The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-21
2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES

SIGNS UT HE TIMES.
 Under this head, we have chosen to make
 a few brief remarks upon the recent apos-
 tatising conduct of JoHN PopE, Governor of this Territory, and to make good our charge, that political yotenness abounds.
 our paper the s255tfh 25tfh May, wc stated that there was something mysterious in the conduct of certain Jackson men of high rank in Arkansas, and then expressed our belief that there was defeetion and deser- ton iu the camp. This honest expression of our humble opinion, was at once denied In the mostyiolent and yindictive manner. by certain Jackson, or pretended Jackson # dignitaries, at this place. This denial was & made through the sapient Editor of the
 Gazette, their official organ, who, after
 having for years supported the Adams and # Clay cause in this Territory, came out de- # eiaring his conversion 10 the Jackson faith, z and announcing his intention of taking 2 charge of, and leading, the Jackson party in Arkansas, and intmating that but for his kind and timely interpretation that the z Jackson ranks must have soon been utter + ruined and prostrated.
 This presumption of the. Editor of the Gazette, was viewed with utter contempt by all ta'ue Jackson men in Arkansas. al- tiiossgga, doubtless, prompted by the powers < that be, or in other words by the Execu- tive of this Territory. Whenever they shaH consider themselves driven to the ne- cessity of acknowledging the managers of that print for their leaders--a print which has for years been constant and decided n It's adhesion to Adams and Clay, and equally constant, too, in misrepresenting and reviling Gen. Jackson-then we say they will notbe entitled to the name of friends of Gen. Jackson or his adninisefa- tion.
 But 1t was not our intention, at this time, to do more than alIude to these acts and doings of the Gazette. Our main object was not only to show, but to prove the fact, of the defection at least of Gov. Pope, if not of some others of the Jackson officers of high rank in this Territory. The high source from whence the letter published m our last emanated, would seem of itself to be sufficient proof of the Governors de- fection-but there is another letter in Town, from Kentucky, announcing in a more detailed manner, the expressions and conduct of the Governor, on the occasion alluded to. @
 From this letter we make the following .extract:--ss It seems that the day before leaving Louisville, for Arkansas, that he, (Goy. Pope, } came out pretty openly and violently against the course of the present administration, and extolIed NIr. Clay's virtues and merits to the skies. General Hlnds, of Mississippi, together with other Members of Congress, and Penn, the great Jackson Editor of the West, were dining with the Governor at Aliens. 1t Is said tiiat fope became quite excited with wine, and while in this situation, was more than severe upon the powers that be. He told Penn, it would not do to blind-fold them selves and follow any man, that Clay was the greatest man in the United States, that he had put him, Pope.) down once, and fhat he had helped to pit Clay down, and that as they were now even, he was wiling 70 rub out and commence anew. He de- siared that he had never any personal dis like to Clay, that they differed in politics, put that they were now coming nearer to- gether in their views of policy, and that De could not subscribe to the doctrines of she present administration, &c. &e.''
 Besides this evidence, which must be considered conclusive, several gentlemen have, within a few days past, conversed with His Excellency on this subject, and ne has never, as we learn, denied the fact,
 out on the contrary, to some of them, he has admitted this new conversion to the fullest extent. He stated to the gentle nen alluded to, that he would like to
 see Mr. Clay in power-hc would like to see him PRESIDENT. This we can main-
 tam and prove. Now we aver, that there
 's not man belonging to the Jackson