The Arkansas advocate., 1836-01-08

This policy of supplying hy opposite and rival inter the defect Of better motives. might be through 'ne whole system of human affairs private well as rsiis. we see Il particularly dspiaycd sub. ordinate distributions Of power where tho constant aim s to divide and arrange thc several offices n such man ner as that each may be check the other that the private interests Of every individual may be sentinel over the public rghs These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite distribution supreme powers of the State.
 But it is possible to give each department an equal power Of sefdefcnee In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predoninates Fbe remedy for this ineonvenleneY divide the egsla nre into different branches: and rsnde, dif Jerenf modes c efsei1n, aud dgerent principles o ton as little connected uf each other fhe f thear common faetions aud thsir 1spendsnee on fhs society uiH admit II may be necessary to guard against dangerous encroachmenis by still further precautions" q ia
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 "lt is of great importance in republic only 10 guard society against the oppression of it's ruers to guard part of the society against the injustice the other part Different necessarily exist in different classes of eiiizens # majority united 5y 1 secare."
 'In free government the security for civil rights must be the same that for religious rights Itconssts in the one case m the multiplicity of interests and in the Ia the multiplicity Of TAs sgses af sssss,ts 5oth wH depend number Of interests aud sectS and this may be presumed 10 depend on the ex tent of country and number of people comprehendcd der the same governaent'
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 sIustce the end of government II is the end of e vii society. has been. and ever will be- pursued until be otanea until liberty he in the pursuit In society," under the forms of which the stronger fac
 ton can readily unite and oppress the weaker anarchy may as truly be said reign, as in state of nature where the weaker individual is secured against the violence Of the stronger: And in the latter the stronger individuals prompted by the uncertainty of the condition, to submif government which may protect the weak well as themselves: so in the former state will the powerful factions be gradually ndu ced by like motive. to wish for government which wlll protect all parties, the weaker well the more powerful"
 1.-the reader will recur to the lines which we have italicised in these quotations, he will see that they apply directly to us. The majority in this Territory or State, (whether that majority be North or sonth } will be tlali- ted by a common interest-and there being but two interests in the country. there will be the more necessity for some check upon the Popular Branch where the majority will always rule.
 No man who has watched and read of the course of political events in the United States since the adoption of the Constitution, can doubt the fact, that the Senate, by acting in the first place, for the protection of the small States, and, in the second, for that of the slave-holding South, has alone prevented the Union from crumbling to pieces. In the pop ular branch, the Northern Delegation so far outnumbers the Southern, that the love of ty- rannising, which is always found naturally to belong to majorities, and to grow rankly, like i'll weeds in alluVial ground, would long since have induced the North to lay burdens still more unjust on the South, even to attempt- ing to deprive them of their property by an alteration of khe Consultation, had not the South possessed an equal vote in the Senate.
 When we point our opponents to the Fed eral Constitution, and ask them if there can be any thing anti-republican in following that example, they answer. Us by referring to the several New States in which there is no oth- CT than numerical representation. Let them remember that those States are not divided in interests like this Territory. Arkansas may emphatically be called the United States in miniature-and needs the same restraints on the two portions of which 1t is composed Where there are no conflicting sectional in- terests to protect, there need be nothing to protect them.