The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-16
For the Advocate.
Sept. T, 1886.
To Me lion. glnlbrose T. .sericr.

Sept. T. 1886.
 To tte lion. s1tub1ose T. Sericr
 SiR-The demagogue whom the boiseroHs waves of popular feeling and popular caprice have flung mp the summit of popular confidence, should always re- collect that the reaction of the surge may wash from under his feet the sandy basis of his popularity and leave him, miserable shipwrecked wretch, the inhospilable shore of the broad ocean of politics. recommend the foregoing axiom to your consideration. fi!iy i; aJ produce :aast sa!aary effect. II may teach you modesty which is not your prevail ing charaeteristie-and 1t may also induce you to at tempt securing continuance of your present power, by means somewhat more dignied and noble than those by which you attained It.
 am sensible that the task which have undertaken IS thankless one would induce youto shake your self clear of the tolls and meshes of party-to stand aoot equally from those who have served you, and those whom you have served. If cannot do this in one way, will attempt to do 1t in another. The ap- pcals Of duty of dignity and of patriotism may find answering thrill In your breast but 1t may be possible that to e appeals of seIlove, of pride and of petty vanity you will not be so mperyous. The latter are generally most etiectua when addressed to meagre medIocrly of intellect. l acknowledge that my eff orts for your ameoration may meet with but an un- ceptlon-for 1t IS true, o quote the words of Burke, that etmen forced into involuntary nde pendenee, will abhor the authors of blessing, which Tn their eyes has very resemblance curse.
 presume that by the time this number meets your eye le9lslalufe 0I oate Of ArkdnSaS Will be III session, and you at your post their Father Confessor and Spiritual Director. You have never, before now, been candidate for the suffrages of the peoples Representatives. and yet you have generally been found in attendance, holding the reins like skill fu chaIioeer, strengthening the knees of the weak, and supporting the unstable and waverng by your cou
 sels oYerawing them by your commands. Your pre- sence there has often been potential as that of the Emperor Napoleon in the French Chamber of Depu- ties, and your approving nod threatening frown has often been needuto the decision of measures in which l you were by implication interested. At the present tiihe you have more urgent necessity for exercising the plenltude of your dctatorial power refer not alone to the need your attendance order to secure
 to yourself the robes of Senatorial dignity That mis- fortune am well aware no human power can ayert.-- hat object could be attained without your presence. There are other considerations imperavely demand Ing the exercise of your influence Your colleague is to be elected. To secure the zeaous cooperation of sundfy influential partzans in different sections of the State during the past contest this office of honor was held up to each as the possible ultimate reward of his zeal Tn hIs partys cause. The veil of Futurity was partly rent away by your hands and those of your ser vofs, suffering occasional gmpscs of Senatorial mag nIfcenee to be in the vista Excited by the view fired by the hope and hapfomise of reward these par tizans leaped into the contest. The mask of patriot Ism IS now dispensed with useless covering, and they stand open-mouthed, expecting the pay of which they believe they have the promise. Three men, at
 least, have been led to expect the office, and on the shoulders of each, in his imaginaon the purple IS waiting 10 be spread. 1t is needf therefore, that you should weigh we'll to whom you will suffer 1t to be given It requires the most careful deliberation and exact calculation, that the disappointed ambition of two may not more than counterbalance the interested and selfish gratitude of the favored one. There are other difficulties in your way Desirous of being the sole arblter of the destnes of Arkansas you will not be sal lsfed with simple seat in the Senate, unless you can give, as well the vote of your colleague in that body and your coadjutor in the House, as your own To thls end you wished that no should be your col league unless some iacie, plant, yieding sycophant- lc, obsequious, weak dependent upon your wl-one who would consider his office as given him, not by the People or the Peoples Representatives, but by you-
 He must be who will speak as you speak, vote as you vote, and think as you think. He must be your siiadsw aii your echo. Il must be no free, 1t, ill., dependent The Representation of Arkansas in the National Councils must be a unit-the soul of Se sief Ill three bodies. Devoid yourself of indepen- dence, you unahle to recognize 1t as virtue. h. stinctively stopping, like the parasitic minion of an eastern Despot before the ootstoo of usurpaon and power, you require the same qualifications in every one who would become your friend.
 Who IS to be your colleague? Although your press mas spoken ot Gov Fulton as the intended and prob able candidate, and although promises, implied If not express have been made him that he should receive
 the support of the Democratic party for that office, yet have ever felt well assured as still do,
 that he could never, in any contingency and by any possibility, receive your support With duplicIty worthy the mos. polished ntripuers of inc corrnt and unprincpled Courts of Europe, your partizans have
 attered him with the prospect of support for the ofce while at inc same time the plans were ripening which were to place another candidate in tho field am as toBished at the position into which ay Fulton has