The Arkansas advocate., 1832-04-11

have been kept, slnec the organization 1 ofthe Territory, where the incumbent might find temporary shelter and food, packing his papers under his arm from plaeetoplace, aswhim or capriecor ne cessity direct. The offices ofIerrltofl- silIs ssilI 4 aditor and Treasurer have necessa- rily been kept in the same manner.- We have all seen strangers searching for for those offices, oi, important business. when he had to spend hours in the mi natcstinquity before hecould find them. aud when found, they are situated in sonemerchant'sc counting roomst towilieti# all have aceess. thns. constantly endan-# gering the public records of those oiil- ecs---the loss or rnutila.ion Of which, would produce inextrlcable eonfusion. The records of the 1reeattiuc office, of tic Lcgislature and Secretary of the Ter I1,itoiy, have generally been kept in tho same way Chat fine other offices have been kept, and from the same necessity, tintil tic late secretary Ar. Critten- de8 erected permanent and secure buildings, at bis own expense, for their security, and this office WAS part of the Ipfoperty offered. Those records are now kept ina little frame, should im- agine, about 10 by r feet, built oflight ,an6 frail materials, and three or four of those @desperadoesa in Arkansas, with whom your ncpIie~ and yourself assoei- ate me, would upset wiJi2 their common
 
 served as. executive and secretary,s of ! fec. as we'll as for the office of clerk of Iihe Superior Comt-and lastly, sir, the Legislature of the Territory the re representatives of the people, arc con strained n sit in q wretehed, decayed, ], unfinished old franc. too contracted for l the purpose. and devoid of q solitary Ecomfort, not even fireplace, and so open that the smoke almost precluded the use of stoves. On the first day of Etlc last session 1t rained excessively, l and itis q fact, that the. Honorable Ed ward Gross was quite drenehed in the Train, which fell upon his head and the
 credentials of the members. while he
 was administering to them the oatls of office, go damaged was ihe roof. Do those facts present nefnaosediale necessity for honest and prompt legislation on tie subject of public buildings for the Ter. ritory, more particularly so, when it WIS doaotion, and not fund raised by taxation on the people, that was to be used for this purpose; and would hot all those inconveniences which you know exist, have been rernefiicti by the exchange proposed by Mir. CIittenden, and accepted by the majority of the Le- eislature? and was not this proposition accompanied with q tender of immedi- ate possession of a comfortable and spa eiens public eaifce? But further. tsis designed bounty of the Government to the Territory, might. Ifeared, become
 a curse 10 the people had the honor to
 represent. This grs,ntmight be located upon im096rea'eats, and all the valuable l Improvements having been mainly se- cured inthe south. north and east, and Irone secured north ofthe Arkansas, ia Pope. FFamford and Washington, it was ilnaast certain that our planters must have suffered almost exclusively hy an uarcsfti4el location. h the con. tract with Mir cristenden this restrie- ton was imposed, securing 10 aH the benefits of their labor. In Mir. Balls tPfopositloh, offering ten thousand del- lars, and which Major Field says in- di'ced him to change his opinion and adopt, there was no reStrictiou contem- Nat"d, and forty farmers on the best lands in ATkansas must havebeena a prey to private speculation. l would rather have reiinquished the lands to the Go serhtneni, and iegisiated in the street. than thus to have disposed of them.- Would 1t Dc just in the Legislature of the Territory. should the Government give them the power, to huilek a splen- di' aS''iiiiies, ;st tilis piace, by cxtorting the necessary funds from forty of our most independent citizens ?-ssnd would not this be virtually the case, by loca. ting with this grant forty of the best farms, and compelling those who reside upon them to pay for the improvements they have themselves made?
 h your address to Mir. Grittenden. yep speak of those lands as immensely valuable, and hold outthe idea that 'aosp $ the accepted time for location; how do you reach this conciuslon2 Do you not l. nowsee daily Lovely claims hawked about your streets, at Sl. D per acre. aled restfietIngth the Government grant to. animpfoved lands. will your Isxeellcncy show the public thcmiiutest reason why the one shall be considered more sal,la- bic than the other7 i assert that moi