The Arkansas advocate., 1836-12-09

ds upfit, inuepenaehl HDd paiote men, as pure ana lofty Representatives of the People-but because you have taken the most extraordinary pains, and gone widely out of your way, to demonstrate to hatlenghs of unaiterable folly, to what depths of uniathomabe degradation men can abuse and humila,e themselves when they become tainted with the poison of sycophan- cy and seryy, and the eprosy of corrupt political principles.
 ] except from my remarks, al the outset, all those agents ol the people who were slaves through the in- snet of ignorance. Unfortunate was for the coun- tiy tha 80 Tiaiy of this stamp were there congre- gased-so many incapacitated by nature from judging between right and wrong between virtue and corrup- tion between their duty and dishonorsii il were just permit any feeling harsher than pity 10 exist to- wards them. Although they almost criminal in aspiring to a situation for which they nanifesty incompetent although they have been uncoasciousy instrumental n disgraciRg and dsbonoring he State, yet the mental intention wantng-the free will, which the primary ingredient the composition of guilt 0beying the dictates of mercy, not of iustce Fl pass them by and speak only of you and those who like you snned against knowledge Of you and suc as you your country had right to expect something. Whenever you ask flat stern. uncompromising monitor how your eountfys expectations have been fulfilled, the information will doubtless be supplied.
 sorry 10 give you pain, and beg of you to con- slider yourself martyr for ihe good of your country. If the couch upon which you reene should not prove bed of roses, you console yourself with the fectlon that by your hands ii has been made. You shall have companions i'll your torture. 0fthe rank and file of your party there was here and there accountable being. Some of them l will name ere l conclude.
 Revenge, Lord Bacon says, is kind of wild justice In the present case il is the incarnation of patriotism. may Lave been, may still be accused of having been urged into the political arena by motives of personal hatred, private revenge and disappointed ambition. Be Il so The country might be destroyed whlle it's defenders waiting the slow and lingering, though natural process of public remorse. It IS unfortunate for tie State that every adventurer thinks if right o rob, every proigate 10 dishonor and every blockhead to govern her When such obtain rule, it IS the pe- cuar province of the press to ehastse them, the peeu liar duty of the patriot to castigate them with scoufge of scorpions.
 Our children will hardly bring themselves to believe the history of the last session of the Legislature. have seen in any part of the world, have never read of m inc paces of sober history, have fan ced in the most disordered freaks of my imagination, eahal utterly shameless and So ayowedy unprinci pied the leaders of the dominant party in that body. The personal habit of proslraon which urges men into
 degrading obsequousness to power, the greedy hun gerng after office which turns proud into slaves, the craving after money which makes of the coyetous ready tools to be handled by political baseness, the crawling sycophancy which delights to grovel a the feet of medioerity and abandoned demagoguism, the
 
 an indispensable prerequisite 10 initiation into your school of political esuis, all in hem so thor oughly mingled and so intimately combined, that nei- ther could be said to have any undue preponderance.
 Upon you and these your compeers the weight of public indignation should fall heavily. Professng to have no other rule for your public conduct than the supreme good of the party you have brought upon the country long train of evils from which series of years will hardly enable her to recover. You have placed partisan Judges upon the Bench. you have put partisan Atornes to prosecute for the Sate and filled the State Bank with partisan officers Party has been your sole wachword. Disregarding every considera- ton which should have animated you, you have thrown yourselves with the reckless desperation of a Curtius into the iathomess abyss of shame-no as he did for the salvation of your country, but that you might work upon her bitter and abiding curse.
 Permit to tender to you and to your eompeers my earnest and sincere conmiseration. You have immo- lated yourselves upon the altar of party-and your last moments will be agonized by the anahemas of an n- dignant people whom you have betrayed by throwing the ermne the shoulders of party paupers and po- llea vagrants. Unpleasant may be the accents of pity the thunders ofpopuar reproach still harder 10 be borne. Your minor uansgressions pass oyer care only for the crowning sin of all-he last drop which the cup of your nauiy would bear before ran over at the brim.
 Burke has well said that it is the nature of tyranny and rapaey to learn moderation from the i'll suc- cess oi first oppressions. lie might have added that much less wit be learned when first expressions and early insults and impostions have been successful The obedience at first exacted by the party leaders in the Legislature promptly rendered. and their early behests obsequousy obeyed by their ignorant and tim orods adherents. Flushed with success and arrogant Tn the hour o! victory, they threw away whatever of conscientious scrupe and controlling fear they might at first have felt, and their demands became mere exhor bant, the tenure of their interiors servitude more de grading and the tasks required more savish and revolt ing. Under the dehaslng influence of their touch, ey erything became party question. Having succeeded by the potent alchemy of party organization in trans forming ignorance into judicial wisdom, they then de- manded that none save their own political adherents