Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-11-29
POAAElCAll.
From the Louisville Public Advertiser.
THE YELLOW STONE, sc.


This country is vast and fertile one'
which has been acquired by the United
Safes by purchase and treaty, lying
8oHh of the 49th parallel OF north iai-
tude, and between the Mississippi river
and the Rocky Mountains. | abounds
with iurs and skins of great value, and
IS Inhabited by various and numerous
tribes Of Indians, who have been and
now arc, generally, under the influence
and control of the British traders and
government. To prevent this power
over those Indians, and to secure to our
ospn citizens their just rights and due
protection, military posts we're project
ed on the Mississippi and at the Council
Bluffs, Mandan Villages and at the
mouth of the Yellow Stone, on the Mis-
souri,. The wisdom and policy of this
plan, will be acknowledl, ed by every
citizen of candor-yel the measure was
defeated, and the post at the Council
Bluffs only, as established.
No part Of the Union was, or is, more
vitality interested than the present infant
and rising state of Missouri, in the es-
tablishBent oil military posts at the Man
low Stone, as well as a like post near
the head of the Big Horn, a southern
branch of the Yellow Stone, and road
from that post to point on the Mssou-
ri, near the Council Bluffs Missouri
wants population and cultivation, SO that
from her products of agriculture, she
can derive resources. At present, how
ever she is not in condition to avail her
self of this source Of comfort and indie
pendence. TINE is necessary, and po-
pulation and improvement required to
attain that end. The furs and skins Ca
pable of immediate conversion into mo-
ney, which can be taken east ofthe Rocky
Mountains, and her just share Of the
national expenditures, for public and
private safely, are the right of Missouri,
and on which her present prosperity and
growth depend.
Missouri is peculiarly situated. The
Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their
tributary streams are long and rapid,
and those two grand streams unite near
he commercial depot of that state. All
hose streams are Inhabited by hostile
md rowing savages, who can by those
facilities suddenly descend upon her
infant and frontier settlements and MUIR
der and plumber, and escape without be-
ing overtaken. Hence The real necess-
y OF military posts in the country east Of
Inc Rocky Mountains, which will,
lst. Secure to the citizens of Missou-
ri the furs and skins of that region Of
country.
Cd. The protection of the frontier
,et,iements and limits Of Missouri, and,
Sd. Her SHIRE Of the national erhen.
ditures ahhtied and directed 10 such le-
gitima'r 1aJects.
Why then, were her ozua representa-
lives in congress opposed to the estab-
llshment of posts at the Mandan Villages
and Yellow Stone? Why were they in
favor of the reduction of the army, so
essential TO the extension OF the limits
and the security of their state } Why
we're they willing to see the British en-
gross the fur trade of the country and
stimulate the sayages to rob and mar
der the people of Missouri, engaged in
their lawful business Why have they
talked SO much OF Texas, and about The
colonization OF the mouth Of the Column
bia river, when they have not only ar
rested the establishment of posts at the
Marian and YELLOW Stone, but have con-
demned the Florida treaty, which not
only gises Missouri a free hassage to
and from the atlantic ocean, but has oil
ven to the nied States the title to all
the country between the Rocky Noun
tains and the Pacific ocean, nor:h of the
42d parallel OF north latitude
A party was formed in he nation for
the purpose of opposing Mr.. Monroe's
administration, in order to have an in
duencc on the approaching Presidential
election. The President and General
Jackson were most vehemently assailed
10 Congress, about the Seminole war,
and efforts were made to disgrace the
HERO OF New ORLEANS, because, as
was pretended, he put the british mar
derers, Arhuthnot and Ambrister, to
death. This was done to set aside the
claims of Gen. Jackson, as candidate
Tor the Presidency. To this the nation
has already responded with Indignation :;
and the corrupt ministers OF the tyrant,
King George, have declared that the
villains, Arbuthnot and Ambris,er, ne.
rished justly.
Mr.. Adams was unjustly accused of
designing to barter away, by the Client
treaty, the free navigation of the Mlssis-
sippi to the British. This was also done