The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-29

is yet su,ail matter to be considered: our Legislators are in the habit of requiring 5 dollars per day for their services, when. : only pay dollars: this would reduce the expense IT that item, one third. But Henry sets up piteous cry, that the poor people of the country are to be taxed to support the chimericai project of chang inc tue form of governme me.,tss " ieeYer ites ra of capitation tax 10 be laid to raise n rev- enue for tie support of government Is it not the wealth of the country from which this fund must be raisedl Will not the noa- resident land holders, bear q large share of this immense h,'rthen! What government for moment ever entertained the idea of being supported Ly those wko were unable to suappnrt themselves! This idea would indeed be chimerical, it wonld indeed be ridiculous to look for permanent support from the poor hunter of the forest, or from the almost unshcItered squatter. But an- other and singular Id ca has been adyanc- cd by x Ilenry." He estimates the cost of State Government at E dollars per family. Now suppose if you please capi- tation tax to be laid, and each family U nave estimated the additional expenditure
 : SIG tai,5ii suppose there is ;sa1aai61 asa1ai61 families in the Territory--there would be an in- crease of taxation upon each, above what is now paid, of 3 4J per family. This falls far short of the l5 dollar estimation, even admitting the very kind of taxation so much deprecated by him to be true; but as l said before, 1t IS the wealth of coun- try which must maintain 1t, and not its poverty.
 Henry" asserts that the formation of State Government will not induce one single individual more To emigrate 10 our country. Ne have instances to prove that he las taken a position which cannot be justitied-and these instances arenot of an ancient date, but within the recollection of all of us. The Territory of Illinois must have been organised with population of 10 ,ed0; sine continued as Territory a. bout l2 years, and went into a State Gov ernment with less than 37 ,bG0 souls; B years las since elapsed, and she is compu- ted to have apopulation of 3JG. .Q0G. When she went into d State Government, her population was proverhiallv poor, but she has surmounted every difficulty, and in the last mentioned period of time, must have increased nearly I5 to l. Missouri had been Territory 3 or l4 years, vent in- to State Government in 1926 with a rop- tiiation of nut exceeding 4GG,Hatdff; silt iilas now been State 10 years, and IS supposed to have population of 250 or 3ee,uN0 souls. Indiana went into State Government iai lslo or l6, after having been Territory b or l6 years, during which time she had collected a population of 0.GGn. She has heen 2 sovereign State ahost as long as sil C had Remained in state Of Territorial vas salage, and Is now computed to have a population of 4G0,0C These arc some oi the striking illustrations of the superiority of State, over q Territorial Government and the idea might be greatly extend cd by reviewing the difference between all the new Southern States, now tlat they are States, and when they were Territo- ries.
 < Henry" is somewhat tiekled at the idea Of the " wild beasts taking ID their line of march to the Rocky Mountains, on its being proclaimed from the capitol that we are free and independent S;tate.'' am truly gratifed, that have afforded the gentleman some amusement, and shall al ways feel pleased, when an idea of mine has had the least tendency to chase away a dull moment, or dispel the cloud ef gloom which oyerhangs his melancholy brow; for transient indeed must be the gleam of hope that lights his cleerless prospects, when he reflects upon a State Government. The iidcous ghosts of toii- worn hunters and uncoveaed settlers, must haunt lis philanthropic imagination, and cause the tear of sympathy to steal along his grief worn check. But moro than all the wreck of hopes long cherished, and the loss of Uncle Sam s money, mnst be to him as the z wreck of nature and the crush of
 worlds. Let me now give him word of consolation. While we are in a state ol
 Territorial vassalage, we have no consti- tuition or laws permanently to govern us. and our country cannot be settled by men of opulence. We have no security for the future; we must in the natural course o events, ere long become a State. and who can foresee what kind of constituiution will be adopted for our government. who can foretell whether we are to be a slave holding, or on-slave-holding State! Tn- der these circumstances, what wealthy planter would leopardize his fortune hy a removal to Arkansas, not knowing what is to be the fate of his propertys But let it he proclaimed from the capitol that we are free and indepcndcn state with char tered limits, and those wild beasts which arc ( 10 take up their line Of march to the Rocky Mountains" shaii give place to ci- yilizatien--the axe ofthe planter shall be heard in place of tiie yell of the untutored savage, and the uncultivated forests shall be turned into smiling fields.
 fine he basis of q Treaty ilas recently been formed between the Chickasaw tribe of Indians and the u. $. in which Treaty, the Gtiilickasaws have agreed to remove west of the Mississippi. They