The Arkansas advocate., 1836-05-27

in the twenty four hours, to do the naar's, s, some good. Thus an Editor, for examnla W he will latter and fawnupon the naonle .s,a VI.
 be worshipped-but if he attempt to tell thay hh,ay
 plain, honest and stern truths, it is fen ,sa a
 they cry out against him. Should Wa ,SA I.'s
 give up the contest Ay, perhaps so # ,sa ,sa seek popularity and wealth--but if we saas to benefit our fellows, and if we find s,,ars cIent reward in the consciousness tb.t saa have done so, we should fight on-eyen oras the fosse--and thunder, battle axe in hand = the doors of misrule and corruption. rbaa'
 men who live for popularity alone, wo,,d ssa so
 well to consider that the public is apt to tra.. it's fayorites and pets, as Punch treats b,,ss wife at times, and as the Hindu treats s;s .,;a idol when dssatisfied--they may be bso,ss. ss
 1t Is q bad symptom in any country ,vhan
 a large proportion of the people are eaoar e. political advancement and distinction w. do not mean in the least to deny the rigl, as every man in our country to aim at anv as flee, for that is a privilege dear and not fohs denied to any frceman-5ut we do mean to deny that men are wise or sensible in desyy ing office and popularity. Let them. as dJ
 we, hold the privilege dear, for it is k5er,,ss but let them be careful how they desrs U exercise it. We have, in oir minds eve fainily or two, ill which office-holding has ha, come, as it were, hereditary. What ia tba consequence? There Is kind of mononSs, :,
 mia, madness upon this subject alone. ev.
 tending through each family, even to the eoI. lateral branches. They are all mad for oe flee. The very younglings of the brood su soon as they overstep the the threshold. ont of homage, and proclaim themselves men. be.
 come office-hnnters. They come before tba,
 people for their yeices-lapwings runnino
 with the shells upon their heads--or else
 they bow at the footstool of power, and ask
 for a servants liYery-so that the word noE.. tician has become almost synenynens with
 0agabond-a brawler and babbler at thecor-
 ners of the streets. The tendency of every government isto deteriorate--and it is offsn if not always the case, that the greatest wis.
 ible and apparent signs of national Drosper.. ty, are the sure tokens of inward corrruption
 rottenness and decay at the heart of the great
 system of governm ent. Venice, the Queen of the Seas, was never apparently so four ishing, as when the people of that Republic'
 were throwing the safeguards of their liber ty, their rights, their privileges of self-goy ernment, one after the other, into the lap of the nobfes, with prodigal lavishness never equalled, unless, 1t may be, in our day. The l course of Executive aggrandizement. and the
 increase of Executive power, is still onward.
 It is wide river-deepening and darkening.
 and swallowing 6p the subordinate and ne.
 cessary branches of goverfrnentaE power--. l When the Executive first commenced it's exs istence, in the person of Washington, the Democrats alleged that the powers giventhat ! branch were too great, and should be dimin- ished. < One after the other,' said they, the President will subject to himself the various Departments, the Post Office, the Supreme
 Court, the House of Representatives: The Senate will last longest, but will at length give way--and then you will have what will be in fact monarchy At these views all the Federalsts booted. All that was proph. ecied has come to pass--and now who are they that desire still further to extend tho powers of the Executive-that go further in their Federal sm than the Federalists them selves They caH Hentsetves Democratsl 1 Innovations are abundant in these days.--
 X new fashion has crept in--of instructng ! Senators in Congress to resign. Look at ! the tendency of this. What is the obiectG
 electing Senators for six years! It is toes 1 tablish one branch of the government which
 shall be firm and steadfast amid the wild
 changes of popular feeling and opinion. It ! Weto lltCuuSU LuClI tSUuTG Ol OtlCc Sll0ulu be long, in order that they might act asa
 check against the rashness and precipltancy
 of the popular branch Is not this practice
 of instrueting them out of their seats, strik. ing at the very best principles of our govern
 ment! lsit not directly subverting the Con.
 stitution, by by making the Senators bend to every ebulliton of popular impulse, and cease
 to be, what they should be, a check upon the lo, H. '.
 ton between the Senate and House of Rep,
 resentatlves. Carry out the principle-and ! both bodies will alike represent nothing but
 the popular feeling for the moment. Our
 government willbe precisely like plank ih
 the sea--hoating to and from the shore with
 every advancing and receding wave.
 We, for our humble self, venerate and glo- 1 ry in the Constitution of the United States
 Human wisdom there did it's best. It will l be text book for all futurity Yet, while all the nations of the earth admire and won
 der at 1t, race of pygmies has grewnu up
 among us, and standing up amid the tomoS of the departed great men of our country they dare to lay their puny hands upon that instrument which has rendered its slgnerS
 immortal, and to lift their weak voices Tn sa. crilegious contempt against it. Politicallg- HoldhcS ls dlWays acconpanleu Wlth eS
 gious impudenee, and the shoals of dabofels Tn the muddy waters of politics, hardly ao- vanced beyond the 4. B. c. of political WIS
 dom, would fain amend and better that glort
 ous Constitution Poor, weak, pitltul fools
 It IS easy to cry aloud for the people ana 1n'
 democracy--but it needs long. severe anoal
 duous study, deep and close and perseyeflns
 research, to become versed in the scienes.~l .al
 government-and to understand how anu U
 what WAY with what rest rict ions and CheCks