The Arkansas advocate., 1836-08-26

ceud 10 the snlniit efihc ladder Tolhis vo, ali all unqualified degeiedness te General ,cso.e uee servile avowa of bellefin his complete political ;,ga,r biy. l say auoioat Of belief, because the aclalb \" lief of what you pretend to believe, that .Jaekson - never wrong, implies greater measure of stupd;tys the believer than ever allotted by generous p vidence to any one man. Ton were avowedv ,y;lss- l that the President should appoint his own suecesso to whatever he should please to do you woud bend [. l Iowly submission. It was well enough At the hand of General Jackson you received your political avs ence-and man should not rebel against his Crea5's The camel that knces to receive his load is moi no. patient and submissive than you were. The prncslas of European legitimacy appearto have found wal Ito yonr bosom, and like the pant osier, you were , the hands of Jackson to be bent into whatever shss he chose. Bearing these professions of unimed.veo, lunary servitude your motto, you placed yourself the arena. You still sat upon the bench while yo, were in fact candidate (pefhaps avowedly sol for tba office you now hold. Months before you had any Ecompetor in the field, you collecting votes. while the ernine you wore became soed in the scran,, ble for the suffrages of the people. When your com. petltor became candidate, your circular appeared, In manner and matter It was emneny worthy of its author. Studiously uncommitted to the questiopof Presidential candidacy, you 1t to the northern patt of the Sate with understanding that second cir. cular, openly avoving your preference, and baspa tyOuf cllDS O party SHOulQ dlness for secret distribution in the south In the meantime, you stirred up the old local feuds in the north against your competitor little as the expe. dient could be commended for honesty or generosity its success transcended your most sangune expecta ] tons. By means such as these you succeeded Your careful noncomnittal the Presidential ques- ton in the north, your zeaons stirring up the basis question thhe ;he strong influence otf tic Delegate Senator expectant, added to your personal popularity and your adulaon of Jackson carried that section of country in your favor, and you were elected
 l confess, sir, you have to be proud of the high, honorable and digniied course you have pursued ltis every way worthy of you, and practised in the Ottoman Empire, would infallibly have raised you to the dignity of Grand Vizier-the first slave in the En- pire. But to your present attitude. You stand now in situation to excite the pity of your enemies Without the capacity to write sentence grammatical Eywithout pretensien 10 political science, to the en- dowments of the statesman or legislator in every way for the place you have thrust yourself into, your course can neither be credable 10 yoursefnor advantageous to your country The arts, the triekery and the demagoguism which have put you where you are, will be but the means of your modification. Your school-boY aainments eff attainmens they are worthy to be called will only make you the butt of inc witty and the contempt of the stupid Perhaps, how ever, you may be nyulnerable to rdieue well shame. If so, you may still be considered fortunate. l One consolation at least will be left to us.s How
 
 your bunders will be unable to affect the great inter- ests of the country large We can rejoice that al. though you follow in the train of power, and become but automaton in the hands of those who command you, your single vote will ayai! but little to hasten the 4 downfall of the country. Your power will fortunately not correspond with your wiifit be not islander to say that you have any will in matters of political con cern: It has rarely happened that with claims slender and pfetensons vague has been buoyed up by the bladders ot party the of political com motion. Men of sense wonder at 1t, and only count for it, consistently with due respect for the common people, by supposng that people to have been egregriously dupcd and deceived-a supposition nf- nitey credtabe than to imagine that they elected you with full knowledge of your pretensions, and a ter due weighing of your qualifications for inc office hope, SIT, you may soon be permitted 10 retire to a f situation better fitted to your capacity, and where the consciousness of imbecile ncompeency will not d impair your peace of mind hope this on your own aecount-and still more, because however you might 1 consider such consummation affecting you, none can deny the nestimable favor 1t would confer upon your country. CASCA. fts