The Arkansas advocate., 1835-01-02

earth are ours, 50 broad IS our line Of ion-
 gitude, so yariedonr latitude :--and here are
 their representatives assembling in one Cap
 itol, acknowledging one government, and
 speaking one common language! Fwefty-
 fourStates already make upour confederacy, ] and yet there IS ample territory for almost
 as many more. The old thirteen will more
 than seeitseif doubiedbefcre anothercensus.
 Michigan Is already knocking at our doors,
 claiming as right, what we refused as a
 boon. Arkansas has already come. Flor
 ida is coming. And then there is the
 North West Territory, already teeming
 with population. And then there IS the
 vast Missouri to which imagination can
 hardly fiis bound. What public ddo-
 main we have? How vast, how magnif-
 gently vast! What resources, that outrun
 even vivid calculation, and astonish and
 mock at prudence! What rivers that make
 the European smile at his little rills do
 indeed exult as an American when l wit ness the re-assembling of Congress, and < l bless the destiny that made me an Ameri- can. And if the people be kept intelligent { tiff education still continues to win its vo- taries;-if free schools but conquer preju- 7 dice, interest, and ignorance,--and more than all, if the Union be preserved by mod eration in the general governments and the laws be administered for the benefit of the aohole and not of port, then indeed a des- ] tiny awaits us, more exalted, more instruct- ing, more sublime than even that which az grandized, and which now throws such a lustrous cloud over Rome, the mother of empires.
 But how much have we to wrestle with !! There Is selfish and grovelling ambition that aspires for honor but to soil and be- grim it. There Is the eringing, servile love of power, that has dishonored the human character in all ages. There is ignorant ] smedocrlty that has the audacity to be ann bilious, and there is knowledge prostituted 5 to peryert and abuse it. And ihen there are hundreds and hundreds born to bel tools,- who love to be tools, whom destinyI seems to have made for tools,--who never! B seek for any thing than being the creatures Eof others,--who wear them badge, bearI } their name, and who, aye, if necessary, i, would wear their very labelled collar. AndI 9then there is power thHsting for more pow Ser, and acquiring 1t too, and then this ser syile crew appauding the acquisition, nol smatter whether high ambition has won 1t byl 5cunning, or oyerleaped the fence of thei ! flaw. Indeed have often mind, when Il sread history, and see what government hasI sdone, and when 1 now see what 1t IS doing ] sto turn Radical at once, and swear thel } soath of Hannibal--perpetual hostility to t. slt Is an evil,-bat necessary evil, grant. s0Ur bad passions make 1t so. Hatred to1 Kit is the best securityfor its pure preserya- stion. Jealousy of 1t, perpetual eyer-watch- ting jealousy IS necessary. Think, ye whoI { sdoubt this, what a pure, holy, parental, go-l Evernment our fathers left us on parchment ! s--our Washington, our Madisons, euFl sHancocks, our Adams'--and here it is--I ssee it--the government eff 10000 OficeI lHolders,--ail enemies of the people, yeti scertainly thousands and thousands of themE .as honest men as ever lived-wlth the elit-f
 ter of gold, with party bull hounds, with all:
 that delusive glare of military glory, that
 hath blinded so many Republics. See t, see the Kendalls, the Bairs, ,triumphant,-s and see,-my heart sickens at the sight,-a a State like old Virginia eonsecrated by theT tombs of Washington and Jefferson, nowk living on her past renown,-full of degen-a crate sons struggling to drive from the na- tIonal councils such a man as Leigh, whos IS restoring her lost fame, and reinstatinaa her greatness, making 'the land of losts gods and godesses'' old Greece once mores aye, sons belching forth against him, ands echolng the abuse of miserable cabal, E here Ill Washington, without soul of sent- ment, magnanimity or decency. Think, Is say of all this,--and when you see thisk beautiful government, almost prefectlon ina torm-whlch.--when you contemplate lh as an abstraction, as have done in the for E mer part of this letter, IS so calculated toK awaken enthusiasm, thus perverted, thusE disgraced,-how necessary 1t Is for everyE young man who hopes for much, and everyE old man who would leave to his children theE glorious birthright he had,--to swear, if@ not perpetual epposltlons- at least porpetualH perpetual struggles, unceas- E ing and courageous activity. A distrust tos power, an indifference 10 its finances, ayeE --I will say it, hatred of fl, and of allS who are warmed and fattened by it. LetN others, if they choose, swell the crowd ofH ts admirers, let them crook the knee whereA hrlft may follow Awning but be 1t ny ambition to envy the fame of a.Brutus and# | Hampden, rather than that of courtier.as 'f this or any other day. H
 Enough, however, of this. One cannotH control bis pen, when it begins its race,--M