The Arkansas advocate., 1830-08-18
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 ..Iove letters addressed to you of late, .hat would -faotts55e astonishca II yyotr ,,;nds were so completely engrossed with the ..tender passioi, present, common letter of friendship would receive hut little of your attention.
 However, as my business IS with both of VOL. and as consider 1t matter of much importance to the people of your. govern .nent. will give as little trouble as the nature Of the case will admit of. ] viii therefore lump you both together, and ad- dress you in my friendly way, under the general denomination of the Executive department of Arkansas: and as you are in the habit of governing alternately, that respect which Is due to your high stations, will I trust be properly appreciated in the course have adopted. But you will par don me gentlemen, when l occasionally meet with an extraordinary virtue Tn ei- ther you, which has hitherto laid dor mant in the other, if should seperate the act, and address few words in cempll- snent to 1t exclusively
 When you arrived here gentlemen, to take possession of your government, we were, it is true, not filled with that kind of astonishment, which would no doubt have been produced, had you ( dropt from the
 
 neither looked for by us or our friends'' But as you came here clothed with the Ex- ecutive authority of the country, the peo- ple of Arkansas willingly accorded to you the courtesy and respect due to your high station; believing that Governor, vener- able if consequence of his age and great political experience, would hold the scale of justice securely and equitably; and also be the means of ailaying our party feuds, and placingln proper light, the charac- ter and resources of the country. The question to be determined then,gentlemen, and which has been the means of producing this friendly communication is, whether the people of Arkansas have realised, or are likely to realise, the extraordinary ad- yantages anticipated at the commence ment of your administration.
 To determine this important question, it is only necessary to compare the opinions of the people of Arkansas as regards their own rights, with your acts, since your brows have been graced with the chaplet of dominion. The people of Arkansas be- lieve, that they have citizens qualified in every respect to ill any office existing in the Territory. The people of Arkansas be- heye, that when one oftheir offices becomes vacant, 1t should be filled by one of their own citizens. The people of Arkansas. do not believe with you gentlemen, aHd the Greeks, in choosing their rulers from a. mongst strangers. of any other state. coun- try or kingdom. Here gentlemen, you have a sketch of the creed of the people of Arkansas, as respects their political af- fairs; let now have synopsis of your own, as taken from your late appointments ofClerk of the Superior Court, and Post- faasteT, which youniade and procured to be made. It appears that you have q strong =betief m the doctrine, that the road to en- 1nence and power should not be made too easy, nor thing too much of course, to the people of Arkansas. No matter what She merit of citizen of Arkansas may be, you believe that it ought to pass through some sort of probation under your care. be- fore It IS trusted to office; and that to them. the temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence,' to be approached by none, until they are purified by the holy slnction of your appreciation.
 You will now, gentlemen, compare your own creed with that of the people of the Territory, and determine for yourselves, wietiieT your acts have been performed in the simplicity of Republicanism, or in the arbitrary spirit of Despotism
 Forhearance under injuries, is in gener- al virtue; but in the vicissitudes of hu- man affairs there IS sometimes a limit, at winch forbearance not only ceases to be a virtue, but becomes crime of the deepest dye. Your late arbitrary acts of seques- tration, have driven the people of Arkan- sas far beyond that limit. Had you ap- preached us at your onset, in that frank and manly tone of equality which IS the common courtesy due to freemen, many of your official alterations would have passed nnnotleed: but We heard with astonish- nent from one of you. the language of a nlrellng master to the slaves of his employ CT, and beheld in the other, that kind of iawnlng grImace, which plainly indicated the premedltated design of enlisting our ignorance, our passions and our prejudices, TOT the purpose of erecting altars to the de- itles of your new political arena, upon which our own rights were to be offered up, and our own common-sense ideas of our own affairs, were to be burnt as incense at the unholy sacrifice.
 Gentlemen, you are certainly fair sub 1ects for political dissection. You were sent here to govern us according to the principles laid down in the statutes of our common country, and in all those statutes which have any relation to Arkansas, and which have come under my observation, ts citizens are recognized as freemen. line only difference in our rights, and the Tights of the people of asovereign State. Is that slight shade produced by our neces- sary dependence on the general govern ment, during our Territorial probation. You were then, sent here to perform cer- tain duties necessary to be done in dissem- .iating ihe rights of a community of free- men; and not as you believed, to frown in- : s,,laV tot <,f