The Arkansas advocate., 1832-09-05
one simple but comprehensive preeepi.


 said, that the accumulation of al powers, legislative, executive, and ju diciary, In the same hands, whether of one, few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very de hnition of tyranny With the great lights which the people of Arkansas have on this subject, it seems that they ought 10 detect the smallest alteration in the departments of their govern ment, whether il proceeds from an un- warranted stretch of the prerogatives oi one alone, or the premeditated conni- vance and combination of the whole.- But strange as it may appear, il is no less fact, that the very definition ol tyranny, described by Mir. Madison, in the above quotation, is now publicly exhibited in this Territory. This state of things IS in d great degree produced by the dependant nature of d Territo- rial government. The principal agen. c} of the affairs of Territory being in the hands of the general government, the people are led to look to that source for an equal distribution of liberty and justice, and pass over nnobserved the lnsidioas mal-praetiees and elanish com binatlons of their intermediate agents, until the whole component parts have united ina petty confederacy, with but one governing principle, namely, to render the people and the government subserylent to their corrnpt and selfish purposes
 When the affairs of Territory are aPPreximating to this unhappy condi. tion- the natural protection of the peo- pies rights and liberties deyolves on the Judgment, firmness and honesty of their Delegate in Congress. If he should, unfortunately become corrupted by the corporation of conspirators, and be made the agent of their nefarious de- signs on the interests of the community, then 1 defy you to polnt out 10 me amongst the many petty principalities ot Germany, or any other part of Eu- rope, more degraded and slayish people than the unfortunate subjects of that Territory. Itis scarcely necessa- " to add, that Mr. Seyier, the Dele gate from this Territory, hassone way seen his interest in betra,ing the peo- pie, and become the oflieioas agent of the corporation of public officers qaar. tered by the government in this Terri tory, and constituting the civil govern ment thereof.
 When a community of honest men are betrayed by the ingratitede of one whom they have tendefly fostered from his hoyhood 10 pnberty-when they are moeked by the anrelenting hypoeriey of the very person whom they have raised from d second class school-toy, without any intermediate probationary trial, to the sublimity of legislator, We should not be astonshed, fl, In their just indignation, they should hurl him back to his humble and appropriate sphere with a redoubled velocity, rom the giddy height to which their kind but msjudging partiahties have raised him. N as there a man of com mon sense in the Territory, whose opinions were formed from the sponta- neous premonitions of his own imagina- ton, when the s' hae and cry'' was raised against the majority of the Gen efal Assembly, 0he only remaining, isolated, moiety of governmental hon esty in the Territory,) but saw in that extraordinary and unlocked for denun- eiatlon, the last combining efforts of a weak but arrogant Executive, with a sabseryient judiciary, and corrupt Delegate? Not one of the whole snarl- ing pack raised a more malignant growl, than did the Delegate on that memo rable occasion. He even exceeded the duties prescribed for him by the Go vernon, in degrading the judiciary: he chimed in with the corporation minions and the " Gazette,n in extolling the Governors document of consummate absurdlties-the veto; and was the leader in the chorus of vile epithets, with which the majority of the Legis- iature was greeted, and which sound ed in the ears of every honest citizen of the Territory, something like dog grel version of the drunken abomina- IL, lions of a midnight corps of vagabonds. The Delegate was not yet satisfied with the share he had taken in that shame less transaction. It was not enough that he had excited every creature 10 action, who could invent vulgar im- preeation against the repro sentatiyes of the people. IL was not enough that he