The Arkansas Advocate

END OF VOLUME II.

The present No. completes the second volume of the Arkansas Advocate. Some eighteen months since, (about that time the Advocate offended by hoisting its flag, with the motto: "The People-- down with Party,"), it was predicted by the leaders of the Jaw-Bone Party, that the Advocate was but the creature of a day-- that it could not and must not be sustained--that it was a paper calculated, yea, established, to thwart the best interests and mar the wisest plans of The Party-- that it must and should be put down, right or wrong--and to make the best of it, it was a suspicious publication any way.-- Thus The Party reasoned with themselves, and arranged matters accordingly. The first man who was induced to make a tilt at us, was no more nor less, than the amiable Mr. Secretary Fulton himself. If pecuniary depression was the object of The Party, of which he was then acting as the representative, we must confess he bit us a pretty severe lick, and one, too, that we then felt the effects of severely. We allude to the publication of the Bills of Review in certain land cases--on that occasion, being clothed with a little brief authority, he robbed us of our rights, and, in fact, took from our pocket $500 or 600, and placed it in that of his Clay friend, Buck Woodruff. The public of that day know all about this disgraceful transaction, and it is not now necessary to go into detail. But Fulton failed to injure us as seriously as was expected, and The Party were compelled to resort to other expedients and the use of other tools. From that time up to the present, The Party have been untiring in their exertions to prostrate and put down the Advocate and its friends—but The People the honest yeomanry of the country—stepped forward and lent us their friendly aid in a time of need, and rendered the machinations of this Big-bellied Aristocracy, composed of persons friendly to Monarchical rather than free governments, not only powerless but ridiculously abortive. The People have nursed us in our infancy, and we have reason to believe they will not desert us in our riper years. To show how entirely feeble and fruitless their attempts to injure us have been, we will here mention the fact, that at the time The Party commenced their war of extermination upon us, we had but 150 subscribers—we now have a subscription list of 503 subscribers. This has taught us, that the enmity of such men as Fulton, Ashley, we would here mention the name of Woodruff, but he has depreciated so much of late, and fallen so far below par, that he is now considered a perfect nobody--a blank &c. &c. is much more to be desired, and certainly much more profitable, than their friendship.

The Gazette was foolish enough, even but a short time ago, to make a similar assertion to the one made in 1830--that the People would withdraw their support, and as a natural consequence our political death must follow. Past observation has shown, however, that the Editor of that print, is neither a prophet himself, nor the son of a prophet--and farther, that he is neither the son of a Solomon, nor is he any kin to th Solomon family. If he predicates his assertion upon the fact of the withdrawal from our subscription list of the name of a certain cheating Yankee, (we have no allusion to Col. Ashley—we have reference to the Indian Department in the south,) what will he say, when we tell him, that so far from others following the example, we have received 15 new subscribers since his name, like his heart, has been dyed in black. We are candidates for patronage, but not at the sacrifice of our deliberate and fixed opinions and notions of things—we are our own man, and have set up, and will act for, ourselves. If any are dissatisfied at our course, or dislike the complexion of any remarks which we have already or may hereafter make, we are perfectly willing they should withdraw from our subscription list—if they want a tool of an Editor, one who has no opinions or politics of his own, they must seek him in the person of the Editor of a paper called the Gazette. For the support which has been so bountifully bestowed upon us by our friends and patrons, we return our sincere and grateful acknowledgements.

We are the same now, that we were two years ago—except that we have two years more of experience, and are perhaps, a little better acquainted with the " out-goings and in-comings" of The Party—and of course, will preach the same doctrines and advocate the same principles, we then did; and support the same man for Congress, to the promotion of whose cause we proudly lent our feeble aid, at the last election, should he again present himself for public favor--in fine, we shall always be found advocating, so far as we know them, the People's measures, and the pretensions of the People's men, in opposition to a Party " whose touch is pollution and whose embrace is death."

Before we conclude, it would perhaps, be well enough to remind our patrons, that we cannot well meet the engagements of an expensive establishment like our's, pay our journeymen, purchase paper, ink, &c. without MONEY. We hope they will promptly discharge our demands against them, either by remitting the amount to the Editor, or by payment to his several Agents.

We were not aware, until last evening, that Arkansas, since the fourth of March last, has had neither Governor nor Secretary--the commission of the former having expired on that day, and the latter being absent at Washington City. Hence, there is now, and has been, for the last month, a total destitution of Executive authority.