Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-06-24
The Unioa-what will save it,

s That the efforts oi the men now engaged R
 building up Caion party throughout tls county are pfedicated upon the single des of ob- tainlng the spoils of power no candid mind w,n
 for a moment question. Who ln GeurRia arc lhr leaders of this new movement stephens au5
 Toonibs, men who have auayed themselves aeaiss
 the home of their birth; men, whose loflcst .s
 plratloaS are bounded by an ambition to bceuags
 the eulogists of Southern snbmSsion to Nor;hsYa arrogance aad federal despoiisin Who afe tAe boas,ed leaders ot thus movement at the North
 seward, Van Bafen and Sumner--names that ssls the noslTils Of every Southern man aad friend Q. the Union. Hand ID hand, shoulder to shonIdef we find Stephens 'Foombs, Cobb k Co.,, wI,h Sum per Seward and Van bufeu--each pTaiessing an un
 bounded devotion to tke Uni0n, and all eager Nl coasumate the ldea of a great " Constitutions Uaion Party" And who are these men tAai would assuIhe the peculiar guardianship of lie
 union--they are men whose vaulting smbfiioa
 has brought upon the country the very eviIs lhal threaten to annIhilaie it forever; the very men who have nursed the sPirit 0f fanaticlSm ths. now distn our tranquility and peace--the mef | who have piled the torch Of the ineeRdary e ihti temple of our liberties, only to be frsl to S0Bs the alarm Will the cid Democrats Of GeufEa nea whose heads have siivered beneath the bs ngnanf rays of the sun of democracy, forget t past, disregard the present and give up k future destimes of the country into the bands the country into the hands of aspiring and dupnt eipled party hacksi We believe not we trust ne It has been by the steady progress Of democisi
 c pnaeipes that the Unlon has survived the shpe that federalism has giysn II in tunes past. Aad thls U Unlon IS to be saved, democracy will sage and nothing else. The question of the perpetuli ol the institution of slavery, is caTrolarY to a main proposition to- wit: Shall the Democratic pa. ty standf ThIs we regard as the first and para fg
 Let democratic principles sway the alDiaistrsiss of the Government, and we have n0 teass oi s Union. Let the republican creed pf Jefferson 's
 in fine councils of the Natlon. and in yala will -a North plan treason, and plot the overthrow Qi a Consftatlon--that creed will secure the nghis a H inmunities of all, in the propofiioa gaaran,ied \ the CoastIiutiou---that creed will preserve si' sovereignty, the great corner stone that supPga the Federal Union. Once let tho odioas, and, "a we supposed. exploded doctrine of consoidslp 1 triumph, and the end of Inc Union IS not far q Once a4.iiit that the Federal Government IS at parsnt of tbe States, and not the efspr'ng, and B
 destinies of the republic are sealed tnfeger,
 We are glad to find among our bid Democfa E brethren steadfast adheGenee to the tune habs cd creed Of State Rights--ihey see into whai es ger he leaders of the so-called Union Parry seducing fhelr followers, and they wisely repsei'
 thsit scheme. They say. the Democratic fahh E s9oa enough TOT me- WAen HUI V'''V adopt lt. but until this is done tell of 70 n'' < party, want no other, I'll have no othef. I
 is the sp,stt, the true spirlt, for the tunes. h
 says one, Mr. Cobb is a democrat, and be E of The leaders of this niosement--I care nol,
 reply: Mir Cobb may see a new bQgn virtue In ? E Toonis and MT Stephcns--he may have attends E personally al inc repentance and washing 9i 'h
 political ieaden. but years oi penanee and pcs' ol watsr would Ill sutlics, nj the eyas di the pie to punly these old and hardened siaHeh ' DisanSon'' s polenl instrument m the hA4 of any man, to hoodwink the ignofahi sud ii'gb the tInid--but we confde In the Inieihgenes the people, and their known alieganee 10
 prinelpies of denfocraey, 10 dIgesi ihis bngbta k its a,dieas appearance, and dissfu it's spssuei s thsn power to do evil.
 We repeat, that the administration Of ihe @ ernment, upon the basis ol the Republiesu cI' Is the oaly visible means Of preserving the "S and perpet7ratsng eaf Democratic Institutions fGevRia Fesierai Lnsoa k