The Arkansas advocate., 1836-07-08

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 What principles of General Jachson's ad- miniStration wifi he carry outl Will he ep- pose a National Bank! He petitioned for branch of the United States Bank in Albany. Will he oppose the Tariff! He voted for three Tariff bills, and was their warm SUD- porter. Will he be in favor of reducing the price of the public landsl He voted against it four times in one session. Will he be in favor of giving the people the election of their President! He opposed giving the peo- pie Of New York even the election of their Presidential Eleetors-and has said in pub lie speech, that ''the further power IS renov- ed from the people the better" N Ill he be opposed to internal improvements by the eSe- neral Government! He voted for establish ing Federal toll gates, to be kept by Federal tollgatherers, OH the Cumberland road, with in the limits of the several States. Will he be in favor of improving the roads and rivers of the Vest He voted against improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi. What principles, then, of General Jackson's administration will he carry out!
 What was his course while Secretary of State! So soon as he reached Washington, he commenced insinuating himself into favor with the President, until he had obtained hls entire confidence. That confidence he abt- sed. by fomenting difficulties and quarrels be- tween General Jackson and his old friends. in order, by removing them from hlna to make room for his own servants and hifc- lings-creatures who would aid in his eleva- tion. With his eye steadily fixed on the ob- iect which he labered to attain, he has spared no means-save honorable ones-he has lett no intrigue untried, to lift him to the Presi- dency. Every man who stood in hls way
 II. I I fkr,a hxr one, the Presidents old and honest friends have been separated from his side, and driven into political exile. Where are Branch, Ingham, Berrien, Duane, Tazeweii, Barbour, White, Bell, and host of othersl Removed ito make room for the supple tools of Van Buren. By these and similar means, he thinks that he has now the Presidency in his grasp. He has made attachment to him and his fortunes the test of fitness for offiee--and political prescription for opinions sake has reached the remotest county of the extreme States and Territories of the Union. By such course he has organized an immense body of office holders and exPectants through out the whole eountry-a political police like the secret agents of Napoleon. The common bonds of self interest and exact dls- cipllne hold them together--so that the mo- ment an impulse is given to the centre, is felt to the extremities of the Union
 Stiil further to aid him in his plans, the public moneys of the United States have been deposited in State Banks, whose means are limited and stability uncertain. Thus have these Banks been converted into great elec- tioneering engines. Through them he exer- eises a terrible power over opinion. In them are deposited about forty millions of the peo- ple's money. These Banks have liabilities to the amount of four times their specie capl tal--so that the Deposites exist only in pa per money. These Deposites are loaned out to Van Buren's supporters-speculators in land, and political gamblers-aad such men are he Treasury of hte United States. Ey- cry nan, woman and child in the Union owns two dollars of that money--and the interest on the whole sum is two million one hundred thousand dollars, clear proft, given every year by the people of the country to bankers and spectators. The whole of tais money is placed under the control and direction ofa man who resided in Canada during the last war, swore allegiance to the British Govern ment, and was engaged in smuggling specie to pay the British troops--and was proven to have periured himself before Committee of Congress. With this money, placed under the care of this man, the public lands are purchased, and the poor settler robbed of the fruits of his labor.
 Have we not, then, reason to fear the end of all these things! Have we no cause to dread that in the end the liberties of the peo- pie may be spoken of in mockery as things of past age-which have become more un- real than shadowsa We see the baneful ef- fects of this organization in the manner in which Van Buren has been placed before the people of this country as candidate. Under the influence of the Heads of Department and the thousand servitors who fill the various of l fees in those Departments, 1t was amour ced that a General Convention would be held at Baltimore. Tho mandate went forth to the several States, among the office holders, and it was distinctly understood that no man was to presume to make kis appearance there unless he was prepared to vote for the candi- date upon whom the leaders had already fix
 ed. In States supposed to be friendly to their choice, some show of fairness was kept up. In others little bands of office holders met and appointed Delegates. And from others, again, men were sent secretly, and without even pretenee at being nominated. From onc of the smallest States appeared about two hundred Delegates--from Tennes- sec, only one. These men met in Conven- tion, and played off the farce of nominating Martin Van Buren for President--and to- wards that nomination went the fifteen votes of Tennessee, and the twelve votes of Mas sachusetts--neither of which States will give single electoral vote to the candidate they were thus made in appearance to select. A more infamous trck--a more palpable and contemptible piece of jugglery was never practis ,d upon free people. Yet these men