Arkansas intelligencer., 1847-08-14
Sugar LoAF, Crawford county, Ark.,,
July 27, 1917.

July II, 1917.
Dear Clarke:
received your kind favor of the 22I, and
with II the Acts'of the last Legislature; for which
please accept my hearty thanks.
am, by no means. uneasy about the election
of Gen. Taylor, Preslden, of these United
States of America, and no more than m about
the conquest Of Mexico. The former | think is
impossbe-tho latter is as certain as the ouward
march Of the Anglo Saxon race.
Can 1t be possible that the good people of this
Republic will take military Chieftan" fresh
from the batfiefeid, and place him in the !'rcs-
Dental chair!-a place to which he never before
aspred or for which he never prepared himself
unhesitatingly answer, No. There is too mu.h
virtue and inteIIigence-toO great knowledge of
the fate of former republics, among the people,
for them to commit such a suicidal act. Will the
people. with the fate of ancient well as modern
republics before their eyes-of unhappy Mexico
herself (ruined by military Ieaders) before them,
suffer themselves to be bndIy led ty ambitious
and designing d"magogucs, over this same ruin
Gus path! know We have had Washington and
Jackson, both Military Chrfans, at the helm of
state, but they had proved TO the world that they
were statesmen rs well as warriors, and were
well tried too in the political field. Neither were
,
from proud Britain an honorable peace. They
were not called from the battlefield where they
had proved their ability, and where their services
were still wanted. TO try new sphere.
When the Republicans of the country called
upon our be.oved Jackson TO Gil the Presidential
chair. our opponents were horror stricken Ut the
idea OF MILITARY Cheflan" ruling as our Chief
Magistrate. Where is their consistency! Jack
son had prosecuted two wars to close-,he war
with Britain and with the Creeks and had retired.
the citizen soldier, TO the shades of civil life Ru
! yet the wings palnic-stricken at the idea of
a military Chieftain.' Now we are still enpaged
in war with perfidous and obstinate enemy, and
Gen. Taylor has hardl commenced his victorious
career, the war still wagIng in all its horrors and
his services still wanted on the tented field and
these politicians who are thinking more about Of
flee, power and patronage, are calling upon him
to quit the service Of his country, and onter into
the service Of party. Let him obey the behests
of these cold bIooded politicians, and his glory
will have departed. He will no longer bn th Q
peoples idol-hs fame as Nations champion
will lose its luslre, and will shine only as the
Pickering light in a party socket.
But aside from all this, will he be supported by
democrats! Can consistent democrat, who has
been battling half life time for the principles
and measures of democracy, desert those prlDci-
PIES to follow in the glare Of military glory! Can
we who have advocated "Msasures not Men"
admit that we have erred in our political course,
by deserving it now7 If our cause was just in
former days, it is yet, and is still worth con-
tending for. Gen. Taylor, nor no other success
fu Chief can get my vote, until he comes up
to the altar of democracy and signs the articles
of our faith.
We may expect during the next canvass, 10
witness the same humbugry that was played in
l640; but we must the more manfully stand up
to our work, and fight harder for our principles,
and with them triumph or fall.