortunately divide the country, as their candidate for this ofiice.-Letsr to E. s. Bronson.
 ''l shall otier flo active opposition 10 the use of my name in connection with this responsible office. as long as they continue to use it thus in,lependeu oi party distinctions. "-Letier to lFm. M. Murphy, and others.
 |" In being thus nominated, must insist on the conditlon-and my position this point is iminuta- biethat shall nat be brought forward by them as the candidate of their party, or considered as the exponent of their party doctrines "-Letter 10 Peter Skea Smak.
 "I have no private purposes to aceompiish--uo party projects to build up---Do enemies 10 punish- hoihins 10 serve but my country. If elected, would not be the President of party
 would endeavor to act independent of party ,ioni- nation. should feel bound to administer the gov ernment unirammeied by party schemes. ."--Fas. Allison Lfifer.
 The appointing power vested in the President imposes delieate and onerons daies So far as il is possible to be informed. 1 shsil make honesty. ca pacity. and fidelity indispensable prerequisites for The eestowa of office; and the absence ol either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for movai"-Ges. Dsior's inasgwai We must give place to one other, that is no doub, familiar to our readers, perfect gem in political literature, so Petrio,ic, so flied with touching Pathos itwas the platform adopted by prOminen. Taylor advocate, who, thinking to ride into office upon the tide of no-party enthusiasm. was no, long ago, candidate for the sufffsges of the peo- pie of Arkansas: