The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-03

the Advocate
 As the Editor of the Gazette has com nented on this sentiment, We hope we s,ast be pardoned for following his exam nle. We most cordially join Hr Gray in his wish that strife and discord may cease, not only wiitii,ii, ii, the limits of our town, but within our Territory, if any exists; there is esss=- sgish on our part to excite the angry passions of any one, or to kindle the spark of unkind feelings in the bosoms sven of our opponents, but as independ- ent Editors, we deem # 10 be duty we owe to GUT patrons and te the ps;sise, es . ever on tiie watch, not only to correct mis- statements and to pourtray passing events in their true coiors, but to give to the Peo- pie, So far as we able, our opinions of their unalienable rights: and while we de- vote portion of our columns to foreign news, we humbIy hope that our domestic intelligence will not be unacceptable. We hardly know what the Editor of the Ga Iette means by his determination to profit by the advice of Mir. Gray, unless he in- tends to resort to his supplementary subter- fuge, which would seem to us as being ra- ther poor way of eyincing a disposition to do much good.
 frsr The sentiment alluded to will be nund on the first page.
 
 On the first page of to-day's paper, will De found the speech of Governor PorE, de- Evered at the dinner given to him in Hemp stead county, which we believe to be d. most the same speech delivered by that gentleman when he reviewed the troops of Pulaski county. We cannot but admire the chivalry of the Governor in causing those reviews--and we are highly gratifed at the aIacrity displayed by the militia, in obeying the call of their Commander-in- chief; but as yet, we are unable :o com prehend the precise utility ofthe measure.
 The Mexican government have given 10 demonstration hostile to ours in reia- ton to Texas, or any other subject. The course taken, then, is obviously on the proper motion of those hulding grants, for fhe purpose, if possible, Of consumatiGg them. They have not soldier at their command, nor are there troops in2all the province sufficient to resist 2G0 regulars of the 1th regiment. Beams expedition to Red river was composed of four or five miserable looking beings called soldiers, commended by a lieutenant Gel Milan declared expressly while here, that the Mca Of resisting the military of the United States, had never entered his head, but that in accbrdance with the stisalations 'eontained m his grant, he should proceed to eoionize 1t, and make surveys, unless driven from his grant;s.as the term for planting his colony had nearly expircd.- No sensible man ever dreamed of soar, or that 1t was necessary to organize the mi ltid for an tnuasion, when tie truth is, there are not ten men in the colony who wouicsn knock man down who would oeny hls claims. as citizen of the United States. The Governor must be too saga csons not to know all this, and ret he has Tayersed the southern counties to puf shem in ap offensive position, relative to Iexlco. Was this his real object it. may 60 for marines Now would it not be a snlValrous achievment, at the head of the southern militia, to charge upon Colonel Mllain, who has neither soldiers nor arms. ana IS living at the house of a very respec- 1ole Justice Of the Peace of Lafayette souuty
 we understand that delegation of the Shickasaw Indians passed about Ao~ miles so the north of this not long since, on their Say toexamine the lands west of the Chec- saw Country. to find if possible, d stiitaiisie location for their nation.
 Sol. CONWAY and Mir. PELHAM, the Com 1'sssoner and Surveyor appointed on the Rsrt of the United States, to run and mark she boundary line between Arkansas and Me State of Louisiana, left this place on sae 18th ult. for Villemont, where they will 4-'ese Gol. CRANE the Commissioner ap- pointed on the part of Louisiana, whence -iey VIII proceed down the river, proba- sA ~ miles, to the point where their la oors commence.
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