The Arkansas advocate., 1836-06-10

4 horse of Gen. Jackson's was beaten al inc late races at Washington City, by horse belonging to Capt: Stockton, of the navy. Mir. Van Buren bet up- on the Generals horse. Very presunptudus Tn Capt: Stockton!
 We see by letter from Col. sevier in the Gazette; that the U. 5. Attorney General has given the opinion, that
 ssNone of the lands ceded by the Guapaw treaty of the 24th of August ISIS, are have been subject pre-emptio claims under the 9th section of the act of tine l2th April; I6I4."
 The Secretary of War has informed our Delegate that he has directed 1500 nskets and 500 rifles to be sent to this Territory. He says further,
 ssThe ordnance department will be directed to trans init Governor Fulton invoice of the articles to- gether with ammunition, &c. Under all the circum- deposite at Fort Coffee That post is the bounda ry lne where the troops will be wanted and there fore more convenient than at Little Rock.
 Agreeably to your suggestion the necessary appro- priatlon will be asked of Congress for the construction of depot for the reception of arms in Arkansas. think the public service requires such measure, and that proper quantity of arms and ammunition should be- at all times kept in depo and that there should be some person to take charge of them.
 Instructions have been given to issue these upon the acquisition Of the Governor of Aakansas whenever 1t may be found necessary to call the militia of that Territory into servlee;''
 Another crusade IS commencng--another era in re- ligious and political fanatcism. There has been constant succession of them in the world from time imIhemoria. The Papists burned fhe Albigenses the Crusaders murdered the Turks, the Church England rode down the Covenanters, inc Pilgrim fathers hung the Quakers, Calvin burned Servetus--and from just the impulses. and precisely the same spirit, the Abotionsts interfering with the South in the mat ter of slavery. Why, If there be any sin Tn holding slaves, the northern people have no part lot in It IS nothing to them.
 We hear them babbling of free negro labor--and CO., onlZation-and heaven knows what. Do they not know that England has liberated about 10000 slaves and colonzed them at Sierra Leone--most of them field hands spent about and for that place. about ten millions of pounds, forty millions of dollars--and after forty years tuition and control the settlement has not exported single particle of sugar grain of cof feel The people of Hayti, the black republic, have had forty years of freedom and now that island, once mine Of wealth 0 France, Is almost wilderness it's population greatly reduced, immersed in poverty and four hfths of it's commerce and agriculture gone. Tn l799, that island exported 160 million pounds of su- gar, and TO million pounds of coffee. In 1883, 1t not only did not export but actually imported sugar. at Is dollars per hundred weight, while in the neighborng islands 1t was selling at S2 1-2 and $3. Wherever negroes have been set ree Ii has been directly proven that they utterly Unfit for self government The settlement at Liberia Is another great hoax. NIoreo- yer, wherever free labor has been used in tropical eli c. has sIgnaffy failed In Hayt il has failed after de- structon of 400 million dollars worth of property, and 100000 lives. In Guadaoupe and Cayenne 1t was trled trty-fve years ago, aud failed after prodgious destruction of life and pfopertyand this, although France imported into the latter place laborers from China and the Oriental Archipelago. In Guadaloupe the French tried in 1882, bringing aborers from the Garorne The laborers worked one day. and dispers- ed to assemble no more. In Venezuela ft has failed. In Trinidad the British expended about two million dollars in the experiment., and t sgnay faed--and in all the different islands in the British West Indies, af- ter loss of property to the of 500 O0O dol lars, 1t has failed Free negro labor makes great noise in the mouths of phanthropists, however. 4 strange warfare Is going om in our country It is battle of the Administration party against the Cons- tuon of the United States-a battle not only against the spirit of It, by continual encroachments upon it. but warfare upon its provisions-a declared hostility to its principles. The battery of corrupt press--a thou sandtongued hydrais brought to bear against that - strament, and the people necessarily informed that the Constitution might be amended and made more re- publican We, for one, are utterly opposed to any | amendment oft. We did think-and that not long ago-that Tn one or two matters 1t might we'll be amended-but we have thought better of the subject and have changed our opinion. This business of the- orlzlng repubicanism Is all nonsense. pure Re- publican eovernment would be one where the whole body of the people should assemble great plain to pass laws for the common good. How this would even tuate we may easily conclude. few demagogues, and then one despot, would get all the power 1t IS neces- sary to limit and restrict this pure republican principle oy such machinery of government as shall secure ey- esy man his rights Giving the Southern States their slave representation in Congress is opposed to the mobocrac doctrines of the present dayz-bat without It there would have been no Union established. Civ ng two Senators to each State, without regard to po pulaon IS also contrary to the fanged doctrines now current as orshodox-although our fathers thought republican,, and we think so too
 Ii these new doctrines preva--if one alteration is made in the Constitution for the benefit of demagoo.