The Arkansas advocate., 1833-04-03

. uoA law, as itfirst came from his hand 2 witness the mefes and bounds of fin land district in this place, by which w e acquire aa addition 10 our territor,
 which terminates nthe Atlantic Ocean. witness the act appropriating l5.00t collars Tor tue removal of snags from the Arkahsas siFef, ssse. tee. li'bese acts : speak volumes respecting the capacious emptiness oi tlle makers head.
 lhe Col. comes near telling the true reasons for the location of the Land. office at Fayetteville; he says he had il
 1ocated there, because the greater part
 oi hts constituents, in that district. resj.
 ded n Washington and thc upper part
 oi izard counties. This is true; and
 such being the fact, he thought by SO
 locating the office, he would buy up the
 votes of that portion of the community.
 HaYlng proceed 4hus f5fi.,#ia | general
 View of the Circular, il will be proper 10 deseendto particulars. and notice in
 olef manner, some ot the acts upon
 winch the Gol. especially brides himself. a'o upon which, as a ho5Jy, he conf. Edeptly calculates ooce more 10 ride within the ilalls ofGonsreSs.
 The liller4l aiPffop pfiatiens rs5,sie b, Congress iofopeaiilg roads through the
 Territory, are claimed by Col. Sscvicr as thefesoils of his great influence in l Congress; aud there is no doubt Chat the Expenditure of so much Of the public money, within our limits, produces q general impression in his favor, by a great mass of his supporters, because they are ignorant of the h4e cause. of that li5eraity, which we are onioyiag. tihtll Within d few years, our national debt lay wilh such a heavy hand upon 5he 1eacral oyefancnt, that paFsimo- mons tfllbefality WAS charged Upon her li2 ali her appropriations for the territo- res. Est t6at time, even the gfeat Col.
 hmselt. could cot, witil all his vaunted lnlnencc, have obtained oac-tenth of the money for road making, which has oi late years beea granted. For the last four years, the natioaal debt has been diminishing with such rapiditY, that Congress has been sqaabi4g how to get fid ofthe surplus revenue and as the territories are viewed by ali parties n Go4gfess, as q portion of the public dotnalt4 all parties have a8seHi4d 10 liberal appropriations, for all measures tending 10 increase tIe value of the public lands. Again.-lt having be. come tie national policy to transfer the Indians upon the borders of o3u FerIi- tory, It is equally viewed as part off oatlonai duty 10 make good and durable roads through the Territory, to De pre-. pared for aay sudden emergency that mlghtarisc from Indian disturbances. = these arc the motives which influenced Congress thus libeFalIy 10 appropriate monies for the making of roads, and however much Col. ScVfer may rree these appropriations as spriogine from his weight and influence It WashingtonI City, 1t Is mere elcctioaeeriag ffick.- The government are bound from their general Indian policy, to provide roads suitable totrlhsier the munitions of war, ln caseol hostile movements among the l Indians.
 Another point of Legislation on which the Col! lays great stress, Is the aboli- lion of Executive patronage-by which ls meant, the destruction of the powet formerly possessed by our Governors of making county Clerks, SherlIs. &c. IL Is very qnesaonable il the inrerestsot the Territory have been advanced by the laW m tilaig tAe officers of our courts elcCtiye--on filc contrary, Ii is certains. h4t, n very many instances, men have been elected Clerks of counties, who could scarcely scratch their pames, and \ ho p0saessGd not talents to compre- nend the entry of an order of the court, however clearly il may have been. de- Fvered. Here, then, the extension of tian elective franchise, oPtrates 10 tie injury ofthc community. But, in truth, the Eeeeati9e p9troaage, within the last two years has been extended toa de- gree far beyond what was ever posses sed by any former Govcrnor:-witDess the 20,00O dollars put into the Cover ner's hands for the repair of the Mem l phs road, and mark the manner in
 which it has been given, pripately, 10 a flew political adheTents. Witness, a. gain. the manner in which the Governor has disposed of the Ten Section nsoncy, mark the agent through whose hands it IS to pass, as the contractor, or rather undertaken Of the State House; this agent is CHESTER ASHLEY; and
 mark, how much of this money will
 stick to his hallds, in it's passage through
 them. Witness, once moro, the S20,000
 which $ to be raised from the 1000