The Arkansas advocate., 1833-07-10
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TO THE PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS.


 An important crisis in the political affairs of your country, is fast approaching. An election is at hand, which is to decide not tue fate of tapo naen--but the QUES- TON OF PRINCIPLE, whether the citizens of this Territory will take tue management of thei, oavn ofairs iato their oapahmads, orsubmit to the DICTATION of aCORPS OF FEDERAL OFFICERS, billetted upon them contrary to their will, by the agency of their nonsiacl Delegate 10 Congress, Col SEvIERs Examine for yourselves. Notwithstanding the liberal support which MT. Crittenden will receive, and strong probability ofa large majority of votes in the Territory, the eye becomes weariea and turns over the whole country almost in vain 10 find solitary OFFICE HOLDER who is not the clamorous parti- gan of Mir. Sevier. From our Governor, and the Judges of our Superior Court, down to the humblest deputy in the Post Office Department, aH, with few honorable ex- captions, are boisterous for Mir. Sevier, and violent against Mir. Crittenden. Is 1t not strange that there should be such UNANI- NIFTY among the Federal Officers, when so large portion of the unbiased and inde- pendent farmers support the opposite ques- tionl 1t would seem, from the assiduity and violence of these PENSIONED OF TIGER made lss. Sewer, that It was part of the consideration for thelr appoiat- n,ents, and the tenure by which they are held, to abuse his competitors, and support HIM RIGHT OR WRONG, in all his under takings.
 Among all the electioneering bricks, w,- derhanded schemes, and TRAPS, which even our graceless GOVERNOR does not blush to acknowledge, are to be called in requisition by the PARTY to defeat the election of Mir. CrIttenden, the recent disgracefill scenes i'll Washington county, conducted by an association of PUBLIC OPEL GERS, unprincipled peftJoggers, and BLAcK-LEGs, under the surveillance, as is believed, of JUDGE ESKRIDGE and the HONORABLE DELEGATE him. self, stand pre-emment.
 Mir. Crittenden being in that county, where he is an entire stranger to most of the citizens, had appointed place in War hsigie ! Township to meet and address the people on the l7th of June. Three days previous to that day, (the scheme no doubt having been previously planned in conclave at Fayetteville, by Col. SEWER, Judge EsKRIDGE, the honorable McCamy. and others Of the same me,Ttorious stalap), MATTHEW LgErER, RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONIES at Fayetteville, a mere creature of Mir. Sevier's, and SEABoRN C. SSEEp, an incorporate peitiiogger, more famed for grog-shop broils, gambling, and blackguardism, than common sense or commondecency,h ,hastened into War Eagle, and made an appointment at different place from the one made by MT. Critten- den, TO PREVEN THE PEOPLES MEETING AND HEARING HIM. To ensure success in this disgraceful btlsi- ness, these t,eo iissstfious kaghis of the green bag, the one an 0FFICE-HOLD- FER. .andthe other an OFFICE-HUNTER, under Mir. Sevier, employed runners throughout the township to call the people to their appointment and by using every artifce i'll their power induced large DOT : tion of the citizens to attend their place of meeting Mir. Crittenden. without any knowledge of this neiarious transaction, went to hts appointed piece where he found fifteen or twenty of the citizens assembled. About i2 o'clock, one of his friends having discovered the fraud, galloped to the place and informed him that the people had as- sembled at another place. He immediate ly repaired to the spot, where these two ig- noble sprigs of jurisprudence, had used every means in their reach to excite and prejudice the minds of the assembly against him, and were enjoying the full iruition Of their villanous labors-a transaction so de- grading, so far beneath the lowest condo-