The Arkansas advocate., 1836-10-28

i ho be pardoned for anRuiing his former resout;ons may When the Goths and Nandas poured tber Ga..
 rents through the srt cts of Rome, 1t was thei, ~t ton and amusement to cast down, to trample on sS de6le the proudest and most exquisite works aaa the nohlest monuments of genius In o-- Tit, cannot help imagining, have cur I.eeisIaarn s their rnfan hands n nnhalowed ignorance md 'o ric zeal, upon the Constitution of the Rennho Magma Chara of the American citizen Win n '0 tion of the rude courage and bold independence v ala and AIarc our Legislators have far surpassed a ae in blind fury and savage warfare against an ,ba sacred and venerable in our free institutions G.: en down. spurned, msulied, the minority have ba aa choice but to submit, while gloryng in their shame @ majority have proclaimed with triumphant accamaas l their slavIshneSS to the world.
 would that could have arrested these men ii, h..- mad career of silly sycophaney and extravaOan fall Lad anticipated the event-had kind Proyidenss given me the power 10 look into fuury, should Lase made effort however feeble, to stay hem inf En, freely confess that 1 loresaw not what has occ,,I
 was not prepared for ihe leap which they have made into the abyss of shame and degradation Maryelasf might, how some of them crawed up o the station thev now occupy--know as did, that 10 most of them flea. for its inscrutable purposes had win seeming in. justice denied common share of intellect and intpll gence--wing as l was to make every allowance for their nexperie0ce and ignorance, {or would demand service ot no man more than propor!ionate n his en tai capial,( was still prepared for the depth o which at one blow they have sunk the State.
 These are not vague charges Cur Legsators sent here 10 look to and provide for the welfare and n terest of an infant State have wandered from the track o! theu duty. They have ennnciated principle n hs Expunglng Resolution, which, If carried and gene. rally acted upon, will eventually result in annulng portion of the National Constitution, by abridgng and radically changing the term of Senatorial ofice The Senators from Arkansas will hereafter hold their office not for the Constitutional term of years but during the good pleasure of the Legislature of the State 1 totally deny that the Legislature possesses any power to instruct those Senators. It Is that they elect then but when elected those Senators are the imme. diate representatives of the people of the State and subject to command, direction instruction wha. eye except from the people themselves in their pma. " capacity Considered with reference to the Staie Legislature, they stand equal ground-and the Sc. nators we'll instruct the Legislature as the Ie. gtslature the Senator's Each :ha agents o the ] people ol the State, and each ther proper sphere have peculiar and appropriate duties to perform and peculiar obligations 10 comply witb One of these agents can consttutionally in way interfere with or instruct the osher-faf when the Legislature have performed he duty of eleetng the Senators imposed on them as agents of the people, they immediate
 y 10 be such agenis quoad the Senator's and the Se- nafors become he agents of the people in another be- haf, responsible to the people aone and them only at the expiration of their Constitutional term. Our Legislature has not only grossly inerered with the Senatorial privilege and m doing arrogated to them selves powers and privileges not constitutonaly
 erred upon them, bat they have charged those Sena. tors to do an unconstitutional and foolish, not an i'm. possible act. They have ordered them 10 expungta portion of the Journals of the United States Senate. What might be the meaning Of hs word exptage tAs Legislature probably neither knew nor cared to inquire
 aken III lis literal sense and common aeeepation, t would mean that the Legislature of the State of Akan sas have instructed our Senators 10 blot cut portion ] of the Journals of a preceding senate-of session held before we were State, and when Arkansas was not represented in that Senate Yet this cannot be the intenon It would be in fact to instruct our Senators to declare to the world positive and deliberate false hood-to say the world that the portion so expunged was never part of those Journals.
 1 am constrained to believe that our Quixoiic Legs. laure attached some other sense 10 the word in qles- uon-some meiaphysca abstruse, spiritual meanng which should result in being meaning al all. What that meaning may be- 1 wlll not stop to inquire It might perhaps be useless undertaking probe the brain of lmbecliy and ignorance for the sake of ean Ing what peculiar meaning was attached to a certain word. care not what meaning they attached to it- or whether none at all. In any vlew--inder any meaning, the object of the Resolution is alike rdlcu lous and absurd In the year 1888 President Jackson removed the United States Depostes from the U. 5. Bank, in which, by the charter, Congress had placed them. In doing, some have thought he acted right. ly, and others have held to the contrary opnion ut thIs latter class was majority of the U. Senate WHO at their session of lS33-4, passed vote o censute against the President stating that in removing the De- poscs he had gone beyond his Constitutional authorl- y shall not stop 10 inquire whether the Senate III so doing kept themselves strictly within the pale ol neh own delegated powers not. One thing is certain The vote of censme passed, and recorded on nen journals. The Journals printed, and thousands o' them are scattered over the Union. When our Legs. atre direct our Senators 10 have that vote o censwe exPunged from those Journals they order them 10 l, ao what is impossible. The Constitution requires ''as s
 the Senate shall keep Journal Of is proceedings anu after that Journal is signed by the President V.