The Arkansas advocate., 1835-12-25
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shall proceed to compare the relative merits of the doctrines which have been presented to the public, since the rising of the Legs lature. The names of "northern" and 4.southeras doctrines, have been gwen 10 them by the writers who have acclaimed on the subject in the Times. We object to these names, at the outset. They were adopted in the same demagoguing spirit which has governed those writers from the commencement of the warfare. They were we'll chosen, to impress the people of the north with the idea that the south was ill arms against them-attemptng to obtain the ascendency over them. Applying those names was in fact a tacit and practical false- hood. The northern doctrine was we'll so named-because 1t IS doctrine intended only to benefit and exait the n,goritg, and to give them unlimited and unchecked pow CT over the minority. But the southern doctrine is one which neither looks only to the interests of the south, or of this age and generation. It is doctrine for the we'll being of the whole country-for that which protects the minority, by strengthening the compact between them and the majority, increases the stability of government and free institutions. The idea that the doc
 r Urine which we advocate IS for the benefit of the south and to the injury of the north is truly absurd. It is by far moro probable thatin the course of fifteen years it will be looked to as the protection of the north against the south. Suppose the Arkansas and Mississippi are levied from the Pine Bluffs to the Louisiana line--a town grows up on every point along each river--and inc rich country between this and Red river Is thick!y settled by farmers. Will not the slave holding south overbalance the north Will any man tell us that the former has not far larger proportion Of arabic land than the latter? Look at the barren pine hills 1.-the poor oak giades, and the cold damp prairies m the latter. Look at the immense bodies of land returned by the Surveyors unfit for cultivation. The probability is, that the southern portion of the Territory .ssiilIll .ssiilIll shortly ont number the nerth-and then the system of District representation in
 
 Senate will be the only check for the latter against the former. The men who have made so much noise on this subject are well aware of this, but as all they care about IS to fan up an excitement by which tEey may get into power, they are perfectly will ling to fasten down on the north system which may give them the predominance for few years. and then leave them forever after in hopeless minority.
 Me ask the men who are to meet ln this place, for the purpose of forming our Con- stitution, to read carefully what we shall write. If our arguments are founded on correct principles and sound political views, the people of the north are intelligent enough 10 understand them-and just and liberal enough to render to the south what's of right theirs. Let gentlemen beware then. how.l for the sake of present precocious poptl-, larisy, they subject themselves to the future. odium of having attempted to place portion.
 
 ofour country at disadvantage, and under unjust restrictions and burdens. The free people of the north, in such case, may "love the treason, but they will hate the traitor"
 The ground which the advocates of the northern doctrine have taken, consists of two positions first, that the free white pop ulation IS and can be the only basis of rep resentation; and second, that in a rspsblicaai government the majority must rule. Tax ing the first proposition abstractly. every man in free government will at once as- sent 10 it-so far as this--that none but free- men should vote, and that one mans vote should count as much as another's. We would never stop short of any thing less than universal right of suf1fage--and that the poor mans vote should couat as much as that of the rich but this by no means in wolves defeat of our doctrines. And how do they attempt to prove that il does. The only argument which they use, is the fol-