The Arkansas advocate., 1832-06-20

Arkansas, and has felt the great ;rs n yenicnee, can seriously doubt fha 0s' g vantages; or who, that Las been ~ ~ Little Rock during q session. and a9 l ticed committees going about fras ~ room 10 room in search of a roiis.a ! place 10 do business in, that will ~ agree in the opinion? Ii will be re.s9 .y leetcd that Mir. Crittendens bonse l'S q sufficient number of cornn.a,a ny roons-and even the kitchen fso nae ,'ss talked about, room ia tic prine;aI sse building, with the expense of tweaffs five or thirty dollars fitting up, wo5ja have made good committee room p Apply that old maxim of eeono,p,. ' penny saved is penny carned.;, .,s you will find every cent of expenditn- that the Territory may hereafter @ sa 3 cessarlly incur in the want of Stat house. is taken from the yalsa land; that is, it is taken from the noet @
 cts ofthe people. and tffeir state Hogsa 'sa when built, costs them that much n,oys
 and should a mode be pursued t,s, would require six years to ascertain lBs value of the land, make sales and com
 plete the building, then will he..as @a
 may reasonably calculate, taken fr,r
 the pockets of the people,th sum of f'.
 housand d0ilars, aud this sum in s6psa
 currency, were there comfortable buiIi ines, would nearly defray the nres@.
 expenses ofthe Territory for two geap Before corcluding, it may be prone,
 10 make few remarks on the tVa
 otherpropositions:-M'KBa K BalI'sitwillte
 feeolleetcd, was without Limitation ~ restriction, and the Legislature comb
 nothase accepted of 1t without commit.
 ting all act ofinjustice to the ownerd
 improvements. In respect to the se.
 cond proposition of Col. Ashley. it
 must hepresumed, that in making it h.
 was aetuatcd by the common impulse
 which governs the transactions of mai.
 kind-the prospect of gain; what Be
 could not have made from the sale of
 the land, he would have made in profits
 on the building and sale of the Iotsoa
 which 1t was to be ereeted-nhieh
 must have been great, as that gentle. man, q few days after he made the pro
 posal, sold Lovely claims for Sl & per acre; and t should be borne inniDd. that the bili disposing of the Ten Sec , lions of land 10 Mr. Crittenden, de. ciarcd he should be governed in their location by tie same lEaitQtloa aa6 restrictions imposed by an act of Con. gress oh these same Loreiy Claims.-- The house that Col. Ashley offered 10 erect for the Ten Sections. would not have afforded the same accommodate to the public, that Mir. Crittenden's did, not having the same number of office and committee rooms, neither couldit be supposed that it could equal them
 in materials or style of workmanship as il may be affirmed there are few buildings in the western country th
 does.
 Disappointed $ hopes, political al1ist
 lion, and personal ennity towards Mr
 Ctittenden, combined, has caused mqrs
 efforts 10 mislead and abuse the public mind on the Ten Section question, tllaa has ever happened on any other subject l in Arkansas, and indeed it may be doubted whether a parallel can be
 found elsewhere. The motives oia f large majority of both branches of tie
 Legislature have been impugned, and
 this not being sufficient to appease the
 wrath of the combination, as further
 incense, the moral character and stand.
 ing of the country has been offered as
 an oblation at the saine mhalioued
 shrine,and that the ceremony may have a more imposing aspect abroad, the Chief Magistrate is brought forward 10 administer, hating first lent his name
 and signature to the act. A course 50 reckless and so unnatural, to any one having common respect for the good
 name ofthe country, must excite aston
 ishment-it shows, if any evidence were necessary, zrhat q miserable Polal..
 cian the man must Dc, scho endeapors to q.
 eOote hinlseF ty. tac degrodati0n ef ~
 co't''5y.
 To turn aside from the feelings which
 such a reckless course must excite, 1t t
 amusing 10 remark how adroit the per T
 sons are who first raised the hue and ey l about the Ten Sections. When any
 thing appears that has a tendency lo
 place the subject in proper light be'
 fore the people. they change :heir pos
 ton as sudden as the Camelion chae'