The Arkansas advocate., 1836-08-26
A CITIZEN OF THE NORTH.
For the Advocate.


 To tbe Hon. .4rchitatd sYelk: t SIR--Mankind are often peryerse and refractory as directly to contrayene the intentions of nature. This truth Is illustrated by your elevation to the dignity of Representative Tn the Congress of the United States. Had the intentions of nature, manifest h the limited and meagre endowments with which she has gifted you, been respected by the populace you would never have been raised above the standard of third rate practitioner at the bar. While we wonder at, we must also pity the iadvsed ambition, not counerbalanced by prudential regard for your own self love- which has urged you to step out of your proper humble sphere, and assume position n which most bitter mortfca- ton and deeply wounded vanity cannot fail to result from your confessed nadequacy to the duties thus self imposed. Standing simply common citizen of Arkansas, your faults and fangs, and the utter nega- tyeness ot your character would never have risen to the dignity Of becoming theme of animadyersion. - Shielded by your own nsgnifcance, you-rlight calmly have smiled while the lightning shafts of political fury and partlzan malevolenee were smiting to the dust around you the grants of intellect. You those bolts would carefully have stunned But the gifts of nature are not always we'll proportioned. To dwarfish in- tellect IS often joined preponderatng ambition. So has been with you, and unucky for you, you have attained your end. The office you hole has given you a claim to the notice of the press II is the heraIdc garb which conveys certain privileges and imposes on the press certain duties. Your faults and your absur- dities, your failties and weaknesses, in private life might only have rendered you ridiculous coupled with the power toado injury or omit doing good, they become hateful and almost criminal.
 You came to Arkansas some years since as Receiv- CT oi Public Moneys at Little Rock. Obtained as the reward ofoyay and zeaous vindicaton of the purity o your political chief you used that office as the lever by which to i yourself into insensate popularity You were buslly and ably playing the demagogue, when none of those who knew you could see with what possible motive. had not then entered into the bfaln o any one who knew you, that you would ever aspire to the station you who'd When you left the ofhce, you also forsook the country. You declared you left Arkansas III disgust But in inc winter oi 1855 your Fauitlng ambition overleaped discretion and you formed the bold intention of becoming mem Der ets Congress from Arkansas. That intention you avowed m letters to some of your acquaintances by whom the ayowa received with smile of incre- dulv, not unmixed with pity and commseration. Shortly after your arrival here, you were appointed Judge of the Superior Court, a office which you had previously been made aware was to become vacant, and of which you perhaps had already the possession in expectancy you touched our shores. This se- cond office bestowed upon you, came at favorable moment. It offered you every facility for the acquis ton of undeserved popularity. Your education hardly equalling that which common mechanic obtains in the free schools of the East-whout even modcum oi the mental ore out of which industry might have wrought something brilliant useul-with but su-
 sis,assg ;is law, sis, Il, sssii,,ri ur hon of reasoning poweryou resolved to gain repu- ation and portion of popularity To effect this. the common arts of the demagogle were resorted to- An assumed irankncss and epenness--a measure of good humor bordering on bufioonery-a studied neglect of dlgnty-an extra ajudical and mira judicial cournn of the populace were the steps by which you were to as-