Washington telegraph., 1853-06-01
IFor The -Tclcgrdph-n
CAMDEN, ARK, May 9th, 1858.

the mind like llttle. fshes. ergo, II the eie-
ment in which they sustain existence. be-
come stagnant, they will surely die; and for
the good Of self and sinners generally,
can't stand that.
Whether Arkansaw ever rises to any
thing in the way Of nation, or rot. pen
and ink are cheap and she may neglect,
but as live she shall not forget herself!
For the length of my life, | have lived
among much people in my time, and have
never been, since the egg-shell fell from
my nose. very Indifferent spectator Of
the worlds concerns; but in all my o5scrva-
ton Of men and things, | have never seen
any people SO peculiarly characterized. SO
'wrapt in the solitude Of their own origin
ality," as the two hundred thousand soul-ca-
ses of Arkansaw.
We have scraps of all theories-pocket
models of all experimental sorts of wis
dom for States, and yet no Government
boiling and bubbling, and nothiRg in The
pat. III fact as we now stand, we have no
more 70 do with the worlds progress and
improvement, than the little boy ;lat pulls
the ticket out Of the wheel, has to do with
the lottery. .sF
Now, man (.) with cobwebs hanging
from his eyebrows, told me the other day
that lie thought | had said enough about
Arkansaw's no 'count-Dess, seeing a. ] must,
it was doing no good That's pretty come
OF. That's the way with the most Of our
n9onllV population, they all think it suffi-
cient for oRe man at time to be excited
on the subject of do-S0mething, and they
stand off and see if he turns things upside
down, and if he don't-"Oh. qc]ty lis M
use - As Judge r said in another
matter, such men ought to be Lorea for the
samples. Did you ever notice how much
ertemPoraaeoats wisdom there i in this
country! Why, sir, there i 4 'bundance.
Under the awning OF every drammeyy,
you viii find some of the descendants of Is
rael's greatest King, who viii take fresh
chew of tobacco, to keep their mouths moist
while they make a few sage remarks upon the
hue Poiicy. "There is no use Of talking about
Arkansaw building Railroads; the people
can hardly live; (spits) only see how We
we are taxed. (He don't even pay his poll.) J
The only chance il for Joreign capitalists to
come in and take the stock-let as, for the
present, be content-em with (spits) good
dirt roads throws out his chew and Illus
trates his horror of hard times and taxation
BY asking dozen Of his disciples to come
in and take So0setAing." THESE are the
men who govern the destinies Of this State,
by exercising the inestimable privilege offree-
men-the right of suffrage and-SuGering.
To talk about foreign capitalists coming
hill
thing else, from the stump, is nonsense
that ought to be patented. We have the
ball to start ourselves. The ancients were
not half as biz fools as we, in a spirit Of van
ity-suppose they were. a certain fellow
stalled his wagon, and began to 5ore Jupiter
with his supplication to send Hercules to
help him out, when Jupiter told him, ''you
lazy, good-for-nothing. son of a., get up
from there, put your own shoulder to the
wheel. and if you can't raise it, then I'll
send for Hercules Foreign capitalists in
deed They have already had A specimen
Of our governmental obli1uity, and financial
incerttude, and are now too smart, Gf they
amt, they ought to be,) to expect their mil
lions to grow fat and breed upon the wind.
To receive or merit the confidence Of the
world for any purpose. we have to atone for
the wrongs and rascality of the past by acts of
our own, Of the most satisfactory moral tend
ency CREDIT il a tree that, when once cut
down by an axe Of steal, welded hy the hand
Of hardened folly, will not sproHt again from
the same rat, the tender branch thcrof will
cease. Then / say, as have often said, il We
(Arkansaw) ever emerge from orr present
very edifying, and certainly to TIE rest of the
world, interesting recumbency, the work is
upon our shoulders. Our condition is not
60 essential to the happiness and prosperity
Of the ''rest Of mankind that they will
wade up to their hips in the mud and niire,
to Get Il out Let Us prize out Of this sink,
and get upon a high and dry road, there
by convincing all terrestrial inteligenccs
that we have about our hearts still left some
of the rccuperativc energies of crescent
vitality and then we may expect, and have
right to expect, that those who looked up
on us with apparent Indifference while We
wallowed in the mud, will give Us aid and
comfort We have no claims upon the
worlds charity, and our only chance on
earth is, to begin now aud re-establish 77er-
it-make it to the interest of others to CO.
operate with US, and then they will do it
not before, snre and certain, and there is
no use O. talking about it, But hold on.
0f course you have learned from the Her
aid the melancholy tidings that the yallo,r
.fcrer, has broke out in and around this place
The doctors disagree about it, some Of them
contending there is no locak oause, while
others para dgoricatly affirm that it is spo-
radio. | am no doctor as know of, but
have as much right to my opinion, as
farmer has to be a judge of court at law ::
ard that opinion il, that the whole matter
has grown out Of tke lore Of money, Get
out Of the way tropcs, and let me to the
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