The Arkansas advocate., 1831-11-30

Viii De viewed Wtth pitys and treated with
 meeited contempt.
 THE TEN SECTIONS OF LAND. ] This subject appears so have become quite hohby ,on which theaeelining editor iuf tha Gazette expects to advance himself : n the pnblic estimation. ain is his hope, i the public eye has become too much en- frightened to he longer dupod y his profes- eions of patriotism. or misled by his state- Inients,s ,sor by his letters whether real CT fabricated within the precincts of his of hce. So expert is the little man in pro- curing letters approbatory of any meas ure lie espouses, or iaudatory of his own services, that I have no doubt he could procure any requisite number, purporting to have been written from distant parts Iof the Territory, which would pronounce
 him to be the perfection of beauty, and
 tie tenchstone of veracity--a man who
 had n5yer sworved from the path of poiiti-
 cal rectitude, nor made statement that
 was not true as holy writ. Whethersuch let
 teIs would carry the conviction of truth to their readers is rather a questionable
 matter. With respeetto the ten Sections
 of land will the Editor of the Gazette
 lay before his readers, the cause which
 produced the sudden change of opinion
 with himself and his chieftains. respecting
 the proposition of MT. Crittendeu, prior to
 the meeting of tbe Legislature. Why did
 they aH advocate the measure and declare
 It, as in their opinions the best disnosition
 which could De made of the land: and what produced their instantaneous change of views, and resolved them to oppose tie | tad so highly approbated.
 The truth is that Ashley, Woodruff, se- vier and all the small fry, strongly advoes- ted the measure, until 1t was suggested to them. tilat shoiiid the Legislature aeced . tn Grittenden's intended proposition, 1t would enable Crittenden to free himself from all his embarrasm ents, and foil those choice, though evil spirits, in theil
 e tc sacrifice him, ta the galignity lof their diaholical passions. This was the sole motive which produced the sud- den change in the views of these would be
 patriots; and as suddenly did they con- binc to use every means fair or foul, to thwart the success of the proposition
 The way in which they succeeded re- aects nought but discredit on the instru- nsent, who lent himself to their assistance The Veto attributed to Gov. Pope, ought in fact. to claim Ashley as it's father, and Gov. Pope az the tool, by whom Ashley succeeded in ycounteracting the will of a large majority of both branches of the Legislature.
 Ii Is a fact susceptible of proof, that while the Legislature were acting on the proposition of Crittenden, Gov. Pope re- peatedly, and to divers members of the Legislature declared that if the Leeisla- ture saw proper to aceede to the prop osition of MT. Crittenden, he would acquiesce therein. At the time he made these declarations, doubt not he was sincere, and fully intend ed to suit the ac- tion to the word, but the meantime Asl.~ 1 ley returned from the South, and the Coy.
 was constrained, thro' that influence with which Ashley has ever yielded him to his own purposes, to put his Y etc on the meas nre. in contravention of his previous de- 1 ciarations. For the purpose of screening l the plant Gov, as much as possible, from ] the odium, justly attributable to him, for isurrenderip his authority to such man as Ashley, or to any other man, the wiley editor of the Gazette manages to have let ters written, approbatory of the course ipursued by the Gov. not of Arkansas, but of few political reuegades, into whose hands he surrendered himself immediately
 on his arrival in the Territory. sic tronsit gloria Gnbernatoris.
 By re!sien6e to the toiunins of If the q a zette 1t will be seen that no paper has issued from this office for the last two Weeks-aud the present number IS issued
 on sheet of very inferior size and quail ItY. Mr. Bertrand has nroce eded doun z,