Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-06-24
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 The Van Buren Intslligsnesr still pouB fourth ! iss collnmas of musepsessntatisns and bitterness against the standard beArer--she nominee oi she Democratic party. We hare before alluded io the coarse pursued by this paper. snd remarked upon the position occupied by iss ambitious editor and his present motive fus opposition to the viii and wish of majority Of tae party
 Gen. Clarke is a small man of large pEesensions- He has been an aspirans too long not to feel that hope deferred have siekened the heart He aSpsr- cd to the nomination for Congress, and Aa.teEed and fooled by public sentiment letters and other equally delusiye testimony, was led to put impli- cit faith in the many declarations of his great po- puiarity, and consequence ia the Sta,e Defeat brought with il sorrow and regret the more insuf- | ferable as # was unexpected. It was more than a man of small soul could suppoEt--it drove him from his friends and hls party--snd has driven him to desperation.
 Revenge sesns to be the oRly passion that now actaases hun, and 10 gratify this he turns hts en- mlty against one who had no share--no Lot or part m his humilissng defeat. for Johnson had repeat Eediy declared he was no aspirani foz the bonors Clarke was seeking. No other reasons for his op- position 10 the nominee can be found. Johnson. he is forced to confess. is of the same opinion. which he professes in politics, and has never been known 10 waTer or hesitate in the discussion or maintainance of republican principles. He IS and has been for years past known true and faith. lul exponent of the Democratic creed, nor has there ever existed the shadow of doubt as 10 the . [ L sg Yka ,. yet Democrat there can be no ground of opposi- Y ton.
 1 On the Southern question, Clarke has always acsed with his friend Doctor Borland in op- posing the compromise and resisting the aggression of the North He cannot then, if he is consistent, honest, or just, make ,Iohhs1fs-eoarse the sub iect of censare. Johnson spoke, wrote and voted against the compsognst, and spss alpays found do- ing asfy at his past.
 He used every means and made every effort to defeat it, he could ao no more. If Gen. Clarke has any objection fl is of character so frivolous as to render fl unworthy Of notice. The truth is, and It cannot be concealed. that the whole war fare IS personal, ana the motive, envy.
 JohnSon's fault is his popularity with the people, his eminenee as . statesman and his probity as a man. This has ever been sufficient 10 make an enemy--a bitter, aR1ompromising enemy of the selfish disorganzer of the Intelligencer. George ". Clarke has always been disorganiEer. He is the chief agitator of that sectional spirit which has srrayed one portion of the party against the other. He has always seemed ambitious to be the leader of section, to rise upon its strength and power and finally to ride into office the victor of his party. He however was individually for his own personal advancement, and a few months back, the prospect which he so loag and So fer ventIy wished for opened before hun. IL was what he hsLtoiIed and labofed for years to achieve l He had abused the family" SlanGe:ed and tra- duced some of the most eminent man in the State divided and distracted the Democratic party in the west and lowered the character Of The State itself This he had done and now t seemed at last as If he was to receive his reward for this angeneroas huInilliating course. He submitted his claims to the people, Publi sentiment letters by arms fall were manufactured-inStructions were issued to his strikers, and every stone turned, to induce the people to honor him. But all was in vain, the party could not sacrifice itself so far as to place it's standard in his hands. Johnson, though not deSi- ring the distinction was again tnumphanily ncmi- mated as the champion of the Democratic party. . H-nn-