The Arkansas advocate., 1836-04-29

Of country III which we llVe-ana upon question which shook the whole Union 10 its centre. l hold such vote 10 be the EthIop stain. No lapse of tiine-no change of circumstances can pailiate or do away the1sin of this vote. It Is like the mark on the forehead of ihe Wandering Jew-indelble. repulsiye and hideous.
 2nd. He did vote in New York to ad- init free negroes and mulattoes 10 the right of suffrage. How far this corresponds with western feeling we are all aware. It fastens upon him the stigma of abolition, and like the coat of the ceulaur upon Her cuies, (not saying that he Is a Hercules in size or intellecf,) it will burn the flesh from his bones.
 3d. On the 18th of April, 1928, q bill to graduate the price of the public lands, to make donations to actual settlers, and to cede the refuse lands 10 the States in which they lie, was before the Senate. Martin Van Buren voted against it throughout-as appears from four distinct and separate votes on the journal of the Senate. When the expunging process begins, those votes had better be erased, by black lines drawn around them, or any other approved fash ion. Will the poor man, whose great ob- 5ect has ever been the graduation of the price of land and donations to actual set tiers, now vote for man, who, toa1 times in one session, voted against his interests and wishes?
 4th. On the 24th of May, 1928, MT. Van Buren voted against the bill to aid tie State of Ohio in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, aad qnahsno donations q land to certdin persons ias .qrk- anSaS. 4 few of our citizens who lost their homes by the eesson of part of Arkansas :o the ia;iias were some what inter etii ir that bill; and It IS certainly the most unpar- alleled impudence 10 ask them now to vote for the man who then voted against them.
 9th. He supported Clinton against Ma dison for the Presidency, in the midst of our last war with England. Clinton was brought out as the strongest man in the East, by the Federalists, for the express purpose of defeating, or at least thwarting the administration, and putting an inglorious end 10 the war. tis said that certain old stager Ill politics, now nominated Van Buren elector in Kentucky. was burnt in efigy for an offence somewhat similar. Perhaps sympathy of feeling and taste has induced hias, too, to once more turn his coat.
 9th. While openly opposing Rufus King, hot and stauhch Federallst, he was secretly occupied in forwarding his views and at length openly took him up and aided m his election. Rufus King was the un- compromising opponent of Missouri.
 | rpCprua fifrfh ooo,,vtf ,,c tI,:,. ent and liberal politician for my next num- Der. If should even decline further exa- mnation into his acts and votes, have al- ready adduced proof sufficient of his abiding hostility to the West, and the dislike with which he has ever viewed any thing propo- sed for her advantage, In all the acts of his life he has shown himself our enemy. and 1, for one, am not yet humble enough 10 bow down at his footstoo and bee him for favor and q few crumbs.
 What then is 1t that urges these men to support him in Arkansas! Is it the high impulse of duty and patrotism-or IS 1t the grovelling sordid love of money, and of power as means to obtain money! They well know that he has done nothing during his whole life time to deserve the support of the West, but they also know that he will carry out and perfect the system of corrup. ton already begun, and that they will in time receive their ward. understand the plan of the whole campaign. They have pitched upon their Representative, who is ayowedly candidate--and the Gazette see had informed him that he must not be found in the field unless he was the choice of the Democratic party in Arkansas. Whether he knew what that meant, know not. If not, 1 can inform him. The De- mocratic party, in their glossary, means the Council of Ten who manage matters for the free people of this country--and more espcciallyit means the Gaseite IL was in- tended to say to him--''if you dare to run, unless under our direction and guidance, and under the express understanding that you are to besours. soul and body-unless you render in your allegiance instantly, you are no candidate and shall be beaten. Whether he has taken the oath to support the powers that be here, do not know. If he has not, he will do 1t. These partisans are easily broken Tn, even if at at first lit- tie refractory. The party leaders have fix ed upon their men for every office in the gift of the people--and all are to be Van Buren men, good and true. No man is to be elected (so it is ordered, unless he be duly qualified Democrat. They have been for some time manGuvring to effect their great object, to wit, the selection and bring Ing out of such candidates as may from oth- CT circumstances command some influence while it is to them the only recommenda-