The Arkansas advocate., 1835-04-24
THEE EDITORS TABLE.

THEE EDITORS TABLE.
 Hail reader of ours! We are glad to meet you again at our table. Sickness and Oth- CT troublesome causes. have hindered us lately of sitting with you here-but if t please the fates, we will this evening have social chat together. The hum of the town is yet busy around us, and the hands of the clock tell us that the hour of eight has scarcely gone by. The darkness has wrap ped ns palpahly-and the heavy thunder clouds are lying, like a visible death, in the starless west. And what though the storm come! What though the wind and the rain rush out, and the lightning flash out of that cloud-cradIe in hundred fiery tongues, and the thunder, which IS the voice of those tongues, vibfate like the decrees of fate, over us? What then? It is yet early, and it were foul shame to waste the peaceful and pleasant hours of the evening in the death-like stupidity of sleep. Every hour which we steal from sleep, is an hour added to our lives. But should the storm crash over us while we sit here, we must even sit 1t out. One meets with worse things in this life than even a thunder storm-as for example, the tumult of a battle--a fire in the prairie--a hurricane in the heavy woods "a squalling child, or scolding woman. And there may not be storm after all. Who knows? The signs of danger are al- ways deceptive. It comes upon us often with no warning-and without the slightest intimation this globe might dissolve into scattering atoms, and we be annihiIated. While We are always in danger it is foolish to fear. How often do she signs of tem- pest swell upon the west or the east--whiIe the storm demon seems to frown on the sun as he rises--and yet all yanishes, and light and calmness take the place of the threatening cloud! So Is it in the affairs of nations. Dismay and anarchy hover over them as they have lowered over us--and they fee again as they have fed from over us, before the light of liberty and know ledge. Of late, in our country, the signs of dissension and disanion have been fre- quent, but one by one they have disappear ed. Enough have We seen, however, to instruct us that 1t behooyes us to choose ourselves rulers, and 10 adopt measures. that may please all. When the different sections of the Union hold open quarrel concerning their several interests-when the different departments of our Govern ment are clashing and conficting-and when we are gravely told that we ought not to elect any President fer whom large portion of our citizens would yote-then 1t is time to look about US and ask, if these things cannot be remedied. We are truly glad that there is prospect of elec,iug a man to the Presidency with whom all par ties will be satisfied. Were our politics even different from those of Judge White, we should still prefer him to Van Buren or Clay--for small points of difference are mo- thing compared with political honesty and uprightness. We observe that the new pa per at Nashville, called the UNrow, Is a Van Buren paper. The Banner and Re- publican, the two leading papers there, are warm for White. The gallant conduct of the two latter papers, in this matter, is be- yond all praise. Though conscious that they were forfeiting the favor of Gen. Jack son, and perhaps large share of popular support, they have boldly and manfuIly de- clared that they are for White at all ha- cards.
 The news from France is such as to rem der 1t certain that there will be no war be- tween the United States and that country. We have not yet heard ofthe Report of the Committee 10 the Chamber of Deputies concerning the claim, but we have no doubt of the appropriation being made. We may well say that 1t Is only owing to the little sense and less diplomacy of our late states men, that we have not received the money before The President and Mr R;vos