The Arkansas advocate., 1836-04-29


 .4i,ti- Caucus Candidates }or atc Presidea- cp aud Tice Presjdency.-As there is now no doubt that we only wait the August elec- lion, to put on State Sovereignty ty-and being now certain of having a vote in the next Pre- sidential election-we place the names of the men of our choice at the head of our paper. That we are in favor of the former of them, our urreaders have long since known. We de- clared ourself in favor of White, when he was first spoken of as Candidate-and we shall never shrink from the cause, unless it becomes dishonor to support him.
 People of Arkansas we are engaged in contest precisely similar to that which agita- ted tho Union when the free people of the west, unawed by caucus dictation, and uncor- rupted by hankering after office, nominated Andrew Jackson, i'll opposition to the regu- Jar Congressional caucus Candidafe. Ma ny who were then jealous on the right side, are now more zealous on the aorong They ti,ut then iotitiss ii ttii5s yTf l! ;al combinations and caucuses tending to deprive the people of the realty of voting, and to leave them that privilege only in naue, are now loudest in their lauding of the < regular ly nominated Candidate, ? while the then fore most of the caucus pack is now Mei, Candi- date. Immaculate Democrats
 Martin Van Buren has been nominated by body of men called the Baltimore Conven- tion. You know the nature of that humbug, and how it's members were elected. White has been brought forward by the free voice of the people themselves-and as their Candi- date, we labor for his election--lor if Ruck- CT, giving in Convention fifteen votes for Ten- nessee, and Osgood the fourteen of Massa- chasetts, in a body unknown to the genius of our free institutions, are to elect the Presi- dent of the United States, leaving to us, who are the People, only the right of ratifying their choice, then the spirit of liberty is dead among us. Such Conventions are intended as .extempore Electoral colleges
 Who is this Martin Van Burcn, and who his supporters -here and elsewhere! He is a New Yorker of princely fortune-lately become demoerat-the man who opposed Madison in favor of Glinton-who opposed the admission of Missouri, except as a free State--who supported Rufus King for the U States Senate--who voted to extend to free negroes the right of suffrage-and who sup ported Crawford against Andrew Jackson.- For further developement of his character, we refer you to S3,' in this days paper.- And this is the man whose praises the pen stoned presses are chanting with forty horse power. His supporters are mixture of all parties-drawn together by a hope of sharing in the spoils-and by the natural instinct by which men are attracted to power, as moths to tho candlelight. They arc, in great de- gree, the old Federal States, and the old Fed eral leaders.
 Hugh L. White is son of the West-an old, venerable, wise and honest man. His supporters are the common people of the South and West Long a defender, an old and intimate friend of General Jackson, he has been repudiated only by the dark machi- nations and intrgues of the present Vice President. While the Richmond Enquirer. now the Delphic Oracle of the faithful, was abusing General Jackson-while the Albany Argus, then and now the mouth piece of Van Buren. was talking contemptuously of mister Jacksoa-while Van Buren himself was aid ing the cause of fCrawford--Judge White was battling in defence of Jackson and his prin- ciples. Who among us will desert him for his opponent
 We are engaged in a contest ofrght against wrong--of honesty against corruption-of the PEOPLE against a host of mercenaries.- Wehave hoisted our coors, and they are nail- ed to the mast
 Our Delegate in letter to tho Editor of the Gazette says that had Van Buren had the casting vote for Michigan, x he ,coald haue potcd for her admissioa.. You don't say so. He would have been a very particular idiot. If he had n't. If is well known which way