The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-21
Tor Me arkaasas .4dvocate.
To WILLIAM s. FuLroN, Esq. Secretary
 aad iate Acting Gouerlog.


 ead late .4etjHg Gouer7sog.
 sIR:--fhe right of tie people to inquire into, and serntlnise the acts of their rulers. beng privilege universally admitted as birth right with free people, be their go- vernment of whatever name or nature. that trust It cannot be denied, or deemed ob- trusiye from hand on this ss most distant E =stantstionso = Who, although nathin@. more than lahoner in common, is far from be- Ing a save. From these premises, would wish 10 call your attention to a re- cent act of yours, while performing the functions of the Governor of this ToTrito- TT; one, which has been a matter of sone concern and surprise to the people. viz. the appointment of a AIr. Field, to be Clerk of tie Superior Court. To us. liyipc at . distance from the Seat of ofGoyernment. the annuncIation of the fact has come like a clap of thunder, while not cloud or speek appeared in esr political horizaa. to warn us of the approaching storm, or te obscure. or dim, the rays of light emitting thronrh the nunlfeent auspices of the Conrress or the United States, frem our first efforts at seif-government
 The act itself appears so questionable, that the general inquiry IS, who is Mr. f1eid! to such, when addressed to me. I have had to answer, know not. unless if be gentleman of thatname, whom have. heard of being in our Territory with mail contracts to let. l am now under the ne- cessity of repeating tine interrogatory 10 you. Who Is Mr. Field! Fs jte C quasi6ed Ootei' of our 1erritogaR or has his arrival been so recent, that the rains of Heaven have not yet washed from the public hich way, the marks of theyehicle that conveyed him to the Seat of Government. ieavinr on eiar soil as your act has on the minds of the people, the impress of coming to des- potlsm!
 If he is not qualified voter, (which presumes1 t is repugnant to the righf of suffrage, and at variance with every prin- ciple of epubiicanism, that any man. no matter what his merits or abilities. should be placed in an office within the gift of the qualified voters of this Territory. whose voiceNcould not be heard in common with theirs at the polls of election. Exner;. ence has shown to all political comfn,ni- tleso the necessity of a qualified residence of the individual, before communities should vest. It requires more tban the boiling of the pot they must pay sscot, and lot too. Were you not aware. sir. in making this appointment, that you was violating sacred trust, setting at naueht the wishes and opinions of the people. and trampling under foot one of their dearest and most tenacious rights! Ifyou had re- ferred to the history of your own country. you would have seen, that among the acts of Colonial oppression and British tyran- ny, which drove the Fathers of America to successful resistance of foreign desno- tism---is enumerated and not the leastl inc practice ofthe British Ministry, importing officers for the colonies, to give places to ( the younger sons of younger brothers."
 But need not call your attention to so remote period in history. In order to point out the odium of your act, I will re- fer you to that of the last six years. Our connection with the general government, and their acts relative, which will clearlv show Tn what light the claims and wishes of those very people, whose rights and Iiber- ties you have dared to trample under foot. :. arc viewed evenst Washington. believe It Wiif appear that the whole of the federal appointments to office within the Territe- ry during that period, with the exception ot the Executive, have been given to old edlsens:--wltness the recent appointment of hr. Cross, to the bench of our Superior Court, in opposition to gentleman of high pretensions and strong claims.
 There was time, sir, admit it, when officers could be imported on us, as they were into the colonies, or as horses and cattle arc into new countries--for the im- proyement of brood; or at least, under the pretence of improving the mind and man. ners of the first pioneers and their descend ants, whom if was supposed from their ig- norance, were incapable of taking any part in the official administration of affairs: at that day, the doctrine although an abom- inable one, was somewhat plausible. Con- gress had ny their ordinance, designated end set apart Pert:en ef country taken. from the then Territory of Missouri to be erected and entered into spazate govetn-