The Arkansas advocate., 1834-02-28

around, with bullets m tAear aprons. cn. fconraging their husbands, sons, and broth. fers. They would hold an aching head. or
 band a bleeding wound, and all ihis was in
 the service of the country, lil the war of
 tue Revolution.
 The gentleman seems to be uniformed
 oi ti;e esriy occurrences 7fn rne West, and
 looks down with scorn upon the stugglers
 there. ] could refer him to nan who would be able to supply his want of local l-knowtedge-a venerable man about his own age his name is Geaniags Edmund Gen.
 niags. lie was in Dunmore's var; fought all day long in the battle of the Point at 1 Big I<onllawa. The gentlbman no doubt ifeHeisbvfs that battle 1t was fought in II74, just 20 years hefare Mayne's victory in l794. But, sir, this old soldier, bent l,y war and time, who Is now @anderer, with lott a home. Jeff him in my district when l came away-he peffoimedan exploit in the N!ckaiack expedition wothy Of . mon unent. Now, sir, perhaps that gentleman never heard of .NIchJeek; if 50, he should talk DO more of Indian wars in the Vest, but keep close upon tue borders of Rhode Island. " hitley was at Kiekaiack brought down his soldiers from Kentncl1y. and ;oin ed Robertson at the French Lick Station, (now Nashgille.) There are men alive, and now upon this floor, v5bo can attest that Whitley deserves not ta he degraded te thc ievel of q sayage /; he was the patriot of two wars. B1t, sir, Edmund Gennings, ho swan river in the aask, mile in width, <fhe Tennessee below tie Muscle Shoals) and went into an Indian town, which lined its banks, with one companion only-ascer- tained is strength, and braught the canoes over 10 Robertson and Whitley. His con- panion vas Joshua Thomas. He went the way which the gentleman seems to thinli was fieht,.for he was sealped--a tfHer sol dier never lived or died. That gentleman may think such men murderers' ard plum derers,' and that it is bad example to re- ward CT even admire them. But, sir, rank them with the brayest of the brave, the most deserving of the revolutionary soldiers.
 Mir. Speaker, if were to ask you to point rae 10 the most cruel, bloody, aud vin- dictive of all the mother countfy's acts, which taallxed her war upon the colonies, what would be the ansWer4 that she exeit- ed the sayages, unlsennelled the blood hounds of the forest, who know no mercy, who spared neither age nor sex, to war up- on tae Aaaerlcan people. :. in the issue which WAS made before high lieayen," < whether England should rule CT America be free,' were not the saYaccs used as in- strunents and allies Of Great Britain 10 subiuaate tie colonies Fas 1t not part of our revolutionary struggle to resist those savaaes Where did this vindiefiye and policy fall most heavily Upon the west, and sir, tie west met 1t, as she has since met perils from the same quarter, and as ! trust she will ever meet them, come from where they may.
 It was patriotic in Washington to resist ihe civilized armies of Great Britain, but not so in Boon to resist her gentle and per- spesife instruments ef. savage warfare in the West. What kept back the depreda- ions of these allies from the interior! The best of .famparts for nations safety-the chivalry of is frontier citizens. And, sir, shaii such race of men, who achieved so much, be branded with epithets? have their sca!ps put, in their country's estima- ton, against an Indian scalp, their htfpaai- ty agalnst the humanity of aE lndian-their honor against the honor of a savage, while other soldiers of the Revolution have won for themselves immortal honor, and freedom for their country? No, ST; 1t IS not just to treat them so. If any soldier Of tie Re voluton should stand in patriotic merit a. boye another, 1t is he who fought the soli- tary fight in far and distant parts. No hag like that pointing to the flag in the House no spirit-stnring fife and drum to cheer him on--no Washington to lead him up in confidence to battle--ne pay, no arms, nor ammunition ftrnished--no clothes nor meat-his name upon no roll-he fights from high impulse and love of county not for pay nor s'pi,ssder;" and, if he falls, no stone to tell the spot--no book Is writ ten about bina; hat Ii, a monument at all, It IS left hy the hand Of | hunter, carved n ihe bark of the tree that shades his grave. And if he lives, and is old and poor, wan defer from house to house. there IS no pen sion for him. No, sir, no pension. Whyl His name is not enrolled ill book.
 And was not he who found bis own arms, and grappled with the foe in the deep for est, in that sacred cause which won so much for man. without the aid of any thing but valor-was not he a soldier of the Re- volatiop. standing on prouaer ground than if he had s.een drafted, and forced to follow his commander and that glorious banner Tpointing again to the flag in the House, ]
 TRIpAy, January IT.
 Mir. PEyroN continued lis remarks in reply to Mr. EURGEss, as follows; nave but a few observations to offer n addition to those I made on yesterday. Ny fnten- lion has never been to make an argument