The Arkansas advocate., 1837-02-24


 TuH PRESENT AND COMING ADnlN4srnArIoNs.-A few disconnected thoughts occur to US under this head, to which we shall give brief utteranee The close of Gen. Jackson,s semi-monarchal administration is ac- companed by the gathering clouds and gleams of vivid 1iob which beoken the advent of storms the political horizon Strange doctrines advanced--lald before the people in gaudy and fictitious coors and recom mended to them, by the authority of those to whose opinions place and high standing have glYen Negt.- It is but few days since we saw censorship o the press on the point of being established under te sur veilance of the general government It was proposed to give to the posases apPontees, all ef aAe of the President the discretionary power of stoppngn theIf respective offices any and all such papers as ey might judge nammatofy in their character 1t needs TO argu-
 ent to show that had such law passed the disereten ary power, so granted would have become greSF political engine How long after would have beentl sapient postmasters guided by knayes in pow decided that newspapers unfriendy to the powers that be, were inarnatory character 6 could not, consistent lyvith public peace ard quiet, be transmitted through the mails How lcng then would the press have been free And after the press was restricted and tramme- led, how long before the chains would have been rveted upon the limbs of the people
 Yet tboder and startling plesmore novel and more abomnabe theories have been started and put aaoat by political msereans, under the shelter of the broad shield of what midcalsd democraey-an by the authoritative dicfa of the heads goyernaneAt.- Look for example, at the miserable and sophistca doc trnes of Dallas-hatched into existence in Pennayya- na, by the sun of jacksonsn, the filthy reptiles gendered in the mud of the Nile, warned into cs tence by the Egyptian sun, after the annual inundaton He has boldly dared maintain the prncpe and for so doing he has been rewarded with the kindliest smiles Of the administration and the baser sort of its partzans -that ono legislature pass ideg, oheb saecced ing one caan0t repeahet 5aak choTte', gru1ted bg one legislature ag be tekea aaeay ty S saecesor Yet charter is solemn compact, whereby the tate tro' its agent and attorney the legislature duly authorized and empowered to act in that behalf solemny guaran- tees to body of certain powers and privileges to be enjoyed and possessed for limited tine, n eonsid eaton of certain services by that body of men rendered to- and certain benefits by en conferred upon the State Such copaets only solemn and nselate ia equity and good conscience but our constitution has mperous ly commanded that law shall be passed, inpeiring the obligation of contracts. Where cur safety, if such doctrines spawned by such miserable and aaous dsmagogues as Dallas, 10 be adopted by those in power and through them recommended to the people true democratic doctrines
 Another doctrine still palpaby shameless, and
 more directly an outrage upon the good sense and rect feeug of the American people, has atterly been trumpeted forth from the high places of this government It is that the dongs of convention, called by the prop CT authority and in manner prescribed by law, in no manner bindingnpon the people, but may immediate ly be revoked by another convention got up ormaly
 o;-Io ,rin1 out as 1t is enuneiated, goes do away the binding force of all constitutions, making them revocable at any moment by the will of majority of the people.
 One of the most pregnant signs of the times, the ceasn assumption of power by the general government athe expense of the State governments. The doctrines boldly avowed by the present leaders of the C demo- cratic party, that Congress has the power to call vention in Sdtethe unauthorized and unwarrantabe interference of the Executive in the concerns of the ndi vdua States, show grasping at power which tends to consolidation.
 It our purpose to enlarge upon these things. The administration has the dragons teeth, and 1t mains whether it's successor will foster the deadly plants into full vgor. Let no conclude that take ground in advance against the administration of AIr. Van Buren, We have labored to prevent so far as our humble efforts might avail, his election. Elected he is -and though by minority uf the people, yet he is President consttutonaly and of right, utter de- nunciations against him, in advance. Without conf- dence h his principles or his integrity, yet believe him to be man of talent and of shrewdness. Owing ha success to the popularity of his predecessors and party organization and knowing that his every will be scrutnzed by large and talented majority, he may, and we trust he w act the President of nation, and not of party and dsappont the expectations which his tortaous and unworthy courses reaching the staton have wei entitled his opponents form of his future pol