The Arkansas advocate., 1836-05-27
TREE EDITORS TAgLE.

Sit down, gentle reader. The evenings are somewhat sf the shortest, but we have ever an hour to devote to our friend--friends we hold all our readers to be. Amid the hot turmoil of politics, and while We are waging war with might and main on behalf of the people, we like to shut out, at times, all the tumultuous and tossing waves of political ex
 cItement from our ken, and sit us down, cosi-
 y and calmly, to converse unreseryedly and at our ease. with our friend. If the people
 would guard their rights, they must initiate those adventurous and patient men who res= eued country from the grasp of the ocean.
 Not satisfied with throwing up against the sea q broad, strong dyke-whict We have i'll our Constitution--not erecting bulwarlI against the pillows, and then leaving it to take care of itse1t-they must watch, day by day and night by night, that when the overpowering storms burst upon it, they do not shatter and break through it-or, what is more danger ous still, that the continual wearing of the under-current of corruption do not sap it's foundation. 1t is not easy for men to retain their liberties. It is hard. Power will ev- CT creep from the many to the feW-Aristoc- racies will grow up out of Democracies. It IS natural--it has often happened, and will 1 happen again. Hungry Corruption will in- tsnuate itself into every artery and vein cf government--the duGm courier of black des- potism. Again we getiuto politcs-but ex-
 cuseus. What is the true meaning of polu-
 ical science! It Is that science which has for 1 it's object the greatest good of the maay-for
 such IS the meaning of the Greek word from which it is derived-though in our day 1t is a science of which the object is the greatest
 good of seE And who shall say us nay, if we are inclined to descant on politics. We
 seek only the greatest good of the many. An Editor is kind of despot T will t so,' he says, and so 1t Is. He is the undispu- ted sovereign of 8 certain extent of territory of opinion-and is in great measure ire sponslbe-altogethe so to his subjects, that
 is, to his readers, who have no remedy for any grievance, real or imaginary, but that of quitting his domain and changing their ale glance-whereby they seldom better their condition, and over which he seldom weeps,
 for where he loses one, he generally gains 1 two However, we will not exercise our
 Dictatorship for this night. We will disrobe
 ourselt ot our dignity, and simply talk with you of things gone by and to come.
 We congratulate ourself and you that we
 are doubtless a member of the great Ameri-
 can Confederacy. We ever averred that Ark
 ansas was taking the proper, as well as the H '@ S09S SoAicVs III ICJ DOMcT. IJd- mentabfe teFebodings, constitutional seruples
 matched in prolific brains, nice points of et- lquette, precedents-all were marshalled in
 authoritative array against us, and the steps
 We took were declared unconstitutional, un
 precedented rash, and fraught with extreme
 danger to the interests of Arkansas. Those chimeras of the fancy and megrims of the
 braln have all vanished. They have fled like thin mists, and are not now owned or
 remembered by those to whom they owe their
 birth and parentage.
 we would like to know what proportion of our public men and political aspirants are aetuated by that great object-the benefit of large masses of the community! It seems to us that there are but two objects almed at by public men in our day--popularitv and money. As to the abstract principle of do- ing good to large portions of lhe community. It IS by no means Che main spring of their ac- tions. Neither is popularity fine great end aimed at. 1t would be better fit were so-for there is something high and exalted in struo- gllng for distinction and honorable renown. In our country, at the present day, populari- ty IS only desired as a means to obtain mon- ey. Our pu5llc men are generally mere po- litlcal stock -lobbers and speculators-legion- aries and mercenaries-who look most if, tho ICommissariat, and follow the banner of tbe Gpaymaster The spoils belong to the vic tors, IS their maxim--and all they care for IS, to plunder the baggage. The truth is.
 however, Chat man might as we'll seek for
 wealth as popularity, if either is tho ult,. ,afe Io1lect of his labor. Popularity seldom ar- gues mefit-and it is questionable if t be any reward. 1t IS, nine times out of ten, unde 'sefved-and so is unpopularity; and man