The Arkansas advocate., 1837-04-17
MARCH 30, 1887.
rn the I,dilor of the Adgocate.

Pope choose to forbid tle e&efels9 Oi se nand that of vice. the itomsb church would sh agais0
 did 1t nstantaneousy abandon the Iof-
 mer and tie practice ei the lattef ere ee
 cry man who holds similar doctrine at tue present day
 with regard to the head ofthe political church. lo p5 &
 warded Ill like manner, the creation o new oalces tao
 they should spring existence with more than nsa
 room rapdy would hardly keep pace with the increase
 of Jhe earetti who would swarm in to fill them.
 Some months have elapsed since last tresP&ssea up
 on your columns In the te the current or events has swept rapidly, but not unmarked by me. il GiaG time have seen little of which Woad desf9 10 feilta the people, it not that the dark deeds o e past
 should be made conspicuous, beaeons to warn anu M Istruct them for the future. The light rom tls lamp e experience sad and often startling baze but u IS the only by which the feet of the people can De sae ly guided. The pubes not interested n knowing from what my silence has arsen neither Vii Ii de maad any apology fer my re-aPpearaaee nave he pfi- malice, personal revenge, disappointed ambition to gratf, and could therefore sincerely rejoice T the time md the occasion no longer required that should he heard observe that the editor of the Gazette has rashly advanced bis weapon, and claims the honor of breaking lance with in the cause ot lufed taa0- cence. 1 commend the gentlcmans chTairy. lie is not entitled to demand an answer. hG mercItu man will step aside to avoid tramppg upon the most ageet earh-woFn that winds it's slow and sny track across his path. cannot be far wrought upon to devote to him any portion of that attention which IS 50 mpera lively demanded by the Legitimate objects o my eensufe
 Ay sir the objects of my eensure. and ofthe cons of every man. of whatever party, who has love for hs country and disrelis for being duPed and doeeiyed
 speak sir, of those who cao|ed the people into
 ting for the present occupant of the Presidential chair, and into putting hesaselves and their friends in oce
 Not the least among these eur deegacn m congress-
 The reward eg have received for their services large
 They cannot complain if responsibility first attaches to
 em upon failure of the consideration for which tbelr office was bestowed It is for them that aYe quoted the example of Bellarmlne. They apt professors 0f his faVorte creed and the unerrng consistency of their devotion the head ofhe church, has baen followed it in his case, by corresponding advancement.- Equally jealous in their f4th they adopts in polti calMormonsm With them, wAateger. General Jackson approves is ofneccssty right, and whatever be dsap proves is of equal necessity wrong. Believers paisant and creduons necessary aPPendages to n potency impatient of contradiction, and find t fer their advantage to aatter imbectY which still pre- the characteristics Of obtinaey and yiruien lignance To preserve this consistent inconsistency ef character, they have trayersed the whole circle Of pot cal beef-pfoassed every creed and advocated every tenet by turns the one the other might sat the mentary caprice minister to the vnaetVe obstinaey of their political cbef-and equally ready have they been at any moment to denounce and anathem8tze any tenet theory at his slightest nod, which but yesteT day they were umPetng forth as ther honest and rn rooted belief
 The remarks which ! am honcef6rwarl to raake though they might well be applied to ae party at argL will yet be confined few ef the prominent leaders Of whom the delegation, am conscious that have already addressed myself to sone and spoken of others whose rank in the scale of created beings entitled them to such attention at my hands, What though they were the hungry kestrel kites of party, tying to quaint expresson at lursh, like many vutures ready to bounce upon any carrioa spoil which the ruin and downfall of better than themselves might offer them? I castigated them by courtesy. The veriest reptile that crecps, when gifted by superaBnaated folly with the power ot doing injury worthy of annihation and not to be rebuked for stoepng o perform that and therefore audabe looked around mo and beheld multtude who, to their own eminent astonshnent had suddenly emerged from obseurty n- to unnatural and uncoath greatness. hen Cardinal de Mon elected Pope VIC told, before lie Jeff tI,oc bo De vant whose chief merit consisted in the daily attentions he had paid to his Holiness monkey can conceive that the qualifications of large majority of the now in office in this State, legislators by the gift of the people, appontees by the grace of the legislature and in the national councils are o abont the same grade The reckless and humIliatag sycophancy of abect and prostrae aduaory aWning has been found the most ready and direct, if the ony road to nu- perhaps too harshly Of some political eesPera6oes wh0 gorYing in the abasement of voluntary sarpude deBpi- sing the imsy veil of ptetenea to political hon. esty and moral nprghtness, had reekeFsly mnolatcd patches of mental independence and moral virtue long
 life of political prostitution had left dangling about them
 l propose, sir to inquire by what meaas--by wHat promses-by what prOtestatlors and in1ueGHents--lv what fse and lying assertions--by what ,Yeauitieal stratagem and partzan tactcs excused neeesss8io re the people of Arkansas were induced foolishly and for their evil, to cast their for Martin Van Buren, and to place power and authority tue men Wko wied and exercise the various ga offices of the faei
 propose then to show that those promises have been left unperormed--those protestatons and Inducements falsfed-tbat system of strategy and tactics exposed and made manifest that the people have been dupad. caoled and deceived. In doing so, will speak with spirit and in tone of kindness. wl be gentle in my admonitions The scalPel shall be handled with all the skill and care of the most tender operator.
 You, at least, sir will not have forgotten that during the congressional contest i'll this State, the whole polti cal life Of kc President elect held ID to public scr tiny and his political hereses thoroughly exposed He proven have been, his whole course hostile n his bearing towards the west and uadeserQng the vote of Arkansas for the presidential chair. will not now expatate upon these matters. aude to them to show tho objections that made to his election How were these objections metl In some instances, by flat den