The Arkansas advocate., 1836-04-29

ouraAerous.-The political degradation of our country is almost complete. Every Department is turned into an electioneering engine, working in the cause of Van Huren. That man, having managed to excite difi-. culties and quarrels between General Jack son and all his old friends, has persuaded him to throw them, one after another, aside--his true and tried friends-all of the honest and upright of his prominent early supporters.-- Their places he has filled with creatures of his own---political hirelings-faithless shep- herds--wlio have clambered up into high pia- ces, where they sit like toads on the shatter- ed pillars of Palmyra--while the country looks on and wonders, amazed to see them there, and astonished Chat they have become great. Fancy, once appointed. Secretary, to be used as the monkey used the cats paw, to remoge-not the chesnuts, but-the depos- ites--has been appointed to the Chief Jus ticeship--a man, to be sure, of sufficient law knowledge, but proven and acknowledged wanting in every thing needful to constitute upright dependenee-exeeeding supple and subservient, however, to the Heir Apparent. Amos Kendall, bought first by Clay and then by Jackson-then prostituting his Auditors office to the yilest partizan uses--is made Postmaster General, to employ to the full bent of his corrupt mind the immense and al- most unbounded paronage of that Depart ment, still further to be extended by putting into the hands of Kendall .lij1y millions to ex- pend on rail roads, in the service of Van Bu- ren. If these things continue, this country is fallen. may ioiidi our 5iitis, did eFr3F eFr33F
 peace! peace but there is no peace.' All is not well. The people remain supne and reckless, while corruption and slayishness are flowing into every artery and vein of our national government-whilea all it's Depart ments are drawn into, and absorbed by, the Executive. Patrick Henry, in the spirit of true prophecy, years ago foretold that this would happen. It has come to pass. There IS now no power left, to check the onward course of the Executive. All the Depart ments are his--the Post office is his---the public moneys are his. By the last he ope- rates upon and influences State elections.-- The Senate and House of Representatives are both ready to obey his beek-a creature of his is on the Supreme Court bench. AnC all this power is in the hands of-whofn !-- In truth and in fact, of .Ha,,tia Fun Bu.ea
 We make these remarks impulsively, but in sincerity. We learn from the Franklin (Fenn.) Review, Hut letters both to and from Judge Hybite, .forwarded k5eough Me Pos, QGice Departneat, Aare been repeatedly re- cejoed aoah the6. seals droheH. This is TRUE The witnesses are many. It Is no election eering lie, told for effect. Its disgusting. sickening truth. A system of espionage is regularly established in the Post Office De- partment, abominable in free government. contrary to our Constitution and laws, and in direct violation of the rights of the people. If we permit such things we arc slaves.
 Judge White, in giving lis reasons for vo- ting against Mr Kendall's nomination, thus notices the fact. We quote from the Wash ingtoh Sun.
 Since the commencement of the present session of Congress, several letters from sNosh0tte, Tennessee, and its neighbor- hood, have been received by Judge White with the seals broken, so that the contents could be read by any one who might choose, and the only one he received from Tusca- loosa, Alabama, was received in the like condition; and he has been informed, one which he sent, under his frank, to a gentle man in Nashville, had been opened before 1t reached him.
 Judge V hlte las no suspcionthat any of these letters were broken open in Tennes- see, or Alabama, nor does he believe either Mir. Kendall, or any other person, can if- duce all who are concerned in the Depart ment to be faithful to their trust; i; but he is satisfied that some person having custody ot these letters, and belonging to the depart ment, must have been gully of violating the seals, and be he whom he may, the Judge thinks he acted under the belief that such conduct would not be severely rebuk- ed by the head of'the Department.
 The Secretary of the Treasury is with drawing the depostes from the west. and concentrating them in the eastern cities. It presages, we suppose, an attack on the U. s.