The Arkansas advocate., 1836-03-25

alu uIlli lhe lHue bodies 0t efaee holders throughout the Territory. This has been manufactured and made up by the littie knot of disappointed men who have been beaten into humility in the county of Pulaski, but sill think {leavsn bless theie t.lodesty!} that they may frame tickets, drill troops aud beat up leyies, until they transfer 10 Van Buren the vote of Arkansas. They will permit them that their flaile- vres are too well known for them to sHc- eeed. Van BaFen was well aware that there was and is great probability that the election of President would deyoiye upon the House of Representatives, in which case there was every probability that he would be defeated. The voto of New
 ofk in that case would count no more than that of Arkansas. Michigan he had already attempted 10 gain, by fomening . quarrel between her and Ohio. The first step, therefore, was to have published the sophisllcal Address of the Baltimore Con- Fention, which was done in pamphlet of thlrty-two pages, issued from the Gazette office. Whence the funds came thai paid for this job, the immaculate and patriotic editor of that paper can best tell. NIr. Van Buren has large sums at his disposal. The next thing then 10 be done was 10 frame a ticket which might be uniied upon by all the faithful. The two or three men at head quarters, who have ruled the Territory until within this year, were resolved to make one more struggle to preserve ia their clutch tie seepre which was already departing from Israel. have nothing here to do with pri- Vate character. It IS aot ii ny p,illl--;tiisll they may thank me for my forhearancc, when l turn not aside to alude to that which inc trumpet tongue of fame has al- ready bruited over the whole Territory. Their sinking fortunes. however. We're tn be retrieved. Knowing tAat so soon as Van Buren should be elected, (which mis- fortune may God forbidl the reign of cor fuption would fairly commence, and that they then might batten, grow fat and snr- felt ia their natural and proper atmosphere, they determined to make one great effort.
 They pitched upon the men to be made Governor, Representative aad senators, and have sent them forth to the people accredited--marzed tto be elected" Nov, sir, am infinitely above attacking the pri- sate character of the gentlemen 50 marked and branded. Indeed, ] have good reason fer believing that one, at least, of fhe num- Der, will not consent to be used as a candi- date m this way. lie was only pitched up. on, sir, to make the others go down the un- willing throats of the people. He will spurn the men who would so degrade him. care not who they are who are so nolni- mated. Itis sufficient for me fa know that the Regency has ordered that they are to be elected, for me 10 rebel. Those men can not choose for me whom I shall elect or vote fer. If we are indeed to be made to elect whenever they esigaate--if they are 10 dictate 10 this people for whom they shall vote, we may indeed say, .sgtrtus fatf'~- virtue did exist--but 1t Is among Us no lon- ger. Sir, if my friend, the best and most ylrtuous one l possess, would permit his name to be brought before ihe people by the instrumentalily of such sunken and cor
 rupt politicians as these, would fofsake and repudiate him--foF l would judge him too corrupt, or too ignorant and simple wit ted to be worthy of an election to the low est office in the gift ot' the people. We have somewhat too much of this prcsunlp- tuous dictatioa to free people. Il Is too irapudent to be borne with. l want words to express my abhorrence and contempt for such Machiavelian policy and such misera- bIe dictaton. That the self same men whom l exposed once before to the con- tempt and scorn of an indignant people, should again attempt to dictate 10 them, aE ter being once put down. is really too bad.
 But, sir, wish to shew to this people that these Regency nominations q will neither name nor designate them, save that they are Van Buren men, faithful and rue) are made for the sole purpose of benefting the lttle Sanhedrim which sits in serene conclaye at the seat of government of Ark ansas. refer this people to the numbers which published a year ago--and l ask every impartial man who reads them or has read them, to ask himself when did ever these men act, except with an eye single to their own aggrandisement, without regard to the interests of the people or the poor and honest citizen. The Gazette trumpets forth the praises of the Delegate, but would all his services repay the one fell swoop which the Ten Section claims made upon the improvements of the poor settler2 I have a word 10 say at some future time upon our great State House--that building so pleasant in the sight of the Regency. At present I will pass 1t by. The ''tenpus edar rertan" may perhaps level it in the