The Arkansas advocate., 1836-05-27

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 To the Editor Of the Advocate-
 SIR--t see that you have placed the
 names of Hugh l.. White and John Tyler
 at the head of your columns. l rejoice al
 it. It is a nomination to which the people
 will respond with almost unahimous voice. despite the lptrigues of the Tory Regency at Little Rock. We need no caucuses and conventions whereby the. voice of the people may be heard. Truth speaks with voice louder than thousand thunders in the ears ofthls peopie--teiling them that their would be dictators at our seat of government, the schemlng; intriguing, corrupt and dishonest ex-rulers of the country are supporting Van Bdfen only as means Hitting themselves into power.
 do not expect, sir, 10 turn the clan of office holders from the support of. Van Bu- gera To tell these degenerate children of he West that he has ever been opposed 10 our lnterests-that in supporting him they are playing into the hands of the Northern Federalists--that to support him Is to wage 9irect war against the desires and wishes of inc common people of the West-to point them 10 his tergiversation, hypocrisy, in- srigue, sycophancy and renegadism, is, as another writer says, {from whom permit me for moment to duote,) '.to appeal 10 feel ings that never existed, by arguments that partizanship has never understood. No stain has power to avert their eyes from the man whom they discover 10 be fit for their purpose. The deepest brand which con- temptuous virtue can burn upon him, is re- cognised only as an additional claim on thelr allegiance Yes, sir, these men think of nothing in iTan BBuren but inc ttae use to which they can put him.
 lproceed, as 1 promised in my last, to consider Van Buren's claims to the support of the West. In the New York Conyen- tion, MT. Van Buren made this memorable remark, '.the further power is removed from the people the better.'' What, sir, are we of ireo people, who hold as the first prin- ciple ot our national freedom, and the first axiom in our State Constitution, that all powef belongs exclusively to the people, and wlli we support a man who holds to the bellef--to the monarchical principle, "that the further power IS removed from the neo- pie the better!" Why, what is it but the very doctrine against which our fathers warred at the peril of their life, and against which we too would fight if need be? Here then Is the foundation of MT. Van Buren's political creed. It is not simply theory. It IS the rule by which he has regulated his political life. In 1924, the power of desig.;- hating Presidential electors was vested in the Legislature of the State of New York. The people believed that 1t ought to belong tothem--they to feared legislative intrigue and corruption, and they called upon the Legis5- lature, with stern and imperative demand, to yield 1t up to them-to render their trust into the hands of the people. The voice of the people was. distinctly and clearly ex- pressed. It was almost unanimous. What then did the great head of the new Demo- cratic pafiy--the caput mairdbile of the Ga zette-hir. Martin Van Buraii! He was then the head of the Crawford party iii New York--mark ye that, people of Arkansas and as such he instructed the seventeen members of the State Senate-the .immor- tai seventeen"--to spurn the petitions of the people. to treat the petitioners with con- tempt, and to reftise to surreiider lp into the hands of the people the right of ehoos- ing their electors. All the Jackson press es denounced him as the peoples enemy, the in,ader of their dearest rights, spurn- CT of their authority; an intriguer and an usurper. The Louisville Advertiser was among the first to brand him with every such epithet. We'll were they all deserved and no less so now than then.
 Iii 1921, in the United States Senate, Van Buren voted for an appropriation of money from the Federal Treasury, for the erection of toll gates 10 be kept by Federal toll gatherers, within the acknowledged iu- risdlctlon of the several States. His friends excuse him for this vote, on the ground of youth and inexperience.
 In 1928, in the United States Senate, he spoke at length in favor of the United States bank-and subsequently petitioned that in- stltusion to establish a branch at Buffalo. In hls own State he has always been fore most in banking schemes-and yet MT. Thomas Humbug Benton praises him as the uncompromising opponent of rag banks ID generals and the United States Bank in particular
 In 1922 he voted in the New York Con- vention against admitting any one to the flght of suffrage who was not household CT. As the journals say, expressing his sentiments decidedly against the amend ment and against universal suffrage" And at the same time he opposed a proposition made, to give the election of Governor to me people of the State-and in his speech sSainst the proposition used the expression &boy6 Eaf..rrol r