The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-14
For the .4Ykaasas .adpocafe.

tfng--we are ever ready to forgive person. al injury, where the heart is sound, altho' error ofjudgment may have inflicted the deepest wound. Contrition for an injury, even when the heart and head concur in the infliction, may ultimately secure for giveness, for 1t shows that depravity is not deeply seated in the heart, capable of ac- knowledging error, and throwing itself up- on the magnanimity of tbep party aggrieyed. But when heads asl;a. unite Y; pe!i.;s cal deeds, which put at defiance the will of the people, and deliberately spurn as Jactious and offensive, their just complaints flor them. the ss Ides of March, have come.
 Because an Editor, pledged to the peo- pie of Arkansas, has dared to impeach the infailibility of our rulers, because he has dared 10 say, that the appointment of Maj. Field, who visited the Territory, for the first time last winter, as a mail contractor, and ernigrated this Spring, with his family, not 40 days before he received one of the most lucrative offices in the Terri tory, was a violation of the rights and wish es Of the people, he is to be branded as facfious.!. Will you neople of Arkansas, sustain such sentence! Will yousee your Sentinel on the watch tower punished, be- SdGSC hC= =i1iuoCS u VI all Htlh WpCH the enemy is at the gate? Will you say with the Governor, that an entire stranger has as high claims to office here, as your own intelligent citizens, whose hardy en- terprize, pioneered the way for the great men of the present day? Tn vain they de- nounce Col. CaIdwell-where lie is well known, those aspersions fall harmless-in his native State, he represented one of the rnosf rannacfa bIa oos,pfiao. fia locf lx- gislature of Arkansa, he was chosen as president of her Council. Was 1t then pre- sumption in the people, to set him up as q competitor for Ma Fieidl But suppose Col. c. unworthy, are there none in Ar kansas among its citizens capable of per forming the duties of Clerk. how very for tunate for poor Arkansas, that Maj. Field arrived in the very nick of time. But did his ExcelIeney take time to deliberate, when the nephew of Gov. Pope was the ap- plicante No. As have stated before, he avowed his determination, before McKin- ney was buried. How detiberotefY must have looked round him for a competent successor, and how euaited his estimate of the intelligence ofthe people, he is sent to govern, when Ire can find none, worthy of the best office in hls gift. But claw Bone :" says 1t is fuctsoas in the people to complain, and denaunces as partizans all who mnr- mur. He would have you believe that but ore party ever existed here, and that com posed of a minority, and to prove it, abuses the late Secretary.
 It is not my purpose to question the worth of any, upon whom the people have conferred trust, but IS 1t not consummate ehrentery to say, that Gov. Pope, Judge Fulton, Col. Ashley and MT. Woodruff, with their host of cfansmen and kinsmen, who in despite of all differences on nation al politics, resent each others quarreis, as bone of the same hone, who have all pat ronage, and all power at home, and at
 Washington, should spurn faction, nay i, hate 1t cordially, and only wish in peace- able manner to destroy all, who do not bow to their sceptre, or dare murniur at their decrees! Is there an intelligent man, Wbo has resided in this county for any 1eng hof time, who does not know that Col. Ashley has been prime minister to the last two go- vernors, and has for serieh of years. ex- clusively directed the onlg press Tn Alkan- sas, to subserve his and their views. What part this modern Ialleyrand now plays in the Cabinet, orswhether he be standing or setting counsellor, ] know not, but 1t is hardly prssumablc that disinteresfed friend- ship, IS the bond that unites.
 The first number of Jaw-Bone con- cludes with a prayer for peace, and in the second, every effort IS made to revive the angry feelings of pr; even the ashes ofthe dead are disturbed, that men, who never knew Col Conway, may win the affections of the people, by shedding crocodile tears to his memory; let them taEe his private virtues, and his respect for public opinion as their model, and the people will derive more solid advantage, than by attempting to use his name, as the watchword for strife --4-equiescot in pace. The people of that day II, <. 4 risansas urd crstassd that s..l,iecf hot ter than the hypocritical mushrooms of the present, and they will not thank them for endeavoring, for sinister purposes, to re- vive scenes, which all good men have join ed in deprecating, as the worst evil that could befai Arkansas. And for what pur- pose, ] would ask, should those scenes and recollections be revivedl is 1t the least of two evils, which the great men of the pres-
 eat day have selected, te divert piblic ccn- sure from the alterations of the great men iii power! No such necessity would have existed, had Gov. Pope adopted adiferent course, when be came to Arkansas. Here a proud destiny awaited him. His entire disregard to the will of the people in Ken- lucky, in voting against the last var, and h;s subsequent conduct pending that war, in paralising and lettering the energies of that gallant and patriotic State, then bleed- ing al every pore, was sin against them, past Forgiveness. But translated to Ar kansas, by pouring oil upon the troubled waters, by lending lis high office to the course ef hassaoHg and peace. Z. Z. rrAlsansas would have hailed him as her sage and ben 'cssssss>.os;; os; but the sane fate awaits him heye