Fot lie Banner TO TIE DEMOCRACY OF ARKANSAS.
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NO. Ill.

 Conventions are necessarily incident to popular government. IL is much more con venient for the people to act through deega- tes, chosen by themselves, than to meet ia mass orPolitieaI purposes. They have been much in use wila lhe American people. In Conventions the fires of the Revolution were klndIed, the bolls of opposition Wcfe forged. and those strong positions of resistance To oppression were taken, which led to the De- elaration of Independence, and the freedom ot a great people! In convention, the con stltuton of the United States, the sacred char ter oi our liberty, and the stupenslous pro- duciion oi great patriots and republicans. was iolmed. By conventions the people of the several Stales have ordained their consttu- tons, and they have been thus stamped as strictly republican in tteir nature and tenden- etes In strong governments, the few, who have the good fortune to be in power, dis pose oi political offices to their own liking, without consulting the popular will; but here the people, first acting through their immediate delegates in conventions. for the sake ol securing harmony, aud finally acting at the ballot box, place the administration of government i'll such hands, as they may deem qualified and faithful to the trusts.

 These general remarks are made, because It IS urged, by those opposd to a convention. and always by independent candidates, that conventions are anti-republcan-t they are contrary to the spirit of democracy.

 Again, Ii has been often urged hat con ventions do not reflect the will of the body ot the people, but that they are gotten up, and conducted by aspiraats, and those under their control, for the purpose of eIeyating themselves into stations. l. is true that the democratic party has not been altogether without men who have pushed themselves forward for office, in advance of their merits, and very far in advance of any popular indi- cation in their favor; indeed these persons, though few in number happily, may have at tempted to turn conventions into such use.- Bnt-they very rarely effect their object. The writer has been all observer of the mode of getting up these conventions, by the demo- cratic party, for ten years, and he has univer- sally found them rising from the general. and spontaneous action of the party. The peop7e have seen the coniusi into which the par ty was about to be thrown, by number of canddates-the danger of dividing and pro- ducing permanent-diseord in the party, and of being thereby defeated by political oppo- nents, and have on these accounts, and to prevent such evil consequences, voluntarily resoIted to conventions, for the purpose of producing harmony and unity of action

 Judging from the known manner of getting up conventions, the one proposed to be hol- den on the sth of January next, if holden, (and there IS but litlle doubt but one will be holden will be gotten up about as follows.

 Take the county of Saline for example, and let the application be general.

 Notice Is given that meeting of tie de- mocrats of the county will be held at the Court House, on particular day, for the purpose of eleeting delegates to State Con yention. It is further stated thet the object of the convention, is to nominate candidate to succeed Gov. Yell in Congress. These