The Arkansas banner., 1850-10-08
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 witness to the folly and inconsistency of the con Democrat" The decay of the mind of man has always been sahjeet of sad and melancholy re- AeetiOn: but old age, with its silYered locks and fnrrowed brow. trembling over the grave. mixing and mingng in worldly struggles, swayed by pre- judice and by malice. and yielding to impulse and to passion, presents spectacle unnatural and al. most reyolt1g to contemplate.
 Mr. WoODRtFT, In all his writings, deals so Ia. vishly ia personal abuse and low party slang, aud betFsys SO mach raneor and bitterness of feeling, that while he invariably fails to attain his object, he leaves in ths breast of his reader no sentiment but pity or contempt fer the writer. The Iesaiug article in his las, paper is fair specimen of this kind. It has caption large and imposing. I, is written at wearisOme length, and proposes to treat of things of saeh vital importance to every south erncr, that it possesses attraction and generally ia- vites attention. For than half of long dull column. ke discusses bis subject, and marks out course (ths very opposite to the one ke pursued) that, in his wisdom. he thinks was the policy to have been pursued by the South He then leaves
 
 of the article to the recent convention held in Chieot county. or this convention, he hatly dis approves. and reads it's delegates lengthy lecture upon their powers and purposes, and deals out string of advlcs, which, if wise, must be ineffec- live, from the very harsh ard uneharitable manner in which il is offered. As he writes, he loses all control Of his temper, and ;he fire aud passion Of hta 0uk a4nPa l. l and agitate his aged frame. A vision of Col JoHS- SON seems to Hit across his confused and distem- pered mind, and fill his whole soul with suspicious th th's meeting was gotten up by 'his old friends, in compliment to the gentleman he has so long been iaooring to crush. Being now no longer able to restrain the settled hate with which he has ever pursaed Col JOHNSON, since the day he received his hrst nomination from a democratic convention, he loses sight of his subject and the Chicot meeting, and with icitering steps to the close of his long senseless tiraas, pours out torrents of wrath and bitterness against one who scars so far above his reaeh The truth is, Col JOHNSON is not Woop- ncrF's to6l He comes not to his beck or call, and this with the fact that the people know and love him for 1t. is sufficient to bring down upon his HN~~ " VOohUFF Hfdtu anu inGignatf0us
 The most infamous Gemagogueism is resortsd to, at last by presenting. in most offensive light, the opposition of Col JOHNSON to the late Senator Asu- LEY. He resurreets forgotten enmites to a man whose serf he was, for the purpose of still keeping warm some latent spark of resentment toward Col. JOHNSON And must every man, who did not place the same exalted merit upon the character of ous whose IA A Should he sufT l.. ] by this editor for the purpose of reviying hostile feelings against him If such 6 mode of warfare wers legitimate. what paiufulFreflections might nc; bring to the mind of Mir. WOODRUFF It would be an unProfabIe task to.foilow .hn throu gh them To mark what opposition he offered to ;he election of the generous aad gifted FrlroS, over who's. grave the democracy e. Arkansas have wept in sorrow; to mark with what venom he assailed!ths very man whose misconduct he now sppauds and defends-SoIOa Bcrand; 10 mark how he wss ever unable to fraierniEe and associate with Inc Hon CHESTER ASHLEY, of whose memory he now saesks 90 tendsrly; how he could mol, pass by in silence the venerable character of BEsJAxix JOHNSON, ,h. PaTs-minded and impartial Judge who sleeps in death; how he pursued. with uRforgivipS and uu- relen,ing fury, thes samented Col. YELL across the sands and plains of Mexico, to his bloody grave on the battle ground of Buena Vista; and with what hendsh rnaics hs persecatsd his early friend, the Hon. 4. II SEVER. whilst abse nt iu foreign hos tile cline, laboring and striving to restore peace and repose to his country. and how, on his return home, wasted and worn down by disease, he greeted him with false accusations and bitter sbase til ths cold sods were hesped over his grave.
 could 20 farther and swell the list, for what prominent democrat has he not decrisd and assail- ed' But the heart recOils with disgust from the hOrrid catalogue. Inc task is of too melancholy nature for me to prosecute and yet it is no better when we turn from the dead to his living victims. lie still pursnes them with rancorous deligh, that seems 10 increase in intensity he nears his earthly goal
 And hIs is not sl'. Not content with un,iring efforts to defane and traduce the best and most ia vored characters of the State. he lavses bis praise aud commentators upon hear,less Gemagogue. who elected to brief office of trust and profit has at the most critical period of our history repub. lie, deserted the interests of his constituents, and betrayed the honor and dignity of the South.
 Such is Mr. WoopRrFF's course, snd the object he has in view is not less degrading and debasing than the mode he takes to accomplish il, He first defends him oa the ground of his poverty and ina. biliiy to bear the expense at Washington City. He then mentions the fact of his having made speech and the necessity of printing it. And finally in. troduces the honorable Senator's family, and eAec- ually to delude the people, publishes the miserable hoax of his famiy's distresses. If Dr. BoRLASD is poor and unable to devote his time for which he Is so we'll paid to the Sta;e why has he not the mag nsnimity 10 return his trus; to the hands that con ferred i,l If he must make and print speech, why did he not deliver it in the Senate chamber, the proper and legitimate place for such dlaeussionf Or in moment of reflection, answered by his in- ordinate vanity, did lie feel his inability and total unhtness for the task of addressing such learned and dgnifed bodyl The time once was when in point ef talent and influence, our Senators were aI