The Arkansas advocate., 1835-03-06

 Territory of Arkansas put hi9a before the people as q candidate, in competition with one of your ignorant, noisy, vaporing dema- gogues. On the one side you would have honesty, learning, talent and pride--on the other, supple sycophaaey, l9fy phrases, glib words, and stump deelanaiion:- Which would be yonr judge2 The talent required on the bench is not that which eii- -sures success on the stump. There, where law Is dispensed, is needed sound and searching discrinination-sterling sense and uubendins decision. The oratory of inc electioneeref needs no logic. A string of sounding sentences often elects the nun who never followed out the course of an ar gumenl in his life. It needs glare and SUI periciaI dispay-instead of sense, it needs only exlrayagance anu impndence-instead of tirnness, 1t needs trucking subserviency and coatemptible cajolery.
 .The third position is seli-eyident. Eve ry man knows how many worthless men creep into office, merely by multiplicity of candidates. In many offices this is not im- ipottant. The influence of an ignorant man Is ephemera in legislatufe-but in the judiciary 1t IS different. h vain are we free, Ii we have not talented, honest, impar- tal and bold judges. Without them, our rights, our liberty, our life-aud those of every poor man, are in the power of the rich and the wicked. Without an efficient judiciary, liberty is but name. But you are weary. We will take up this, matter again, when you once more sit at our ia ole. Good bye.
 In the Senate of the U. $. Jan. 27, the Re port of, the Majority of the Committee on the Post-0 Office, presented by AIr. EWING, was read; as also that of the Minority, by Mir. GRvNDy. Both Reports agreed in the fact, that the Department is in most deplorable condition, resulting from naisnana cement and corruption. The Jackson senators made little defence against the charges of the Cons mittee. Me make the following extracts from the speeches incidentally made on the reading:-
 Mir PRESTON rising, observed, that 1t was by no means any intention of his 10 interfere with fhe question as related to the bill, whatever that bill might be which the committee proposed 10 bring forward. But sir, {said hir. Preston) l should wish to un- derstaad ibis tbing properly, l should wish the Senate, should wish the whole coun- try to understand this matter fairly, honest ly and tFulY Let me then, sir, propose one simple question: 1t is this Are we to come to the conclusion from the views of the committee, which We have just heard, from the two Reports of that committee, one from he majority and the other from the minority !-aitef these Reports, would ask, are we to conclude that simple re- organization of the Post Office Depart- nent wlll be aa adequate remedy, sufFi- clent cure, for ey!lsso gfem and so tfemen- dous would ask, sir, Is the Senate, nay, Is there single individual of thr Senate, prepared to maintain that these disgfaceful, hese outrageous acts of deep corruption and fraud are grounds and motives for noa other step, no other courSe-no other ac- ton than mere reorganization of the de- partment! When irand and corruption, so munStrous and 50 extensive Is detected and brought to light in department, shaH all that we dare 10 do, shall all the notice we take of Il, amount 10 nothing more than the recommendation of a new re-or -organza- ton of that department Is ths the path of datyl Is this the course. is this all the fidelity which we owe to our country !--I must maintain sir. and do uniAesitatinaly maintain, that if the Senate would follow such course as this, then, sir, next afier the extraordinary, the horrible, the humiia- ting developements which have been made, such course would be the most unusual, most strange and most hunilIating. Alter all that We have now heard, proposition merely 10 re-ofgaaiSe the Department would be indeed derehcton from our duty and q disgrace to OUT country! it Is not now the time to finch from what duty and honor call upon us te do. Now for the first time we .hHFe netdd Hle fuI de8es0neDent Cl enormties of which last session we had but ioretaste. Then an exposition of ceriarn facts was made, but that a more perfect enqoiry would degulph such rotten- ous streams, would bring to light such irIghtfll depths of dark and deep corrup- ton, snch mal-practices 50 alarming and huniliating and deporable, no one was pre- pared even to imagine.
 Is il alreadY nassed from the memories 1