Washington telegraph., 1852-08-18

or her inmost soul despise, contemn and
scorn all such men.
If such persons will not aid us, let them
at least stand to one side, and let US work
! From of DID, croakers have been hated, like
ravens, Of gods and men.
l have come naturally to that which |
/ have jotted down as the next noteworthy OBJ
stacle and hindrance to the improvement of
our State-its political dissensions
was thinking to-day, and the reflection
is very sad one, that if one were to run
over the files Of ournewspapers in Arkansas
for the last eighteen years, he would be
struck with one most prominent and sig
nihcant fact, and that is, how little have
those papers ever contained, which was cal
culated or intended to give one man bet
ter opinion of another, to produce confidence
in the honesty and uprightness of others,
or to induce charity, good will, OF forbear-
ance: and how constantly and unremitting-
| ly, and with what most consummate and adj
lnirab!e success. they have toiled and labor
ed to convince the people that every man op-
posed to them in politics was knave, insin-
cera greedy, dishonest, anti-republican, in
no-wise to be trusted to breed ill-wiIl,
hatred, evil opinions to produce contempt
in one man for another: to induce uncharit-
able feelings, and to keep society constantly
in condition of civil war
Every thing in Arkansas is subordinate
to political interest; and politics is bat the
cause of this or the other man. The qucs-
ton Of internal improvement is in no sense
a political question any more than it is a
political question for the farmer how he shall
best improve his land, to make it produce
large crops. And yet in Arkansas, it, like
every thing else, is drawn into the vortex Of
politics, and revolyes there in the ghastlest
fashion. Oh, is it not pitiful to see men
who at heart are as warmly IN favor Of in
ternal Improvements as we are, who know
as well as we do the indispensable necessity
of this road, who are as fully aware Of the
evils under which we labor, Of the Cain
curse that seems branded on our forehead;
and who know, as we'll as we do, what is the
only medicine that can remove its it not
pitiable, unspeakably pitiablc and melan-
choly, to see these men warning against the
great cause Of internal improvement, war
ring against this road, because they have
candidate who perhaps has foolishly chosen
to commit himself against it, out Of what
motives, his Maker only knows and be-
cause they must support hian, at the sacri-
fee of whatever principle, and whatever
risk Of injury to the State
Now, Notwithstanding what may have
been said to that effect, by way of creating
a prejudice in advance against this. conven-
ton, there are no 'wire-working politicians
engaged in this matter, Or concerned in get
ting up this convention, or in managing it,
now that it has been gotten up. This move
ment is not intended to benefit any particu-
lar man OF set Of men, nor to make political
capital for any person in the world | am
SO far from being "wire-working politician, -
that have an utter contempt for all politi-
cal Offices, from the highest to the lowest,
and am very well satisfied with such reputa-
tion as can make for myself in other
modes: reputation, to me, far more valu-
able. and modes far more agreeable
[ do not mean, however, to speak of my
self, except to say that have six children,
and such "wire working" as [ do, is in the
way of a very strenuous endeavor to put the
State in such condition that, when they grow
up, they can lice in it, and not ska>ge.-
Many others OF us are governed by the
same motives. We very well knew, at the
beginning, that it would be attempted to
make this political matter; for that is the
main of many party leaders in Arkansas.
We strove to prevent it, but it has happened.
am not a no-party man. Ny political
principles are fixed with religious frlnness.
But l am willing to conclude an arm;stice
until we have some railroads built in Arkan-
sas, and until the State is worth con.ending
about which certainly it now is not We
nuSt sever this matter of Internal Improve
ment from politics, cut it loose altogether,
or it viii be run under and sunk by the
speed of the boat tha: tows it.
Can we do so? [ say that We can: and
I sag further, that # sce cannot, qce had
better aajOurm md go home at oace, and
get ready to leaue tie State, for as surely
as you live and | live, so surely we shall
meucr build mile of Rail Road in Arkan-
sas, so long as the question Of Internal I'M
provement and roads forms part Of the hell
broth that fills the cauldron of politics.
We must unite together, wings and demo-
crats democratic Big-enders and democratic
Little-enders, and forget as far as this mat
ter is concerned, that there are any political
questions in controversy here, or any candi-
dates that want to be elected to Office. We
can at least make a beginning, ace, who are
here now for specific purpose and we
must do it, or resolve to continue zealously
doing nothing or worse, as heretofore
And, on the whole it may well be said that
hardly more unworthy and disreputable
destiny could be invented for any men what
ever, than to be condemned to participate in
and live by such trade as that of politics
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