The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-02


 popularity. In new and thnly settled country where
 information is far from being general the means of ed ucaton almost unknown, and the press ene-sded and partzan Tn Its character. the elements of society in their fermentation often throw up their most light and worthless portion to the surface while that which is more solid and substantial remains unstirred at the bottom. II IS such ground that we must account for your elevations Coming to this country at an early day, the supercaiy of your requirements the broad and shallow buhoonery and humor of your character and your capabliity and willingness to serve man whose wealth and shrewdness gave him the power if not the right, to rule the country, all conspred to lift you from your proper and legitimate sphere to stand- Ing, which, ii occupied by talent and merit would have been envable.
 Two objects you have kept steadily in yiew-the one to lift up yourse--the other, to reward at the pubic expense those who elevated you to make you their too-those who suffered you to wear the shadow ot power, while they themselves were invested with the reality It would be judging you too harshy, to believe that you never recoed and disgusted al the ser vices you were compelled 10 render, and the rewards you were forced 10 confer will not believe that you did all wingly for weakness, and not bold and ner- Vous contempt for the public interest," your prevailing characteristic will chartaby think, that such were the meshes in which you found yourself entangled, such the cords of obligation by which you were bound that you were compelled to do that with which at heart you were dlsgusted To carry out these two great ob-
 
 to the means you called your aid the chcanery and cunning, us we'll as the bold impudence and arrogance of the demagogue. lou established system of re- wards, by which to attract parizansand the govern ment of the Territory, intended to benefit the whole
 people, you perverted 10 the advantage and remunera ton of few. If you deficient in patriotism, you at least had sufficient of the preence. The anatomy of the political prohgate, 1t Is said, of utility as po- lca warning-and in that light your public course may be of unbounded benefit 10 the world. shall not refer 10 specific instances in illustration. That you have always bestowed every office and every appro- pration In your power, upon your political friends, without regard to qualification or public nterest-hat you have made ''Sevierism" indispensable pre-re- quise to the obtaining either the possession of the one or the disposition ot the other needs proof Your friends claim for you the credit of being ndefatiga- ble, urgent beggar behalf of Arkansas, and you have picked up for us crumbs under the table of the General Government. The claim implies a re- proach upon the character of this people. Had you no influence ut Washington save that which arose from mportunate beggaryl Are so lost 10 all feelings proper to the American cizen to be proud of ob- talnlng that III the character of sturdy mendcants which ought boldly to have claimed as matter of right! But allow .he claim to the utmost extent-- Grant the premises and let inquire whether these grants have been distributed by you mere for the bene
 lit of the public or of your partizans Vas patriotism or regard to self interest, the main spring of your zeall Instance the facilities afforded by you to your friends for speculation in Donation claims and in Ten Section claims Look back to the agents you have had appointed to dispose of appropriations for roads! Who has been benefited by the money given to be bestowed upon the Memphis road! who by the money for the State House, the Court House. the Jail? Two words will answer all these questions. Your partizanS.
 1t Is now reduced to a certainty that you will repre- sent Arkansas in the Senate of the United States for the next six years; fl not for longer period is un- der this presupposition that address you this letter. Pardon me for first addressing your coadjutor the Lower House, Tn former letter, before paying my tentions to you His vanity might have suffered by the neglect. His purchase, at the price fifty dollars, of the privilege of naming county seat after himself, would argue this quality of his mind 10 be nordinate. Besides IS always advisable dispose of the light armed subsidiaries before attack the centre of the army. You enter upon the arena of the Senate at time ot transcendant lmportance-a period pregnant with great events and great consequences It remains to whether you will continue to do as you have hi thefto done-o follow in the train of power regardless of public interest, whether you will consider your- self in situation in which you may at length dare to assert your independence. Having satisfied your va nity by rising to the highest distinction which be conferred by State upon of its eItizens--having rewarded, to the utmost of their claims, your greedy partizans. you may at length find leisure and would fam hope inclination, 10 devote share of your at tention to the public good. This hope, however, is fear, but desperate one. There is no known good trait of your character which may reasonably be founded. The tricks and cunning, the unscrupulous ness and efrontery of the demagogue, with you to be not acquired but insnctiye. With these still cpglng to you part of your nature, it IS not pro- bable that you can receive mental dignity from the dis tincton of office. There is consideration howe yer which may induce 10 believe in the possibility that you will forsake the friends who disgrace you, and for whom you have further use. It IS the faith lessness fyour character. The only qualification you have required in friend has been that he should be useful. Virtue, honesty and intelligence, have yer been prerequisites. When your subalterns have ceased he have uerlu