The Arkansas advocate., 1834-01-10

''of oi ms party, was rejected at the instance of his friend.
 The next day. letter from Mr. More was received, addressed to the President and Speaker of the respective liouses.- Upon this letter it is not necessary for us to comment, farther than to say that in it Mir. More expressly declared, that hc did not scisk to be appointed. His object was sole- y to rescue his official character from re- isifoeaelEa. lis letter was referred to joint committee of investigation, to which was given the power of sending for persons and papers. We were always aware that this was foolish step-because no good was to result from 1t, and it was out of the pro- vince of legislators. After two or three protracted sittings and tedious examinations, the committee made two reports-one of the majority and another of the minority. We cannot now give the exact words of the reports--but the substance of the for meF was, that Mir. More had acted with nnaecessasy scyupuloasness, with regard to the bond of Mir. Taylor. The latter sta ted, that he had, in the same matter, acted with partidfsiy and dpeeudiee. Bothreports were laid on the table---and tie rejection was thus confgmed.
 Shortly after the rising of the Legisla- ture, t was whispered that the Governor would appoint Mir. More, so soon as a va cancy should occur. We, among many others, seofied at the sAeaeht. tYe vel vel knew that tie Governor paid little or no re- speet to the Representatives of tie people, but We did not believe that he would so un- blushingly act in open defiance of them and so outrage ali that decorum due to so honorable body. He hos appointed Mir. More already as Justice Of the Peace, and he IS now acting as such.
 Whenever the Governor has heretofore opposed himself singly to the Legislature, he has had ostensible reasons for so doing, and t was always to be supposed that he might have acted in good faith He might have eonscientiously opposed their wilI-- he might honestly have taken different views 
 on subjects of general interest, from that body; and however much we might hold him in the wrong, still, in lis defiance of ther will, he n6ght not have consulted pri- vate prejudice more than political honesty. nnt in this last case, even dotage's self could not have imagined that he was confer ring benefit upon the community. There was no question of general interest involy- ed h fhis matter-and he could not have supposed that the rejection of that gentle
 man was an injury to the wel-being of the people. In this matter the Governor stands alone, against the united voice of the Le- gislature-for even the report of the major fly of the committee IS but q poor defence against the accusation. There Is in it no stern vindication of Mir. More--but cold and palliating admission, that he acted with a,fsaecesso1g scrupulonsness. An oyerseer appoinied, and set over the people, should not be so forward and ready in opposing the will of their elected Representatives. It were hardly pardonable in one, himself chosen by that people--bu. in one not res ponsible to them, it argues degree of tyr amy and of disregard to their rights, which ought to gall the souls of a free people like an non lelter riyeted round their hearts. There lcas time, when John Pope, if he be not wretchedly belied. either did not attach so high 8 value 10 his own opinions, or was not So peculiarly tenacious of them. There acGS time, when the most slsilful cross-questioning could not have elieited from him an opinion as to the relative mer- it's of the old or new court system. He might perhaps, al that time, have possessed small share of that modesty, and freedom from egotism, for which he is now by no
 means remarkable. There aras time,
 when, so far from being the Dictator to a
 Legislature, he was known to be so averse to holding an exaltedopinion of his own wis dom, as to make speech in favor of meas