The Arkansas advocate., 1832-02-29

property with t;.c ieslito J, and that aos. Pope knelo T. Tho charge Is a ssjoul 7 calumny. Gov. Pope is now here. and call upon him 10 sustain the charge of his nephew, if lie can, or else do me justice by discaiming tfIe taiseiiood. Thc.charge is not tangible ID its present shape-but a simple narrative of facts connected with tile subject, may not be improper. Early ip September last, at the request of Judge Fulton, then Acting Governor, ] accom- panied himself and several other gentle men to the court-house at this place he informed HIS that he wished our assistance in derising some plan by which 1t might be made sufficiently comfortable and eummo- diosis for tic reception of the Legislature, which were to meet in October. While there, desultory conversation ensned, i, in which Judge Fulton proposed that should sell the Territory my house for the land granted them by Congress. l de- clined it; bat after we had discussed the subject some time, I told the Judge ] would call and see him the nextday. In the mean time l advised with my friends. The next day called upon Judge Fulton. l told him was poor, that had invested nearly all l was worth in my house, that my building was much in advance of the Territory, and that if l were constrained to sell, no private individual here, could afford to give a.s one-.hird of its value that should be able to sell the land at from six 10 eight thousand dollars, ard, although that would be less than the value of my house, yet it was perhaps the best disposition could make. He assented to orI foII ( l. sensible of the propriety of the measure on the part of the Territory thathe should not hesitate to advise the members to make the purchase. eonversed with him fiflly and frequently on the subject, and to my knowledge he remained of the same opin- ion up to the meeting of the Legislature. ] wrote Doct. Manly ia member and de- cded friend Of the Governor and Dele- gate) by the next mail, briefly recaptu. lating my reasons for wishing to sell, and
 requesting him, if lIe approved of the measure, to communicate the contents of my letter to the northern members, He compiled witt my request, to most if not all Of them; and on the first day of the session, he informed me that he approved of and would sustain the measure. The Doctor ultimately changed his opinion and voted against 1t. This letter was the only communication. oral or written, which l ever made, or caused 10 be made, 10 any member previous te their meeting. That
 l designed to submit such proposition. was notorious here, after the conversation with Judge Fulton. All parties seemed
 to approve 1t. Major Field, the friend
 and relative of the Governor, told me he approved it-so did the Honorable Ed ward Cross. Judge Johnson {the father in-law of the Delegate, Sevierl advocated tue acceptance ofmy proposition warmly. Judge Bates approved dit-and Judge Esk-
 ridge - never Thinks upon such subjects without first consulting whoever may be the Delegate in Congress for the time- Every geEtleman,I have pamed. Judge Bates excepted, are the political friends ot 6oF. Pope. And yet the Acting Gov oTnor, tine Clerk of the federal court, and three out of four of the Judges, after ftril time for deliberation, were of opinion the Legislature should accept my proposition
 All those gentlemen have resided years in the Ierritory-the Judges traverse three fourths of it's surface on their circuits. and know the value of atacuitipated lands. and they believed it was bcs. for Afkansas.- 4 committee of both Houses examined the property. The master-w orkman of the town, Mir. Eller, (tse connection and friend of Gov. Pope surveyed il, and his estimate ofits value certified to the Leois
 sature, was len housand sir hundred anu fof1y dollars, exclusive of the value of the ground (two acres and thirdl and costs of enclosures. Suppose the ground worth only three hundred and sixty doiiars-and aflrn, that no te.l secfionS of land have eversold at any land office in Al rkansas, 1mprooed or not, for eleven thousand dol iars-no, not for ten thousand--and l challenge the production of tlre record.-- Floating claims, under the Cheroke ee trea- y, for three hundred and twenty acres each, snhject to be located on any lands snroeeedi n he Territory, unimprored, can Aoso be purchased for less fhap one dolJor per aere, and very many of them have been sold Tn thIs town, for one hundred dollars for the three hundred and twenty acres, within the last two years and by the terms osmy proposed contract, I could only locate un'mproued land. And vet "oodruifs Kentucky correspondent calls .A's " fasoo Jraud, . and says my course IS wei understood by my friends in Ken thcey. II be means to insinuate any thing derogatory to me, Tn this latter remark. ne IS an impertinent intermeddier. and in- slnuatcs faisehood. General Jaclson he says, called It YaSoo .jraud,o and this. he designs, should be conclusive that il was so' but, onnipotent as General Jackson is' ana sagaclous as he may be, his broad aenanciatioD, unsustained by facts, and upon subject which lie could not under stands unless by intuition, shows more of personal feeling than deliberate opinion.
 MT. rotter continues to denounce me. when ne speaks of the treatment the Gov eThor received from the Legislature. in 'heir addressing him as John Pope. and refnsing to admit message of his upon