The Arkansas advocate., 1833-07-10

fil lawsuits s:asGe then lands; mans property IS not safe when he has to % to law to secure 1t. Is 1t no trouble to set tier on the Mississippi to travel to this place, employ an attorney, and then await 1 fhe decis:cnc.s lis lis cause at the City oI
 Washington! T1,is IS acJ,at flseg call safetu. Ii the settler should not happen to know his land was located, until patent should Isstse ter the land, will the advocates of Pope and Sevier please inform the public III what way, and at what cost, he could secure his land. There is no means of knowing what lands have been located, but by visiting this place, or the other Land Offices in the Territory, and in most cases It IS probable the patent would issue before the settler has! sty knowledge of it. Much, and indeed incalculable trouble and ex- pense, would devolye on the claimant to secure to himself what is now publicly ad- mltted to be his right, but which was not ddmatted to be his right until since the pub iiication of the fate decisions. A. II. SeVier, by the acts of Congress he has had pass ed, imposes all this trouble, expense and anxiety, upon the presumption claimant.- He has provided no protection for them, and his friend Governor Pope is the agent il imposing ali these burdens. Yet the menlals Of the party have the effrontery to say, pre-emptions are safe. That Is not safe which may be taken from the owner. Those who own improvements, made too late for pre-emptions, are without any pos- sible protection.
 On the subject of the 1000 acre grant, adjoining this town, the party has been won- derfully embarrassed. One of the writers for the Gazette, some time since, I think 1t was Jaae-Bone,' their principal agent in misrepresentation took great exceptions to the remarks of Mir. Cummins, on the sub- jeet 1.-the act of Congress giving Governor Pope power to sell this grant. The re- marks of this writer, were so strong and imposing, that l was induced to believe that the charge of provision being made in the act for distribution of the land between the friends and confederates of the party, had been, perhaps, prematurely made-but on reference to the act of Congress, 1t will be plain to siy man, that, although Cover nor Pope had been giving notice of his in- tention to sell in October, yet he was not obliged by the act, then to sell, but could have adjourned the sale, one, two, or six months longer, and could have sold on one days notice, at any time he thought proper. It was the placing this discretion Ill the hands of the Governor, that Mir. Cumnns censured, and implied no censure on the Governor for any thing done in relation to the sale. The advertisement was well enough, but the sale might not have been made under 1t.
 As explanatory of Col. Sevier's fair course towards the heirs of Cloves and Bussey, letter porporting to have been written by him, from Washington, in De- cember last, is published in the last Ga zette. By this letter, .f indeed it auas ac,'it- ten as t paaports to haee been, 1t seems MT. Seyier was fully informed of these claims. He IS made to state in that letter, that these claims should be settled before the Land officers, and before no other tribunal.- Why did he, ill March following, procure the passage of an act of Congress, which permitted Gov. Pope to make private lo- cation of those lands, and took the whole jurisdiction of the case from the Land-offi- cers, here at least, until after the patents would probably have been procured by the Governor. By the course prescribed in the act referred to, there could be no pro- test filed in the Land-office here, but the whole business was referred to the Depart ment at Washington, and without the requi- sition that the claimants should have mo- tice, or that the land should be regularly surveyed, until which time the claimants could not enter their land. This amounts to almost conclusive proof, that it was MT. Sevier's object to exclude the rights of the claimants.
 Thus these unfortunate men blindly grasp at every thing within their reach, hoping to save the wreck of power which the people are about to wrest from their hands. They are so pressed to excuse the conduct of their leaders, that in their dis may, they grasp things which convict them.
 line people of Arkansas are sovereign, and not their rulers. The people are in- dependent, and enlightened as to the con- duct of their public men-they will hurl from office with indignation men who are capable of so much injustice and oppres- sion. SPECTATOR. Washington county, .May 31.
 MR. EDIToR-In the Gazette of the