Washington telegraph., 1852-07-07
Gen. Conway,s State POLICY Again.

VIEWS DIS tney are. 1t is, without DOUBT the
strangest and most pointless production to
come from man of the Generals preten-
fsions, that we have ever seen. We are re-
ally sorry that a candidate for the Office of
Governor, should have written such hete-
rogeneous mass Of umcouyunctaomable mat
ter. Since his friends have put him for
ward for Governor, and as he has not felt it
his duty to shrink from the position in which
they have placed him, and having put forth
In the form of circular what he as, what
he believes. and what ought to be the fu-
ture policy Of our State, we shall then in all
! good nature, continue our review of that
non-descript document. 1oea<1 STD
We have sufficiently demonstrated in our
} last, that Gen. Conway is opposed to repeal
ing the law giving the 100000 acre dona-
ton fund to the counties. His opposition
to that measure we regard as fixed fact
and no one can say that we have anything
to expect from him, so far as trying to save
that fund is concerned. So far as Gen. c.
cares, or will ever do that fund is gone from
our State (as q State and her heirs forev-
er. His circular is not conservative, but
encourages factions,-it breathes newl life
into sectional parties and is totally destructive
of harmony, and concentration of means and
efforts in works of Internal Improvement in
our State! What does he mean when he saws
that "the friends Of improvement and
progress (') acill, upon reflection, sec tie
impo1tcy Of stalking ere,ytAimg ON one
idea, DC, &c What is this cone idea''
about which he talks? Can it be ANYTHING
else than the great central youd from
Me1nphis to Fulton? That is the zone
adea'' against which he has taken such
| fright. We take it that he is opposed to
the State calling in the 500, 900 acre fund,
and assisting in building the central rail
road with it. He hints to us that this fund
ought to be asked '.for IN q spirit of 5us-
tice.' Does the fund not belong to the
State? May she not justly claim her own9
General Conway says also-'if elected
Governor, it will afford him pleasure to
sanction all Just, Che italicizes the word
.Jast here as he did when speaking of taking
the fund away from the North and WTesA
and constitutional legislation to encourage
Railroads, % without imposing State tax
Here we have it in black and white that we
shall have very stingy, niggardly policy,
if he is elected Governor Why should
Arkansas not submit to tag as well as ey-
ory other State? Is sho any bettor than
| other States? Could the Convention that
nominated Gen. Conway, not have found
some man of more enlarged views-views
more in unison with the spirit of the age?
Their "chosen standard bearer is at least
seventy-fve years behind the times. He is
too old-fashioned too Iust, too co1aitutiou-
al for the present emergency We predict
that II elected Governor, he will be con-
tinual clog on enlightened liberal legisla-
tlon. The people are heartily sick of uu-
meaning plotforms to bind States or ma
tions, and of elevating incompetent men to
stations of great responsibility
We ask you, good reader, to look at Gen
eral Conway's entire circular and say, if
you can, ao/lat he Is for? We know what
he is against, but what is he for-or in 9th
er words, what does he propose that the
STATE should do, in view of bringing about
certain results? He is in favor of 900 |
miles of Railroad; but he might as well have
been in favor of 5000! He is opposed to
the State doing anything He is opposed
to taxaton-he is opposed to calling in the
100000 acre donation fund.
The General is a great friend of Educa-
ton, and to prove it he has given us all that
our constitution has said on the subject of |
Education-Science- -Manufactures- Com
merce-the Arts, &c. All we lack is an
institution in which shall be taught coassti-
tutao'aal loac. Why did not General Con-
way, who knows so much about our consti-
tuition, and reveres it SO much, suggest the
propriety of school where constitutional
law might be taught? That is all his circu-
lar lacked of being complete in all its parts.
If it would not be impertinent in us to do
so we would commend this part of Estate
policy to his consideration with the sueees-
tion, that he would better give us a supple
mental circular, or if he could not do so