Washington telegraph., 1856-07-02

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Twenty years ago, Arkansas was admit
ted as a sosereigu State into the Federal
Union. Twenty years ago. White River.
Arkansas River and Ouachita River. flowed
onward. just as now they flow. to mingle
heir waters with the mighty food which
bears the offerings of half continent to
he ocean. Twenty years ago, the turbid
waters of Red River laved the Southern
base of our State, and to-day its current
knows no pause. Twenty years ago, the
Father Of Waters. the mighty Mississippi,
rolled in sullen grandeur along our Eastern
and to-day the same shores echo
back the cha6ngs of its impatient waves.
Twenty years ago. our broad State was
goodly realm as ever the sun shone on.
Every element of wealth, of progress. Of
might. of honor and renown was within her
borders, awaiting only the touch of the
master which should bid them start into
existence. and stand arrayed in all their
strength. Twenty years. nearly the life
time of generation, have passed away since
that hour. so pregnant with the fate of a
people, and where are the great results
which, under a proper use of the natural
advantages so lavishly spread out on every
side, men had at that day every reason. to
look forward to? Where are they? We
meet no answer, and we look for them in
vain. Held by unsteady hands at the stand
point. the retention of which secured to an
interested few their own aggrandizement
and promotion, retrogression instead of ad-
vapcement has been the order of the day !;
instead Of cheerily stepping forward to the
inspiring music of the march of improve
ment. the people have been compelled to
keep mournful time to slow retreat from
the commanding eminence upon which the
God of nature placed them and their land,
into the slough of bankruptcy and discredi,:
into the dull and lifeIess and foesid waters
of State Indebtedness. which cling about
their garments, fetter their energies. depress
their spirits. and leave them still the prey
Of doubt and the slaves of system, which
adhered to for few more years, will find
them powerless for aught, except that dread
resort to which has made
sister State the theme for the gibes and jeers
of all. To US, and to every man in all the
broad State, there is strange significance
in all these things. There is stuff to make
men think, In the limitless resources which
us, upon which the hand of devel-
opment has left no trace of its Proteau
power The people are aroused. and ques-
ions whose import the powers that be may
need with fear and trembling. pass from lip
o lip. The spirit of enquiry is abroad in
he land, and the people are shaking off the
nightmare brood of apathy and are awaking
to the conviction of the necessity of action.
Their rulers, lacking the ability to conceive
and the power to execute, the commissions
with which they were invested by tie as
of the dignities of their Offices
for twenty years the people have groaned
under the curse of misgovernment, and have
seen nothing come to pass save and except
the success of schemes devised for Individual
benefit. and have marked the efforts of men
who have striven to rise superior to these
maligu influences, crushed ruthlessly out,
by the hand of power. And they have
borne these things until the burden has
grown intolerable, and have sworn in their
might that these things shall not longer be.
They have resolved to place their destinies
in other hands;-the time-serving host who.
for years, have "fared sumptuously" at their
expense, may see. if they be not wilfully
blind. their doom written upon the walls of
the crazy edifce where they hold their po-
litical revels. The day of their triumph
is almost at an end On the first Monday
of August next will be heard the voice
which shall bid them to retire from the Of
fees which they have so unworthily filed:
and there shall then be new order of
things. The old shall pass away. The
power and strength given by nature into
the hands of this people shall exert their
proper influences. and the works which
make visible nations greatness, will, ere
long, greet the vision upon every side.
The American party of Arkansas 90 into
this contest against monopoly of Office,
against mismanagemert of resources, against
a shameless waste of all the elements of a
States greatness, with all the advantages.
They have. in Gen. Yell, candidate whose
ability all men save the interested few who
oppose him. acknowledge; they have plat
form which sets forth clearly and explicitly
the evils which have so long afflicted this
people, platform to which the voter need
only turn his eye to learn at once how need
full it is that all men should exert them
selves to secure the end at which this par
ty aim; and from every point of the COM
pass in the. State of Arkansas come swift
and fast upon US the unmistakable eviden-
ees of the determination of the people to
prove true to their own interests and the
high destiny of this fair land, BY the repu-
diation of the dynasty which have held
sway so long, and the selection from among
themselves of a man. whose energy. whose
with the masses, whose ability.
qualify him to redeem the State from the