The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-18

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 the attempt 10 keep Missouri out of tba ,,ence 4T ion. Are the motives to oppose the no ol' LEY population less in eighteen bnna.i, ,1ol, and thifty-fve than they were in -e;abtasa ;,ea hundred and thirty-two? They are g9aa,' ga'ssA and give New York her Presidenf sas''9t' sag
 will prove 1t. 'ile
 It Is true that New York has beeo,a
 truth aud in fact, an IsiFERIr5I IN rzysrs n she is the nMPERIUM, the Federal Cove, ment the I7IPERIo. s''''
 The system of political manaoam... which is so we'll constituted in New ,,'i' yo,1 has been introduced into the Federal caa sa' ernmenf, and if the South is oot m 9S., S.
 watch, the result will be precisely the =. 1e' It Is much the same system in Drincinla a, big \ and little 2. f.' %'
 The number of office holders in N.m
 York, both State and Federal, is oreata, than in any state in the Union. The Sts,. Government and is powers and emols ments have fallen into the hands of tbesoar fee holders. This has been effected Hs means of the caucus system; the effiaa. and nature of which IS to take nower es. ~. of the hands of the people. The eancs, system would well form the subject If separate number, but 1t may be hest ,a speak of It in connexion with New yo,t and the Federal Government. The fal lowing is extracted from the journal of Yirginan travelling in the North, and ;a vite to t deep attention 1t paints the can GUS system as practised in New York.
 ," All candidates for office must he non; mated by a caucus or convention as e.r, polite now require it to be called. THs convention is gotten up in this wise. 0ns or two tolerably influential men. bayiDg, friend whom they wish to exalt, call 6s. Vate meeting of those over whom their'ig. flnence especially is, and after insnualno his merits into the minds assembled, uets resolution passed for d general eaueuq of the election district. All who are at tbs private meeting, bestir them diligently b eongregate at the caucus such person, chiefly as they or some of them can contro. and in this they are so successful that a no mlnation there IS almost sure to resultinm election This nomination goes abroad q, a MEETING OF THE PEOPLE. Such is Ae machinery by which aspirants get them. selves hoisted into office. All aspiraps therefore, openly or coverty. pay com NOT TO THE PEOPLE AT LARGE, but onf to the caucus. Thus the common peopf lose their strongest hold on the seryiny d their sapefiors. 'Twere well if deprgaiol of bows and kind words were all the milio1 suffer by the caucus system. Bnt by reR deriag them insignificant in the body poi. tic, that system threatens Popular GoyeR menf itself with overthrow.
 The men composing these caucussa are office holders, either under ihe state Federal Government. Thus the wboa patronage of the Government is usedhE perpetuaie power" s
 The members of the State and Feders Government, in New York, have unitedb elect Mir. Van Buren President; and hee let the reader observe how this systen req. dy cut and dried In New York, has been transferred to the Federal Government The representation of New York in Con gross IS much more numerous than that d any other State. She has forty-two mem, bers in the Lower House, so that she cat carry almost any question. By means these she has introduced her State system of patronage into the Federal Government It has been by means of these votes, com bined wilh other Northern votes, that ih high Tariff bills, Pension bills, Internal In. proYement bills, Abolition bills, and all bli. increasing Federal patronage were passed II was by means of these votes that tn abuses the Post Office were sd long COY cred. These fof,y-two voted for tb dreadful three millions. Here IS sea State and Federal patronage meeting ant uniting against the South.
 But the State caucus system too is aot transferred to the Federal Gevernmea TIE GRAND DEMOCRATIC NATIoNI GoEvENTIoN,p as ears polite require ito be called, IS but the little county caucusa large scale. The same in principle, th same in essence, the same in objects, tbI same in results. It would be deviating@E much from the immediate subject ofas address, to disseet and place before yos this National Convention. But lei ith remembered New York prevailed in tls Convention. Her 42 delegates votedd Mr. Van Buren.
 A new system of Banking which ha been established in New York, is anoths powerful agent in the hands of MT. Brep. This is called the Safety Fa System. l will try and cut down into n very seat ofthese fungi, and place then pe fore the people as the grandest system cheats ever devised by human ingenua The Banks in New York may be diylds into three classes. The State Banks' niL.. pnnI-n. 4la e......A a... - .oun RanM